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Originally Posted by SeekUpTheCubs
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Excellent take.
I was listening to that the other day.
Also, there is a good description of it in Delancey’s book, as one of the best thing in 1995:
“On February 23 and 24, 1095, DMB played two sold out shows at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City. They are generally considered to rank among the band's finest sets of back-to-back live, performances.
The Roseland shows started with the band tuning up - it sounded like a charivari - as Dave announced "Back in New York City!" His words echoed throughout the ballroom. Then the band broke into an inspired version of Seek Up, during which Dave sang: You seek up an emotion / Sometimes your well is dry, Hey!" It became a
concert ritual for diehard DMB fans to shout "Hey!" along with Dave and the band during "Seek Up." Lessard's bass work was especially outstanding on the two Roseland versions of "'Seek Up."
Before the band launched into "Dancing Nancies," Dave shared some thoughts:
"So uh, I know that uh, when someone quests when someone comes up to you and says, 'Man, you're all fucked up" then you uh, you get kinda pissed off,. 'Cause vou say, ohwuhuuh, 'Listen, man, I am what lam. I'm what I am. I do my best thing”. But I said sometimes I - I wonder if uh
…. if maybe when someone tells me I'm all fucked up, if maybe they got a point or something, you know.!"
This is widely accepted as vintage Davespeak.
At Roseland, after ‘Dancing Nancies,' Dave segued right into: "Here's a song called 'Lie in Our Graves.' It's about being dead, yeah."