Deadsplinter Up! All Night: Why it’s good to go to live shows. Someday.

20/4/20 an agreeable touch of the macabre 23

I would post more live songs, but

  1. Could anyone follow this performance right here? Even Prince? Since I only have about five minutes before it’s six o’clock I’ll have to get back to you on that, because
  2. I forgot it was Monday until about ten minutes ago. We have spring here, after a brief spell of winter again last week, and I’ve been shoveling compost all day, and planting shit and whatnot. Like, with sun and so forth. Is there anything better? Is there?
  3. Do you have some decent weather and outdoor time where you are? Has it helped your head?
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  2. I love live music, and I’ve seen a lot of shows. Among the most memorable was Rick Danko. It was at a park in Pittsburgh, on a beautiful day, a couple of years before his death. This clip isn’t from that show but around the same time, and he did this song.

  4. Getting up to 90 here in L.A. this week. We’re going from winter straight to summer.
    This is one of my favorite live performances on the internets.

    B-52’s – Give Me Back My Man 1980

  5. We have amazing weather right now in the Western Wa. so I spent the majority of my day sanding my deck. The best concert I have ever seen by far was Fishbone in the early days. The craziest show ever with Angelo crowd surfing the crowd for several songs, climbing 20 foot poles in this old warehouse and dropping into the crowd. He would even play sax while cruising thu air in the hands of the crowd. 2+ hours of pure adrenaline!

  7. After Party Time At The Vet, did some other shit I really didn’t want to do, but finished my day outside with Mrs. Butcher, putting seeds, onions, and leeks in the ground. It was a good day for it.

    Double Trouble and Susan Tedeschi – In The Garden

  9. I used to work for a company that had a loge at the MCI Center in DC and I was in tight with our admin so whenever clients weren’t going or there were extra tickets we’d go down there and see shows. Somehow I finagled Prince two nights in a row; same with Madonna. This would have been 2004-ish.
    I saw these guys last year this week at the Anthem in DC, which is tiny for Kenny to play. It was super fun. And now I have a big sad about concerts not being a ‘thing’ anymore, at least for a while.

  10. Tuesday night: snow. Thursday night: wet snow. Fortunately it melted quickly. Sunday: 63 and sunny. Monday: 60 and sunny. It’s been a wild ride.

    Live? Sometimes it’s fine, sometimes it isn’t. This is fine!

    Johnny Cash – Sunday Morning Comin’ Down (Live in Denmark):

  11. Sunny and in the 70s here in Boise. Just awesome. Even though I had to spend a lot of my weekend replacing rotted fascia (we’re finally getting gutters on the house), the weather was just the best.

    I’ve been to a lot of live shows. I feel very lucky. I cannot, however, pick one that stands out from the others. So many of them were inspiring. Or revelatory. Or just damn good.

    I traveled to Denver to see these guys this time last year. Total kick in the pants.

  12. I don’t mean to kill the vibe or anything, but this is by far my favorite live performance video. It’s Bill Evans with Eddie Gomez and Marty Morrell, in someone’s living room in Helsinki, Finland. It’s snowy and gray outside, but there is a warm, beating heart and absolutely luminous music inside. The song is written by Johnny Mandel and Johnny Mercer for the film, THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY, and Evan and Co take the simple tune into the stratosphere. This is only a short clip from a film of the entire set. If you get the chance, you should really watch it.

    • I suppose that as long as I’m on Bill Evans, I should share this astonishing clip of Evans with another jazz legend that we lost last week, Lee Konitz. These guys are swinging like crazy, but harmonically, they’re jamming some crazy Scriabin shit, on some whole other level.

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