I love his knowing smile before playing 'Thirteen' after he asks if the audience want to hear a happy song or a sad song and a guy says "What's the difference?" and someone else yells "You can't have one without the other!" Elliott just says "Exactly" with a nod and the wry smile then plays it beautifully solo. What a great guy :)
I never understood why you cant have one without the other. Couldnt you theoretically only experience happiness your whole life? I mean you most likely wont but theoretically couldnt you? Therefore you can have one without the other. Or do you mean by it just dont ignore the bad and its okay to talk about bad, write songs about the bad, and everyone has experienced good and bad. Philosophically why can you not have one without the other? You most likely wont experience only good in this life. I would wager everyone who ever lived has experienced good and bad.
@@jala1081 This can be a philosophical talking point, but is also a literal, objective truth based in physics and biology. Without contrast, there is nothing to compare. It's like, if everything was green, you wouldn't know what colour was. Theoretically you actually _can't_ just be happy, not as a human at least. Happiness, like everything, requires energy, input and physical work to achieve, which all has "negative" consequences. Your brain chemistry has to be primed to be happy. Dopamine dips and rises, and depletes and regenerates. Every human will have moments caught in between the peaks, just because of the physical laws of our universe., aka nature. Even if they have everything they could want. People say happiness is just a state of mind, but not really. It depends on dopamine/serotonin/other hormones. There is always a give and take, from microscopic chemical reactions in our brain, to our entire universe forming and ultimately dying. You answer your own question with the last sentence, you would win that wager.
His magnificence has been saving my life. It always has, but this past year I’ve been listening to him every day - I can’t go a day without him. He was such a beautiful man, with such a soothing, intimate voice, a voice like a secret.
I was at this show! Quasi were great and then were Elliott’s band. Great night! My mate filmed the show too. Maybe 10ft back from this on the same side.
lyrics: 1:the frozen tear melted here between the man made lake and the ice that wouldn't break a drowning note fury wrote that caused the earth to quake confindence to shake sorry my mistake
4:a friendly flare flash midair there was a twinkle in your eye a smoke signing in the sky i feel deep in love asleep looking wide awake like a wave that wouldn't break sorry my mistake
Energizer started using a bunny as a joke in the nineties, sort of a satirical rip off, and it just stuck, and today not many realize it was Duracell first.
2:the sun rose high and went screaming by and the moon surveyed the scene silent and serene while cops set cones around broken bones saying for heaven's sake what an obvious mistake
I much prefer Elliott solo and acoustic. The band is totally superfluous. They really distract me from the essence of the man and his music. Strip it down all the way :) not one song is improved by having the rhythm section or indeed the guitar electric.
D Rago Why would you assume I haven't seen Bumbershoot? Yes it's great and he's great in rocked up festival mode as well but it's not just a sound issue here either. As I said the other players distract me from him and dilute his impact somewhat. I've said it before and I'll say it again .. I much prefer Elliott solo and acoustic. End of story :)
+John Arundell This is two years late but bruh he put an electric guitar and a rhythm section in the studio versions of literally 12 out of the 16 songs in this show. 13 if you count the tambourine in Clementine. Also that better be the last time D Rago assumed that somebody hasn't seen Bumbershoot. Where do you get off, D Rago? You're just going to go around recklessly commenting like people haven't already seen Bumbershoot? HE FUCKING SAW BUMBERSHOOT.
Yeah I guess it's just a crying shame Elliott wasn't a human/ octopus hybrid that could play all of the different instruments that he recorded in the studio simultaneously by himself in his live performances
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I love his knowing smile before playing 'Thirteen' after he asks if the audience want to hear a happy song or a sad song and a guy says "What's the difference?" and someone else yells "You can't have one without the other!" Elliott just says "Exactly" with a nod and the wry smile then plays it beautifully solo. What a great guy :)
I never understood why you cant have one without the other. Couldnt you theoretically only experience happiness your whole life? I mean you most likely wont but theoretically couldnt you? Therefore you can have one without the other. Or do you mean by it just dont ignore the bad and its okay to talk about bad, write songs about the bad, and everyone has experienced good and bad. Philosophically why can you not have one without the other? You most likely wont experience only good in this life. I would wager everyone who ever lived has experienced good and bad.
How do you know what happiness feels like without first experiencing what pain is?
@@jala1081 This can be a philosophical talking point, but is also a literal, objective truth based in physics and biology. Without contrast, there is nothing to compare. It's like, if everything was green, you wouldn't know what colour was. Theoretically you actually _can't_ just be happy, not as a human at least. Happiness, like everything, requires energy, input and physical work to achieve, which all has "negative" consequences.
Your brain chemistry has to be primed to be happy. Dopamine dips and rises, and depletes and regenerates. Every human will have moments caught in between the peaks, just because of the physical laws of our universe., aka nature. Even if they have everything they could want. People say happiness is just a state of mind, but not really. It depends on dopamine/serotonin/other hormones. There is always a give and take, from microscopic chemical reactions in our brain, to our entire universe forming and ultimately dying. You answer your own question with the last sentence, you would win that wager.
I remember going to this show, driving up from Melbourne. I was lucky enough to meet Elliott Smith before he played. Great memories.
😉
What was he like? :)
His vocal performance is very strong in this set
His magnificence has been saving my life. It always has, but this past year I’ve been listening to him every day - I can’t go a day without him. He was such a beautiful man, with such a soothing, intimate voice, a voice like a secret.
I was at this show! Quasi were great and then were Elliott’s band. Great night! My mate filmed the show too. Maybe 10ft back from this on the same side.
That's very interesting. I would like to see the video your mate recorded. I am the video guy who recorded this recording by the way.
i was born in australia and live in sydney. i wish i was born 20 years ago to be able to make this show :( i miss you elliott
you still wouldn’t have made the show if you were born 20 years ago
lol didn't think that one entirely thru@@katut3388
@@katut3388 lmao
what an inspirational set...and viewpoint! kudos to the cameraman!
i am the camera man . patrixo2017@gmail.com
thank you for the kudos.
he has so many songs about girls and towns that start with the letter "A" i thought Annandale was some rare Elliott Smith song.
thank u 💓
God this show is incredible
24:00 Loveless
lol i'm in this groop.
really enjoyed this one, bled white is SO fast; anyone know the gal banging the drums? thanks so much for sharing
Vocals are excellent here
It's Janet Weiss from Quasi (& other bands like Sleater-Kinney & the Jicks). She kills!
Yeah, Duracell Bunnies did appear in the Rose Parade. Energizer used that mascot and suped it up to show Duracell up.
lyrics:
1:the frozen tear melted here
between the man made lake and
the ice that wouldn't break
a drowning note fury wrote
that caused the earth to quake
confindence to shake
sorry my mistake
thank you! that made me smile
Independece Day is AMAZING
Stunning!
23:32 he plays Sorry my Mistake
great! with janet and sam..tx 0-0
4:a friendly flare
flash midair there
was a twinkle in your eye
a smoke signing in the sky
i feel deep
in love asleep
looking wide awake
like a wave that wouldn't break
sorry my mistake
they were always duracell bunnies in the ads when i was a kid
Energizer started using a bunny as a joke in the nineties, sort of a satirical rip off, and it just stuck, and today not many realize it was Duracell first.
Is there a better quality video of this
Bled White speedrun any%
2:the sun rose high
and went screaming by and the
moon surveyed the scene
silent and serene
while cops set cones
around broken bones
saying for heaven's sake
what an obvious mistake
45:48 - 46:44 ❤
3:up came back down while
i was sewing up my stitch and
dreaming in the ditch soooo
sick of my sweet self and
everything i made
I kinda wish he did bled white that fast on xo. Because why not write the best blink song ever.
what happens at about 46:00 ? someone says something that makes him laugh?
They 'corrected' his "like a Duracell bunny" line with "Energizer", to which he replies "I know".
you bout rite twas then dangus
45:58
pretty mary k is redonkulous
:D
Has he died
Yeah in October-2003
RIP E.S
He lives forever thru this video
Duh
I much prefer Elliott solo and acoustic. The band is totally superfluous. They really distract me from the essence of the man and his music. Strip it down all the way :) not one song is improved by having the rhythm section or indeed the guitar electric.
+John Arundell elliott electric is soooooo good just watch him at Bumbershoot. The sound in this particular vid is just bad
D Rago Why would you assume I haven't seen Bumbershoot? Yes it's great and he's great in rocked up festival mode as well but it's not just a sound issue here either. As I said the other players distract me from him and dilute his impact somewhat. I've said it before and I'll say it again .. I much prefer Elliott solo and acoustic. End of story :)
+John Arundell This is two years late but bruh he put an electric guitar and a rhythm section in the studio versions of literally 12 out of the 16 songs in this show. 13 if you count the tambourine in Clementine.
Also that better be the last time D Rago assumed that somebody hasn't seen Bumbershoot. Where do you get off, D Rago? You're just going to go around recklessly commenting like people haven't already seen Bumbershoot? HE FUCKING SAW BUMBERSHOOT.
Yeah I guess it's just a crying shame Elliott wasn't a human/ octopus hybrid that could play all of the different instruments that he recorded in the studio simultaneously by himself in his live performances
John Arundell did you see him at bumbershoot?