Elliott Smith

Elliott Smith
February 23rd, 1999
The Showbox
Seattle, Washington

Source : General Electric hand-held tape recorder
Lineage: Cassette (M) > FLAC (Level 5)
Taper  : Renae (rely23 on the blamonet.com boards)

tracklist:
d1t01 Unknown Instrumental
d1t02 Ballad of Big Nothing
d1t03 Independence Day
d1t04 Speed Trials
d1t05 A Living Will
d1t06 Waltz #2 (XO)
d1t07 Son of Sam
d1t08 Bled White
d1t09 Cupid's Trick
d1t10 Baby Britain
d1t11 Stupidity Tries
d1t12 Bottle Up and Explode
d1t13 Happiness
d1t14 I Didn't Understand
-tape flip-
d1t15 The White Lady Loves You More
d1t16 Everything Reminds Me of Her
d1t17 Say Yes
d1t18 Christian Brothers
d1t19 Sweet Adeline

Notes:
A decent sounding audience recording from the tail end of the XO tour. Elliott sounds spectactular and as is usual with these full band shows, the songs are tight together with very little crowd interaction. The show starts off with an instrumental number which I do not know the name of.

Relevant Links
Sweet Adeline's Show Info: http://www.sweetadeline.net/22399.html
Contemporary Fan Review: http://janiceordal.tripod.com/elliott22399.htm
The Official Elliott Smith Fan Page: http://www.sweetadeline.net
Another Great Fan page: http://www.elliottsmith.com
My little website: http://www.somesongs.net

Elliott Smith
February 26th, 1999
Satyricon
Portland, Oregon

Source: AUD (unknown)
Lineage: CDR(?)>EAC>SHN>WAV>Sound Forge 6>SHNTOOL>FLAC

d1t01. Tomorrow Tomorrow
d1t02. Last Call
d1t03. Sorry My Mistake
d1t04. Miss Misery
d1t05. Son of Sam
d1t06. Pitseleh
d1t07. Southern Belle (aborted)
d1t08. Everything Reminds Me of Her
d1t09. Baby Britain
d1t10. Say Yes
d1t11. Rose Parade
d1t12. Taking the Easy Way Out
d1t13. The White Lady Loves You More
d1t14. Half Right
Encore:
d1t15. St. Ides Heaven
d1t16. Biggest Lie
d1t17. Angeles
2nd Encore:
d1t18. 2:45 AM
d1t19. Happiness

Notes:

A very nice sounding audience recording which runs about 65 minutes.

This show was given to me as a CDR with the title "2:45 Mr. Smith", a reference to a member of the crowd (rather close to the taper, if not the taper himself) who repeatedly requests 2:45 AM. Does he get to hear his request?!? You'll just have to listen to find out!!! Or you can just take the easy way out and read the tracklisting. I will tell you that he offers perhaps the greatest bribe I've ever heard in a concert recording and to this day I wonder if he actually followed through on it.

Sorry My Mistake was a song written for Figure 8 that didn't make the cut. A backing track only demo is known to exist.

Half Right is a Heatmiser song from Mic City Sons (hidden track at the end of the disc). You will sometimes see that song listed as "Not Half Right" as the title of the song wasn't listed on the album art. The correct title ("Half Right") was unknown until Mary Lou Lord covered it on her 'Live City Sounds' album in 2001.

At this point, Happiness was probably still known by its second name of "Tom's Start." The song started its life being called "Back in the Day" when it premiered on the radio show Drinking From Puddles on June 8th 1998.

It is slightly odd to hear Miss Misery at this point in his career as Elliott laregly stopped playing it after he got sick and tired of playing it at every promotional stop he made after Good Will Hunting.

Recording Notes:

The CDR I recieved was of an unknown generation, and had a TAO in its lineage. So it was kinda ugly. It sat on my harddrive for a -long- time. I ripped the cd August 25 2003 according to the timestamp on the eac log, and didn't get around to cleaning the show up until August 28th 2005. I didn't do any EQ or anything (so the fact that the levels are off the chart in several places isn't my fault), just a simple recombine, cut empty space to fix the TAO, and retrack, followed by a run through shntool to fix sector boundaries. There were already a few random blips and pops during the audience noise, and I'm glad I did a good enough job not to add to them.

SHNID	Date	Venue	City	State
70499	1999-02-23	The Showbox	Seattle	WA
General Electric hand-held tape recorder > Cassette (M) > FLAC (Level 5)
70506	1999-02-26	Satyricon	Portland	OR
AUD (unknown) > CDR(?)>EAC>SHN>WAV>Sound Forge 6>SHNTOOL>FLAC

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