This is a really nice thing to say.....

So lucky!!

Lucky

The Fuji Rock concert is much better. His back up band is a lot better as well as the recording. Anything by Elliott is good. Think he has the same bass player. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/isWloMKHptPciKs.html

@@rcdowdy actually i think this is better, not the video quality necessarily, but his performance

mglenwright09 Even better- I was at that show, halfway between Elliott & the bass player. I keep wondering if I’m going to see myself in this video. What a show!

Cat's Cradle staff recorded all the shows back then and ran sound from the board. I drove about 20 miles to see this and had to be to work at 4:30am. Got a speeding ticket on the way home.

@Green Rocky Road oh yeah, janet's harmonies make some of these songs for sure, almost sort of seems that's how he intended them to be yaknow. they seem in their element here : )

Todd Ericson that's janet weiss, she also drums for sleater/kinney. was absolutely blown away by her playing when i saw s/k live a few years back.

@@piggsquigg983 Janet is basically the best drummer going. I mean, among all drummers currently drumming.

bro thats fucking JANET WEISS

​@@piggsquigg983 also played with Stephen malkmus for a bit

@@jearpster ...and Bright Eyes (Cassadaga era)

I was at this show and was a big fan of Quasi AND Elliott Smith so this was a night to remember and can' believe the entire show is online.

Lot of Gen X talent is sadly gone.

Wow. Seems like an intimate show, even if it is Elliott with a backing band.

You lucky boy

u done good

I knew him after he dead. I really sad about it. You lucky.

Me too. I was caught in a sea of Chapel Hill high school students, front and center. Once the music started, it was all good.

audio makes this xs, extra special

it’s beautiful, Sam’s harmonies are so good

+george malko you are just tellement vrai in french

2024 and I can’t either

David Dillehay Are you a time traveller?

Janet gonna Janet.

Because Janet is the best drummer of her generation.

Rehearsing

yeah, females are a great idea.

JCBigCat I like pussy

oh, fuck you all

That would make a great shirt.

He has lived with his father during his high school years in Portland.

@@dithirambos but he's not "charlie", just another guy

@@brunosm.l2267 Charlie is his stepfather, his father is Gary Smith.

Which song?

Ah man I love these versions and think they work great. I love his solo acoustic performances too though, especially early on. But it's so great to hear these versions too. This is the only electric show I've seen where I feel like Elliott is really playing electric guitar with a lot of expression. And Quasi kills it backing and his singing is also really expressive. Also it just looks like he's having a lot of fun which is cool too.

I get what you're saying, but I have to disagree. I really appreciate hearing Elliot's music in this environment, working with other musicians, with a little drive behind it, and I'm not sure how all that would work with an acoustic ...all the solos? ..crescendos? (Bled White gave me chills!) ...I love the intimacy of the acoustic and I agree that many of the songs were written that way, but it's good to hear a well practiced, tight group interpret his work so articulately. The drummer is superlative! (..just realized that's Janet Weiss, perhaps the most underrated drummer ever, so... yeah) This group may be the best combination I've heard for Elliot. ...and his solo recordings exist, are beautiful, and can be appreciated at any time. More perspectives, more appreciation, more art.

With a backing band, this is actually one of his best performances. His voice sounds great and playing is ace. Drummer and Bass are playing so tight keeping within the song just top notch.

I get the impression you didn’t see him play live in person with his bands. Those shows in person were really powerful, loud rock shows. Trust me, in person at those shows I never once wished the band wasn’t there. Although I guess if you’re the kind of person who generally prefers solo acoustic performances I guess there’s no getting around that. I always thought it was important for Elliott to show off how well he could rock (after all, that’s what he did on his albums, where he played electric guitars and solos and all the other instruments, right?) The show I saw with the Figure 8 band on (or around) Halloween in Pittsburgh where they covered Don’t Fear the Reaper, and Elliott played it with the monk costume he was wearing that night turned around *backwards* for that song, with the hood covering his face? Oh my god. Just insane. And he played the whole song, solo included, absolutely perfect. Killer.

There were band shows where it worked and ones where it didn't. There were solo shows where it the purest thing and solo shows where he wasn't in the moment. The thing about Elliott playing live was that he when he was there he was completely there and when he wasn't you felt it. If you're looking at in retrospect, then I get it: you're making a judgment based upon a) what was recorded; b) what sounds good to you. If you were there at the time, you were kind of hoping he was in a good place when you saw him, and sometimes he wasn't. This is a good band gig. He had his friends around him.

are your damn ears broken?