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Does anyone have a favorite live version of this song? I know it's a harder one to pull off live, but I gotta believe they nailed it more than a few times.
The only time they played it perfectly was Tampa 2000 - the version on TB2K. All of the other 2000 versions have various mistakes (usually by Mike). It was played so infrequently after 2000, they never came close again. The worst performance ever was probably Philly 2009 #2, which I unfortunately witnessed.
Ouch, I'm sorry you had to suffer through that. Luckily, I was at that Tampa show so I guess I got what I was looking for. Thanks!
Uh, are you two forgetting the disaster in Washington, DC from 2008 when they attempted to play it?
I never heard it! It sounds epic as fuck though. Time to search the interwebs for it.
Fucking Mike. WTF man. Evacuation is actually one of the few songs of theirs that I think sounds pretty darn cool tuned down.
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I was there as well. Still unsure if it was simply a performance issue, or if one of the instruments was in the incorrect tuning?
Mike just stops playing, but looks like he keeps his guitar. Maybe he just didn't want to play it? Seems unlikely, but that is what it kind of looks like.
Every time I hear Evacuation, I like it a little more and more.
Those songs I listed earlier, that I said I liked more than Evacuation, will likely change soon. Still though, to me it's not so much a knock on Evacuation, but rather an indication of how good the material was in that era. Eddie sure fooled me with his "writer's block". Binaural should have been better, and could have been better than No Code.
The Boston and Portland versions of "Evacuation" are both great -- flub-free if memory serves.
They are very close, but not totally flub-free. Mike always gets lost/confused somewhere. Tampa is the only version that I can say is 100% flub-free. Trust me. I tried to find another one. It probably doesn't matter though.
Sure enough: I played the Portland version today and Mike messes up the transitions both in and out of the bridge. Not conspicuously so, but it's definitely there if you listen.
From the flow of the above conversation, I presumed the comment about equipment trouble was in reference to the Portland 2000 version (where Mike fudges some of the transitions, see Kevin's comment directly before).
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