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  1. Originally posted by KieranU2:Can't wait to see all your reviews for the second Boston concert. That bootleg is great.

    I've stuck several bootlegs on my iPod and I'm making playlists with 30-song sets to listen to everyday. It's brilliant. So many songs to choose from and so much variety.


    The vast amount of material from this band has led me (and others, I'm sure) down a path of insanity...I've made over 50 CD's worth of compliations over the past year and a half:

    Italy 2006 - 2 CD's (should have been 3)
    Mexico 2003 - 2 CD's
    London 2000 - 2 CD's
    Seattle 2000 - 2 CD's
    Leeds/Reading 2006 - 2 CD's
    Then things got "bigger"...
    Canada 2011 - 4 CD's
    North America 2000 - 4 CD's
    North America 2003 - 4 CD's
    North America 2006 - 4 CD's
    Europe 2000/2006 Combo - 4 CD's
    Canada 2005 - 4 CD's
    Latin America 2011 - 3 CD's
    World 2009 - 6(!) CD's
    USA/Europe 2010 - 5 CD's
    Europe 2012 - 4 CD's
    and most recently...
    Best of the 1990's Live (songs taken from 2011&2012 shows) - 3 CD's
  2. I blame myself for showing you the wonders of Nero SoundTrax hahaha
  3. Yup!!!!!!

    I just made a pretty solid 3-disc combo of U22/FTGU using that program.

    Nero Soundtrax has saved/ruined my life.
  5. and so i finally saw Brad and Stoney!! very very nice night .. he was in top form indeed and full of joy and amusement in what he is doing .. played bongos too
    lovely to see him back in such a small club after uh well 21 years since the first time .. uh we're so much younger Stone, weren't we? hehe
    Brad are very worth live and Shawn Smith is such a man .. and singer .. he played solo on keyboards a song dedicated to Andy Wood and Chrown Of Thorns to follow .. he did a very good interpretation. intense moment.
    reporting from outside the club .. "no gigs in europe this year .. maybe next year .. solo album coming soon" said Stone.
  6. Glad to hear you enjoyed the show, Ron.
  7. Is someone on the 10C forum with a source blabla that they might have some dates in Europe this year. Can't imagine that after last year. Maybe confused with Soundgarden, who I kind of expect to be in Europe in the summer, if they really have reformed as a 100% band.
  8. Stone said no

    grazie Matt i really did

    (by the way the pen is moving through boston..)
  9. 2006-05-24 TD Garden - Boston, MA

    So Boston .. a city that saw performing great concerts like rightly someone (well Matt hehe) said .. by PJ and some others too I can recall
    And the gig starts in a very classic way releasing Release .. sorry for the bad joke .. I heard and attended far way better version of it. Intro to and Severed Hand after; I’ve had a quite weird sensation like the concert is restarting and have to say I haven’t liked it.
    World Wide Suicide to Corduroy, good way to raise the bar to a higher level but still it doesn’t happen surprisingly for what the song can do … same for the follower Animal. I feel like something indefinable is missing at this time.
    An always welcome but “shy” started Red Mosquito makes the way for Love Boat Captain with spotlight on Boom .. well done man ..really. nice background job again by Boom again in quite average Better Man.
    Unemployable and of course it doesn’t change the flow of the concert .. pass on to the next .. Even Flow .. incessant as always in the rhythmic section with a very little hint of drum solo but not as incendiary as we’re used to.
    Sad is always a highlights for me but I can’t say it is this time .. and to follow Wishlist and Gone slip away without particular shocks.
    Green Disease surely not a fantastic song but I always love when this kind come out especially in night like this colored in gray. Same words for Down.
    Jeremy to return to a classic route .. good enough not excellent like it should be .. nice audience participation but again I expect more in this song.
    Life Wasted, in what it seems its new stable position, and Why Go to close what’s been a pretty colorless main set.
    Jeff and Eddie and all the band open the encores paying a due tribute to the poet with 2 of the many splendors of Dylan . .Forever Young and Masters of War .. great performances with Eddie deep in both and Mike in Masters .. I love the entirety of these 2 covers. The highest point of the gig .. quite odd that is not a PJ song.
    Another cover to follow Crazy Mary, honest one with Boom winning the duel.
    First encore ends with an unsteady at the start Inside job and a bit spineless Alive.
    Energetic treble introduces 2nd encore .. Black Circle – Evolution – Whipping .. really hard rocking but Eddie don’t, or can’t, push as usual .. over the average of the night though.
    Second appearance of the rats and they do pretty good; examination passed.
    Comatose second last song? Uhm definitely not its position.
    Rocking in the Free World (Stone here does what Mike hasn’t all over the show, soul in the solo) to close a concert that has left me with the sensation something more could have been done .. not because of the setlist, it had potential, but I feel like the band hasn’t pushed to the limit. If the mvp of the night, for me, is Boom something strange just happened .. love you man hehe

    Highlights: Masters of War – Forever Young – Boom – Rats

    Rating: 3 stars

    probably in a better mood of mine it would be 1/2 star more hehe
  10. Nice review Ron,I will have mine up tomorrow....
    ...
  11. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that Boston 1 was lacking something.

    I have been listening to some earlier shows from the band - 1992 to be specific.

    The Moore Theatre show is (obviously) great but I can't help but think that EV made some pretty immature comments during the show. I guess both he and I have matured a bit over the past two decades. Maybe I would have found statements like wiping my ass with a fur coat funny when I was 19.

    The Utrecht show is excellent - everything from Ten is played except for "Oceans," which is understandable since they opened with "Release" on that night.

    As great as the earlier shows are, I am still hoping their vault #3 release comes from 1996 or 1998 - and I hope it comes soon!
  12. recapping what we officialy-not official bootlegs have

    -Live in NYC 31-12-92 (10c Avocado .. now on sale also separatly)
    -Drop in the Park 20-09-92 (LP in Ten superdeluxe)
    -Vault #1 17-01-92 Moore Theatre (PJ20 weekend)
    -Orpheum Theater 12-04-94 (VS/Vitalogy deluxe and super)
    -Benaroya Hall 22-10-03
    -Live at The Gorge 2005-06
    -Vault #2 Vic Theater 02-08-07

    (forgotten any?)
    i don't insert in the list the dvd .. meaning Showbox and the Garden

    so 1996-98 are a big gap but something will come out with No Code-Yield reissue .. if it will ever be .. it must be!!! .. i have a large empty space in my shelve waiting for it besides 1990-92 1993-95 hehehe
    i wouldn't forget 1995 .. many great concerts .. San Diego, Salt Lake City, San Jose, Chicago, Red Rocks, New Orleans, Milwaukee, Las Cruces ... and on
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