Conor Oberst - When the curious girl 

This performance gives me hope.

Love conor

He was 19 when this was recorded. Less than a year before he released Fevers and Mirrors. That's the greatest album Conor did imo.

this makes me smile alot. i love conor. you know i'm infatuated when i love every mistake he makes.

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this is extremely encouraging.

awh. i love this song. he's so determined to finish.

ha i listen to this and to me it sounds as if he doesnt mess up at all.

This is my favorite video of a live song. The patio is beautiful. It's so real.

My favorite video.

that was THE cutest thing in the entire world

and this video was shot BEFORE lifted, around 2000, maybe earlier. no coke use was mentioned on the fevers and mirrors record.

Does anyone has this performance in full? :(

@MyBrightEyes17 Fevers and Mirrors was in production in 1999..

Poor Conor. Adorable.

This is awesome.

I wonder if anyone has the rest of this video like where he starts playing guitar..

raw talent.....i love it, not as polished as it is now, but just as beautiful

that's beautiful.

he's so cute! That mess made the song even greater

Knowing how hard Connor has punched my soul, seeing this, I fucking get it. I was with him the entire way, fuckups and everything else. Sign me up.

bravo

I've got the saddle creek dvd! Maybe I just forgot about it... "An Evening With Saddle Creek?"... XX

i totally agree. i'm surprised no one has said this. it's not nerves, it's a whole lot of coke. my heart races just watching this video.

I am curious how many attempts he had before recording the album version?

Thanks for uploading. This was fun to watch. ^__^

This is so cute!! *has a sigh of relief, that practice really does make musical genious".

hahaha i love the "... oh shit" at the start

Okay I’m just gonna get the big disclaimer that I don’t know how to play piano. I actually started a piano class at UNO, at the beginning of the semester and.. my teacher recommended I drop it, after I performed the first time for her. So um yeah, thats what you’re gonna recommend after this Okay, so I’m gonna mess up a lot, but I just.. and this is a brand new song, so, but.. forgive me, cause, you gotta.. you can’t just be Billy Joel right away you know. You have to jump. You have to start...

dont you just want to give him a big hug?

best video on youtube....hands down!!

ROFL That was amazing, and funny. Then at the very end "That was the most embarassing thing i've ever done" hahahhahaha i was laughing at that pretty damn hard just because of how much of a role model he is to me.

This is adorable. It shows he just keeps trying. Hence he's got so much better :) Aaww made my day! Where did you get this? XX

So this is called, When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass. Shit.. Sorry. God. Let’s go one more time. Sorry. God. Shit. Okay, here we go. God. Okay, I think I’m gonna quit… You know, I’m not gonna quit, I’m just gonna.. I’m gonna play this last chorus. Thanks. That was… that was the most embarrassing thing I’ve

I looked it up. That does sound perfect, haha.

there's a saddle creek dvd?tell all....

that is i agree with purpleponiesforever

... i love you connor xD... dont worry the first time i played it i had some trouble!

@tyrone199 goddamn i know. is there anywhere i can see this without those?

I watched this like 12 years ago and i loved it so much. Watching it now, i am convinced that this is a piece of performance art that Conor did. I think he knew how to play it perfect already but failed on purpose because he had a really intricate, mature sense of humor and thought it would be a funny. And it is. Good job Conor, you're a genius. Always have been and always be dude.

when was it?

omgg:( he does exactly what I do in piano. messes us but he turns out amazing, unlike me.

When was this?

i dont like how it says he attempts to play it. it was a new song then and you could clearly see. but it is a nice video i love it.

i prefer this version lol

Hahahaha, awe! :]

How old was he? :P

haha, oh boy.

is this at the ICC?

@isawrosetta Probably 17 or 18

im not german but there's a word for this in german that's not in the english language that describes this video perfectly "schadefreude"

@EATxDANCExPUKE hahaha my thoughts exactly.

clearly his cocaine phase but still awesome as hell, and always the character

... I hope you weren't serious in this comment. You don't know what you're talking about at all if you think he started doing coke when he started signing about it. That may or may not be the stupidest comment i've ever heard on a bright eyes video. He's been doing coke since he started touring in his mid teens

hey i like your name. you could capture this with camera clips, but it don't exist ;)

he still does coke. he didnt talk about any use on the f&m record, so i cant vouch for that. but it's mentioned on lifted and everything after.

:D!

what the....;;;; lol

schadenfreude? you're happy he fails?