Viktor Vaughn he might have been fine with it but he certainly didn't prefer that. if you listen to a number of older live recordings he politely comments on how there are a "lot of talkers" as they were even worse when he was completely unknown.
@@ABCDyeahyeahyeah he also said once "man yall are too quiet. its weird" so he probably like a happy balance. At the same time he probably was never content with anything in his life .
The little smirk after the opening line, you can tell he felt so good here. He hit the notes perfectly, sounds like the album version, he knows he sounds fantastic.
I was at this show! It was my first one and it was beautiful in so many levels. Elliott Smith was unlike anyone else! And we in the crowd loved him! It was amazing to be in the same room with so many others who knew his music. To be 20 again and go back to that time, it was the best!
So true Erika. I saw pinback play so many times at the belly up and the casbah around the same time. And now here I am 20 years later and 41. The best times; wish I could go back!!!!
Died 20 years ago this month. In the dim of October… RIP. So much talent taken from us too soon - but so little we have to appreciate. I love Elliott ❤
How incredibly lucky these people were to have watched him. I would give anything to have watched him play live. What an incredible artist. What a man. I loved him enough to have named my son after him. 2 L’s, 2 T’s. Elliott will always be in my heart 👍
Make that a solid 3 lol. My son Elliot (only 1 L) is now 17 and he was born a mere 2 years just after Smith passed. These songs have been sewn into my heart for 2 decades and not a year goes by that we don't speak of the significance of his name and his impact on music songwriting and mental health. Elliott, I will forever speak your name. Elliot. Dad knows best. It's impossible to love me more that I love you. I knew you first 💛
His songs were often so intimate, which heightens attention on the performer, but that attention was extra painful for Elliot. Absolute legend and incredible song writer. RIP Elliot
This is one of the best Elliott shows to watch ever.. hes having so much fun and theres the perfect amount of rifting between everybody. These songs were both new at the time which gives it another nice light
Alot of artists don't sound nearly as good irl than they do on their albums, Elliots voice and playing are just as beautiful irl. So much talent wasted, he was too young.
I like to listen to this song deep into the early a.m. this time of year, late August. In the Northeast, you hear all the crickets while it seems like the world sleeps. Elliott's voice and the crickets sound like the cosmos, like something eternal. Every year this time of year I do a headphones listen outside on my porch staring at the stars and time stands still.
@@m01s_71 The studio version has crickets chirping as like a backing instrument in the mix, so that they're "felt" when you're listening to the song, almost like if you were camping and woke up to what sounded like an angel singing, and so you follow it in the wind until you realize it's coming From a Basement on the Hill, but as you get closer the song ends and you realize the basement is abandoned. Listening to it the way I described in my original comment + lil puff n booze you feel like his ghost is in the cosmos with the surround sound crickets, and if you stare at the sky you see a streak and think "You make me sad, shooting star." There's a lot of controversy about this album's final mix, but I wouldn't change a single thing. These songs sound like a man loosening his grip on his will to live and content to transition among the cosmos. The first minute or so of "King's Crossing" has that piano that sounds like a skeleton playing a haunted piano in an old western bar while Elliott's background harmony vocals moan in and out of the mix with like that kind of phaser effect like the skeleton's ghost friends swirling around the room. The guy died making this album, and he sings these songs with this beautiful tranquility like he's making peace with it, and it's mixed like his tortured soul is shooting out in every direction, inhabiting the peaceful morning & the unsettled night, at times calm and other times chaotic. Maybe I am dumb. It's one of my favorite albums, and I think Rob Schnapf took one of the most impossible and fragile challenges one might encounter being a record producer and did this rare thing where every single note and sound and vibe perfectly translate a man's final work. It feels similar to Love's 1968 classic Forever Changes.
@@maddeypuppets i really appreciate your reply kind sir. Maybe long after we're gone the music and the community comments will live on. I'm not sure if the following addendum matters, but I became a fan in between Figure 8 and him working on this album. Basement is by far the work I've listened to most; a desert island pick.
It makes me so happy to see him smile like that, he looks so content and happy for the moment. His music seems to have truly been his own personal therapy.
Christopher Carey - I never fail to notice this whenever I am listening to his live stuff as he's here, there or wherever. With ear buds in, I have even picked up a few blatantly crazy things - like 2 men who non-stop blabbered back and forth to one another during an entire 5 songs - they genuinely appeared to be in the wrong place.
I went to two of his shows in San Francisco and remember the crowd being very quiet while he played. There was almost a reverence. That may have made Elliott feel self-conscious but people wanted to hear every note.
Aside from his extraordinary artistic talent, I always thought he was so damned hot. I don’t mean this as a throwaway comment - I mean, really incredibly attractive. And his voice, even his speaking voice. Beautiful in every way a human being can be.
this video depresses me so much. such a beautiful song and the man is pouring his soul out about his depression and struggle with drugs and NO ONE is even listening...maybe if they knew at the time that he would take his own life by STABBING HIMSELF IN THE HEART they would have paid some attention to what a talent this was
+foleydvm You truly believe he stabbed himself (twice) in the chest?! He was murdered. Keep in mind that he was clean during the final year of his life, busy working on the Basement stuff, I know it plays into the mythology that he was always depressed and must have killed himself, but you don't stab yourself twice in the heart... Jennifer Chiba says that she removed the knife - so of course that was her explanation for her DNA being on the knife, but any objective analysis of what happened points to her being responsible for his murder.
+Jeerad Bardamu i don't know what happened and neither do you, nor will any of us ever know. Regardless, my point is that the man was a genius and was my musical hero. These losers in the audience don't give a shit about the man or the music and thats obvious
+Jeerad Bardamu Drugs are what kept him balanced... and what makes you think you cant stab your heart twice? its a muscle that pumps your blood, its not your brain
See even in the 90's people talked through shows of our most important artists. The phone thing is new, but that's just an appendage of collected attention deficit problems.
I still believe if his mom would have left her husband and gotten the therapy he needed he would have been able to heal ....No one can heal knowing your abuser is married to your mom and be happy about it
I read that he was in a good place mentally when he died. He was most likely murdered because people said he was happy and also his name was misspelled in the suicide note. He had made plans to work on another album with this guy and it just doesn’t make sense that he would end his life with all of the good things he had going.
@@buster6552 He didn’t misspelled his name the person who wrote the report did when summarizing the event in question that was just a misunderstanding.No one who kills themselves is in a good place ,he had also tried before .
@@deeplyblue7299 I just looked and you’re right about the name, but that doesn’t change how shady the other stuff is. The case is still open because the cops don’t think it was a suicide either.
Imagine going to see elliot live and yelling to play freebird, also is it a running gag? Id hear it called out in so mnay of his lives, does he play a rly good version of free bird or something?
