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Reply to "New archive release for Jan '18: Brendan Byrne Arena, NJ - June 24, 1993"

Bobby_G posted:

Lucky Town is a solid little record.  It's the tour that followed it (along with the touring band) that most people balked at. He should have just stayed home and taken care of the cat.

I don't think it's solid top to bottom.  I think there is a lot of trash with the good here.  You were the Rea Sea, I was Moses?  What the f*ck, Bruce?  What exactly are you trying to say here.  As George Carlin would say, "You don't have to be Fellini to see what he's trying to say here."   Stupid lyric, and I always skip the song when the cd gets to that point.  Souls of the Departed...well, I'm a Gulf War vet...I don't know anybody whose story is anything remotely like young LT. Jimmy Blye (or whatever his name was) - and I served another 18 years after the Gulf War, so I know a lot of vets - I don't know anyone who relates to it..  It's song you write after watching CNN, during the commercials, trying to imagine what it might be like.  We simply didn't have young lieutenants going through the bodies of dead Iraqis on the road to Basrah.  And the music, terribly boring, and an awful lot like Living Proof and other one or two chord songs. 

After listening to the entire 6/24 show (somebody owes me a beer...seriously), I have concluded that what I dislike most about the show, and the entire tour, is his stupid, 1-2, 1-2-3-4 count-off for what seems like every stinking song.        

 

 

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