The '1998-era' Options

[SecretInsomnia]

Looking to Live's history, each era before and after and album and also their touring history, I still find 1998 the most interesting. I don't know what that is exactly, but first of all they were creative, experimantal, rocking and also very productively (there are many songs from this era). Listen to Don't Wait, Deeper and Vine Street in one row. Wait, was that all from one era, so different but quality songs? And they didn't even use it...? Also I think it was the last time they wrote songs together (?), although the tracklisting of what became TDTH wasn't what they all agreed on.

Maybe this is, closely after TC, the style of Live that I liked the most, although it's a shame that many of the songs aren't available in good quality or ended up quite differently then the versions created in 1998.

The setlists, although I don't think they toured much, are quite rare and cool too. For example: Sun, Don't Wait, New City, They Stood Up for Love, Still Aroused, Wash the Blood Away, Change, Lakini's Juice in one row and that's it! (March 8, 1998). See more at: http://www.setlist.fm/setlists/live-13d6b90d.html?page=74 . And don't forget the recorded songs from the demo(?) Pelgrimage to the Southern Stars (quite a different album from TDTH) and all the rare songs that we don't even know exactly know about.

Too bad the only video I find on youtube is Meltdown (first video I ever saw together with Chris Thorn!):



I think I have a few other songs from this show as well somewhere on my computer. But that's really it. There is still talk of a recording of New City around this time tough)

Last remarkable thing is the change in Ed as a frontman:
I was watching this two video's yesterday and thought: how did this happen?
Lakini's Juice, SNL, 1997: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M53lerFTcXA
Lakini's Juice, Woodstock 1999: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-W1-KXm-dM
I like both Eds, but they're quite different. In two years from the crazy, weird, sometimes dark and totally giving his all Secret Samadhi-Ed, to the more friendly, dancing, smiling Ed, making more connection to the audience. Still very good tough, but somewhere in 1998 something changed, didn't it? Or did the bright tone of TDTH changed his performance?

What do you think of the era between SS and TDTH? And does anyone have more footage of them playing?

This post has been edited by SecretInsomnia: Jan 11 2017, 8:01 am

[TheBeacon]

I feel they could have taken many of the outtakes from TDTH and made a great album for V instead of what ended up on V. It kind of would have made V really TDTH 2 but it was still the same era so it would have worked. Instead V was really the beginning of the end for LIVE. Having said that I still followed every thing they did all through those years and have done great memories from that time period.