A Live Christmas Present for You, KROQ "Almost Acoustic Christmas" show - 12/6/97 Options

[edstipe]

In the spirit of giving, here is my all-time favorite bootleg. It comes from the L.A. radio station KROQ's annual "Almost Acoustic Christmas" gig in 1997 (ironically, virtually nothing about most bands' performances are anything close to acoustic -- this is, in fact, a very plugged-in set). The set is short -- only 8 songs -- but the band was really on that night, and they give an incredible performance.

Some points of interest:

- Ed does some pretty cool lyrical improvisation in the middle of "Operation Spirit";

- awesome version of "Iris," including a bit more lyrical improvisation in the middle of the song;

- although this show took place almost two years prior to the release of TDTH, there are a few lyrics from "Sun" mixed in with "I Alone";

- due mainly to the last 25 seconds of the song, this is hands-down my favorite version of "I Alone" ever!

I recorded this onto a cassette tape on the night of the broadcast. Years later, I sent the tape to Dan, and he was kind enough to convert the show to audio files and send me back a CD copy. The quality is pretty damn solid -- very clear (as you would expect from a radio broadcast), and not much static to worry about.

I am posting this as plain old MP3's, since I am not sure how to make a torrent out of the files. To download, click on each link, type in the three-letter security code at the top right corner of the page, then click Download.

Enjoy it if you don't already have it!

1. Lakini's Juice

2. Selling the Drama

3. All Over You

4. Freaks

5. Operation Spirit

6. Iris

7. Lightning Crashes

8, I Alone

This post has been edited by edstipe: Dec 25 2006, 11:01 pm

[+Ed+]

Guys any possibility to re-up it to some other than Megaupload thing?Please?OR could anyone please email the show to me?

[dangum]

Guys any possibility to re-up it to some other than Megaupload thing?

I'll upload it to www.sendspace.com when I get home from work. Can you access sendspace.com?

[dangum]

I'll upload it to www.sendspace.com when I get home from work. Can you access sendspace.com?

Sorry, I won't be able to upload these files. I came home to discover there had been a break in. No more laptop.

[aLIVEinNORWAY]

Sorry, I won't be able to upload these files. I came home to discover there had been a break in. No more laptop.

They propably knew that you had all this great LIVE music on it.
Sorry to hear