Elliott Smith - Seattle, WA 2000 (sbd)

Boombox Stage
Bumbershoot Festival 
Seattle, WA
September 2, 2000
  
soundboard recording (audio from professionally-recorded VHS tape; sound quality: VG+; there's occasional distortion at the upper end of Smith's vocals, possibly due to an issue with his mic)
  

    

Elliott Smith in rural N.J. as shot by photographer Chris Buck

01 Needle In the Hay

02 Bled White

03 Stupidity Tries

04 Coming Up Roses

05 Waltz #2 (XO)

06 Everything Means 

     Nothing to Me 

07 Clementine

08 Son of Sam

09 L.A.

10 Amity

11 Ballad of Big Nothing

12 Cupid's Trick

13 St. Ides Heaven

14 Junk Bond Trader

15 Division Day

16 Christian Brothers

17 Angeles

18 Fond Farewell

19 Alameda

20 Say Yes
   

ROB SEZ: Elliott Smith is yet another artist I've wanted to feature here for a while. Whereas most fans seems to appreciate Smith for his breathy, emotionally fragile folk-pop, I prefer to hear him backed by an electric band, playing at full tilt as we have here. In this recording, we get to hear Elliott play to a "hometown" crowd at the Bumbershoot Fest in Seattle (Smith lived in Portland for many years). The album Figure 8 had been released just a few months prior to the festival, and we get to hear half a dozen songs from it. Although this show has circulated for a good while as a DVD, I'm not aware of its availability as an audio-only document with a lossless lineage. When I acquired this very good-quality video via the JEMS team, I thought it would make a great audio bootleg — so I created one for myself. Now, you get to enjoy it too. Archive.org has LOTS more lossless Elliott Smith recordings, including some FM & soundboard shares HERE.

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