Feel like he's more comfortable when people are talking and not paying too much attention and he can just kind of slide into the background.

@ABCDyeahyeahyeah

7 жыл бұрын

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.

@JohnDoe-gx2ii

6 жыл бұрын

I agree with this I like when people talk when I play and I can be background to them It's like a soundtrack to a movie

@idontknowoffiser

5 жыл бұрын

@@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 .

@awesomeianmarco

5 жыл бұрын

If I were him, I would like that. This creates special moments for other people.

@williams.5952

4 жыл бұрын

A fellow DOOM fan on an Elliott Smith video!

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!

@linnsterlingcurebeliefinad1725

4 жыл бұрын

Where was it in Portland?

@erikagrl1

4 жыл бұрын

@@linnsterlingcurebeliefinad1725 hi! It was in 2000 at the Belly Up Tavern in San Diego.

@handymadness

3 жыл бұрын

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!!!!

@SlowVillageBand

Жыл бұрын

@atticustay1

Жыл бұрын

Why are people talking so much in it?

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 👍

@dubbatrubba1759

3 жыл бұрын

Steven Paul Smith was his original name. He said it sounded to “jockish”.

@TheMorningStarlette

Жыл бұрын

I named my son after him too. Such a great name and such an amazing artist. I wish I could have seen him play live.

@xuntdmc

Жыл бұрын

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 💛

Very brave to be livesinging about your depression and addiction

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.

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

@joeydanielski962

2 жыл бұрын

Seems like he's enjoying himself in this one.

@patriciosotelo9007

2 жыл бұрын

Why you relate the word painful in every little thing he done? Seems like he was enjoying that gig

This song and King's Crossing will always annihilate me

@m01s_71

3 жыл бұрын

Figaroo

@dickmcbizz8736

2 жыл бұрын

King's crossing and fond farewell for me friend.

He deserved so much more.

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 ❤

@LeahDyson-kq4bd

2 ай бұрын

Don't remind me he died shortly after I graduated high school and I said I wanna see Elliott Smith play as a gift to myself I never got the chance

RIP Elliot, anyone else paying respects?

His smile gives me life

This was filmed nine days after I was born. Sick

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.

@maddeypuppets

Жыл бұрын

i don’t like to think of it as wasted , just left behind for somebody else his body of work will live on forever

A really damn solid performance here! One of the best I've seen of him. His vocals feel fiery and feisty in the best way.

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

Rest in peace, you beautiful soul

@dirkdiggler7727

4 жыл бұрын

Named my son after him!

@m01s_71

3 жыл бұрын

Dirk Diggler wow! I am impressed!! Wooohoo!!

I love how Sam Coomes and Elliott sang together during this tour ❤

Standing while playing acoustic? Not sure if I've ever seen that combo from Elliott, sweet!

He is gorgeous

those first chords to pretty (ugly before) make my heart melt

really strange to think that people are talking during this set... they must have had no idea what they were watching

@Dani92670

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@slk23

3 жыл бұрын

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.

So talented . Left us some timeless music

man this performance is beautiful

The grin he makes after "Better stop now before I start crying".... RIP Elliott

@bmxmyth166

3 жыл бұрын

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.

dam love this version of tw ilight

Thank good luck this video exists and thank you for uploading it for free. Awesome.

0:07 Twilight 3:47 Pretty (Ugly Before)

These are two of the most beautiful, tragic songs ever written. Just my opinion

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

3 жыл бұрын

Lol you’re dumb dude

@slickguy-vt1tw

3 жыл бұрын

​@@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

Жыл бұрын

@@slickguy-vt1tw beautifully written

@RyanThomas1983

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

이때는 일어나서 불렀구나 건강한 모습 보니.. 좋네..

So great to see a smiling, comfortable Elliott. Enjoying, receiving.

Thx u so much for this video

Fantastic

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.

@dithirambos

3 жыл бұрын

Yesssssssss!!!!!!!

@opheliajade1986

3 жыл бұрын

TRUTH!

@burcu3444

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@lynxcore

8 ай бұрын

yup i have a crush on him lol

I would kill for this whole show

Beautiful 🎵 🎶 🎵

my favourite songs

Who's the bunghole making the Freebird joke to Elliott Smith?!?! Farging iceholes!

And I'll feel pretty another hour or two...

❤

Can't believe so many people talking at an ES show in 2000. Think by then everyone would have gotten the memo: you'e watching a fuckin' genius.

@petersmith9530

4 жыл бұрын

agree

@gian3008

Жыл бұрын

@Green Rocky Road yep, we don't know what we've got till it's gone.

I had to rewind because I thought he started it by saying "haven't sung this song in a long time."

Rest In Peace.

sam coombs!

My Life....

Long Live...Elliott Smith !

fuckin solid popper most of the topper most. no can touch this man-

As I’ve gotten old, struggled with addiction, and gotten sober, I’ve learned Elliott was pretty messed up

Anymore from this session

What happened to the original upload of this version of Twilight? Christ.

because your candle burns toooo briiiiiiiight

wich song is freebird?

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

@buster6552

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@deeplyblue7299

2 жыл бұрын

@@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 .

@buster6552

2 жыл бұрын

@@deeplyblue7299 source? Also, there were no hesitation wounds, which there would have been if he actually stabbed himself.

@buster6552

2 жыл бұрын

@@deeplyblue7299 people even said he was in a good place, so I doubt he actually committed suicide.

@buster6552

2 жыл бұрын

@@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?

@digitalheart.3d

4 жыл бұрын

People just yell that to fuck with performers it's a common thing

@gian3008

Жыл бұрын

Freebird is a 10 minute song. I figure that's why people make the joke.

3:47

rip

Full concert?

I would choose Elliot smith if I could go back. For one show ,

Does Elliott looked jacked in this video, like he's been working out and taking care of himself.?

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

@jeeradbardamu5057

9 жыл бұрын

+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.

@foleydvm

8 жыл бұрын

+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

@bipedalprimate1927

8 жыл бұрын

+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

@innovativeprogramschool7979

8 жыл бұрын

+Jeerad Bardamu Always wondered about that. Especially after hearing there were no hesitation marks.

@foleydvm

8 жыл бұрын

amen

Who is the whistler?

@elsbethsteele9285

6 жыл бұрын

can bottle Sam Coomes I believe. Hes from quasi

Who decided to film a whistler and not Elliott smiths guitar work... ugh...

@elsbethsteele9285

6 жыл бұрын

Travis Carver someone who was into it.... As Elliott seemed into it too. ;)

the keyboards make this even better 🥲❤️

real.

What concerts this from?

@iamcyber

Жыл бұрын

Belly Up Tavern, 2000

Pretty soon you'll find it's the only

His voice breaks at "I've got no fight"....maybe a glimpe

I'm glad he sacrificed himself for us all. That's a fucking horrible and abhorrent thing to say...but I'm already somebody's baby.

❤