Jeff Buckley - New York 1997

Jeff Buckley, live at Arlenes Grocery, New York, 9th February 1997

Arlenes is a little venue on the Lower East Side of New York City, which, as the name suggests, used to be a grocery store. On this occasion, Jeff Buckley and band turned out to test a few new songs, the first time they were played in public, and despite a rough voice due to smoking, something Jeff refers to continually, this is a really great show. Enjoy!

01. Chat
02. Nightmares by the Sea
03. Chat
04. Witch's Rave
05. Tune Up
06. So Real
07. Chat
08. Paranoia in the City (Haven't You Heard)
09. Surf Guitar Noodling
10. Chat
11. Lover, You Should've Come Over
12. Morning Theft
13. Vancouver
14. Chat
15. Moisture (Residents cover)
16. Chat
17. The Sky is a Landfill
18. Chocolate >
19. Mojo Pin
20. Grace
21. Chat
22. Last Goodbye

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Buckley Grocery

John Frusciante - Kentucky 1997

John Frusciante, live in Kentucky, April 1997

Recorded in an unknown location on an unknown date, very handy that, and sadly nowhere near a complete show. That aside, there are some rather rare tracks here. Two of the songs are unreleased John compositions, tentatively titled by fans probably, and another is a cover of Nirvana's Moist Vagina, b-side to the also snappily titled Rape Me. Enjoy!

01 Elemental
02 Life's a Bath
03 Untitled #12
04 Dustbin
05 Moist Vagina

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Johns Vagina

Fiona Apple - Boston 1997

Fiona Apple, live at The Orphium, Boston, 11th August 1997

Some of Miss Apple for you today, been a while since I've posted any, and I think just the one. Only one album released at this time, but to be fair it did go multy platinum. Enjoy!

01. The Child is Gone – 04:45
02. Sullen Girl – 06:14
03. Sleep to Dream – 05:07
04. The First Taste – 06:10
05. Sitting in Limbo – 06:03
06. Slow Like Honey – 06:16
07. Shadowboxer – 07:21
08. Pale September – 07:43
09. Criminal – 05:55
10. Carrion – 05:33
11. Never is a Promise – 06:13
12. Use Me – 05:59

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Apple Boston

The Seahorses - Dublin 1997

The Seahorses, live at Dublin Castle, 3rd May 1997

John Squire is probably the last of the guitar heros to emerge, Jonny Greenwood aside, from this little island, and one of the guys who's riffs I emulated when learning to play. He was the first of the Stone Roses to get back out into the music scene when he placed the above advert in a Manchester paper, hiring busker Chris Helme for the role after a friend saw him busking outside a branch of the now defunct Woolworths store. They only released one album, citing the usual 'musical differences' before splitting, though the sessions for the second are out there (I think I may have an MP3 copy somewhere). Anyway, enjoy!

01 I Want You to Know
02 The Boy in the Picture
03 Kill Pussycat Kill
04 Love Me and Leave Me
05 1999
06 Hello
07 Standing on Your Head
08 Love is the Law
09 Round the Universe
10 Suicide Drive
11 Blinded By the Sun
12 Happiness is Eggshaped

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Seahorses Castle

Ben Folds Five - Carrboro 1997

Ben Folds Five, live at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro N.C., 11th November 1997

Recorded in their home state, I'd imagine at the end of '97's tour supporting the release of Whatever and Ever Amen, this is a quality little BFF bootleg. For me personally, there's hardly a spare track in this show, but then my favourite Five albums were the first two, and you have the bonus of the encore cover version. Please do enjoy!

01. Theme from Dr. Pyser
02. Battle of Who Could Care Less
03. Philosophy
04. Missing the War
05. Selfless, Cold & Composed
06. The Last Polka
07. Steven’s Last Night in Town
08. Fair
09. Brick
10. Kate
11. Jackson Cannery
12. One Angry Dwarf & 200 Solemn Faces
13. Uncle Walter
14. Smoke
15. Julianne
16. (segue)
17. Underground
18. She Don’t Use Jelly
19. Song for the Dumped

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BFF Cradle 1
BFF Cradle 2

Ben Folds Five - Tokyo 97

Ben Folds Five, live at the Akasaka Blitz, 20th May 1997

A great bootleg from Ben and Co., taken from an FM broadcast I think, but if you know better please do correct me. Some nice rarities here, For All The Pretty People and Mitchell Lane, written by Rob and Darren respectively, and Kane-Kaese, which is Song For The Dumped sung in their hosts language.

01 - Opening DJ
02 - Best Imitation of Myself
03 - One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces
04 - Kate
05 - Selfless Cold and Composed
06 - Emaline
07 - Philosophy
08 - Brick
09 - Steven's Last Night in Town
10 - Smoke
11 - For All the Pretty People ~ Jackson Cannery
12 - Fair
13 - Sports & Wine
14 - Theme from Dr Pyser
15 - Battle of Who Could Care Less
16 - Underground
17 - Kane-Kaese
Encore:
18 - Mitchell Lane (with September 67)
19 - Julianne

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Five Tokyo 1
Five Tokyo 2

Elliott Smith - Live at the Terrace Club 1997

Elliott Smith, Terrace Club Princeton University, 12th April 1997

Elliott wrote alot about his demons and what they drove him to, primarily depression, drugs and drink. It is these that were thought to have led him to commit suicide in 2003, though the evidence of his apparent suicide were inconclusive, and many fans thought perhaps it wasn't suicide due to him dying of two stab wounds to the chest. If it was, then he was pretty damned determined to do it that's for sure!

This performance is taken from his tour in support of his third release Either/Or, though the songs he played were taken from across his albums to this point. The show includes two covers; one he'd recorded during the either/or sessions, yet didn't release (though it did see the light of day on a couple of soundtracks), Big Stars song Thirteen, and Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks.

01. Division Day
02. Alameda
03. Angeles
04. Alphabet Town
05. Between the Bars
06. Bled White
07. St. Ides Heaven
08. Thirteen
09. Say Yes
10. Needle In the Hay
11. Big Decision
12. Southern Belle
13. 2:45am
14. Waterloo Sunset
15. Clementine

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