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Originally Posted by MacShadowsBall
I'm glad too about ISA though I get a little surprised that GYOW and Tusk didn't get a lot of acclaim.
ISA wasn't a hit or a single, but has endured throughout the years on the Mac and Lindsey tours.
I'm So Afraid is Lindsey's Gold Dust Woman.  |
hmm, puzzling comparison.
while i love GDW (perhaps more than ISA as a song), i think it's been done practically the same - and therefore it became boooring - at most shows in the recent memory (meaning last 30 years i guess? i can't really speak for SN solo shows though. but even with SSPs while a bit different it was not any better. best newish version to me was Courtney Love's). it was done great at European part of the UL, when Lindsey jazzed up his guitar parts. of course there were bunch of complaints then that he's showing off on SN's song.
other than that it's just going through the motions with those golden shawl twirls at the end happening for like 5 extra minutes of wasted time (imho of course, most audience goes into hysteric trance when this happens lol).
ISA however has been done differently over the years and tours, mostly recently OMS version was completely different (whether you love it or hate it!), and it's always been the highlight of LB's performance and people who have never even heard of him are completely amazed when they see that performance.
so you have one extremely well known and loved song done in a tired way but elicits audience reaction b/c of its cult status (and i love hearing it in concert and singing with it! just wish it would be cut short), and another completely unknown song, done amazingly in concert which inspires owe every time. so yeah, to me, these are 2 very different songs.