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Originally Posted by EveryHour
What are your top picks for song that have and have not transferred well to the stage (past or present)?
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I can't think of anything specifically that has never sounded good live, except maybe
Peacekeeper, which lags & drags like a pooped-out buck private in boot camp.
My picks for sounding good are also my picks for not sounding good. It all depends on how old the players were, which tour, &c. For me, several songs have taken a downturn since the onset of the digital tours: for example,
The Chain sounded great a couple of decades ago, but is just a lethargic, turgid soup nowadays. Same with
Gold Dust Woman &
Rhiannon. But
Don't Stop probably ranks as my least favorite as it has aged. It used to be a ball-busting blues shuffle; now it's an anthemic singalong.
Chris reminded me of one I didn't like the one time they did it:
Love in Store. The organ was inappropriate.