been listening to exile in guyville quite a bit as of late, after probably 2-3 years without listening to it much, if at all. no doubt that it’s a brilliant record, and remains in my top 5 of all time, but are people still buying it or listening to it? is it one of those records that is going to be bought and consumed years from now, like its counterpart exile on mainstreet, the white album, blonde on blonde, london calling and other records deemed “classics?” me thinks it would be a damn shame if it were purely a generational, see mine, appreciated record.
anyway, here she is at the fillmore in san francisco on 6.23.08. this was part of her exile in guyville performances tour.
all my love to persistent for the recording…
1. 6′ 1″
2. help me, mary
3. glory
4. dance of the seven veils
5. never said
6. soap star joe
7. explain it to me
8. canary
9. mesmerizing
10. fuck and run
11. girls! girls! girls!
12. divorce song
13. shatter
14. flower
15. johnny sunshine
16. gunshy
17. stratford-on-guy
18. strange loop
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I remember seeing her at Manchester University around 1994 – the support band……… Oasis. The band watched her in the audience and kept shouting ‘ Liz Phair, show us your pair’
oasis was the opener? wow, crazy! that seems like a lineup that was destined to either a. be a horrible disaster or b. put on a brilliant show. sadly, i have seen liz many of times, and i would only say her best show was, pretty good. oasis, i have never seen em.
Wow, fantastic. Thanks so much for making this available.
The Manchester concert was in October 1993. Story is that Oasis were drunk, boorish and violent (so no change there then) and campus security had to intervene to prevent Liz’s band from being beaten up. On the way to the van, one of the band found a patch of wet concrete and wrote ‘F*** Oasis’ in it. Brilliant! See http://tylercoates.tumblr.com/post/40091558/liz-phair-brad-wood-and-casey-rice-remember-the
So, the show released on the NPR website, recorded at the Troubadour in Hollywood 9 months before this one, is (according to the comments) marred by poor engineering and a flawed showing by Liz. I didn’t even listen to it, fearing the worst — I know she can suffer from stage fright that completely undermines her ability to execute a song on stage. She sounds amazing here, though, almost entirely relaxed, totally present, and genuinely enjoying herself. Thanks for making this available, it is a necessary and poignant addition to the earlier document of this tour, celebrating one of the greatest LPs of all time.
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