Now I want to hear GDBD in it's entirety at a show!

When/where?

Bruce, you're asking for Poughkeepsie?

You gotsta take the bad dogs if you want the good dogs, lady!

This is very weird. So I log into iTunes this morning to look around, see what's new. This is NO JOKE, but the "Just For You" section this morning is especially goofy. No clue how I'm associated with ANY of those songs, let alone Poughkeepsie being in the mix. Is the government interceding or something??

I can't remember the last OTR I'd bought on iTunes - probably one of the Live From Nowhere things, maybe just a few tracks off Trumpet Child.

Not sure what's funnier ... "Rootin' Tootin' Santa Claus" or Poughkeepsie!

I can ASSURE you...
I would laugh harder if OTR played the former at a concert.

Oh, there's some debateable material-

The Back Porch or Home Recording version?
One for the show, the other tracks for the encore?

What to do with those pesky instrumental tracks...

LOL!

The whole album would be great, but I'd settle for "A Gospel Number" tucked into a show with the current lineup. Still one of my all-time faves, and I haven't heard it live since C'stone '96.

I wonder if Ric ever plays "Willoughby" solo?

He does, yeah. Sometimes as a full band, which is really well done. A version of that was released on one of his CDs.

OKay---I am still a relative newbie to being an apple---I keep hearing that so many don't like "Poughkeepsie" and "Little Blue River" as well-----

If anyone cares to tell me--why the antipathy to both songs???

It's something I really can't explain. I just didn't like Poughkeepsie the very first time I heard it live (which was before GDBG was released), and then it got played a lot (By "a lot," I mean way too often for my taste. ) back in the mid to late '90's. I don't feel quite so strongly about Little Blue River, except that I think the song was long enough before the band added In The Garden to the end of it. Those are my own personal opinions, and I can't speak for the other people who don't care for those songs.

At it's core, I love Poughkeepsie. It's a well written, inspiring lyric. I'm just a little high bandwidth (hold the fat jokes!) and the way I've described it is this: my brain barely can parse the words together as thoughts/sentences when they come so slow. To my brain, it almost seems like a random staccato of words that have no relation to each other. That's probably my biggest problem with it.

Little Blue River had been around a while as well, and played every once in a while mid-90s, way before it was recorded. Similarly, it just was sluggish. (And this includes periods where they'd play June (from Eve) as one of the "rockin jams" of the night.)

One mid 90s show at Canal Street I was sitting near the original drummer Brian's wife and they announced that song was next. My body language did the groan that my mouth knew not to do. She said something along the lines that it wasn't her favorite either, but they had just improved it! The improvements included the harmonies and end key change that definitely helped the song - the way it was recorded for FFR. Even though, it doesn't do a ton for me.

After their only full show at Southgate House in Newport KY, an excommunicated Apple and I wrote reviews of the show basically just noting that the night was a little dirge-like. This was on the old friendly actwin list. Karin signed up and wrote "With fans like Dan and Bruce, who needs critics?" and in subsequent posts noted that she'd stop playing Poughkeepsie only when they pried the guitar from her cold dead hands.

So we became poster kids for people that didn't prefer to hear the ultra-slower stuff at shows.

from the "splash" page on otr.com from the time frame bruce mentioned above.

and i loved karin's dedication (and iirc, it's the only time i've ever seen bruce stand and applaude poughkeepsie) @ little brother's a few years ago...(while looking directly at him) "dan, this one's for YOU bay-bee!" it was hilarious.

and also at a later little brother's show when some guy kept shouting "POUGHKEEPSIE!" after every song and bruce kept shouting back "noooooo" in response.

"poughkeepsie" was played a lot there for a while. but personally, i like 'em both, i think "poughkeepsie" is beautiful.

Familiarity breeds contempt I guess.... those songs were played at almost every single show from about '95 to 2002. Not every show, but almost every show.

I still love Little Blue River. The slide guitar work that Jack Henderson did on that song around 2001 or 2002 was some of my favorite work that he did with the band.

Jeff