whats the rarest original song you've seen performed live?

zootown

Black and Red and Yellow
Bee Girl
Pilate
Stuff and Nonsense
Education

And by the way, the question was "original songs"--not covers y'all! So, crown of thorns, wont back down, little wing and others would not count in this lil survey

Satans Red Mosquito

I have only seen two shows, Bonnaroo and Chicago Night 1 2009, and my rare songs would be

All Along The Watchtower
Hard To Imagine
All Night
Who You Are
Smile
Needle And Damage Done
In Hiding

dbodner

bugs.
sweet lou.
crown of thorns (not original)
out of my mind
I'm open

decides2dream

bugs.

thraker

Originals:
Bugs - 1
Sweet Lew - 1
Out of My Mind - 3
Don't Drive Me - 3
Education - 6
I'm Open - 8
Don't Gimme No Lip - 9
All Or None - 10
Bee Girl - 11
Pilate - 16
Get Right - 17
U - 19
Satan's Bed - 22
Low Light - 28
Hard to Imagine - 33
Alone - 37

Covers:
Whip It - 1
Bleed for Me - 8
All Along the Watchtower - 8
The New World - 10
American In Me - 11
Crown of Thorns - 14
Love Reign O'er Me - 14
Masters of War - 15
Gimme Some Truth - 16

Also saw a show that didn't feature "Even Flow"!

Local Crew

I'll narrow it down to 2.
Undone -- TWICE! (Gorge 05 and VIC)
Black Red Yellow (Missoula 05)

LiteTheMatch

Supersonic - special version dedicated to the Seattle Supersonics 2009 Key Arena

AmyMoore

Everything but Angel, Just A Girl and Let Me Sleep.

NYCPJ

weekapaug19 wrote:

pdalowsky wrote:

probably bee girl if i had to pick one


personally I'd have rather heard something else, not fond of the rare tag too much, these things tend to be rare for a reason

exactly...bee girl, bugs, sweet lew are just a waste of time at a show IMO. Just because they are rare does not mean they are good songs

I agree (though i do like Bee Girl). Ill be happy to give it a shot when i get the Philly boot for night 4, but i cant imagine doing anything other than skipping through Bugs. I can certainly appreciate the fact that it enhanced the night and made it special, so im sure everyone who attended really enjoyed it, but Bugs, in particular, seems like a throw-away. I certainly would not have traded Breath and Deep from 10/30 for Bugs and Sweet Lew. And those are the songs, along with Parting Ways, Off He Goes, Tremor Christ, Untitled/MFC and Present Tense that really made 10/30 special to me.

In the end, i guess it depends on the song (so cant say all rare songs are bad) -- I am looking forward to "Out of my mind" -- ive never heard it and its supposed to be an awesome song. And "Hold on" was fantastic at the 10/30 show.

ponytd

For me

Dock of the Bay - Played only once 3/26/1994 (Murfreesboro, TN)
Of the Girl - Played only 37 times 8/17/00 (Nashville, TN)
Soldier Of Love - Played only 20 times 8/17/00 (Nashville, TN)
Cropduster - Played only 39 times 4/18/03 (Nashville, TN)
Parting Ways - Played only 19 times 4/18/03 (Nashville, TN)
Know Your Rights - Played only 18 times 4/18/03 (Nashville, TN)
Bushleaguer - Played only 32 times 4/18/03 (Nashville, TN)
Fortunate Son - Played only 20 times 4/18/03 (Nashville, TN)

I went for songs that I've seen that have been played less than 40 times total. Sadly, the last full PJ show that I saw was that 03 show. They need to come back this way soon! coughPLAYTHESOUTHcough

Foriginal Sin

I'm Open (Chicago 06) 6x

All those Yesterdays (LA4 09) 9x

Force of Nature (SD 09) 7x

PJFAN_seattle

No way
All night
Supersonic
Long road
In my tree

AndySlash

I'm at show 17, I think.

30 plays or less:

Saw 10/31, so Bugs, Sweet Lew, etc etc.

Pilatex2
I'm Openx2
Help Help
Ghost
Arc
All Those Yesterdays
Low Lightx3
WMA
Education
Satans Bedx2
All Night
Army Reserve
Big Wavex3
Come Backx5

Crown Of Thornsx4
Watchtower
Love Reignx2
Masters Of War
Bleed For Me
I Am A Patriot
Needle And The Damage Done
I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
Here's To The State
Driven To Tearsx2

C-Word

Just realised I haven't seen too many 'rare tracks' in the two shows I've attended but here they are:

Original
- W.M.A
- Rats

Covers
- Modern Girl
- Throw Your Hatred Down
- If You Want Blood (You Got It)

Crane

Education
Supersonic (Maybe not enough time yet)
Come Back
I'm Open
Parachutes
Thumbing My Way (Rare since 2003)

illegal pants

ponytd wrote:

For me

Dock of the Bay - Played only once 3/26/1994 (Murfreesboro, TN)

ohhhhh so jealous

did ok on the Oz/Nz tour!

If You Want Blood (You've Got It) 1
Not Given Lightly 1
Better Be Home Soon 1
The Needle and The Damage Done 3
I Got You 5
Brother 7
No Way 7
Hold On 10
Love Reign O'er Me 14
Throw Your Arms Around Me 17
The Real Me 30
Mankind 36

mankind.. good work

acutejam

Blessed to have seen the first and second performances ever of "Santa Cruz." (EV 2008 - SC, Berk2)
Doubly blessed to have seen the first (solo) performance of "The End." (EV 2009 - Philly2 )

Parachutes in San Diego this year -- only played 16 times so far.

But I'd count Driven To Tears, Masters of War and All Along the Watchtower too -- cause as covers go, those are all kinda/sorta rare. From '95, my gem was Sonic Reducer -- but they had played the shit outta it to that point, became "rare" after '95.

EDIT: Oh! Low Light is rare? Cool! That was awesome at Outside Lands this summer! One of my fav 3-4 stretches of songs ever: Corduroy/Low Light/The Fixer/In My Tree

EDIT: Hmm, having seen EV 4x a lot of these songs I've seen him do, Parting Ways, I'm Open, Satellite, Throw Your Arms, Here's to the State and just tons of stuff. That' the fun of EV Solo!

EDIT: (reading backwards through thread) Ah cool, Sad, Down, In Hiding -- always thought SFIII was a good, good show, esp cause of Light Years. But yeah those are in the 40-60s range.

yield2me

I'd say Arc is the rarest original I've seen and the rarest cover would be Everyday by Buddy Holly

chloedancer55

Leavin Here played in Toronto,maybe 2005? The show that Bono sang RITFW with the band.I was shocked to hear that.

doompony

i'd like to retract my claim that i saw parting ways. i didn't. i lied. i'm so. so. so. sorry. :oops: *beats self*