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Mansfield 1998 -- An All-Time Great

walkunafraidwalkunafraid Posts: 2,557
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As tends to happen every so often, I got reminded of this show this morning, and have been listening to it all day long. I've had this boot for 10+ years and have always counted it as my favorite, despite the sound quality not being as professional as the "official" boots. I don't know what kind of reverence it gets around these parts, but somehow I feel like it must be underrated because every time I listen to it I can't help but gush over how fucking good it is.

Ed mentions early on that a friend of the band's had recently passed, and the emotion is palpable in the next few songs, with Ed getting choked up multiple times and visibly crying by the end of Dissident (https://youtu.be/SKBFClHND_Y), after which he has to take a break to "compose" himself.

The emotions turn the other way later on with the infamous quarter rant, wherein Ed goes completely apeshit on a fan who is throwing quarters on the stage, giving the crowd permission to kick his ass.

This show holds my favorite versions of Throw Your Arms Around Me, the Save It For Later tag to Better Man, Dissident, and Given to Fly, and one of my favorite versions of Release. I keep hoping that one day this will be a vault vinyl, as it deserves to be. It's too damn good to ever fade into obscurity.
Everything has chains...Absolutely nothing's changed. - PJ

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus

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    pjsteelerfanpjsteelerfan Maryland Posts: 9,883
    This would also be a great Vault show
    ...got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul...
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    EBowieEBowie Posts: 529
    It was my first show. I think the impact it had on me is obvious, due to the fact that I am on here posting about it some 17 years later.
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    SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 NYC Posts: 25,846
    Haven't listened to this one in years but I remember it being solid. It's going into my rotation for next week.
    severed hand thirteen
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    EBowieEBowie Posts: 529
    edited October 2015
    Those 98 shows were super intense
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    ZodZod Posts: 10,157
    pjsteelerfan said:

    This would also be a great Vault show

    There's already a soundboard of it (not the greatest, but an ok one). I'll repeat my opinion that I'd like to see some shows released that don't have soundboards (good or bad) kicking around. Awesome shows from the vault that none of us know about because most of us weren't there. An unknown gem.
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    mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 27,883
    Great show! One of my favorite boots to listen too.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
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