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Better Man Intro on Jones Beach Bootleg 8/24/00

who_doesnt_like_pjwho_doesnt_like_pj Posts: 73
edited November 2008 in Given To Fly (live)
Was listening to my Jones Beach bootleg 8/24/00 and Better Man came on. I was wondering if the intro was to a different song? It sounds so familiar and I can't pinpoint it. Any ideas ?
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  • John Briggs 2008John Briggs 2008 Posts: 1,024
    Good question. I wouldn't mind knowing that either.
  • hawkeye8388hawkeye8388 Posts: 47
    Pretty sure it's called "Romanza" and it's kind of a Spanish love song. He played that as an intro to Betterman at several shows. I was at this show and liked it also.
  • PJ-SinPJ-Sin Posts: 348
    I think its on a cd called "Sangra de Seville" or something like that. My mom has that cd and there is a version of that song on it. I heard her listening to it one day a few years ago and recognized that tune. I wish Ed would still do it, its an awesome finger-picking riff.
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  • jrdjrd Posts: 3,060
    It's "Romanza", and that's how it's listed on the Two Feet Thick/Five Horizons concert chronology.

    the listing for the 08/07/2000 show in Atlanta says
    ...'Better Man' features Ed's short classical guitar intro titled 'Romanza' (or 'Spanish Romance'). [The author is anonymous; Canadian guitarist Liona Boyd probably has the best known recording for those interested.]
    Oh yeah? Well, I've had about enough of morons and halfwits, dolts, dunces, dullards and dumbbells - and you chowderhead yokel, you blithering hayseed, you - you've had enough of me?
  • olikatieolikatie Posts: 62
    Romanza is a great classical masterpiece by an unknown composer. also known as: Spanish Romance, Romance Anonimo, Jeux Interdits (Forbidden Games).

    The movie "Jeux interdits" 1952
    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4fy3t_jeux-interdits_shortfilms

    http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeux_interdits_(musique)


    Cover:
    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x75dzd_jeux-interdits-romance-cover_music
    1996: Zürich - 2000: Zürich - 2006: Marseille, Paris & Berne
  • JP2026766JP2026766 Posts: 1,125
    I believe Ed used this only on the 2000 tour, he may have used the intro a couple other times, but it was mainly used on the Binaural tour.

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  • release30release30 Posts: 2,051
    That sure was a great fuckin show....
    Conversations getting dull
    There's a constant ringing in my ears
    Sense of humor's void and numb
    And I'm bored to tears.......
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