Your White Whale Song?

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  • SVRDhand13 wrote:
    I posted earlier in this thread that I got my white whale song in Phoenix this year. (Hard to Imagine for those keeping score). But I pose this question. Once you get your white whale do you just pick a new one...just a constant chase right? :lol: My new one would have to be Man of the Hour.

    Yes, always pick a new one! :lol:

    I can't wait until I can pick a new one :D

    With that being said I saw several of my must sees this tour (All those Yesterdays, Oceans, Dissident, Comeback)

    for sure you pick a new one!
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  • SVRDhand13 wrote:
    I posted earlier in this thread that I got my white whale song in Phoenix this year. (Hard to Imagine for those keeping score). But I pose this question. Once you get your white whale do you just pick a new one...just a constant chase right? :lol: My new one would have to be Man of the Hour.

    Yes, always pick a new one! :lol:

    I can't wait until I can pick a new one :D

    With that being said I saw several of my must sees this tour (All those Yesterdays, Oceans, Dissident, Comeback)

    for sure you pick a new one!
    Can't wait for next tour so I hopefully knock another one or two out. I got probably 3 of my top 5 at the Phoenix show this time around.
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  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,007
    Can't wait for next tour so I hopefully knock another one or two out. I got probably 3 of my top 5 at the Phoenix show this time around.

    Phoenix would have killed my white whale... but I was hesitant to ask for time off work and visit a friend who lives out there :fp:
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  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,007
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,487
    edited January 2014
    It was Animal since my first show in 2006. Caught in now in Philly... the 12th show or something...

    Now I guess it's Can't Keep (not counting getting it on Eddie solo shows) or Tremor Christ.
    Post edited by Spiritual_Chaos on
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  • RobbyD462
    RobbyD462 Victoria BC Posts: 4,812
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,487
    edited January 2014
    I would consider some of the picks in this thread to be more "holy grail"-ish than "white whale"-ish.

    A song like "Strangest Tribe" or "Black, Red, Yellow" aren't really songs you'll miss, or almost get, should have gotten, or could get that you love but keep on missing. They are songs that aren't even played to begin with... Sort of...
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • CopperTom
    CopperTom Posts: 3,149
    The album songs that I'm still chasing are: Oceans, Sometimes, Red Mosquito, All Those Yesterdays, All or None, Bushleaguer, Ghost, My Father's Son, Swallowed Whole and Sleeping By Myself. Once I knock all of the album songs off, I'll worry about Lost Dogs.

    The most common song that I haven't heard is Long Road.
  • CopperTom said:

    Bushleaguer, .

    Good luck with that one :)

    Was really surprised that we got in in London, 2007. Felt like that song was "over with" from a band standpoint even then. Eddie did not don the GW mask though. I really dig it though, to bad the verses are a bit set in a specific time compared to the timeless and godly chorus.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • CopperTom
    CopperTom Posts: 3,149
    The only way it comes back if another Bush runs for presidential office or makes headlines for a wrong reason. I don't expect to hear it.
  • bakervision
    bakervision Posts: 88
    edited January 2014
    It was alone and I got it on lucky #48 in London

    I said I'd retire after that. So maybe I'll not have a whale anymore, I waited 18 years of shows for that one

    "don't you think you've done enough?"
    Post edited by bakervision on
  • It was alone and I got it on lucky #48 in London

    I said I'd retire after that. So maybe I'll not have a whale anymore, I waited 18 years of shows for that one

    "don't you think you've done enough?"

    Haha, Alone/Sad at the same show (haven't gotten anyone of them yet but I think Sad was soundchecked in Philly and Alone was soundchecked in Verona 2006) is sort of a white whale for me. Always felt they belonged together, I think it was the 2005 tour that did it. Seemed they liked dragging them out as a pair!
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • sherm
    sherm Seattle, Wa Posts: 708
    Alone or All Or None for me. Wouldve been Hold On, never thought i would hear it, pretty shocked / pumped at Wrigley.
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  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,007
    I'm looking forward to bumping this thread one day when I finally hear Hard to Imagine
    :)
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  • If I had to pick one I imagine I will be chasing Bushleaguer for the rest of time and I really like that song, the chorus is beautiful, I agree with subject matter of the rest of the song and I don't think it applies just to Dubba I mean Harper fits the bill just as nicely.
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  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,007

    If I had to pick one I imagine I will be chasing Bushleaguer for the rest of time and I really like that song, the chorus is beautiful, I agree with subject matter of the rest of the song and I don't think it applies just to Dubba I mean Harper fits the bill just as nicely.

    They sound-checked it in Baltimore so you never know...

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  • Peasant Tents
    Peasant Tents UK Posts: 863
    FATAL.....

    In 2006 I was choosing between Marseille and Prague... No regrets about Prague as setlist was amazing...(MFC as OPENER and a lot of rarities in the set) but I mean...Fatal is really rare!!!
  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,007

    FATAL.....

    In 2006 I was choosing between Marseille and Prague... No regrets about Prague as setlist was amazing...(MFC as OPENER and a lot of rarities in the set) but I mean...Fatal is really rare!!!

    That's like me just a few months ago. Chose Hartford over Baltimore, Balt got my white whale. With that being said, Hartford was phenomenal.
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