Yellow Ledbetter as an opener?

tdzyph
tdzyph Posts: 11
edited July 2006 in Given To Fly (live)
Wouldn't it be a great surprise to all in attendance for Mike to start out with that lick to open a show? This may draw some ire, but I'm sick of seeing them close with this. Just my opinion.
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  • falcon
    falcon Posts: 163
    It's more of an anthem, which is better placed at the end. It's like McCartney playing Hey Jude to start a show- it just wouldn't work.
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    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,005
    I think they should play Yellow Ledbetter BEFORE playing Rockin, Baba, Porch or whatever. The energy in the building after Baba is AMAZING and it dies right out during YLB.
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  • tdzyph
    tdzyph Posts: 11
    I guess that was kind of my point - it seems to take the wind out of whatever they'd spent two hours creating. It just kind leaves you on a down note - it's too predictable. Great song, but I think they could be a bit harder to pin down after all these years.
  • Number 18
    Number 18 Posts: 132
    I thought the way they did it last year at the Gorge was fantastic. Yellow Ledbetter followed by Baba.
  • JD Sal
    JD Sal Posts: 790
    This isn't my quote, but someone in the pit once said that YL is like the cigarette after a 3 hour fuckfest.

    While I agree with that, I'd love to see it open a show. And I'll go a few steps further and say I'd love it if PJ played a bizarro set list and reversed the order.

    YL opens, then RITFW, then Leash .... and Release closes the show!

    Now that would ROCK!
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  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    JD Sal wrote:
    This isn't my quote, but someone in the pit once said that YL is like the cigarette after a 3 hour fuckfest.
    62strat said that. and ylb would suck as an opener
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