MSG Night 2 1998 - The Breath Show - Live On 4 Legs

Sobelberg8 said:

mookieblalock 

This is silly. He doesn’t need to provide tangible reasons to appease you. I was at this show and could write 10,000 words that wouldn’t do it justice. You needed to be there to experience it. Sorry.

You have one thing right and one thing wrong. You are 100% correct that the experience cannot be replicated, so in turn our decision to cover it is a difficult one because in 2019, this looks like a pretty decent set with nothing completely out of the norm. But listening back to it twice now on low quality audio, it is tough to put myself in the shoes of someone there. That’s been the most challenging process about doing this podcast is that it tends to be more of a discussion about a bootleg rather than a live show. Which is fine, but that’s why I ask for first hand accounts from people’s experiences.

I’m not looking for anyone to appease me. This isn’t about me. This is about anyone who loves this band and has incredible memories from seeing them live that they wish to relive and I just want to help them relive those memories. So when someone says “this is the best show I’ve ever been to” or “their greatest show”, we owe it to people to prove or disprove that theory. Do words always do it justice? No. Definitely not. I fully understand that. But painting a picture with some context can help the memories stay alive and in the end that’s all I’m trying to do.