>There was a similar thread last year on the Bob Mould list. He was
>playing out new songs which would them be part of his _Last Dog and Pony
>Show_ release. His reasoning against taping these shows (he has always
>been pro-taping of his shows), was that with the new songs, he hadn't
>even recorded them yet.
This is an interesting turnaround for Bob, who encouraged taping of the
acoustic shows during which he worked the kinks out of songs which were to
appear on Sugar's _FUEL_. I have hours and hours of recorded shows from
that tour and it seemed as though he was covering himself by explaining the
song in detaila nd explaining how each would sound on the album. He spoke
very intentionally regarding this before he played almost every song. He
liked to hear the tapes that fans made and even included one on CD in
Sugar's _Besides_ collection. If I remember correctly from when I was on
Bob Mould's listserv, he put out a call to fans who had recit show because
he felt that he and the band had nailed the song "Explode and Makeup" and
he wanted to make it available because he swore he'd never do it live again
because it had been done.
Chad
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Chad Cosper
Dept. of English
Univ. of North Carolina at Greensboro
336-275-8576
http://www.uncg.edu/~cscosper
