2008-12-07 - Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, US (HD/SBD Mix)

[AveryLoren]

Originally Posted by paranoid

Also it’s a sin that 99 floors was never recorded. Had this band survived past this tour, I think they’d have made a fantastic album, if this song was any indication of what was to come.

2009 is not recognized as the SP downfall that it should be. They had a killer album brewing in them. Teargarden is a lot like Adore (that was painful to type) in the sense that Billy lost Jimmy was as totally aimless in the studio again.

[BurtSampson]

jesus christ this version of United States rips

[Skradgee]

Just stopping back to finish watching this

Big thanks, especially to the main tapers

Always fun when stuff turns up, even years later

[srt4b]

jeez, the guy on the left needs to tune his horn

[fluxequalsrad]

Originally Posted by paranoid

owatta, top tier

[killtrocity]

Originally Posted by AveryLoren

Teargarden is a lot like Adore

what. no. Teargarden is carnival clown music that even a juggalo can't love

[killtrocity]

Originally Posted by themadcaplaughs

In all fairness, a studio version probably would have just neutered the song like Billy did with "United States" and "Superchrist". I'm much happier with soundboards like these.

That's a fair point, but United States in particular seemed to find some sort of identity after a year+ of live testing, and that's an often overlooked point of distinction between SP1 and SP2. BWBW was first played live in like '93 or something, right? He gets in a groove that leads to good songwriting. ZG is just so forced and over-engineered, and its so obviously the result of Billy overthinking and not doing the testing in front of actual people and seeing what works