Elliott Smith live - Twilight, Pretty (Ugly Before)

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  • @viktorvaughn2162
    @viktorvaughn2162 8 лет назад +389

    Feel like he's more comfortable when people are talking and not paying too much attention and he can just kind of slide into the background.

    • @ABCDyeahyeahyeah
      @ABCDyeahyeahyeah 7 лет назад +45

      Viktor Vaughn he might have been fine with it but he certainly didn't prefer that. if you listen to a number of older live recordings he politely comments on how there are a "lot of talkers" as they were even worse when he was completely unknown.

    • @JohnDoe-gx2ii
      @JohnDoe-gx2ii 7 лет назад +16

      I agree with this
      I like when people talk when I play and I can be background to them
      It's like a soundtrack to a movie

    • @idontknowoffiser
      @idontknowoffiser 6 лет назад +32

      @@ABCDyeahyeahyeah he also said once "man yall are too quiet. its weird" so he probably like a happy balance. At the same time he probably was never content with anything in his life .

    • @awesomeianmarco
      @awesomeianmarco 5 лет назад +8

      If I were him, I would like that. This creates special moments for other people.

    • @williams.5952
      @williams.5952 5 лет назад +2

      A fellow DOOM fan on an Elliott Smith video!

  • @Gabes47
    @Gabes47 Год назад +40

    The little smirk after the opening line, you can tell he felt so good here. He hit the notes perfectly, sounds like the album version, he knows he sounds fantastic.

  • @erikagrl1
    @erikagrl1 5 лет назад +178

    I was at this show! It was my first one and it was beautiful in so many levels. Elliott Smith was unlike anyone else! And we in the crowd loved him! It was amazing to be in the same room with so many others who knew his music. To be 20 again and go back to that time, it was the best!

    • @linnsterlingcurebeliefinad1725
      @linnsterlingcurebeliefinad1725 4 года назад +1

      Where was it in Portland?

    • @erikagrl1
      @erikagrl1 4 года назад +2

      @@linnsterlingcurebeliefinad1725 hi! It was in 2000 at the Belly Up Tavern in San Diego.

    • @handymadness
      @handymadness 4 года назад +3

      So true Erika. I saw pinback play so many times at the belly up and the casbah around the same time. And now here I am 20 years later and 41. The best times; wish I could go back!!!!

    • @SlowVillageBand
      @SlowVillageBand 2 года назад

    • @atticustay1
      @atticustay1 Год назад

      Why are people talking so much in it?

  • @nolanwolfe
    @nolanwolfe Год назад +13

    Died 20 years ago this month. In the dim of October… RIP. So much talent taken from us too soon - but so little we have to appreciate. I love Elliott ❤

    • @LeahDyson-kq4bd
      @LeahDyson-kq4bd 6 месяцев назад +1

      Don't remind me he died shortly after I graduated high school and I said I wanna see Elliott Smith play as a gift to myself I never got the chance

  • @iamrossco
    @iamrossco 4 года назад +84

    How incredibly lucky these people were to have watched him. I would give anything to have watched him play live. What an incredible artist. What a man. I loved him enough to have named my son after him. 2 L’s, 2 T’s. Elliott will always be in my heart 👍

    • @dubbatrubba1759
      @dubbatrubba1759 4 года назад

      Steven Paul Smith was his original name. He said it sounded to “jockish”.

    • @TheMorningStarlette
      @TheMorningStarlette 2 года назад

      I named my son after him too. Such a great name and such an amazing artist. I wish I could have seen him play live.

    • @xuntdmc
      @xuntdmc 2 года назад +5

      Make that a solid 3 lol. My son Elliot (only 1 L) is now 17 and he was born a mere 2 years just after Smith passed. These songs have been sewn into my heart for 2 decades and not a year goes by that we don't speak of the significance of his name and his impact on music songwriting and mental health.
      Elliott, I will forever speak your name.
      Elliot. Dad knows best. It's impossible to love me more that I love you. I knew you first 💛

  • @David-qz7fx
    @David-qz7fx 5 лет назад +74

    His songs were often so intimate, which heightens attention on the performer, but that attention was extra painful for Elliot. Absolute legend and incredible song writer. RIP Elliot

    • @joeydanielski962
      @joeydanielski962 2 года назад +4

      Seems like he's enjoying himself in this one.

    • @patriciosotelo9007
      @patriciosotelo9007 2 года назад +3

      Why you relate the word painful in every little thing he done? Seems like he was enjoying that gig

  • @ASafePlacePH
    @ASafePlacePH 4 года назад +30

    He deserved so much more.

  • @ClaraBane
    @ClaraBane 6 лет назад +141

    Very brave to be livesinging about your depression and addiction

  • @Ceb773
    @Ceb773 5 лет назад +62

    This song and King's Crossing will always annihilate me

    • @m01s_71
      @m01s_71 4 года назад

      Figaroo

    • @dickmcbizz8736
      @dickmcbizz8736 3 года назад +2

      King's crossing and fond farewell for me friend.

  • @clintonkotcha7452
    @clintonkotcha7452 5 дней назад +1

    Geez Elliott i wish you with us still cuz its amazing

  • @synesthesia.aesthetic
    @synesthesia.aesthetic 6 лет назад +50

    Rest in peace, you beautiful soul

    • @dirkdiggler7727
      @dirkdiggler7727 5 лет назад +4

      Named my son after him!

    • @m01s_71
      @m01s_71 4 года назад

      Dirk Diggler wow! I am impressed!! Wooohoo!!

  • @shelbypowell5301
    @shelbypowell5301 3 года назад +17

    RIP Elliot, anyone else paying respects?

  • @Vnzo
    @Vnzo 3 года назад +12

    His smile gives me life

  • @gracem381
    @gracem381 4 года назад +12

    those first chords to pretty (ugly before) make my heart melt

  • @erikagrl1
    @erikagrl1 3 года назад +13

    I love how Sam Coomes and Elliott sang together during this tour ❤

  • @BenSchillaci
    @BenSchillaci 5 лет назад +28

    A really damn solid performance here! One of the best I've seen of him. His vocals feel fiery and feisty in the best way.

  • @itsgonnbeok7249
    @itsgonnbeok7249 4 года назад +17

    This is one of the best Elliott shows to watch ever.. hes having so much fun and theres the perfect amount of rifting between everybody. These songs were both new at the time which gives it another nice light

  • @tyemcivor1194
    @tyemcivor1194 4 года назад +15

    This was filmed nine days after I was born. Sick

  • @なかもりふじ
    @なかもりふじ 4 года назад +9

    He is gorgeous

  • @jmpmcv
    @jmpmcv Год назад +1

    So great to see a smiling, comfortable Elliott. Enjoying, receiving.

  • @bobashley5596
    @bobashley5596 3 года назад +48

    Alot of artists don't sound nearly as good irl than they do on their albums, Elliots voice and playing are just as beautiful irl. So much talent wasted, he was too young.

    • @maddeypuppets
      @maddeypuppets Год назад +3

      i don’t like to think of it as wasted , just left behind for somebody else
      his body of work will live on forever

  • @devil_pls
    @devil_pls 3 года назад +4

    man this performance is beautiful

  • @simongunner5327
    @simongunner5327 7 лет назад +13

    So talented . Left us some timeless music

  • @dannyt1029
    @dannyt1029 7 лет назад +48

    Standing while playing acoustic? Not sure if I've ever seen that combo from Elliott, sweet!

  • @slickguy-vt1tw
    @slickguy-vt1tw 4 года назад +18

    I like to listen to this song deep into the early a.m. this time of year, late August. In the Northeast, you hear all the crickets while it seems like the world sleeps. Elliott's voice and the crickets sound like the cosmos, like something eternal. Every year this time of year I do a headphones listen outside on my porch staring at the stars and time stands still.

    • @m01s_71
      @m01s_71 4 года назад +1

      Lol you’re dumb dude

    • @slickguy-vt1tw
      @slickguy-vt1tw 4 года назад +4

      ​@@m01s_71 The studio version has crickets chirping as like a backing instrument in the mix, so that they're "felt" when you're listening to the song, almost like if you were camping and woke up to what sounded like an angel singing, and so you follow it in the wind until you realize it's coming From a Basement on the Hill, but as you get closer the song ends and you realize the basement is abandoned. Listening to it the way I described in my original comment + lil puff n booze you feel like his ghost is in the cosmos with the surround sound crickets, and if you stare at the sky you see a streak and think "You make me sad, shooting star." There's a lot of controversy about this album's final mix, but I wouldn't change a single thing. These songs sound like a man loosening his grip on his will to live and content to transition among the cosmos. The first minute or so of "King's Crossing" has that piano that sounds like a skeleton playing a haunted piano in an old western bar while Elliott's background harmony vocals moan in and out of the mix with like that kind of phaser effect like the skeleton's ghost friends swirling around the room. The guy died making this album, and he sings these songs with this beautiful tranquility like he's making peace with it, and it's mixed like his tortured soul is shooting out in every direction, inhabiting the peaceful morning & the unsettled night, at times calm and other times chaotic. Maybe I am dumb. It's one of my favorite albums, and I think Rob Schnapf took one of the most impossible and fragile challenges one might encounter being a record producer and did this rare thing where every single note and sound and vibe perfectly translate a man's final work. It feels similar to Love's 1968 classic Forever Changes.

    • @maddeypuppets
      @maddeypuppets Год назад +1

      @@slickguy-vt1tw beautifully written

    • @RyanThomas1983
      @RyanThomas1983 Год назад +1

      @@maddeypuppets i really appreciate your reply kind sir. Maybe long after we're gone the music and the community comments will live on. I'm not sure if the following addendum matters, but I became a fan in between Figure 8 and him working on this album. Basement is by far the work I've listened to most; a desert island pick.

  • @itsgonnbeok7249
    @itsgonnbeok7249 4 года назад +17

    The grin he makes after "Better stop now before I start crying".... RIP Elliott

    • @bmxmyth166
      @bmxmyth166 3 года назад +7

      It makes me so happy to see him smile like that, he looks so content and happy for the moment. His music seems to have truly been his own personal therapy.

  • @jamesheath7601
    @jamesheath7601 2 года назад +7

    0:07 Twilight
    3:47 Pretty (Ugly Before)

  • @brandlessheadphones
    @brandlessheadphones 8 лет назад +12

    dam love this version of tw ilight

  • @contactkeithstack
    @contactkeithstack 8 лет назад +21

    Thank good luck this video exists and thank you for uploading it for free. Awesome.

  • @bernardshakey2609
    @bernardshakey2609 3 года назад +4

    These are two of the most beautiful, tragic songs ever written. Just my opinion

  • @ChrisCareyWC
    @ChrisCareyWC 5 лет назад +32

    really strange to think that people are talking during this set... they must have had no idea what they were watching

    • @Dani92670
      @Dani92670 5 лет назад +5

      Christopher Carey - I never fail to notice this whenever I am listening to his live stuff as he's here, there or wherever. With ear buds in, I have even picked up a few blatantly crazy things - like 2 men who non-stop blabbered back and forth to one another during an entire 5 songs - they genuinely appeared to be in the wrong place.

    • @slk23
      @slk23 3 года назад +1

      I went to two of his shows in San Francisco and remember the crowd being very quiet while he played. There was almost a reverence. That may have made Elliott feel self-conscious but people wanted to hear every note.

  • @jipalavecinx
    @jipalavecinx Месяц назад

    21 años de tu partida, se te extraña Elliott ❤

  • @송웡
    @송웡 7 лет назад +5

    이때는 일어나서 불렀구나 건강한 모습 보니.. 좋네..

  • @mr.tambourinemannn
    @mr.tambourinemannn 2 года назад +1

    Thx u so much for this video

  • @iamcyber
    @iamcyber Год назад

    my favourite songs

  • @marktaylor23
    @marktaylor23 Год назад +1

    I would kill for this whole show

  • @JonShade-fy2gm
    @JonShade-fy2gm 4 года назад +32

    Aside from his extraordinary artistic talent, I always thought he was so damned hot. I don’t mean this as a throwaway comment - I mean, really incredibly attractive. And his voice, even his speaking voice. Beautiful in every way a human being can be.

  • @deborahpisano59
    @deborahpisano59 2 года назад

    Beautiful 🎵 🎶 🎵

  • @Amorigen-wo6no
    @Amorigen-wo6no Месяц назад

    HERMOSO

  • @Walrus81
    @Walrus81 9 лет назад +2

    Fantastic

  • @fodaseodinheiro
    @fodaseodinheiro 8 лет назад +6

    And I'll feel pretty another hour or two...

  • @JunkBondTrader
    @JunkBondTrader 4 года назад +16

    Can't believe so many people talking at an ES show in 2000. Think by then everyone would have gotten the memo: you'e watching a fuckin' genius.

    • @petersmith9530
      @petersmith9530 4 года назад +1

      agree

    • @gian3008
      @gian3008 Год назад

      @Green Rocky Road yep, we don't know what we've got till it's gone.

  • @csquared2701
    @csquared2701 6 лет назад +2

    Rest In Peace.

  • @JonnyShawShakedown
    @JonnyShawShakedown 6 лет назад +13

    Who's the bunghole making the Freebird joke to Elliott Smith?!?! Farging iceholes!

  • @paulhuff9421
    @paulhuff9421 7 лет назад +6

    I had to rewind because I thought he started it by saying "haven't sung this song in a long time."

  • @TheMonolake
    @TheMonolake 3 года назад

    Long Live...Elliott Smith !

  • @blakeyswagswag
    @blakeyswagswag 6 лет назад +8

    sam coombs!

  • @andysparks8103
    @andysparks8103 6 лет назад

    fuckin solid popper most of the topper most. no can touch this man-

  • @user-pq6rm1be4q
    @user-pq6rm1be4q Год назад

    because your candle burns toooo briiiiiiiight

  • @IzzyKain
    @IzzyKain 5 лет назад +1

    My Life....

  • @bernardshakey2609
    @bernardshakey2609 6 лет назад +1

  • @straightcashhomey1261
    @straightcashhomey1261 2 года назад +6

    As I’ve gotten old, struggled with addiction, and gotten sober, I’ve learned Elliott was pretty messed up

  • @annaleathompson2702
    @annaleathompson2702 2 года назад +1

    I would choose Elliot smith if I could go back. For one show ,

  • @Lozza144
    @Lozza144 3 года назад +1

    Anymore from this session

  • @robertcalhoun4459
    @robertcalhoun4459 2 года назад +3

    See even in the 90's people talked through shows of our most important artists. The phone thing is new, but that's just an appendage of collected attention deficit problems.

  • @johnnyappleseeds6451
    @johnnyappleseeds6451 4 года назад +3

    Imagine going to see elliot live and yelling to play freebird, also is it a running gag? Id hear it called out in so mnay of his lives, does he play a rly good version of free bird or something?

    • @digitalheart.3d
      @digitalheart.3d 4 года назад +10

      People just yell that to fuck with performers it's a common thing

    • @gian3008
      @gian3008 Год назад

      Freebird is a 10 minute song. I figure that's why people make the joke.

  • @Lnninpz
    @Lnninpz 3 года назад +3

    wich song is freebird?

  • @susanpeterson8381
    @susanpeterson8381 8 месяцев назад +1

    the keyboards make this even better 🥲❤️

  • @traviscarver4708
    @traviscarver4708 7 лет назад +8

    Who decided to film a whistler and not Elliott smiths guitar work... ugh...

    • @elsbethsteele9285
      @elsbethsteele9285 6 лет назад +4

      Travis Carver someone who was into it.... As Elliott seemed into it too. ;)

  • @josephmccafferty199
    @josephmccafferty199 Год назад +1

    Does Elliott looked jacked in this video, like he's been working out and taking care of himself.?

  • @cesarmarins
    @cesarmarins 8 лет назад +3

    What happened to the original upload of this version of Twilight? Christ.

  • @foleydvm
    @foleydvm 9 лет назад +25

    this video depresses me so much. such a beautiful song and the man is pouring his soul out about his depression and struggle with drugs and NO ONE is even listening...maybe if they knew at the time that he would take his own life by STABBING HIMSELF IN THE HEART they would have paid some attention to what a talent this was

    • @jeeradbardamu5057
      @jeeradbardamu5057 9 лет назад +26

      +foleydvm You truly believe he stabbed himself (twice) in the chest?! He was murdered. Keep in mind that he was clean during the final year of his life, busy working on the Basement stuff, I know it plays into the mythology that he was always depressed and must have killed himself, but you don't stab yourself twice in the heart... Jennifer Chiba says that she removed the knife - so of course that was her explanation for her DNA being on the knife, but any objective analysis of what happened points to her being responsible for his murder.

    • @foleydvm
      @foleydvm 9 лет назад +6

      +Jeerad Bardamu i don't know what happened and neither do you, nor will any of us ever know. Regardless, my point is that the man was a genius and was my musical hero. These losers in the audience don't give a shit about the man or the music and thats obvious

    • @bipedalprimate1927
      @bipedalprimate1927 8 лет назад +3

      +Jeerad Bardamu Drugs are what kept him balanced... and what makes you think you cant stab your heart twice? its a muscle that pumps your blood, its not your brain

    • @innovativeprogramschool7979
      @innovativeprogramschool7979 8 лет назад +5

      +Jeerad Bardamu Always wondered about that. Especially after hearing there were no hesitation marks.

    • @foleydvm
      @foleydvm 8 лет назад

      amen

  • @isabella-sk3ns
    @isabella-sk3ns 2 года назад +2

    3:47

  • @jesseallen8874
    @jesseallen8874 2 года назад +1

    What concerts this from?

    • @iamcyber
      @iamcyber Год назад

      Belly Up Tavern, 2000

  • @luilivingstone5591
    @luilivingstone5591 Год назад

    real.

  • @deeplyblue7299
    @deeplyblue7299 4 года назад +10

    I still believe if his mom would have left her husband and gotten the therapy he needed he would have been able to heal ....No one can heal knowing your abuser is married to your mom and be happy about it

    • @buster6552
      @buster6552 3 года назад +3

      I read that he was in a good place mentally when he died. He was most likely murdered because people said he was happy and also his name was misspelled in the suicide note. He had made plans to work on another album with this guy and it just doesn’t make sense that he would end his life with all of the good things he had going.

    • @deeplyblue7299
      @deeplyblue7299 3 года назад +2

      @@buster6552 He didn’t misspelled his name the person who wrote the report did when summarizing the event in question that was just a misunderstanding.No one who kills themselves is in a good place ,he had also tried before .

    • @buster6552
      @buster6552 3 года назад +3

      @@deeplyblue7299 source? Also, there were no hesitation wounds, which there would have been if he actually stabbed himself.

    • @buster6552
      @buster6552 3 года назад +1

      @@deeplyblue7299 people even said he was in a good place, so I doubt he actually committed suicide.

    • @buster6552
      @buster6552 3 года назад +5

      @@deeplyblue7299 I just looked and you’re right about the name, but that doesn’t change how shady the other stuff is. The case is still open because the cops don’t think it was a suicide either.

  • @DavidLowe-c1k
    @DavidLowe-c1k 6 месяцев назад

    Pretty soon you'll find it's the only

  • @SunFogg
    @SunFogg 2 года назад

    Full concert?

  • @canbottle6305
    @canbottle6305 6 лет назад

    Who is the whistler?

  • @marktaylor23
    @marktaylor23 9 дней назад

    The absolute opposite of Free Bird

  • @FriendOfN0ne
    @FriendOfN0ne 4 года назад +1

    His voice breaks at "I've got no fight"....maybe a glimpe

  • @Buddhisamagaudama
    @Buddhisamagaudama Месяц назад

    What have i done wrong to be put in this prison whoever i hurt outside in heaveen im sorry i dont know i really dont and i hope for ur forgiveness sincerely i believe theres a way of settlement thanks

  • @cmelanson81
    @cmelanson81 5 лет назад

    I'm glad he sacrificed himself for us all. That's a fucking horrible and abhorrent thing to say...but I'm already somebody's baby.

  • @inrspc777
    @inrspc777 7 месяцев назад +1