MODEST MOUSE Recorded live on 1 September 1996 at Fletcher's, Baltimore, MD. Recorded, with permission from Isaac, with a Sony CCD-TR36 Video8 Handycam.
Isaac Brock has probably the most unique guitar sound/style I have ever heard. No one else can do what he does on his guitar. His solos are like he plays all the notes that other guitar players typically don't. He's a genius that Isaac.
I love Isaac. To be able to produce it consistently over time puts him right up there. Marc Bolan was the same, pure genius. I'm also a huge Ronald Jones fan from early Flaming Lips days. The sounds he got from his guitar still rank as my favourite. Too bad it was so short lived. Right now though, Isaac is the boss.
@J G he still has the same twisted mind he has always had, but i do think the lyrics to the newer songs are waaay less profound than their older stuff, but still sound good.
@J G exactly! his lyrics came from his shitty life at the time. he sang what he felt, and he felt like shit. now he has all the money and drugs he could want, and he has the ability to be happy and comfortable now. he doesn't make lyrics like he used to, which is what made him so relatable to most his fans, and with the core of the band being about how shitty life is, then it's no wonder most of them feel alienated by their modern upbeat sound. "if it takes shit to make bliss, then i feel pretty blissfully" and "sometimes im so full of shit that it should be a crime"
WAAAAAT I had no clue there was footage from them from 96! I'd only ever seen stuff as early as 97. Not all heroes wear capes, some of them wear the name 'Bettig'.
Just seen MM live for the first time last week playing one of my all time favorite albums front to back, after years of wanting to see them and hearing that their live performances were weak compared to their recorded output. I couldn't have been more blown away by how great the show was, it's actually insane to see how much Isaac still maintains the same energy and raw stage presence 26 years later. This show was a solid 3 months before I was born, and I can only imagine being the age I am now and getting to witness it back then, this would have probably changed my entire world.
Amazing to contrast shows like this with more recent shows. Perhaps it reflects my preference for many of the older songs, but, within the context of the simple trio, although the music might be considered much less polished than now, the lyricism and nuanced melody seem to come through more clearly than with the current 6-8 member band. I guess I also like distortion, feedback, and dissonance more when it isn't buried under a massive wall of sound... actually, I like it all... but always interesting to see how musicians change what they like to do over time....
I think its simply because its what made them rise to where they are today. If they released their newer music back then you could argue that nobody would've liked it because it wouldn't sound as unique. No other band I know sounds like old modest mouse.
I've been listening to MM for nearly a decade, but only now do I realize how much Steve Wold added to the songs of the first record! Incredible addition to the album, pleasant surprise to see him here.
Thanks for sharing this! 9-1-1996 was my 18th birthday. I can't remember whether or not I knew who Modest Mouse was then, but probably not. Look what I was missing!
I went to school in Oly, WA from 96-98 and discovered MM then. This show is so ill because it's just the old stuff (because that's all there was hahaha). I remember thinking Heart Cooks Brain could be their radio breakthrough single. Thank you for recording this. ✌🏽
This is amazing. I've had audio from this show for years but had no idea video existed. It's one of my favorites, since it's the only known performance of Sleepwalking until they brought it back recently. Thanks so much for posting!
A lot of the audio from the older shows were ripped off from video recordings. They use to record there own shows too to watch and improve on there performance. Also hi majin been a while since modmouse :)
Chris! This is Bob McN_____, glad you are putting all these videos up. I was at this show with you, along with Alan, Eric and Sean. Hope you're doing well man.
These years were when MM was at its peak. I long for the days of their 3 piece with Issac, Jeremiah, and Eric. The current sound just doesn't make my hair stand up.
@@Mysteryskatin I saw them a few times in the 90s, but I was a youth then. Most recently I saw their tour with the Black Keys and they still put on a good show and play enough oldies to keep you happy. 😁
I saw my first MM show in 1999 at Sher West Gardens in Dundalk, MD. I think the place was a bingo hall. Shins opened for them. Had a beer with Isaac in parking lot just before end of Shins set. Good times.
This was a good show. Does anyone remember The Lonesome Crowded West tour show in Baltimore Fletcher's ? It was October 29 1997 . The band was very nice to people prior and after the show. If memory serves correctly, Isaac Brock was wearing an Orange shirt. It may have been Halloween related. It was upstairs venue at Fletcher's. It was not crowded. Good show. Wondering if a recording exists. Thanks!
Baltimore actually had a decent yet sleazy music scene in the 90s. Everynight 3 bands to experience. I went to Fletchers all the time in 95-96. Sorry I missed this show.
Anyone know what guitar Issac is rocking? Awesome footage btw, amazing that I can watch my favorite band play an epic shoe from back when I was only a couple months old.
Dont know the exact model but if you google isaac brock westone corsair you should be able to find it. He bought it because it was the cheapest guitar with a floyd rose bridge in a sears catalog or a similar catalog.
Unbelievably good.. three original members I think.. but they do it like the a modern day Ramones, with much more interesting songs, not not to shit on the Ramones who were great!
I wish modest mouse was still good. If they could just make an album that fucking JAMMED!!! Some melodic sounds so 7 min mind control shit... please tell me what happens... was it the MONEY. I mean I know they have their own record label but come on. Everything they have come out with in the last 10 years makes me cringe. I grew up to older modest mouse and I still listen to it at least once a week.... oh well that’s life
Umm the past 10 years... that would pretty much appear to only include a couple singles and their last record STO, unless this is a much older post from when this video was first posted and then edited 9 months ago. Isaac naming his label glacial pace has become frighteningly appropriate, in regards to putting out new music of his own. Sorry they fell out of favor for you, whenever that actually was. I imagine on good news, which happened to a lot of older fans, it seems. I was not an older fan, and stepped in there and have loved his whole catalogue. Though was not as impressed, initially by strangers, i have grown to love it and was deflated by the fact that part 2 never made it to the shelves, as was initially purported to follow close on the heels of the first, but oh well, we have what we have, and as a friend once told me "every song in the world is somebody's favorite". Perhaps we shall be left to only replay these or he will somehow come out with an album that pleases the fans of the old and the new sounds. Personally would love to hear my least favorite modest mouse than plenty of bands best albums
@@BigSmiley0TV ya probably was on too much Dramamine when I wrote this....barley liked good news anything after that I’m sorry... they jammed back in the day. Songs where over 5 min long. Now it’s short because the that what the radio can handle...
@@IsAStormComing yeah that seems to be the vase for a lot of fans. I hadn't heard anything by them up until good news came out, but was simultaneously introduced to pretty much the whole catalogue that had been made up to and including good news. I have a fairly wide taste in music, and by good news he really expanded the sound, delving into touches from a vast array of genres, and is in many ways much more polished and consider it probably his best. If i had been along since the beginning i don't know how i would feel because they really did radically shift in many ways. I absolutely love everything before good news as well, and even his side project ugly casanova, but the older stuff definitely has a raw feeling that is beautiful in it's own way and has probably a greater tone of melancholy, and maybe nihilism. I appreciate that artists are willing to change as they grow and their views and needs in life change as well. Honestly i even like the golden casket, though it's probably the one im least excited about, but honestly my biggest fault with them is just that i wish they would release more music more often, not just because i want more as a fan, but when you wait 5 to 10 years to hear whats the new sound, there's just so much riding on that for the artist, i think it messes with their instincts trying to catch up too many years of growth and change while still trying to keep an anchor so far in the past, and it messes with the fans in that they are so wanting every song to be soo perfect after wanting and hungering for so long, but fans wouldn't be necessarily so expectant of perfection on every song every idea, if the last album was still fairly fresh and there was a sense of more coming in a year or 2. This same sorta thing is a lot of what happened with tool having so long between albums. Fans play the albums, and when a decade passes of regular listening and dissecting and falling in love with the music again and again, it's tough for something new coming in and saying I'm not here to replace the old friends, but just to join the party
noob question... how is isaac doing that effect throughout the end of other peoples lives? At first i thought it was a looper or something, but then he starts messing with the bridge to add tremelo and its obvious that its not something being looped?
R.I.P. Jeremiah Green, we love you brother, stay golden in your casket...
😢
Breaks my god damn heart
Isaac Brock has probably the most unique guitar sound/style I have ever heard. No one else can do what he does on his guitar. His solos are like he plays all the notes that other guitar players typically don't. He's a genius that Isaac.
You might like Dinosaur Jr. Lol. They are that way too.
@@BloodClanResurrection I definitely dig J. Mascis and crew!
Hell yeah!
Him and Josh Homme. I know QOTSA blew up bigger than MM but the Kyuss to first 3 QOTSA albums, Josh had the greatest tone of anyone.
I love Isaac. To be able to produce it consistently over time puts him right up there. Marc Bolan was the same, pure genius. I'm also a huge Ronald Jones fan from early Flaming Lips days. The sounds he got from his guitar still rank as my favourite. Too bad it was so short lived.
Right now though, Isaac is the boss.
Since I’m watching this again:
03:16 - Doin’ the Cockroach
08:16 - Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine
17:35 - Custom Concern (w/ Steve Wold)
21:24 - Broke
24:44 - Breakthrough
29:02 - Dramamine
33:55 - All Night Diner (w/ Steve Wold)
40:08 - Cowboy Dan
45:34 - Tundra/Desert
50:20 - Other People’s Lives
56:45 - Sleepwalking (w/ Steve Wold)
1:01:38 - Positive/Negative
what an awesome setlist.
Amazing setlist, especially considering that recorded versions of half of these songs were more than a year away from being released.
Pato my words exactly
Wow, sleepwalking! I love the deep "yeah!" by the guy at the end haha. They play it once, then don't play Sleepwalking again until 2015!
@@summerh2067 that's crazy
Amazing to think Issac is 21 in 96’. He began writing astounding lyrics right out of the gate. Incredible.
@J G "shaved off my eyebrows when I fall to the ground, so i cant look surprised right now!"
those are good lyrics my dude
@J G he still has the same twisted mind he has always had, but i do think the lyrics to the newer songs are waaay less profound than their older stuff, but still sound good.
@J G exactly! his lyrics came from his shitty life at the time. he sang what he felt, and he felt like shit. now he has all the money and drugs he could want, and he has the ability to be happy and comfortable now. he doesn't make lyrics like he used to, which is what made him so relatable to most his fans, and with the core of the band being about how shitty life is, then it's no wonder most of them feel alienated by their modern upbeat sound.
"if it takes shit to make bliss, then i feel pretty blissfully"
and
"sometimes im so full of shit that it should be a crime"
J G His lyrics are still good. Style is different and debatable but go look at the lyrics of Shit In Your Cut and Ground Walks With Time in a Box.
tru and he probly wiritjng about other people so
how many songs bout that same guy do you wanna make really?
WAAAAAT I had no clue there was footage from them from 96! I'd only ever seen stuff as early as 97. Not all heroes wear capes, some of them wear the name 'Bettig'.
Mid 2024 and I just now discovered Modest Mouse! Never too young to teach and never to old to learn! I appreciate my Cheese Everyday!
I love the way Eric Judy grooves when jamming.
The bassist wiggle lol
very melodic bassist, essential to the vibes of their early music
Just seen MM live for the first time last week playing one of my all time favorite albums front to back, after years of wanting to see them and hearing that their live performances were weak compared to their recorded output. I couldn't have been more blown away by how great the show was, it's actually insane to see how much Isaac still maintains the same energy and raw stage presence 26 years later. This show was a solid 3 months before I was born, and I can only imagine being the age I am now and getting to witness it back then, this would have probably changed my entire world.
Which album is your all time favorite?
Isaac was sick through a decent chunk of the tour too. Even more impressive.
This is a very good recording for 1996, thank you whomever did all this, the videographer and the uploader, 🤲💚🙏🙌🤝🤙...
you're very welcome!
Beautiful. Superb. Rest in Peace Jeremiah.x
Man I wish they had more recordings of Tundra/Desert because that song is insane live.
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Amazing to contrast shows like this with more recent shows. Perhaps it reflects my preference for many of the older songs, but, within the context of the simple trio, although the music might be considered much less polished than now, the lyricism and nuanced melody seem to come through more clearly than with the current 6-8 member band. I guess I also like distortion, feedback, and dissonance more when it isn't buried under a massive wall of sound... actually, I like it all... but always interesting to see how musicians change what they like to do over time....
As oscar wilde wrote. "There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth. "
I think its simply because its what made them rise to where they are today. If they released their newer music back then you could argue that nobody would've liked it because it wouldn't sound as unique. No other band I know sounds like old modest mouse.
Usually always was four piece. Always a second guitar in background mostly
old Built To Spill records maybe..?
@@Hans-yo2cq i just had this thought as well. check out Pinback.
Incredible guitar player, song writer and lyricist- it’s like he came out fully realized right off the bat. Isaac rules.
Wow this is a year before i ever heard them, seen them live over 30 times between 1997 and 2004 or so...
Damn, this show was like a few months after releasing This Is A Long Drive. They've been playing Doin' The Cockroach for such a long time haha
This is definitely after 96 . Your right that was the yr they were doin long drive and stuff before that .
I've been listening to MM for nearly a decade, but only now do I realize how much Steve Wold added to the songs of the first record! Incredible addition to the album, pleasant surprise to see him here.
Isaac is absolutely phenomenal in Dramamine
I love the old times
holy shit you've got quite the archive. thanks so much for everything you've posted
not that i care but do you have any older performances? i read isaacs been playing since he was like 15
I only filmed the 3 shows I've uploaded.. sorry!
thank you SO MUCH. i can't believe theres nice footage of them playing Other People's Lives. thank you
Yes, I've been looking for footage of that song for a long long time.
Love them so much better as a 3 piece. Great video!
Thanks for sharing this! 9-1-1996 was my 18th birthday. I can't remember whether or not I knew who Modest Mouse was then, but probably not. Look what I was missing!
I went to school in Oly, WA from 96-98 and discovered MM then. This show is so ill because it's just the old stuff (because that's all there was hahaha). I remember thinking Heart Cooks Brain could be their radio breakthrough single.
Thank you for recording this. ✌🏽
This is amazing. I've had audio from this show for years but had no idea video existed. It's one of my favorites, since it's the only known performance of Sleepwalking until they brought it back recently. Thanks so much for posting!
yes...so recently as of 2000...
Kenneth Gilbert It's been played 8 times in the past 2 years, including just a few days ago in Spokane, WA.
Kenneth Gilbert it was played like twice in the 90s if I recall and then in 2015 it was rarely introduced into the set.
A lot of the audio from the older shows were ripped off from video recordings. They use to record there own shows too to watch and improve on there performance. Also hi majin been a while since modmouse :)
RIP Modmouse
wow this was before The Lonesome Crowded West was released this is the first time the audience heard these songs
Chris! This is Bob McN_____, glad you are putting all these videos up. I was at this show with you, along with Alan, Eric and Sean. Hope you're doing well man.
Hey Bob! I'm good! I've actually got a video of you coming up.. an Albany NY show!
Ah sweet -- thanks man!
I love the little tune they play at the beginning so much
extra verses on all night diner went well n truly hard
Jeremiah Green is such a choice drummer
RIP
rip legend
JG smooth as the other side of the pillow but fierce as can be. I miss you.
I honestly never expected to find a live set of Other people's lives
Haven't watched but 2 minutes of this but know it will be epic. Thanks for the upload!!!
These years were when MM was at its peak. I long for the days of their 3 piece with Issac, Jeremiah, and Eric. The current sound just doesn't make my hair stand up.
Their Lonesome Crowded West tour starting in a couple months will be just a 4 piece band
@@MOON_KID WHAT
@@MOON_KID it was fuckin good
@@CarrickWebb Looks good from the videos I've seen. I'm going later this week - can't wait
Yeah, I'mma get at all of these, one by one. The nostalgia washes over me like warm river water on these archive footage uploads!
this is GOLD
Clapping and cheering in 2020
Modest Mouse was my first show, in '99. I was 14 and wore a Modest Mouse shirt. Got made fun of by college kids.
fuck those dudes!
Fuck man it must've been awesome to see Modest Mouse in the 90s
First 3 MM LPs are the best shit ever recorded
now the college kids are wearing MM shirts because of strangers to ourselves
@@Mysteryskatin I saw them a few times in the 90s, but I was a youth then. Most recently I saw their tour with the Black Keys and they still put on a good show and play enough oldies to keep you happy. 😁
@@Mysteryskatin '97 cleveland... made friends... was drenched by the end of the show - soaked through
I saw my first MM show in 1999 at Sher West Gardens in Dundalk, MD. I think the place was a bingo hall. Shins opened for them. Had a beer with Isaac in parking lot just before end of Shins set. Good times.
Just about any one song from their first 10 years is better than a combination of all their songs over the last 20. Appreciate the upload.
RIP Jeremiah
Legend
holy shit a video of them playing Other People's Lives. AND Sleepwalking. my life's complete now, I guess.
I’m happy to have seen them in person 2000 playing the Chrystal Ballroom. They were badass back then.
cool! I was here back in the day.
This was a good show. Does anyone remember The Lonesome Crowded West tour show in Baltimore Fletcher's ? It was October 29 1997 . The band was very nice to people prior and after the show. If memory serves correctly, Isaac Brock was wearing an Orange shirt. It may have been Halloween related. It was upstairs venue at Fletcher's. It was not crowded. Good show. Wondering if a recording exists. Thanks!
Full Teeth like god's shoeshine!!!
and what a version! i love when some people start clapping thinking the song ended only for them to play even harder than before.
The drums coming in on Drammamine gave me chills lmfao.
ohhh i adore all night diner! and this version does justice entirely...or beyond
Baltimore actually had a decent yet sleazy music scene in the 90s. Everynight 3 bands to experience. I went to Fletchers all the time in 95-96. Sorry I missed this show.
3 piece band - with this sound!?
Good beginnings
What a setlist!!
What a show!
42:50 most beautiful transition I've ever heard from MM oh my god...
God...Doin' the Cockroach sounds better than the studio...amazing.
Agreed with his one sounds more compressed.
His "well" at the beginning of Cowboy Dan is such a baby "well" that hadn't realized its true potential.
my favorite modest mouse live
After 12:13 up to when he breaks is SO fascinating to me! I'm so in love!!
Great first track. fantastic opener.
Nicholas Skaldetvind what track is that?
Please tell us
I was 16 in 1996.
Jake Smalldon i was 19 ;)
I was 5 hahaha
@@VanessaRegalia I just turned 7... ;0
good to see no one accidentally clicked to thumbs down button yet
Love It! Thank You!
holy fuck this is crazy, thank you so much for the uploads
Such a sick gig this one. I like when Isaac smokes the cigarette.
Anyone know what guitar Issac is rocking? Awesome footage btw, amazing that I can watch my favorite band play an epic shoe from back when I was only a couple months old.
Epic show* lol typo fail.
Its a Westone Corsair
Dont know the exact model but if you google isaac brock westone corsair you should be able to find it. He bought it because it was the cheapest guitar with a floyd rose bridge in a sears catalog or a similar catalog.
I would give one nut to hear a recording off the soundboard of this show
21:39 the bass is so good
god damn thank you i got "teeth like god's shoeshine" finally with the right ending
Get well soon, Jeremiah.
This is awesome!
Unbelievably good.. three original members I think.. but they do it like the a modern day Ramones, with much more interesting songs, not not to shit on the Ramones who were great!
Truly epic
This is amazing. Thank you so much. ❤️
Holy shit you like Modest Mouse AND Arcade Fire marry me jk.
At 15 mins it goes ❤
I just now found out about Jeremiah’s death.
I’m sorry.
He was one of my favorite drummers.
Drums world gang…
😑
37:04 GROOVEY!
Dramamine💕
Teeth like gods shoeshine...incredible
holy fuck dude you are a legend
shoutouts 2 his necklace
Doin the cockroach was near studio perfect.
I wish modest mouse
was still good. If they could just make an album that fucking JAMMED!!! Some melodic sounds so 7 min mind control shit... please tell me what happens... was it the MONEY. I mean I know they have their own record label but come on. Everything they have come out with in the last 10 years makes me cringe. I grew up to older modest mouse and I still listen to it at least once a week.... oh well that’s life
It happens to every band imo. And Stranger to Ourselves had it's moments but I know what you mean. Ice Cream Party is pretty bad.
Umm the past 10 years... that would pretty much appear to only include a couple singles and their last record STO, unless this is a much older post from when this video was first posted and then edited 9 months ago. Isaac naming his label glacial pace has become frighteningly appropriate, in regards to putting out new music of his own. Sorry they fell out of favor for you, whenever that actually was. I imagine on good news, which happened to a lot of older fans, it seems. I was not an older fan, and stepped in there and have loved his whole catalogue. Though was not as impressed, initially by strangers, i have grown to love it and was deflated by the fact that part 2 never made it to the shelves, as was initially purported to follow close on the heels of the first, but oh well, we have what we have, and as a friend once told me "every song in the world is somebody's favorite". Perhaps we shall be left to only replay these or he will somehow come out with an album that pleases the fans of the old and the new sounds. Personally would love to hear my least favorite modest mouse than plenty of bands best albums
@@BigSmiley0TV ya probably was on too much Dramamine when I wrote this....barley liked good news anything after that I’m sorry... they jammed back in the day. Songs where over 5 min long. Now it’s short because the that what the radio can handle...
@@BigSmiley0TV In my opinion, the downfall of Modest Mouse began .. ironically... at Good news for People who love Bad News.
@@IsAStormComing yeah that seems to be the vase for a lot of fans. I hadn't heard anything by them up until good news came out, but was simultaneously introduced to pretty much the whole catalogue that had been made up to and including good news. I have a fairly wide taste in music, and by good news he really expanded the sound, delving into touches from a vast array of genres, and is in many ways much more polished and consider it probably his best. If i had been along since the beginning i don't know how i would feel because they really did radically shift in many ways. I absolutely love everything before good news as well, and even his side project ugly casanova, but the older stuff definitely has a raw feeling that is beautiful in it's own way and has probably a greater tone of melancholy, and maybe nihilism. I appreciate that artists are willing to change as they grow and their views and needs in life change as well. Honestly i even like the golden casket, though it's probably the one im least excited about, but honestly my biggest fault with them is just that i wish they would release more music more often, not just because i want more as a fan, but when you wait 5 to 10 years to hear whats the new sound, there's just so much riding on that for the artist, i think it messes with their instincts trying to catch up too many years of growth and change while still trying to keep an anchor so far in the past, and it messes with the fans in that they are so wanting every song to be soo perfect after wanting and hungering for so long, but fans wouldn't be necessarily so expectant of perfection on every song every idea, if the last album was still fairly fresh and there was a sense of more coming in a year or 2. This same sorta thing is a lot of what happened with tool having so long between albums. Fans play the albums, and when a decade passes of regular listening and dissecting and falling in love with the music again and again, it's tough for something new coming in and saying I'm not here to replace the old friends, but just to join the party
you needed permission to film in the 90's?
ha! well, it was easy for them to spot the like 2 people filming with like a piece of luggage on their shoulder..
What is the first song? It sounds like an early version of a later song or something.
Doin the Cockroach. This was about a year before it was released.
@@AndonEXE Thank you!
ALSO...over 500 likes and ZERO dislikes. Fuck yes...
some vicious upstrokes on Dramamine
21:30
This is what I was looking for! thank you
need a second like
Took nine months, like a baby. but you got it!
Saw em 94 bumpershoot.. and fell in love.. still going to shows. And I've lived in so cal desert now 25 yrs
Great fucking video dude
best all nite diner
anyone know the song they played before doin the cockroach
I wish I knew what the first song was. It kind of sounds like Long Distance Drunk.
54:00 how is he doing that with his guitar
noob question... how is isaac doing that effect throughout the end of other peoples lives? At first i thought it was a looper or something, but then he starts messing with the bridge to add tremelo and its obvious that its not something being looped?
Anybody know what bass Eric was using
does anynone knows the name of the font of the miniature? :c
(i love dramamine in this one)
sorry, are you asking what font i used for the title? it’s lutz headline
I should have known better.
holy crap it’s sam hyde!!!!
1.25x speed
?
I enjoyed listening when it was 1.25x speed
very good but any performance without truckers atlas is sub par
this is my favorite band btw
🫠
My favorite band ever.