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Offline CrimsonE

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Best Live Extended Song???
« on: April 14, 2010, 04:13:49 PM »
Forgive me if this has been asked somewhere else, but I'm a fairly new member to the board, and only a die-hard DT fan since about 2004 or so after listening to a ton of live bootlegs. 

What is amazing to me is when the band goes off on to some extended jams and makes the song sound so much better.  So what would you consider to be the best live version of a DT song?

For my money, it's gotta be Surrounded '07, which extends a five minute song into a 13-15 minute epic, with a killer outro that includes a derivation of Mother.

I also dug what they did with Solitary Shell on the current tour.

BTW, I think that the worst version was the ToT tour version of Beyond this Life, which I found to be quite boring. 

So what do you think about some of these extended songs? 
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Re: Best Live Extended Song???
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2010, 05:14:12 PM »
Hollow Years '09.

Always loved the demo version. Combined with the breathtaking solo - fantastic.

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Re: Best Live Extended Song???
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2010, 05:16:52 PM »
Hollow Years off Budokan or Surrounded off Chaos In Motion for me.

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« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2010, 05:18:09 PM »
Hollow Years version from Budokan and which they've been playing live since, without doubt. Absolutely amazing.

Also probably songs from I&W count, as even Take The Time sounds really great live.

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Re: Best Live Extended Song???
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2010, 05:20:20 PM »
unquestionably HY budokan, for me

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Re: Best Live Extended Song???
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2010, 08:32:36 PM »
Learning to Live, from the 8VM tour.
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« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2010, 08:35:49 PM »
There have been a bunch of great ones.  "Surround '07" and "Another Hand/The Killing Hand" from 2002 jump to my mind.

Easily the worst was Beyond This Life from 2004.
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Re: Best Live Extended Song???
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2010, 08:39:09 PM »
Im gonna go with Through her eyes, LSFNY

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Re: Best Live Extended Song???
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2010, 08:53:31 PM »
Beyond This Life was awesome.

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Re: Best Live Extended Song???
« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2010, 09:41:02 PM »
Beyond This Life was awesome.

Yeah.  That one was amazing!

I gotta go with Surrounded 07. One of the few things that was genuinely "special" about those SC shows.

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« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2010, 10:45:53 PM »
Beyond This Life was awesome.

I've never really stopped to think about it, but to be honest, this is the first one that comes to mind.  I dig the song, totally, but going off into that jam was something else.  While most of these extended versions feel like they're happening in the same atmosphere of the song, the BTL jam leaves this universe for some really great stuff.  I get caught up in it, and forget what song they started playing to begin with (in a good way).  Then when the song comes back in, I want to cheer.  It totally kicks my ass.

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« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2010, 10:56:45 PM »
Beyond This Life was awesome.

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Re: Best Live Extended Song???
« Reply #12 on: April 15, 2010, 12:29:24 AM »
Beyond This Life was awesome.

I've never really stopped to think about it, but to be honest, this is the first one that comes to mind.  I dig the song, totally, but going off into that jam was something else.  While most of these extended versions feel like they're happening in the same atmosphere of the song, the BTL jam leaves this universe for some really great stuff.  I get caught up in it, and forget what song they started playing to begin with (in a good way).  Then when the song comes back in, I want to cheer.  It totally kicks my ass.
Totally this, its my favourite extended version, 2nd comes the HY one.

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« Reply #13 on: April 15, 2010, 01:14:36 AM »
The extended version of Beyond this Life from the Los Angeles show during PN 09, it was extended and included Percussive nation 09 and a tripple guitar jam with JP, Dweezil Zappa, and Steve Vai.  I was there  :biggrin:

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« Reply #14 on: April 15, 2010, 01:36:11 AM »
Beyond This Life was awesome.

I've never really stopped to think about it, but to be honest, this is the first one that comes to mind.  I dig the song, totally, but going off into that jam was something else.  While most of these extended versions feel like they're happening in the same atmosphere of the song, the BTL jam leaves this universe for some really great stuff.  I get caught up in it, and forget what song they started playing to begin with (in a good way).  Then when the song comes back in, I want to cheer.  It totally kicks my ass.
Totally this, its my favourite extended version, 2nd comes the HY one.

It's my favourite too.

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« Reply #15 on: April 15, 2010, 02:36:18 AM »
Hands down... To live forever from the Live in Tokyo dvd for me.
Especially for the Petrucci improv that includes The Beatles Within You Without You. They should play some obscure stuff on the club dates during the Maiden tour this year & release them all through YtseJam...

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« Reply #16 on: April 15, 2010, 06:35:08 AM »
My favorite is Beyond this life from Live at Budokan, it's just breathtaking. And I love the dueling between Jordan and Petrucci in Metropolis, so powerful.  :tup Surrounded 07 was fine, but a bit too long.

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« Reply #17 on: April 15, 2010, 06:43:07 AM »
This isn't even close to a fair question...

Beyond This Life (L@B)
Ytse Jam (Once in a Livetime)
Hollow Years (L@B)
In the Name of God (L@B)
I LOVE the changes to A Change of Seasons on LSFNY...

That's just off the top of my head, whilst closing accounts.
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Re: Best Live Extended Song???
« Reply #18 on: April 15, 2010, 06:46:40 AM »
The ending solo of Finally Free on Live Scenes was quite the pleasant surprise.

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« Reply #19 on: April 15, 2010, 07:21:36 AM »
Hands down... To live forever from the Live in Tokyo dvd for me.
Especially for the Petrucci improv that includes The Beatles Within You Without You. They should play some obscure stuff on the club dates during the Maiden tour this year & release them all through YtseJam...

This was my vote big time I love the whole dam sone and JP goes in a trance in this one i think but , how come i never noticed the beatles improve in this? is the dvd version differant than the original VHS version ?

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Re: Best Live Extended Song???
« Reply #20 on: April 15, 2010, 07:54:27 AM »
Hollow Years - LAB
Learning to Live - LSFNY
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Re: Best Live Extended Song???
« Reply #21 on: April 15, 2010, 08:47:28 AM »
Beyond this life is special, but it gets boring when u listen to it too often so I think, surrounded '07, solitary shell att his tour and Hollow years at this tour

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Re: Best Live Extended Song???
« Reply #22 on: April 15, 2010, 08:55:00 AM »
Budokan Hollow Years followed by Surrounded '07.
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« Reply #23 on: April 15, 2010, 09:21:02 AM »
Hollow Years extended...one of the best concert moments ever.

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« Reply #24 on: April 15, 2010, 09:24:33 AM »
Beyond this life is special, but it gets boring when u listen to it too often so I think, surrounded '07, solitary shell att his tour and Hollow years at this tour
especially special?

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Re: Best Live Extended Song???
« Reply #25 on: April 15, 2010, 10:01:40 AM »
Hands down... To live forever from the Live in Tokyo dvd for me.
Especially for the Petrucci improv that includes The Beatles Within You Without You. They should play some obscure stuff on the club dates during the Maiden tour this year & release them all through YtseJam...

This was my vote big time I love the whole dam sone and JP goes in a trance in this one i think but , how come i never noticed the beatles improve in this? is the dvd version differant than the original VHS version ?
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Re: Best Live Extended Song???
« Reply #26 on: April 15, 2010, 10:13:10 AM »
Not Hollow Years, neither '04 nor '09.

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« Reply #27 on: April 15, 2010, 10:16:16 AM »
Hands down... To live forever from the Live in Tokyo dvd for me.
Especially for the Petrucci improv that includes The Beatles Within You Without You. They should play some obscure stuff on the club dates during the Maiden tour this year & release them all through YtseJam...

This was my vote big time I love the whole dam sone and JP goes in a trance in this one i think but , how come i never noticed the beatles improve in this? is the dvd version differant than the original VHS version ?
No, it's not.

Oh now i know what beatle part when JP is plaing the octave chords with alot of reverb , Ill have to confirm and listen to Within you without you again as i think i may have heard it once

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Re: Best Live Extended Song???
« Reply #28 on: April 15, 2010, 11:56:05 AM »
To Live Forever from Live in Tokyo. Holy shit awesome.

Runner up: Learning to Live from the 8VM tour.

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Re: Best Live Extended Song???
« Reply #29 on: April 15, 2010, 12:23:06 PM »
Learning to Live, from the 8VM tour.

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« Reply #30 on: April 15, 2010, 12:31:11 PM »
Beyond this life is special, but it gets boring when u listen to it too often so I think, surrounded '07, solitary shell att his tour and Hollow years at this tour
especially special?

I mean, it's not like the other live extended song, it's more crazy with that keyboard and drum part and all that guitar improvising

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« Reply #31 on: April 15, 2010, 01:19:50 PM »
I love the extended section in Another Hand/The Killing Hand.  The version on Bucharest is outstanding.

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Re: Best Live Extended Song???
« Reply #32 on: April 15, 2010, 03:45:59 PM »
Learning to Live with Freebird

And yes, Surrounded '07 is quite amazing.

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« Reply #33 on: April 15, 2010, 05:12:27 PM »
Btw, sorry to be the complaining guy, but I wasn't too happy with the extended version of Solitary Shell on PN. The only point of the set when I lost interest a bit (after going crazy during ANTR/The Mirror/Lie and then slowly melting during Hollow Years). It seemed to drag too long for me...

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« Reply #34 on: April 15, 2010, 05:13:31 PM »
Does instrumedly count? :neverusethis: