St. Anger is kickass. I'v been listening to it a lot lately. I'm not gonna start this argument again, I just want to express how much of a shame i feel it is that it's reputation is as a joke. I really hope in the years to come there will be more respect for it. I don't even think the band plays any of the songs live, do they?
Although I do wonder how a live performance of Invisible Kid would be. I'v never watched them play it. I'm gonna go look and see if there's a video.
I like St. Anger. It's what I would call a "grower" because I like it more over time than I did initially. And I agree that it's reputation will grow with time. I tend to give it a spin in the CD player more often than "Load" or "Re-Load." It's biggest problem is that Bob Rock didn't do his job by bothering to edit or curtail the band from going overboard with Pro Tools -- songs that are OK on St. Anger at 8 minutes long could've been really popping if trimmed to 5.5 minutes.
During the course of that tour and subsequent tours and one-off shows they've played most of the songs from the album at one point or another, but not "Invisible Kid," "Shoot Me Again," "Purify" or "My World." The original release of "St. Anger" came with a DVD of them playing the whole album live in the studio, so clips from that are your only place to see "Invisible Kid" performed "live" at this point. In time I suspect they'll play the remaining songs on tour somewhere -- those four "St. Anger" songs are the only songs they have left that they haven't played live at some point.
The one played the most was "Frantic" but it had certain modifications live -- trimmed slightly live and a guitar solo added by Kirk. Here's the breakdown of the rest:
"Frantic" and "Dirty Window" were last played during the 30th anniversary Fillmore shows in 2011.
"St. Anger" hasn't been played since 2006.
"Sweet Amber" was only played 9/4/04 in Lubbock, TX
"Some Kind of Monster" was last played 8/27/04 in Chicago (it's only been played 3 times).
"Unnamed Feeling" was last played 3/14/04 in Fresno, CA (it's only been played 5 times).
"All Within My Hands" was only played at the two Bridge School Benefit shows in 2007.