Another Hand from that recording is one of my favorite passages of music from DT's entire corpus.
Out of curiosity, why that version of Another Hand? I really like the piece too, but I've never really considered comparing the versions of this one, mostly because it's so short that you don't notice as much. And other performances of it don't exactly seem to have obvious flaws that I remember.
Well, I wasn't implying that you didn't know. Just sayin' and I think the extended live intro is lightyears better than the original. Although, I can still appreciate the original.
Tbh I quite like the acoustic intro too. Feels like an old Metallica song with the epic intro before it kicks into gear.
It's tough, because I actually really like the extended middle instrumental section of The Killing Hand that they implemented later on... Man, if we could combine the acoustic intro, followed by Another Hand, going into The Killing Hand, with LATM vocals and the extended instrumental section... I wouldn't need any other version.
Yeah, now we're talking!
Although, there's a lot of "mix and mash" live versions that I'd like. Sometimes they can have a perfect performance from one member, but the whole band might not be as tight. And there are some versions with cool little improv fills and extras, references or cover extracts. Too bad this isn't very viable from a mixing perspective as whenever you try this, the sound quality will never match up when you consider the balance of crowd and background noise, different recording equipment, different performance with different tempos.