Solbury Hill

Davy28 · Post by **Davy28** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 1:31 pm

Catnip. And lots of it.

katie · Post by **katie** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 1:36 pm

anyone know the link that had the boston show live of matthews and friends?

nugs.net or something.

yeah that's it - look it up there is a show at the fleet center where you can listen to solsbury live.

pretty sweet, love that site.

Katelyn · Post by **Katelyn** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 1:46 pm

HCHaikuWarrior wrote:that cat freaks me out, what is it rabid?

tanto · Post by **tanto** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 1:58 pm

great song.

dmfollower · Post by **dmfollower** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:01 am

tanto wrote:great song.

great pic. scarry though

jellyfish · Post by **jellyfish** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:28 am

Davy28 wrote:Does anybody here think D&F butchered Solsbury hill? Or at least did a lousy job of doing it justice? That is just my personal opinion, but I have always prefered the soulful, acoustic and piano driven Peter Gabriel version to the goofy sounding electric laden D&F version. The bonaroo version sounds all techno and sped up like a sound track to an old video game.

I say that because there are many covers that D&F did that I like more than the original version (i.e. Tell Me Something Good, Hey Bulldog, Thank You).
Solsbury Hill is not one of them.

I saw the opening show for D & F's & when they played Solsbury Hill I couldn't have been happier. I really could have died & been content.
Of course they didn't butcher the song.

DMB_DO · Post by **DMB_DO** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:23 am

I saw them play it at the Allstate show in Chicago and I thought they did a really good job. I just thought it was funny that Dave stared down the whole time during the song, my guess is he was reading the lyrics cuz he couldn't remember them. I don't blame him. Anyone else notice this at other shows?

GSR · Post by **GSR** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:30 am

i miss seeing dave and friends live. I like my 12.19.03 hartford show better than bonaroo i think, but the quality isn't as good as the bonaroo release.. i've been listening to some devil in the car... there are some amazing songs on there.

jellyfish · Post by **jellyfish** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:31 am

DMB_DO wrote:I saw them play it at the Allstate show in Chicago and I thought they did a really good job. I just thought it was funny that Dave stared down the whole time during the song, my guess is he was reading the lyrics cuz he couldn't remember them. I don't blame him. Anyone else notice this at other shows?

I noticed he didn't play guitar

onid41 · Post by **onid41** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:16 pm

tanto wrote:great song.

thats the cat in katelyn's avatar!

Davy28 · Post by **Davy28** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:24 pm

Its interesting because when you're at the concert, as I was at Key Arena, just the prospect of being within 200 feet of your music idol makes you not care whether a song is subpar or not, but hearing Solsbury Hill again from the Bonaroo and Oakland shows that I have, I think they did a much better job with the other covers. Thats just hindsight, though.

Hell, I listened to spoon again from the first gorge show in 2003 that I went to and it was the same thing. None of the cool sax and violin fills during the verses. Dave couldn't hit a single high note. The song just sounded empty. But when I was actually at the concert I didn't care one iota.