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Easy 5 stars. Great Song, best version is the one with Nusrat Fateh Al Khan.
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given to walk wrote:
J38ryan wrote:
Peeps wrote:
there will never ever ever ever be a better version than the one on TB2k
There has already been two:
Uniondale 03 Kitchener 05
How do you figure? I've heard the Kitchener show. Sounds pretty standard to me. I like the Mansfield acoustic version
I think you had to be there. The fact that Eddie and Neil played this on the Tribute to America show for 9.11 and this show took place on 9.11.05 gave this version special meaning. It gave me chills. Then again I was very drunk at the time.
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J38ryan wrote:
given to walk wrote:
J38ryan wrote:
Peeps wrote:
there will never ever ever ever be a better version than the one on TB2k
There has already been two:
Uniondale 03 Kitchener 05
How do you figure? I've heard the Kitchener show. Sounds pretty standard to me. I like the Mansfield acoustic version
I think you had to be there. The fact that Eddie and Neil played this on the Tribute to America show for 9.11 and this show took place on 9.11.05 gave this version special meaning. It gave me chills. Then again I was very drunk at the time.
the best version ever was atlantic city 05. take a guess why
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5 stars.
"We all walk the long road ..." Amazing lyric right there.
I've seen some really nice versions, including Red Rocks 95, Denver 98, the aforementioned TB2K version in Phoenix (lovely given the story night), but none of them beat San Diego this year. That was just stunning.
I would agree that the song loses something sometimes because if it's played it's almost always an opener. That's part of what made the version in San Diego amazing. Also, of course, the story, but more than that just the anticipation of it, hearing that first note played over and over and over until they finally went into the song. Incredible.
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jcurley wrote:
extremely well written opener frank. i wish this song would close out an encore one or be placed as it was in san diego. none the less, i am dying to here this live. it is certainly one of the songs that justified pj being one of the best bands around for me, and showcasing ed's talent as a writer and vocalist, albeit the simple lyrics. the touring band version is phenomenal, top five pj song for me, probably even top 3.
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I love the live version of this from the touring band 2000 dvd. i like the studio version but it lacks some of the punch of that live version, it might be because of the visuals in the dvd that bring out a strong emotional quality in the song.
Iv always seen this as a song that you can take any way you want. there is a bit of loss in it, but more it seems like a song about looking ahead toward the journey that your life is and will be.
its pretty simple musically, and that works well with the simple and somber lyrics.
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Junco Partner wrote:
Iv always seen this as a song that you can take any way you want. there is a bit of loss in it, but more it seems like a song about looking ahead toward the journey that your life is and will be.
its pretty simple musically, and that works well with the simple and somber lyrics.
it reminds me of life wasted thematically, but they have very different energies to them.
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I think you had to be there. The fact that Eddie and Neil played this on the Tribute to America show for 9.11 and this show took place on 9.11.05 gave this version special meaning. It gave me chills. Then again I was very drunk at the time.[/quote]
OK. I just listened to it again. I suppose it is a pretty great version
One of the most chilling parts of the song is the very end, in which the young narrator (Ed) asks if he’ll walk the long road, only to have a callback from the otherwise vocally absent Neil Young answering that we all walk the long road. The dichotomy of their voices, and how we can tell their age difference by their pitch and timbre, is a perfect vocal coda to a song about such meditative issues the song approaches.
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5 stars and I totally agree with this point. This song is outstanding. Like all great PJ songs, all great works of art actually, it is hopeful but not by denying sadness, loss, and longing but by embracing it. In that simple call and response lyric there is a kind of comfort expressed that comes from knowing that life is a long road, the ups and downs are there, it is what it is. Neil Young's part cements this idea with authority.
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