portrait of this blog's author - by Stephen Blackman 2008

Saturday, July 18, 2020

"Get ready to shoot yourself . . . . . . . . . . . "

NICK CAVE

LIVE IN BERLIN 2008

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - BERLIN 2008 - Floppy Boot Stomp


SilentWay excels (again?!) over at Floppy Boot Stomp this morning with this towering performance from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds in Berlin back in 2008 

Seems to me like Nick Cave has written the themes for the zeitgeist and how can you listen to anything else at the mo' so the boys at FBS and Voodoo Wagon are excelling at the moment IMHO To parap[hrase Leonard Cohen "You want it darker?"

SW the boss says:

An extraordinary set and performance!!!


Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Live Tempodrom
Berlin, Germany 
May 21, 2008 
FM Source @HQvbr 




Line-Up: 
Thomas Wydler - Drums, Percussion 
Jim Sclavunos - Drums, Percussion 
Conway Savage - Keyboards 
Martyn P. Casey - Bass 
Warren Ellis - Viola 
Mick Harvey - Guitar 
Nick Cave - Vocals 


Track List: 
1. night of the lotus eaters 
2. dig lazarus dig 
3. tupelo 
4. todays lesson 
5. red right hand 
6. midnight man 
7. deanna 
8. lie down here 
9. moonland 
10. we call upon the author 
11. papa wont leave you henry 
12. more news from nowhere 
13. get ready for love 
14. hard on for love 
15. the lyre of orpheus 
16. into my arms 
17. the mercy seat 
18. stagger lee

Enjoy! I am . . . . . . . 

Footnote:
I collect versions of the New Orleans classic story 'StaggerLee' since first hearing Mississippi John Hurt's version when but a callow youth and thanks to my brother Steve



It was back in '32 when times were hard
He had a Colt .45 and a deck of cards
Stagger Lee


He wore rat-drawn shoes and an old stetson hat
Had a '28 Ford, he had payments on that
Stagger Lee


His woman threw him out in the ice and snow
And she told him, "Never ever come back no more"
Stagger Lee


So he walked through the rain and he walked through the mud
'Til he came to a place called The Bucket Of Blood
Stagger Lee

Songwriters: Blixa Bargeld / Conway Savage / Jim Sclavunos / Martyn Casey / Michael Harvey / Nicholas Cave / Thomas Wydler

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