Halloween '97 soundcheck (full)

[jason]

this is something i'm sure we've all seen a bit of before, but i've never seen the whole thing posted in one place. it's 52 minutes long. this has always been, to me, one of the best shows i've ever seen them play...at least as far as simply watching on the internet is concerned. this is the soundcheck, yet they almost do it as though it were the show itself...especially dave. i've been in bands for many years and this has the feel of people honestly loving what they are doing...you just can't hide it at any time. i love it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUDv0Nn1GWU

[jason]

here's the whole show from something other than the MTV feed..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Q9Yl8z9A4

[Matz]

very cool, thanks!

[Noonesshocking]

eric shoulda sucked it up and done this tour. He'd look back on it proudly today.

[Larry B.]

Really cool. The rare Up The Beach with Flea.

[Bandit72]

Very cool indeed. Weren't Perry and Dave back on heroin at this time?

[Bandit72]

Dave's also standing stage left. Normally he's right?

[Larry B.]

Dave's also standing stage left. Normally he's right?

If I remember correctly, he took left in the Relapse tour.

[Matz]

Very cool indeed. Weren't Perry and Dave back on heroin at this time?

yeah, I've wondered a lot whether that's why Dave never played better than here

[nestos]

very nice indeed

[JOEinPHX]

eric shoulda sucked it up and done this tour. He'd look back on it proudly today.

No, I am 100% sure Perry would have ruined it for him then, too.

[Pandemonium]

Dave's also standing stage left. Normally he's right?

If I remember correctly, he took left in the Relapse tour.

Yeah, he was on that side the whole tour.

[Matz]

thank god we got to the bottom of that

[Romeo]

Very cool indeed. Weren't Perry and Dave back on heroin at this time?

Which could of been a factor to not joining "relapse"

[panicparty]

iirc Dave got himself back using during the course of that tour, so wouldn't have been a factor for Avery deciding not to join. Dunno about Perry.

Dave answered the stage position thing a few years ago, can't remember where - basically for relapse he and Flea instinctively went to the stage positions they were used to in the Chillis, and then Dave stayed there through the Martyn / Chaney Strays period, without any particular thought process going into it - then when they all reunited with Avery it was similarly just an unsaid, instinctive thing to go and stand where they had been 86-91.

[Mescal]

iirc Dave got himself back using during the course of that tour, so wouldn't have been a factor for Avery deciding not to join. Dunno about Perry.

Dave answered the stage position thing a few years ago, can't remember where - basically for relapse he and Flea instinctively went to the stage positions they were used to in the Chillis, and then Dave stayed there through the Martyn / Chaney Strays period, without any particular thought process going into it - then when they all reunited with Avery it was similarly just an unsaid, instinctive thing to go and stand where they had been 86-91.

Thank God we got to the bottom of that

[Noonesshocking]

At the end of that video, they soundcheck ANR and perry is using the mic stand instead of just hold the wireless mic. It looks fucking cool like 1.0

[nausearockpig]

iirc Dave got himself back using during the course of that tour, so wouldn't have been a factor for Avery deciding not to join. Dunno about Perry.

Dave answered the stage position thing a few years ago, can't remember where - basically for relapse he and Flea instinctively went to the stage positions they were used to in the Chillis, and then Dave stayed there through the Martyn / Chaney Strays period, without any particular thought process going into it - then when they all reunited with Avery it was similarly just an unsaid, instinctive thing to go and stand where they had been 86-91.

Thank God we got to the bottom of that

c'mon man, this is the sort of thing that we live and breathe.....