Elliott Smith - Unlucky Charm (Live, 2002)

[Bryce6789]

haha kind of a casey tatum thing at the beginning.

casey tatum-tim eric comedy troop

[Ebinification]

Thanks

[Kleasone]

omg ! this is awesome. 1 month ago popped this short intro from a studio live, then this one now. And this other chord progression is very interesting. I'm sure one day will appear a proper version of this song.

[dreamerfadesawake]

Wow, I had absolutely no clue that there was another recording of this song. This is amazing. And it's really interesting that there are not only different lyrics than the other version, but different chords. I've never really heard him change chords to a song before.

I had heard about this show at some point, but never listened to it. Thanks for sharing this, and thanks for the warning.

[UnreleasedOriginal]

@dreamerfadesawake regarding him changing chords, he also did this with "Everything's Okay," "My New Freedom" and "You Make It Seem Like Nothing". Listen to the original versions of those songs, in 1996-1997. Incredibly complex chords and strumming patterns. When he pulled those songs out of the dustbin in 2001-2003, they had to basically be "dumbed down" because, depressing as it is to say, his fingers couldn't do what they used to. This might be a case of the opposite though...interesting.

[dreamerfadesawake]

@UnreleasedOriginal I see what you mean in all three cases, but I feel like these changes are from finger-picking to just strumming essentially the same chords. And this makes sense for the way he writes songs; the core of them isn't the lyrics, but the shapes of the progressions and the melodies that they make. This aspect seems to stay constant after he first writes a version of a song. The changes here, though, seem different to me, whatever that means.

[pressureofdays]

Thanks, as stated, this was very emotional.