05 - Highway one - Them Crooked Vultures (Cologne 8-12-2009)

[ajbguitar123]

this is fucking badass. electric mandolin by jpj? raaad

[HalfChildSounds]

...soooooo....why isnt this on the album?

[bonzo6880]

Should have been on the album. Cool tune

[MiguelAngelRocknroll]

Dios! como envidio a esas personas!

[SuperMrBeluga]

2:09 i actually dropped my jaw

[theGreenaffect]

3:40 Josh, are you saying "hung like a beaver"? That's some disturbing line

[igSgtPepper]

I like songs like this over songs with guitar solos.

With a guitar solo sure, its fun, but it only lasts a few minutes.

In a song liek this, theyre playing theyre asses off through the whole song.

[Bleepbloopd]

3:10 puts me in such a mood- "All my confusion is waving goodbye".

[odracir19891]

Is just me or this is the best live version of this song... in this gig sounds just amazing !

[aaabbbeee]

Most kickass song with a mandolin.

[n0possibility]

possible vibe for a next album????

[maciuchalp]

I can hear some Dazed &Confused and Ramble On in this song.

JPJ great as always.

[bonykingofnowhere42]

@5Cincinnatus

i don't think it was left out for that reason, cos interludes with ludes is also very different to the rest of the album

[thatonedude675]

I can't imagine this not being on a official CD, this is one of their best, and it's not even on a record (yet)

[JesusFreak288]

dave grohl is my idol

[Equirah]

I love the rhythm of this song and the feeling they put to it =D

[PwnageGravy]

How is it JPJ manages to have an awesome instrument in every single song?

[SOB044]

@PwnageGravy WAit... how does an awesome instrument have JPJ at every song??

[Marcycat1]

@5Cincinnatus yeah JPJ and homme wrote it when dave was gone for two or three days...when they were recording. they have a darker sense of muisc

[homermonkeylove]

All my confusion is waving goodbye

[TheJurneyMan]

Those diamond shaped lights that appear in the background at just about every one of their concerts should become an official member of Them Crooked Vultures

[RegularJohnny]

@TheJurneyMan word

[helloiplaydrums24]

@TheJurneyMan

im with ya on that one :)

[RegularJohnny]

oh man, I do love this song!

[LedZeppelinisgod100]

godDAMN i love the feel of this song. the meter-switching, that amazing mandolin line by JPJ, the long notes sung by Josh, Grohl's rhythms, and Alain's long droney notes.

TCV KNOWS HOW TO DO IT.

[rikuparagus706]

LOL at the random guy yelling "Shut the Hell Up!" at 0:11

[stratmaniac]

Just imagine the second record... If this and You Can't Possibly Begin To Imagine How Small The Tape Recorder Must've Been are examples of the new vultures stuff it's gonna be a bloody awesome record

[BlueOnionGroup]

@stratmaniac You Can't Possibly Begin To Imagine How Small The Tape Recorder Must've Been is not the actual name of the song it was only used to show that the guy who taped it had small tape recorder it's called You Can't Possibly Begin To Imagine.

[stratmaniac]

@BlueOnionGroup well it was called that on sound cloud's TCV profile... but we will see... i hope

[gbgg9409]

Cool song, sounds a bit reminiscent of Achiles' Last Stand.

[proudlytopresent]

I think it really would fit on a qotsa album.

[sjmeck]

what the time signature on this song?

[jcskater1117]

@sjmeck sounds like in the "off" parts it goes from 4/4 to 5/4 over and over

[LedZepGuy1]

@sjmeck Its 4/4 for 24 bars. Then it alternates on one bar of 4/4 one bar of 5/4 one bar of 4/4 one bar of 6/4 through the "They'll catch up- I know they will....". When Grohl drops that busy groove including just about everything Bonham did in his 140 bpm+ grooves it goes back to 4/4 until the next "The sun sets on Highway One..." when it hits the muddle of time signatures. The trick is to count 9 crotchets and then 10.

[SlipSloop]

WHY IS THIS SO AMAZING

[BlueOnionGroup]

who agrees this should have replaced interlude with ludes

[FOOROCKS123]

this is in either 5/4 or 9/8 anyone know?

[puolki]

@FOOROCKS123 i think its 9/8

it must be pretty confusing for them, when the audience claps in 4/4

[bornguitarhero95]

@renzolikescheez: I do believe he is using an "airline" guitar. They're quite unusual in shape and tone. Jack white has used them frequently throughout his songs in the white stripes. That's why the song has that plucky kind of feel aswell. Look up "ball and buiscuit" by the white stripes, and you'll hear the same sound to highway 1. Live long THEM CROOKED VULTURES!!! :D

[renzolikescheez]

@bornguitarhero95 yeah its an eastwood, but it has four strings.

[RADiOSCiENCE1]

@bornguitarhero95 jack white doesn't use airline guitars. he uses montgomery ward jb hutto guitars from the sixties. white's are made of plastic and have singlecoil pickups that look like humbuckers whereas the eastwood copies are made of wood and have normal humbuckers.

[thierryman]

I see a Bad Cat amp, only other prominent musician I know that uses those is Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree

[AlmigthyIsDead]

Dave Grohl makes his own drumskins out of people he hates

[renzolikescheez]

ok. JPJ uses somekind of bass mandolin or something., but whats Johanssen (baldy) using?

[renzolikescheez]

@adas1023 ??? What are you talking about? John Paul Jones isnt playing a guitar. I highly recomend glasses or usage of neurons.

[Zmcluvin]

@Bile697 Good for you, it's funny because you'd probably say that about dave grohl sense his sense of humors kind of like that.

[romanousan]

@Bile697 you're breaking my heart, dude

[GhOsTbOy01010101]

cant wait to see them in brixton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

[theGreenaffect]

why isnt this on the album! >_< now that ive heard it, i need it!

[STrocker666]

FRESH POT!!!!!!

Dave is a beast

[Strelok1991]

i was there

[Naturestorm]

@Strelok1991 nice ;D ich wollte au hin habs aber verpennt... DAVE GROHL!XD

[SmokeDGanja420]

jonzey just hoofed me square in the balls with that riff!

[fitroiCm1]

this song needs to be on the next album. yes the next album! please! I need this like a fat kid needs cake!

[Rockrising58]

Electric Mandolin?-YUP, Fucking Awesome

[toskoramone]

this song kind of sounds like something from JPJ's solo career. fucking great

[rainbowDETHkitty]

this song is unreal. saw them do it live and it destroyed all the other songs into tiny scraps that only dreamed they were a single note played on that mandolin. oh hell yes.

[rainbowDETHkitty]

@rainbowDETHkitty i take that back.. nothing beats the drums on caligulove.

[upn2daleft]

song kinda sounds like techno.

[BeardShorts]

@upn2daleft Exactly what sort of Techno do you listen to?

[MrMephisto89]

Using a mandoline in rock music is so 60s-70s...love it =)

[carlovonsexron]

@turkey: they are expected to make another album this year

[TehWickturkey]

hopefully we'll hear another record from these guys in a few years. this is great, kinda different from the other stuff on their album

[phatboy90210]

omg tell me this isnt fn awsome?......its goodness for your ears....like good chocolate on your palate

[Shevchenko107]

Shit, I want to hear more songs that are not on the album...I think TCV should make another album soon

[RambleOn1970]

This songs sick..... i wonder what type of mandolin JPJ is using cause it looks way bigger than a normal one? maybe a tenor or something?

[MaddMan95]

@RambleOn1970

All his basses & mandolins are custom made by the Manson company.

[panikattak14]

@RambleOn1970 Probably an octave mandolin, perhaps a mandocello, or just a longer-scaled mandolin

[chriswoodize]

@panikattak14 its a mandola mate there tuned like a viola

[panikattak14]

@chriswoodize oh yeah DUH, completely forgot about the mandola.

[chriswoodize]

@panikattak14 no worries man

[reawakegh]

I hate joshs telecaster. Actually all telecasters

[jhonnygunner]

@reawakegh and who wants to know??

[ScreamForAlexChilton]

@reawakegh The guitar in this one isn't a tele, it's some weird japanese guitar. Uses a tele for Mind Eraser though

[millsy212]

jpj rips so hard on the ukelele!

[dosokreativomannen]

This reminds of Soundgarden

[Noodlezoup]

I love the intro so mutch and the mandolin riff was great

[only1joe4life]

Can't wait for the studio version.

[TheRaptorfiend]

@5Cincinnatus which is actually a very good reason to keep it off. Imo, album coherence is one of the most vital parts of musicianship. Don't worry though, they'll find a place for this awesomeness, either on a single or on another album.

[Aelgara]

Every songs of Them Crooked Vultures are different i've ever heard : )

[golluba]

hmmm,different! like nothing i've ever heard!

[FindingMyF33t]

Brilliant song! god i wish this was on the record. Possible B-side?

[stratmaniac]

possibly on the next record?

[mike8536]

@FindingMyF33t  on the next album

[Boberman43]

@FindingMyF33t haha screw the cd, i got dis shit on vinyl YO! Hot Diggety!

[nap1056]

saw TCV live last month and the mandolin riff was one of the most amazing bits of the show

[motley666cobain]

amazing song just way way to weird good pot smoking music

[adds102]

JPJ kicking ass!

[dahfshx]

FUCKIN AWESOME TUNE!

[bourrafon]

5:06 valentine's day necklace?

[QOTSAPT]

@bourrafon he wears that a lot search for qotsa in the basement it was a couple years ago and he already was wearing that necklace

[mELBOLLE]

@bourrafon Guitar pick necklace :)

[haolekillah]

wtf this song awesome!!! why didt go on the album? because theres a second in mind?

[QymLym]

@haolekillah an ep this month

[guitartim89]

an ep, when? On itunes?

[QymLym]

@QymLym supposedly. someone told someone back stage.

[iliveinabeehive]

Bands usually have many bsides

[TheJurneyMan]

there is a second album coming out in the near future. And yes, this track will be on it

[exositejill]

@TheJurneyMan

That's entirely speculation... What proof can you link to that says this song will be a part of their next album? None.

[TheJurneyMan]

@exositejill

Trust me ;)

[jacko12bbb]

yep

[thisisnotshadowbox91]

this song is supposed to be released on an ep that was supposed to come out this month. Of course, I haven't heard anything about said ep yet.

[RMNTNayn]

I'm willing to say that that was just a lie. People have been known to lie about things like that sadly.....

[thisisnotshadowbox91]

You know, Id think so too but in an interview JPJ said they were going to release an EP with surplus material. Also someone said that they asked Alian backstage and he said a new EP was going to be released in January.

[RMNTNayn]

I know they are going to be releasing new material sometime (a new album has basically been confirmed for this year), but it looks like it's a little for anything to surface in January. Dave has said that stuff is coming "sooner than we think' and JPJ has said that this song will surface at some point.

[thisisnotshadowbox91]

Yeah hopefully they'll release it sooner then later. This song should not have been cut from the album and I'm waiting for when they'll release the studio version.

[sttekcirs]

God, I can't believe they cut that!

Josh and JPJ write some amazing darker material.

I can't wait to hear what's next.

[Ozzybeans]

A mandocello and a National tenor guitar?

[BoSkidomas]

1:02

Hutch?

[RegularJohnny]

yup

[NuclearGuru350]

Haha Hutch never fails.

[MrHobbes17]

how many bands would dream of writing something like this, and here they are cutting it from the album

[bandahibrida]

The best Them Crooked Vultures song!!!!

[Whutha1]

And here I thought nothing could overtake Dead End Friends as my favourite TCV song...

[bloodofjupiter]

Brilliant song! sounds like Zep and Qotsa slamming into each other !

[DJEggoYo]

sick song, but man that audience was dead. if i were there, oh......

[scottesaqui]

they probably look a bit dead as most audiences do when they're digesting totally new music to their ears... I've seen it quite often. If you watch some of their earlier shows, Joshua eludes to it often.

[humbuckr88]

Sounds a lot like Zeppelin imo!

And that's a GOOD thing!!!

[RMNTNayn]

JPJ actually wrote this one for his solo project, but it ended up getting used here. He says it will be released at some point.

[dwelman1]

i really wanna hear the other unreleased songs!

[RMNTNayn]

I feel bad for TCV. This is obviously a hard song to keep together, and the crowd is doing a TERRIBLE job clapping. Downright awful.

[1glassMilk]

JOHN PAUL JONES!!!!!

[closedroute93]

does anyone know what are the drum sticks that dave uses????

[Zmcluvin]

@closedroute93 Dave doesnt use drum sticks, he hunts T rex's with his time machine and crafts sticks from they're teeth

[ekirtsretnuoc]

@Zmcluvin yeah man thats it .....

[dascruicloseout]

@Zmcluvin That was the quote of the month on YouTube by FAR! hahaa

[Zmcluvin]

@dascruicloseout Yeah I forgot all about saying that and somebody replied to it this week and seeing it made me laugh my ass off

[romanousan]

@Zmcluvin yep, Dave Grohl seems to be the only living being capable of standing up against Chuck Norris

[carlovonsexron]

@Zmcluvin That's probably the best thing I've heard about Dave Grohl. Ever.

[FooZeppelin]

A make called 3 drumsticks - I caught one at their gig in Portsmouth :)

[ciroac30]

love this!!!!!!

[JibadeauxFox]

Why''d this get CUT! DAMN.

[ciroac30]

that mandoline rocks!

[TaffyRaphie]

airline bass guitar?

[LLMelvinL]

No drug need this song will get you high.

[pimplimo]

paved death isn't them

[skins555]

This song is incredible!! Why is this NOT on the album?!?!?

Amazing!

I agree with larsolaf too; def a great driving song!!

[xEglex]

apparently they recorded 19 (i think?) songs in the beginning, and 13 went on the first album, however they didn't wanna release the other ones as b-sides because they thought they were soo much better. So my guess, is THIS and the rest of them are going on the 2nd album, which is almost completed and should be released by next summer much to my suprise and disbelief. My my, those vultures...constantly satisfying...non-stop! That's how all men should be!

[xEglex]

Anyway, these are the names of the other songs: Brake Glass, Bombs Away, Dead Wrong, Highway One, ORCA, You Can't Possibly Begin to Imagine. and Paved Death.

I mean that's just WOW

[TaffyRaphie]

@xEglex how do you know? (not doubting you, just wondering)

[xEglex]

haha, i've just been following them really closely ever since i first heard about them back in july, and i read it on some website. Exciting stuff

[Cover95]

wow, what kind of guitar is john playing there? o.O

[wouterkaas]

it's an electric mandolin

[larsolaf]

Imagine listening to this while driving. wow.

[Bleepbloopd]

Fucking. Beautiful.

[ciroac30]

from whom is this song?

[hemna]

d'oh...why wasn't this on the album....simply amazing.

[RebelThoughts]

they should have put this in album!

[TheBronzeKing]

what a great song. this must've been one hell of a concert.

[thecajonman]

@TheBronzeKing

yes it was!

[ARocketToTheStars]

wow you can see me

[ironsheiknyc]

what is alain playing here?

[NYNick20]

I believe that's an Airline Bass he's playing.

[desertblitzkrieg]

thanks buddy ,Alain and his exotic instruments....

[rabidworm]

wow

[gartagor]

i thought i was in the fuckin heaven in the beginning

[Raenduz]

Thanks for uploading the concert man, you've really made my day.

[ohzarra89]

thast so f...... nice!

[wammbarro]

This has major groove going on!

[NuclearGuru350]

This should've been on the album. This is the probably the most original song they have. I'd like to see anyone make QOTSA comparisons with the music here.

[RegularJohnny]

word

[FernandoDANTE]

Fuck yeah. So, are you putting this up as a DVD on Dime?

[RegularJohnny]

I've uploaded it on lftsa.

There are 2 dvd's on dime, both better (16:9) than my dvd (4:3).