Colin Meloy - Zoot / This Is Why We Fight

Live at the Showbox in Seattle, May 02, 2008.

This song was eventually released on "The King is Dead" in 2010.

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• zoot
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[kitpmcc]

Something really unique about Seattle shows: The audience remains quiet through the song and there's not a lot of movement. I'm from Seattle originally (now in Portland), and I saw a lot of shows there. It's always the same. Lots of cheering and enthusiasm, but once the music starts, the crowd is all but silent and there's only a few people nodding their heads. A Chicago friend of mine commented on how surreal it was. I hadn't noticed until then. Never saw that behavior anywhere else.

[antiuser]

@kitpmcc Very true. I've heard the same thing about Japanese audiences.

[AmScray]

hey anti, did you catch the show at the moore on sunday?

[antiuser]

No! So sad. :(

[mad4music7]

I'm dying inside waiting for this to be put on CD.

[madisonsuex2]

Yay! Thanks for putting this up! I was there and it was awesome.

[EmilyCan0]

Lovely

[SomethingiLove]

this acoustic version is WAY better than the album version.

[lilteddymouse]

@montypython401 Any idea why they changed it?

[drinkabledebo]

@kitpmcc Haters gonna hate.

[777biggs]

@kitpmcc have 2 agree from seattle myself ( now regretably reside in kansas ) but msic is a part of the culture there its somthing all sealltites are involved or intrested in makes me sad 2 be cut off from the greatest music community ive ever known

[kitpmcc]

@drinkabledebo @drinkabledebo

"Almost, nearly, as in I've all but finished the book. This expression was used by Andrew Marvell in "Thoughts in a Garden": "Society is all but rude, To this delicious solitude." [Late 1500s]"

That's the primary definition and the context in which it was used.

Of all the comments on YouTube, THAT is what gets grammar policed?

[drinkabledebo]

@kitpmcc @kitpmcc

. . . It means "everything but". idioms (dot) thefreedictionary (dot) com/all+but

So ". . . the crowd is everything but silent . . ."

I see it also says "almost" as number 2. But it doesn't make sense in the context here. So 1 is used. As if it is ruling out silent and the crowd is anywhere from hushed to boisterous.

[kitpmcc]

@drinkabledebo Actually, the phrase "all but..." means "almost." As in, "I've all but finished remodeling the kitchen," etc.. :)

[drinkabledebo]

@kitpmcc

"All but silent" implies very loud . . .