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Originally Posted by The Flying Mouse
 OK, let's go with this.
Meat has said that he has not performed FCOL between the early days and MSO.
That apart from singing parts of it at some Storytellers shows, it's not been done since 78/79.
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Wrong, there is the LATW recording, which he
claims he did at a sound check. May this be true or not, I have no idea.
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There are no bootlegs during these years that include FCOL.And how many bootlegs are there from throughout his career?There are bootlegs available of most of his work, but not of FCOL.
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I would hardly say there are bootlegs of
most of his work. Let's say there are 100 bootlegs throughout his career, that's 3 a year, so logically seen the chance is quite high, that one specific performance (the one with FCOL) hasnt been documented.
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No mention of FCOL is in any tour program.
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true, but tour programs are mostly printed before the majority of the shows are through, and again, I dont think the performance of one single song might be important enough to get a mention in a tourbook.
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No forum, memeber has talked about hearing a live version of FCOL.
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well, a) Jonty did, and that's on what I've based my theory and b), even if there would be no one remembering it: try to find someone who has attended, for example, a show in 77/78, or someone who was at the MSO recording, or 3 Bats live, etc
The chance to find someone who attended one specific show is not as high as you might think.
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You yourself have never seen him sing it live.
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I never claimed that.
My point was, he said clearly the song WASNT performed live since March 78 in NYC. And I claim he KNOW that was wrong. Especially as he performed it so little times it would be hard to forget about it.
HE claimed it wasnt performed since 78, everything else, if in front of an audience or not, if full or not, was nothing that he said at the specific show. Those were all points he/people made later to twist the truth a little and make his comment look true.
The way I look at it, is that he wanted to make the audience at the MSO recording feel like they're seeing something more special than it was. Especially as this also includes the DVD audience.
We as fans, KNOW that a performance of FCOL is something special, but 99% of the people who bought the DVD dont. So his little speech before the song made them realise theyre gonna see something special. So all in all they might remember the show as soemthing more special, and might even tell a friend about it.
Again, most of those people wont care if that story is true, or wont bother to check, it's only us ML nerds who know the truth, and we dont make the majority of the sales.
So I say, he damn well knew what he was talking about, so we shouldnt ignore that, but except it as a, lets say, marketing tool.
phew, that was a long post wasnt it?
