| Better Oblivion Community Center – Chesapeake Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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So, just heard this song for the first time and the verse about his hero playing to no one in a parking lot brought back a personal memory from waaaayyy back in 2003. There was a New York area music festival called "Field Day Festival" in June, 2003 which was moved from the green fields of Long Island to Giant's Stadium in NJ. Long story short, most bands bailed, and by the end it was the likes of Blur, Beck, Beastie Boys, and Radiohead playing the main stage within the "arena" while a secondary stage outside and adjacent to the parking lot hosted the likes of Bright Eyes and Elliot Smith. It was POURING rain that day and the crowd at Elliot's set was small to say the least, more like a group of soaking wet diehards. A young Conor Oberst apparently watched Elliot's set from sidestage. One of the final live shows Smith would ever perform (he was dead within months), it was by all accounts (there are few) a good performance and included a cover of the Beatles song "Long, Long, Long" which coincidentally would be the last song Smith ever performed live. |
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