Thomas Dolby Live - "I Love You Goodbye" - Anthology, 2012
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- This is one of a series of songs recorded live (and low-tech!) during Thomas Dolby's Spring 2012 Time Capsule Tour.
Comments from Thomas Dolby (vocals, keyboards):
It's a pleasure and an honour to sing this onstage with a bunch of great musicians, because I know how much the song means to people. I consider it among the top three or four best songs I've ever written. And please, any passing similarity to the Backstreet Boys' 'I Want It That Way' (written 10 years later and one of the biggest-selling singles in history!) is entirely coincidental ;-)
My wink at about 1'40 is because I've just told the story of how I got outted as a bad geographer by a New Orleans radio host for mentioning the Everglades in a song about Louisiana.
I play mainly piano in this; gated Rhodes and Hammond organ in the verses; a swampy ES2 patch in the bridge that I call Kate's Bush; a couple of thunderous storm samples, and one that sounds a bit like a siren. Strings sneak in to double the chords towards the end.
Comments from Aaron Jonah Lewis (fiddle, fretless banjo):
Such a beautiful song and always a crowd favorite. The intro was always intense for me, keeping the melody soaring and open while playing in perfect rhythm with the click track. (Mat occasionally has to snap us back in time with the hi-hat on this recording. It was always a proud moment when we could pull the intro off without any corrections from Mat, but no big deal when we needed his intervention.) I love playing the banjo on this song, too. Taking the classic bluegrass rolling patterns for the right hand and using them in this song works out really nicely, and I love to sing along, too. This was one of the songs that would continue on in my head for hours or days after a show was over.
Comments from Mat Hector (drums):
This track is all about the groove for me. Locking in with the fantastic bass riff and the sixteenth note shaker is the absolute main thing to make the whole thing groove and sit. While Thomas is talking about this song before we start I have a metronome in my ear already giving me the exact tempo. So while he's talking I'm already getting locking into the tempo. This also lets me give an inkling to the rest of the band of the tempo. The tricky part of the intro is conducting the band and keeping them in time with the sequencer that's running. When I'm playing a groove this is easy, but when I'm playing nothing it gets a little trickier! The great groove aside, my other favorite part of playing this song is the high belt vocal I get to sing in the chorus. Although sometimes I'm a little pitchy it's a line I try and sing out with passion.
Comments from Kevin Armstrong (guitar):
play a very saturated distortion sound for the intro and break it really is creamy and lovely. On the intro I love the way the piano guitar and fiddle blend together like one instrument. It's great when the song settles in to a swampy downbeat groove at 0:58. When we sing the choruses we really have a challenge keeping together. In tune and sort of expressionless with long notes and no bending is the plot. If we get it wrong it just sounds like a few drunk blokes on a night out all slurring their way through a folk tune or something.
At the end of the first chorus at 3:20 I sing the Gooood after TD and my foot has to hover over that massive fuzz button which I have to mash on the downbeat for the tune. I can't see it I just have to guess where it is and hope for the best..
Absolutely fantastic. Is this everyone's favorite Dolby song? I know it's mine!
Mine will always be Hyperactive but this is a close 2nd.
@@lordzhuge Honestly there's so many. I also love One of Our Subs, The Flat Earth, Budapest By Blimp, May the Cube Be With You, I Live in a Suitcase, The Beauty of a Dream, White City... I can go on and on!
this, or "The Ability To Swing" ... :)
Without a doubt, my favorite Thomas Dolby song. The lyrics are so perfectly descriptive that the narrative makes it easy to picture in my mind.
Agreed. I wish the banjo was louder!
I remember being so excited when this album first came out and rushed out to get it. This song was another hidden gem on the album. You are a genius Thomas Dolby. Still have this album.
The album version of this song always haunted me. Blown away by the live version.
Some are great artists but need that extra brush stroke we can give in the studio
Me too. One night me and my best friend played it on repeat all night...
I still have the cassette! This song was ALWAYS my favorite. It spoke to me and helped form my young adult life!!!
what an utterly fantastic other-wordly song, this song really takes me away
I love, love, love this song. Studio and this version, both great
I was at this show! To date, still (easily) the best concert I've ever attended.
Made me think of Neil Young's "Long May You Run". Oh, that dirty Dutsun...
A true favorite to hear.
Sooo beyond Beautiful, ❤ty for posting this gorgeousness
Being in New Orleans,this song has special meaning to me.Thomas Dolby is AWESOME!However there are 2 factual errors.Louisiana has Parrishes not counties and the everglades are in south Florida 800 miles away.I don't want to knock Thomas,this is one of my favorite songs.
my goosebumps have goosebumps
29 years later this song still brings emotions. What a fine group is musicians in this performance.
I have this song and I still play it constantly.
This song holds a very special place in my heart. It always brings back a flood of memories every time I hear it. Nice to watch this "low-tech" version and reminisce. Thanks for posting it. Hope I get to see Thomas live one of these days. He's one of my all time favorite musicians.
*_Under a Cajun moon, I lay me open_*
*_There is a spirit here that won't be broken_*
*_Some words are sad to sing_*
*_Some leave me tongue-tied_*
*_(But the hardest thing to tell you)_*
*_The hardest words I know_*
*_I love you, goodbye_*
"I love you, good bye" poetry in it's purest!
One of my favourite songs of all time by Shingle Street's finest :-)
His music is amazing, and his voice is even more
Thomas, you are like a alien ...... :-) last 30 !!!!! years nooo lost the energie and wonderfull magic and brilliant voice
Saw you at the Iron Horse last fall, and it was tremendous!!! Thank you Thomas and friends!
J'taime, au revoir!
It may seem crazy but I would like to see a collaboration between Thomas Dolby and Nile Rogers. This is a great track.
How I love this song.
My favorite too.
Went to the NYC gig earlier on in the year so lucky enough to see this version 'in the flesh' - awesome - also one of my favorite songs by any artist :)
Excellent. He is accomplished in non-electronic music too.
Luckily I saw him in a small bar.. Did this song!
Futuro 88,9 Fm playlists back in 1992 together with I Live on a Suitcase. Play on Mr.Dolby!
no other word than simply WOW
I saw this tour at the Iron Horse in Northampton MA. Every bit as good as I remember it!
I saw him on the "Aliens" tour in Northampton, UK. Just checked out your version of Northampton. NOT the same as mine!
love it - come back to Vancouver soon please - don't wait another 20 years we'll all be deaf !!!
This is amazing! I love this song.
Great, thanks always loved this tune
A favourite song. Louisiana is roughly in the same neck of the woods as the Everglades anyway.
It has a similar tropical environment but it's a thousand miles away.
@@MrThistlethwaite, yeah but…good music and lyrics can travel!!! 😊
Just for my one true love RMD still missing you x
Beautyful Thomas
very difficult to play live, congratulations 💙
A great song, video, and production - truly, to me, in the top-5 of the 90's. I'm a former member of the AFM (*American Federation of Musicians) and it pains one sometimes to see the result of reduced musical education in our schools; but not this masterpiece - on so many levels, this one is one of a kind and quite a find - "Bravo, Thomas Dolby!"
Wonderful!
I have yet to go bowling on a Friday in NOLA... But it's on the list...
This is lovely❤💕❤
I dia you, Mr. Dolby!
Great comments! Thanks!
BEST!
I would never normally go bowling
On a friday morning in New Orleans
But I like to come here to remember
The kind of places you took me
Like the time we stole a Datsun
And drove all night to the everglades
Until we crashed it in a big electric storm
And stood there listening to the bayou rain
The county sheriff had a hair-lip
Louisiana's pride and joy
He said politely as he cuffed me
"I never busted an English boy ...
But I will accept a contribution
To the Opelousas' Charity Ball
But you better drive this dirty Datsun
Into the Gulf of Mexico"
Under a Cajun moon I lay me open
There is a spirit here that won't be broken
Some words are sad to sing
Some leave me tongue-tied
(But the hardest thing to tell you)
But the hardest words I know
Are I love you goodbye
I love you goodbye
Typhoon Pierre delayed my plane till morning
(Jusqu'au matin)
Let the bontemps rouler from your accordion
(L'accordien)
Under a cajun moon I lay me open
(Y a un esprit partout)
There is a spirit here that won't be broken
(Simple words are sad to sing
Some words are sad to sing
(They leave me tongue-tied)
Some leave you tongue-tied
(But the hardest thing to tell you my friend)
But the hardest words I know
(Is I love you goodbye)
Are I love you goodbye
(Je t'aime, au revoir)
I love you goodbye
(Je t'aime, toujours)
I love you, goodbye
Holy shit, I never noticed how much the bassline sounds like "Thriller."
with a change up on one note every other phrase.
thanx!
Don't want to have my spirit broken, never...Sylvia
this has been raised by almost a half step...
Turn up the banjo! ;-)
im the guy that screamed when matey picked the banjo up
Why am I crying?
Les bon temps roullez
also good to see the overhead shot of your set up Thomas, I was sufficiently inspired to go out a get a Trigger Finger off CL. How do you find using Logic in a live situation ? Once in a while it seems get over loaded and die on me.
Where’s his little round glasses?
and here
Does anyone know who the drummer is please?
Great! But the vocals are too dry. They could use a touch of reverb and echo...
I am afraid
別れと始まり
Thomas Dolby can't really sing very well live..which is kind of surprising since on the records he's SO good.. i guess it took him a lot of piecing together takes.. makes him seem more mortal somehow.. :)
Look at some of his old live performances on YT from the ‘80s. He had a great voice back then. No technical tricks with it either….
KEK
Love the album version, this performance is a little flat IMO.
The band seems bored and low energy. Even though its a mellow groove the album has an energy
that is lacking in this live performance.
A great song but a rather lack luster performance.
My favourite song absolutely ruined by being live and sung badly by TD. Awful. Check out the original video as is still amazing.
if not thomas Dolby, its a shit hipster duck dynasty theme song