The takeaway from this is the simple fact that technique and skill are not as important as heart and soul. A truly great performance like this from someone who delivers every word and every note from their own pain or their own joy will just rip your heart out.
I've been all over this video since it suddenly appeared, which, got me to dragging out the Salesmen and Bernadette for repeat listenings. Conclusion: It's a creeping masterpiece. Parade just one of many excellent tracks enhanced by the amazing "treatments" provided by the band Lambchop. BTW -- saw Vic play in Vancouver in 1999 at a dive bar by day, nightclub at night joint. Talked to Vic after the show. He thanked me for coming...I said I drove 25 miles, not the 3000 miles he covered to get here, the thanking was all on me. "Let's call it a draw then" said Vic with smile.
Vic is my favorite songwriter, I live in Athens and Vic changed the way that I write lyrics..Great pick and its good to see him still getting the recognition he deserves...❤
Still miss Vic, he was a genius songwriter, one of a kind live performer, and even with all of his personal troubles a deeply soulful and lovely guy. I can't recommend the incredible memoir Kristin Hersh wrote about Vic and their friendship enough, it's a very poignant and utterly beautiful warts and all read. Worth seeking out even if you didn't know vic at all or aren't really familiar with his music! Gonna go play Vic songs for an hour or two now and enjoy a little fresh air. Thanks for featuring him on your channel Michael, it's always nice to see people remember him and others discovering his music!
One of Vic's old band mates, Todd McBride died recently. I was friends with Todd...he was an amazing songwriter and person. Vic gave Todd lots of credit for his songwriting.
saw him live in 2008, one of the greatest shows i've seen, life changing moment. happy that he's still getting some recognition yers after he's gone. Still one of the best through this day.
I'll never forget waiting that Xmas night to find out if he was going to pull through. I miss him. So much music we won't hear now. I still miss him all the time. No one could break your heart quicker than Vic Chesnutt. He was up there with the best of them as a songwriter-John Prine, Tom Waits, all of them...
Vic’s library is extensive, everything is something you haven’t heard before. Legend and truly missed. Loved how you accepted it and pretty much nailed his work- great channel - big fan!
That was some heavy, gorgeous, confusing, epic tortured pain and rage with moments of near stillness, but no calm. Love it. Vic is completely new to me. Danke, as always.
Awesome! I first saw Vic Chestnutt in 1991 opening for Bob Mould at Alvin's in Detroit. We were sideways when he rolled out to the front of the stage, slammed his fist on the strings and screamed "knuckles on a cheese grater!!!!" Total trip - loved it. Been an inside joke for 30 years - weirdest concert moments.
Me and a friend played a tribute to Vic a couple of years ago, here in Kortrijk - Belgium. Watching this makes me realise how much I miss him. I saw Vic performing many times. I think the guitar teacher intuitively grabs him by the balls. "There so much anger in it, yet so much humor as well." Miss you vic.
I remember Vic Chesnutt from back when he was working on a side project with Widespread Panic called “Brute”. They had one song called “Blight” that I recall being absolutely beautiful.
Holy shit, new sub, just checked your videos and you have fucking Vic Chesnutt, an incredible musician, I am so excited. At this point if I found Mayo Thompson on your channel I wouldn't be surprised at all.
You my friend, have stumbled upon one of the greatest singer/songwriters that ever lived! Top 5, maybe top 3 for me, all-time. Tragic. Gruesome. Tortured. Brilliance. Feverish. Pleasant. Hungry. Lost.
thank you so much for exposing so many folks to vic. there isn’t a lot going on with the guitar due to him being a quadriplegic. but what is there is always masterful and heartbreaking. thank you again!
Michael - Vic was a national treasure and big influence on Widespread Panic check out songs like Aunt Avis, Blight, Sleeping Man, Protein Drink/Sewing Machine, Expiration Day and many more…he even formed a band called Brute with Panic and released an album highly recommended. Great to see this come up today.
I wish I had something useful to say. There's a long back story, a hundred twists and winds, a fraught relationship with life, death, humor, terror, poetry, music, his partner, all across it. He'd likely be alive were it not for our national shame - for profit health insurance and a lack of universal health care.
Just out of curiosity due to him being relatively wealthy and paralyzed in a car accident, how would a universal healthcare system have helped to keep him alive?
@@AirsoftStriker According to him in the same interview, being "uninsurable" due to his quadriplegia, he was $50,000 in debt for his medical bills, and had been putting off a surgery for a year ("And, I mean, I could die only because I cannot afford to go in there again. I don't want to die, especially just because of I don't have enough money to go in the hospital."
I got to know Vic a little. I used to work for his record label in the early and mid 2000's. He was a really kind, soft spoken guy with a very witty, sarcastic sense of humor. he could be really dark and short tempered though, as well. But he had a really generous, kind heart. So saddened when he took his life- but I can totally understand why he did it.
I live in Athens, GA and was playing during the early 90's. Vic was always around playing. I know his sound seems a bit weird...but there was alot of this crazy type of sound in Athens, Ga back then inn the bars. Widespread Panic was all the rage then too. We played ROCCK music in my band, but this alternative sound was everywhere. You could see it at the 40 Watt every night and some of the other bars. That period of time was really crazy here...best times of my life playing and running amok around in the insanity...playing rock star LOL
Drive-By Truckers have a cover of Vic's "When I Ran Off and Left Her" on their Sometimes Late at Night EP. Soul Asylum also famously covered that song. Patterson Hood's song "Come Back Little Star" off of his solo record Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance was an ode to Vic after his death. Both beautiful songs worth checking out.
Had the fortune to live in Athens through the 90s. Must’ve seen Vic at least 20 or more times in various settings. Always a good “interesting” time even when he or we were all too wasted to know what a good time was! Saw him and hung out a little at what turned out to be his last show in Austin in early December 2009 with more or less the band in this video. Vic remains at the top of American musicians. I love your comment, “I don’t even know what I’m watching but it’s mesmerizing”!
vic chesnut inspired live‘s singer ed kowalczyk songwriting. on the mtv unplugged show in the 90s Live played vic chesnuts song supernatural, which is one favourite song for me in this great performance, which had a strong impact on shaping me as a musician and a person. i still love the intensity and lyrics reflectiong on existential topics. vic has got his on story with a sad ending, but he is embedded in rock‘s history via inspiring big artists. (sry for my english.)
At this point you've probably learnt this about Vic, but with his disability, often he would say a finger doesn't work, and he'd kind of work around it. Kristen Herst said that when Vic gave you the finger during a performance it just meant that one wasn't working today. For context read her eulogy.
@MichaelPalmisano Vic's been my favorite songwriter for 30 years so i'd love to hear additional reactions just because it's very exciting to get analysis of his work from musicians, and guitarists in particular, rather than critics, who usually don't say much about his guitar playing except to call it "minimal", which is a cop-out. in particular, check out his solo on the song "Bug" and just his beautiful playing on songs like "Gluefoot", "Supernatural", "Withering", "Wrong Piano", "Thumbtack", "Sad Peter Pan", "Fish", "Lillian Gish", and "Swelters".
I used to see him often in Athens, GA. The joke was always that they handed out a razor blade with your ticket. Talented fellow but dark and troubled for sure. I think he was better showcased when he was solo, raking that claw across the strings. He engendered a lot of fan worship, which I think is kind of evident in a performance like this.
Thanks for the review, I was a huge fan of Vic and saw him in Chapel Hill NC and Charlotte NC a number of times. Btw, that is Guy Picciotto from Fugazi on the Rickenbacker
I was watching this, and feeling really bad for comparing him to the guy from Dale Hargraves band on the movie Sling Blade, but it's actually him...alrighty then:)
love Vic so much. quadriplegic since age 16 i think, car accident. he does a horn using just his body that is incredible. so many songs i love so much. Vesuvius. You are Never Alone. Flirted With You All My Life. thanks for staying as long as you could, Vic. peace.
Vic was a very dextrous and skilled guitarist in his teenage years but unfortunately the accident robbed him of his chops, restricting him to playing mostly simple chords and rhythms. His playing style was so beautifully expressive and an inspiring example of creative perseverance. And that soulful voice, truly one of a kind.
Vic was a volatile personality and the one time I saw him in Nashville many years ago was kind of a train wreck. I knew his reputation and knew it might be hit or miss, but it doesn't change the fact that he was a tremendous artist and his passing was a significant loss.
I asked for an autograph from him once, and he wrote: Wait for further instructions. Funny guy sitting in his wheelchair after the show. He had opened for Jonathan Richman that night in NYC.
Just found your channel and I love it so far. Curious to see how you would react to "Ascend" by TheDooo. Maybe worth a video in the future but absolutely worth checking out nonetheless!
@the_Michael_Palmisano sorry brother, just checked to make sure you're real. I see too many fake accounts, its hard to see who is real and not. I don't have telegram. But I'll find you on Instagram. How does that sound?
Checked if you have covered Max Ostro, but I can see you have not. Highly recommend you to have a listen as he is INSANE! Fast yes, but the tone and heart that goes in to it, holy crap.
Interesting to see a musician with seemingly such a narrow idea of what music is "supposed to be" be challenged by something like this (which is amazing by the way).
Vic is the person who went to hell and sent a postcard back so that we could have some idea what it is like there. The reaction is the same as mine, just trying to guess what level of experienced pain it takes to play a song like that.
Vic is one of the greatest song writers ever. His catalog is DEEP. There’s so much depth it’s insane. There’s Vic and then everyone else
Bob Dylan who? Who gives a fuck. Vic wrote some masterful stuff
@@Nick-eh5rj Yup brother
Agreed. Desperately underrated,
The takeaway from this is the simple fact that technique and skill are not as important as heart and soul. A truly great performance like this from someone who delivers every word and every note from their own pain or their own joy will just rip your heart out.
Yes!!! Finally Vic! One of the greatest songwriters of all time.
Thank you for reacting to my video. Vic is a beast! You rock!
thanks for choosing Vic. every time someone discovers him, their life gets better. more people deserve to know about him
Vic is a true Legend…..totally a ‘one in a trillion’ 🙏
I've been all over this video since it suddenly appeared, which, got me to dragging out the Salesmen and Bernadette for repeat listenings. Conclusion: It's a creeping masterpiece. Parade just one of many excellent tracks enhanced by the amazing "treatments" provided by the band Lambchop. BTW -- saw Vic play in Vancouver in 1999 at a dive bar by day, nightclub at night joint. Talked to Vic after the show. He thanked me for coming...I said I drove 25 miles, not the 3000 miles he covered to get here, the thanking was all on me. "Let's call it a draw then" said Vic with smile.
Vic is my favorite songwriter, I live in Athens and Vic changed the way that I write lyrics..Great pick and its good to see him still getting the recognition he deserves...❤
Still miss Vic, he was a genius songwriter, one of a kind live performer, and even with all of his personal troubles a deeply soulful and lovely guy. I can't recommend the incredible memoir Kristin Hersh wrote about Vic and their friendship enough, it's a very poignant and utterly beautiful warts and all read. Worth seeking out even if you didn't know vic at all or aren't really familiar with his music! Gonna go play Vic songs for an hour or two now and enjoy a little fresh air. Thanks for featuring him on your channel Michael, it's always nice to see people remember him and others discovering his music!
Also going to play Vic for the next week solid. Christmas 09 I cried and I cried and cried, man. That hurt.
West of Rome breaks my heart every time I listen to it, and I have done it a thousand times. RIP Vic.
One of Vic's old band mates, Todd McBride died recently. I was friends with Todd...he was an amazing songwriter and person. Vic gave Todd lots of credit for his songwriting.
Aw shit, I didn't know Todd died. I was a huge fan of his songs with the Dashboard Saviors.
saw him live in 2008, one of the greatest shows i've seen, life changing moment. happy that he's still getting some recognition yers after he's gone. Still one of the best through this day.
I'll never forget waiting that Xmas night to find out if he was going to pull through. I miss him. So much music we won't hear now. I still miss him all the time. No one could break your heart quicker than Vic Chesnutt. He was up there with the best of them as a songwriter-John Prine, Tom Waits, all of them...
Vic was an amazing poet with a great sense of melody
I cry every time I listen to Vic!
Absolutely love Vic. He was such a wonderful artist.
that's what you get when you have the great Guy Picciotto to play lead on your song ! I think the rest of the band is from Silver Mt. Zion
Yes, they are
Vic was one of a kind!!! Such a legend. So happy to see him pop up here! This Cruel Thing is one of my favorite songs EVER! RIP Vic!!!! ❤❤❤
I'm so glad you did this song. Its been one my favorites for a long time. Vic was a legend
Also, @michealpalmisano I don't think I've ever seen you this speechless. It was the same way I was when I saw him for the first time
Vic’s library is extensive, everything is something you haven’t heard before. Legend and truly missed. Loved how you accepted it and pretty much nailed his work- great channel - big fan!
That was some heavy, gorgeous, confusing, epic tortured pain and rage with moments of near stillness, but no calm. Love it. Vic is completely new to me. Danke, as always.
Awesome! Vic was a great artist
Im so happy to see Vic on here !!!!!! I love this man. Have been listening to him for yrs!!
Awesome! I first saw Vic Chestnutt in 1991 opening for Bob Mould at Alvin's in Detroit. We were sideways when he rolled out to the front of the stage, slammed his fist on the strings and screamed "knuckles on a cheese grater!!!!" Total trip - loved it. Been an inside joke for 30 years - weirdest concert moments.
Vic and Bob on the same bill…what a night!!! ❤❤❤
"I'm not your Chesnutt, I'm not your Mould, I'm not your DJ on late night radio" - M Ward (whom I saw open for Vic in Ann Arbor in 2003)
Me and a friend played a tribute to Vic a couple of years ago, here in Kortrijk - Belgium. Watching this makes me realise how much I miss him. I saw Vic performing many times. I think the guitar teacher intuitively grabs him by the balls. "There so much anger in it, yet so much humor as well." Miss you vic.
Vic was a genius. So much of what he did was just over my head. Inspired now to revisit everything after the Salesman and Bernadette
I got to see this lineup do this song in November 2009. Had four chances to see Vic through the years. Thank you for letting us see your reaction!
Vic's last LP is in my regular rotation. Loved him for yrs.
I remember Vic Chesnutt from back when he was working on a side project with Widespread Panic called “Brute”. They had one song called “Blight” that I recall being absolutely beautiful.
Holy shit, new sub, just checked your videos and you have fucking Vic Chesnutt, an incredible musician, I am so excited. At this point if I found Mayo Thompson on your channel I wouldn't be surprised at all.
Nice to see the surprise. I had the same years ago. One of the best vids on youtube and one of a kind song.
Love vic. Thanks for this.
Once you go Vic, you can never go back….
You my friend, have stumbled upon one of the greatest singer/songwriters that ever lived! Top 5, maybe top 3 for me, all-time. Tragic. Gruesome. Tortured. Brilliance. Feverish. Pleasant. Hungry. Lost.
thank you so much for exposing so many folks to vic. there isn’t a lot going on with the guitar due to him being a quadriplegic. but what is there is always masterful and heartbreaking. thank you again!
Glad you found Vic. One of the greatest, most honest and intense musicians of our time.
I still miss Vic. You have witnessed a cri de coeur.
Oh, I see Guy Picciotto from Fugazi there. Such a big talent.
one of the guitarists here is guy picciotto from the legendary punk band fugazi. such a cool mix of genres. would be cool for you to check out fugazi
Michael - Vic was a national treasure and big influence on Widespread Panic check out songs like Aunt Avis, Blight, Sleeping Man, Protein Drink/Sewing Machine, Expiration Day and many more…he even formed a band called Brute with Panic and released an album highly recommended. Great to see this come up today.
aunt avis is a masterpiece: czcams.com/video/qh3KOJ3IHtM/video.html
@@treetopvideo Directed by Billy Bob to boot!
2 albums actually. Nine High a Pallet and Co-balt.
I wish I had something useful to say. There's a long back story, a hundred twists and winds, a fraught relationship with life, death, humor, terror, poetry, music, his partner, all across it. He'd likely be alive were it not for our national shame - for profit health insurance and a lack of universal health care.
Damn shame
national shame and disgrace
Just out of curiosity due to him being relatively wealthy and paralyzed in a car accident, how would a universal healthcare system have helped to keep him alive?
@@AirsoftStriker According to him in the same interview, being "uninsurable" due to his quadriplegia, he was $50,000 in debt for his medical bills, and had been putting off a surgery for a year ("And, I mean, I could die only because I cannot afford to go in there again. I don't want to die, especially just because of I don't have enough money to go in the hospital."
@@umooner4505 sad! Thanks for the insight!
I did not expect that big fuzzy breakdown. I love it
8:21 the rickenbacker sounds so cool. I love such fuzzed out guitar freakouts
Love Vic
I like to listen to this and then Little Wing...something binds them together. It is awesome watching your expressions/reactions!
The audience was as stunned as you were, Michael
I got to know Vic a little. I used to work for his record label in the early and mid 2000's. He was a really kind, soft spoken guy with a very witty, sarcastic sense of humor. he could be really dark and short tempered though, as well. But he had a really generous, kind heart. So saddened when he took his life- but I can totally understand why he did it.
about 25 years ago I came across a compilation called “Sweet Relief II”. I highly recommend it
I live in Athens, GA and was playing during the early 90's. Vic was always around playing. I know his sound seems a bit weird...but there was alot of this crazy type of sound in Athens, Ga back then inn the bars. Widespread Panic was all the rage then too. We played ROCCK music in my band, but this alternative sound was everywhere. You could see it at the 40 Watt every night and some of the other bars. That period of time was really crazy here...best times of my life playing and running amok around in the insanity...playing rock star LOL
Drive-By Truckers have a cover of Vic's "When I Ran Off and Left Her" on their Sometimes Late at Night EP. Soul Asylum also famously covered that song. Patterson Hood's song "Come Back Little Star" off of his solo record Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance was an ode to Vic after his death. Both beautiful songs worth checking out.
It's time Michael does a DBT song.
@@drewcahn5917 I'd vote for Tornadoes. Or if really ambitious, Angels and Fuselage.
Had the fortune to live in Athens through the 90s. Must’ve seen Vic at least 20 or more times in various settings. Always a good “interesting” time even when he or we were all too wasted to know what a good time was! Saw him and hung out a little at what turned out to be his last show in Austin in early December 2009 with more or less the band in this video. Vic remains at the top of American musicians. I love your comment, “I don’t even know what I’m watching but it’s mesmerizing”!
Vic Chesnutt was the soundtrack to my life during my 20s back in the mid 90s. His music saw me through some of my darkest times.
vic chesnut inspired live‘s singer ed kowalczyk songwriting. on the mtv unplugged show in the 90s Live played vic chesnuts song supernatural, which is one favourite song for me in this great performance, which had a strong impact on shaping me as a musician and a person. i still love the intensity and lyrics reflectiong on existential topics. vic has got his on story with a sad ending, but he is embedded in rock‘s history via inspiring big artists. (sry for my english.)
Was just going comment about Live's mtv performance, thanks brother
A friend of mine carried him up a flight of stairs in Dublin once and they never spoke of it again. RIP Vic.
At this point you've probably learnt this about Vic, but with his disability, often he would say a finger doesn't work, and he'd kind of work around it. Kristen Herst said that when Vic gave you the finger during a performance it just meant that one wasn't working today. For context read her eulogy.
@MichaelPalmisano Vic's been my favorite songwriter for 30 years so i'd love to hear additional reactions just because it's very exciting to get analysis of his work from musicians, and guitarists in particular, rather than critics, who usually don't say much about his guitar playing except to call it "minimal", which is a cop-out. in particular, check out his solo on the song "Bug" and just his beautiful playing on songs like "Gluefoot", "Supernatural", "Withering", "Wrong Piano", "Thumbtack", "Sad Peter Pan", "Fish", "Lillian Gish", and "Swelters".
我曾徒步在乡间的路上，耳朵里是vic chesnutt，天空蓝得像一幅油画
I used to see him often in Athens, GA. The joke was always that they handed out a razor blade with your ticket. Talented fellow but dark and troubled for sure. I think he was better showcased when he was solo, raking that claw across the strings. He engendered a lot of fan worship, which I think is kind of evident in a performance like this.
This is quite possible the greatest live show ever.
Please do more Vic.
Love a good nod to Vic. Rip my man.
Reminds me a little of the wilder moments of Nick Cave’s Murder Ballads. Atmospheric is the word that comes to mind
Thanks for the review, I was a huge fan of Vic and saw him in Chapel Hill NC and Charlotte NC a number of times. Btw, that is Guy Picciotto from Fugazi on the Rickenbacker
I was watching this, and feeling really bad for comparing him to the guy from Dale Hargraves band on the movie Sling Blade, but it's actually him...alrighty then:)
I miss Vic
Very dynamic haha. Rock and… roll dare i say
What chair is that? I need one with the flip up arms.
You've been Chesnuttted! Vic does that!
I believe the word your looking for is catharsis. Thanks for this, long time fan of you and Vic but never heard this song!
Check out My Last Act, from WSP's The Earth Will Swallow You. Classic Vic....
love Vic so much. quadriplegic since age 16 i think, car accident. he does a horn using just his body that is incredible. so many songs i love so much. Vesuvius. You are Never Alone. Flirted With You All My Life. thanks for staying as long as you could, Vic. peace.
Vic was a very dextrous and skilled guitarist in his teenage years but unfortunately the accident robbed him of his chops, restricting him to playing mostly simple chords and rhythms. His playing style was so beautifully expressive and an inspiring example of creative perseverance. And that soulful voice, truly one of a kind.
what strap locks do you use?
It does not sounds like christmas, but it touches me.
If you like WSP and Vic, next logical step is Brute. Some real beauties in their catalog.
Damn! Wasn't expecting my worlds to collide like this.
I've heard the name before but damn this is some serious music.
Vic was a volatile personality and the one time I saw him in Nashville many years ago was kind of a train wreck. I knew his reputation and knew it might be hit or miss, but it doesn't change the fact that he was a tremendous artist and his passing was a significant loss.
I asked for an autograph from him once, and he wrote: Wait for further instructions. Funny guy sitting in his wheelchair after the show. He had opened for Jonathan Richman that night in NYC.
He was on a bill with Evan Dando when I saw him.
oo we got here early today
She said her father looked like Woodrow Wilson.
Now we need some Bloodkin
You and me Michael. Count the day lost I don't learn something new. 💕🙋🎶😮
That my friend is the sound of Athens, Georgia.
I wish Bardo Pond was still together so they could cover this. Oh you should do Be a Fish by Bardo Pond.
Vic took his own life on Christmas day 2008
It’s like watching a very gritty version of 3 Mile Pilot.
Just found your channel and I love it so far. Curious to see how you would react to "Ascend" by TheDooo. Maybe worth a video in the future but absolutely worth checking out nonetheless!
you can clap now!
The quote at 8:30, “I don’t even know what I’m watching, it’s mesmerizing though.” Yes. That was Vic in a nutshell.
how about sime 16 horsepower?
That performance was Vic's suicide note.
backing band is memebers of silver mount zion and fugazi
On the same level as vic, I'd say check out Daniel Johnson. Totally underrated artists
@the_Michael_Palmisano reporting you. Fake account
@the_Michael_Palmisano sorry brother, just checked to make sure you're real. I see too many fake accounts, its hard to see who is real and not.
I don't have telegram. But I'll find you on Instagram. How does that sound?
Welcome to the mind of a bone fide genius, Vic Chesnutt.
Can you react to 'Ren - Violets Tale' you've heard him before in The Big Push but his solo stuff is even better!
Great synopsys lol
Welcome to the world of Indie Music :)
its Zappa but with melody
Checked if you have covered Max Ostro, but I can see you have not. Highly recommend you to have a listen as he is INSANE! Fast yes, but the tone and heart that goes in to it, holy crap.
Interesting to see a musician with seemingly such a narrow idea of what music is "supposed to be" be challenged by something like this (which is amazing by the way).
Vic was also partially paralyzed in his hands and fingers, so that affects how he can play.
Frank Zappa,Robin Trower both came to mind hearing this
I thought of sonic youth.
Vic is the person who went to hell and sent a postcard back so that we could have some idea what it is like there. The reaction is the same as mine, just trying to guess what level of experienced pain it takes to play a song like that.
I think you would like "I am a Coward." And the meaning of the song is great, too. Not that suicide is great but you know what i mean.