Beautiful live version.

what sucks is it cut out at the moment where it looked like the band was overtaking it with a live version of the chords. This clip is so classic now.

That was awesome bro. Thanks for turning me on to it.
In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
Whoa, L9 : That's some serious lounging.

See if you like this one - http://videosift.com/video/Of-Monsters-and-Men-Little-Talks
You upvoted the live version, this is the music video version.

Whoa, L9 That's some serious lounging.

See if you like this one - http://videosift.com/video/Of-Monsters-and-Men-Little-Talks
You upvoted the live version, this is the music video version.

>> ^blingaway:

No room for artist interpretation?
The thing with down-picking is it limits the speed at which one can play and it's very fatiguing in the long run. It's easier for a beginner to down-pick, and it looks cool, but it's a bad habit to cultivate if one wants to develop real technical proficiency.
Don't get me wrong, good alternate picking is important, but you seem to think that people down-pick because it's easier than alternate picking. It's actually not, especially if you want to play a fast song. Down-picking is a valid technique that produces a distinctly different sound than alternate picking. It's especially common in metal and punk. Master of Puppets by Metallica is a really good example of this. Almost the entire rhythm section of the song is down picked. Try playing along to it one day (or worse, a live version where it's even faster). I guarantee your picking forearm will ache by the time you get to the acoustic bit!

As for artist interpretation, if you don't like that kinda music, or even the down picking sound, that's fine, but the people doing it are not doing through lack of technical proficiency.
Full disclosure: I've been playing guitar for nearly 20 years. I don't claim to be a virtuoso, but I started out playing a lot of metal, so I know this stuff.

Live Version - (St. Petersburg 2010)

Yay for a real live version and not the faux previous one.

I'm glad it's OK, I really like that one (and Ulysse from the same show, in the related videos).
In reply to this comment by mintbbb:
I can't get this to play: An error occured: DailymotionPlayer is not defined at undefined line undefined

EDIT: nm, it is fine now

It works for me. It's 4:26 in duration, with Jim talking about the inspiration for the song before playing it. Yours is a subset of raven's, from the same broadcast.
In reply to this comment by lucky760:
I'm confused on a couple counts:

1) You flagged it *notdead, but the embed is not loading at all; it's just a blank space.
2) You stated that Jim talks about the inspiration of the song, but that information is not present in my video, which makes mine sound like it's not a dupe.

For the moment I'm going to re-*dead raven's post and invalidate your *notdead invocation to prevent an overzealous Sifter from invoking *isdupe.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
I think yours is a dupe. I think the first fix might have been incorrect, because Jim does talk about the inspiration for the song, as raven described.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
*dead

Same song, different, live version here: http://videosift.com/video/Jim-Croce-Bad-Bad-Leroy-Brown

I'm confused on a couple counts:

1) You flagged it *notdead, but the embed is not loading at all; it's just a blank space.
2) You stated that Jim talks about the inspiration of the song, but that information is not present in my video, which makes mine sound like it's not a dupe.

For the moment I'm going to re-*dead raven's post and invalidate your *dupeof invocation to prevent an overzealous Sifter from invoking *isdupe.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
I think yours is a dupe. I think the first fix might have been incorrect, because Jim does talk about the inspiration for the song, as raven described.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
*dead

Same song, different, live version here: http://videosift.com/video/Jim-Croce-Bad-Bad-Leroy-Brown

I think yours is a dupe. I think the first fix might have been incorrect, because Jim does talk about the inspiration for the song, as raven described.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
*dead

Same song, different, live version here: http://videosift.com/video/Jim-Croce-Bad-Bad-Leroy-Brown

Nice live version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO56dYMc0Ps

dang that is a good one.

*dead

Same song, different, live version here: http://videosift.com/video/Jim-Croce-Bad-Bad-Leroy-Brown

>> ^Barseps:

Adele, (although a good singer) is still just an updated version of the great
Alison Moyet.
Best live version of any song on the Sift I've seen so far.....
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