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Post by admin on Sept 1, 2008 20:32:15 GMT
Quick question....Was Baker Street Muse ever played live either in part or in it's entirety?
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 2, 2008 22:51:01 GMT
I've never heard or heard of a live note....i'd love to learn otherwise
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Post by admin on Sept 5, 2008 8:18:13 GMT
Yeah, me neither. Strange as I regard it as kind of the centre piece of the Minstrel album. I wonder why they never played it at the time or since? They played Brick & Passion Play live pretty darn well so it's certainly wasn't a case of them not being able to perform it.
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Post by harrowman on Sept 5, 2008 12:48:01 GMT
Not only the centrepiece of MITG but IMHO one of their finest works ever. Would give the proverbial right arm to see the piece performed live.
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Post by cbwaltzer on Nov 21, 2008 3:54:29 GMT
I was so disappointed when i first learned that they had never performed Baker St Muse live - it's definitely one of my all-time favorites. Knowing IA's penchant for medleys and snippets, it's very strange that none of the more simple sections ever appeared as part of something larger in the live set. But hey - it's not too late! Perhaps we might yet hear pig-me, or my namesake (crash barrier waltzer) appear in the setlist before all is said and done. Even an extended instrumental would be amazing, and more than welcome.
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Post by Pantagruel on Nov 30, 2008 15:55:57 GMT
No, never performed live.
There never was a proper Minstrel In the Gallery tour; it was rather a continuation of the Warchild tour, with the title track inserted on the setlist.
"Cold Wind To Valhalla" was performed only once live in a studio. An incomplete version can be found on the "20 Years of" boxset and on the remaster of "Minstrel in The Gallery" album, but the whole song was performed as heard on the "Minstrel in the Red House" bootleg; "Black Satin Dancer" would occasionally pop up during the 80s for Martin's moments; "Requiem" was performed in 1976 and in 1989; "One White Duck" premiered in 1992; "010 Nothing At All" was performed in 2003 in IA's solo tour, but I can't remember if it was performed in other tours as well; "Grace" was performed only once live in a studio (as heard on the "20 Years of" boxset)
The only song played frequently in concerts is the title track
This makes "Baker St. Muse" the only number from the album never performed in concert. I'm not sure of how it would be in concert these days, but the isntrumental section after "Pigmy and the whore" would sure sound cool!
I read somewhere q quote from a guy that asked Jeff and Martin after a concert in 1975 why they hadn't performed the song in concert, and they laughed, said that they never learnt it properly and joked that Emerson Lake and Palmer actually had played the song in the album
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