close as you`ll ever be third verse?

do the rat · The Elephant's Graveyard

close as you`ll ever be third verse?

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2OZSO21J

This is a half decent recording of it, and I can't make it head nor tail of it! (around 14mins)

do the rat · The Elephant's Graveyard

Thanks for the link arrgee,and you`re right it is a good recording and i can make out a few words but nothing more.
Maybe we should ask geldof himself!!!! as he`s probably the only one who knows or maybe garry or simon?thanks again. hmm

noelindublin · Loudmouth

do the rat wrote:

Thanks for the link arrgee,and you`re right it is a good recording and i can make out a few words but nothing more.
Maybe we should ask geldof himself!!!! as he`s probably the only one who knows or maybe garry or simon?thanks again.

Logic suggests that either Bob got a good kicking from the guy on the seafront cafe and ended up in hospital or maybe the guy was a big Rats fan and was just running up to get an autograph and then introduce Bob to his pretty girlfriend who was also a big Rats fan. Then they all go to the pub. They may even have had a smallish flat in Sandycove.

-- Edited by noelindublin on Monday 24th of January 2011 03:37:47 PM

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Being serious I have no idea what the third verse is. I have the lazengummen Banana Republic 12 inch with Close on the B side on vinyl and also have the version of the dvd extras.

Its possible that Geldof just made up the "extra verse" on the stop that night .

ArrGee said before that live versions were better generally than the recorded versions but also the songs would have been in a continual state of flux, lyrically and musically.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Like Talking in Code, there is a third verse which was played a lot. I don't think it was made on the spur of the moment but the lyrics are not easy to decypher. Ask Geldof, he'll know. Try his fan club, they may answer.

jamieuka · House on Fire

ArrGee wrote:

Like Talking in Code, there is a third verse which was played a lot.

...except that the lyrics for the third verse of Talking in Code were included with V Deep (original vinyl release did) and are now widely available online (hint: include the word 'semaphore').

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

jamieuka wrote:

ArrGee wrote:
Like Talking in Code, there is a third verse which was played a lot.
...except that the lyrics for the third verse of Talking in Code were included with V Deep (original vinyl release did) and are now widely available online (hint: include the word 'semaphore').

Yes, I know they were printed in the inner sleeve, but just goes to show how little attention I paid at the time as I only noticed when I watched the DVD about 6 years ago. The eighties are a bit of a lost decade for me. And sadly not because of anything like wild living. Just spent all my time studying for exams...