My wife recently cleaned up our home office which meant huge stacks of CDs that had been piling up on our desk were stuffed into a filing cabinet. After ignoring the piles for months, I immediately became interested in the stacks once they were gone and started rummaging through the file cabinet to see what had been swept away.
One of the gems that I came across was a disc a friend had sent to me a few years ago. It was a recording of Neutral Milk Hotel's final show. After Jeff Mangum's nervous breakdown and the dissolution of the band, Chris Knox, asked Jeff Mangum to play a show at the King's Arms Tavern in Auckland, New Zealand. The show was billed as the "World of Wild Beards Incorporated" but was basically Jeff Mangum playing solo with just a guitar. For that reason, the show is more similar to Mangum's Live at Jittery Joe's concert album from 1997. The difference is that he seems to be playing an electric guitar here rather than the acoustic guitar at Jittery Joe's.
Unfortunately, besides a few walk-on guest appearances, Mangum has never played live again.
Two-Headed Boy
I Love How You Love Me (Phil Spector cover)
Song Against Sex
King of Carrot Flowers Part 1
King of Carrot Flowers Part 2 & 3
Everything Is
Gardenhead | Leave Me Alone
Ghost
Oh Comely
Engine
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Banter
Mother (with Chris Know) (John Lennon cover)
Monday, September 03, 2007
Neutral Milk Hotel | Last Show
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4 comments:
Wow, this is a great thing to have sitting around your house. Thanks for sharing.
yeah, best sounding live show I've heard of NMH. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks a lot, you've given an inspiration for life.
A lot of NMH sounds you can find here http://www.the-collective.net/~sashwap/media.html
"Creating just one minute of something inspiring is an incredibly fun thing to do."
Jeff Mangum
the downloads don't work, and i haven't been able to find this anywhere else =/
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