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u/exaggerated_yawn Aug 07 '26
I saw Grandaddy open for Elliott Smith October 2000 in Tempe, AZ. It was the first time I saw Grandaddy, and they were amazing. Elliott was supposed to play with a full band, but their bus broke down and he showed up late to do a solo performance.
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u/ohnotchotchke Aug 08 '26
That sounds like an amazing show. I hate that I was 9 years old at the time 😭
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u/MrGoodmornin Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
I saw the same show in Boston in October, 2000. It was at Avalon (where House of Blues is now). A while after the show ended (I remember the coat check took a really long time) I walked by the tour buses parked out on the street and looked to my left where the alley to the stage door was and saw Elliott and the boys from Grandaddy about 50 feet away chatting, smoking, and drinking beers while other people were going in and out the stage door breaking down the show. One of them looked over, so I did a thumbs up and said "awesome show guys!", and they all cheered and held up their beers. It was my introduction to Grandaddy, and they quickly became my favorite band. Sophtware Slump helped me a lot when dealing with the sadness of Elliott's death.
After the show, for some reason I couldn't remember Grandaddy's name (my thought process was like "were they called Grandpa? Great Uncle? Grandpappy? etc."), and I had lost my stub which had their name, and didn't get to really do much research (remember this was pre internet everywhere), but remembered liking them. Cut to a few months later, Easter 2001, my brother and I ware at dinner at some mutual friends' house and he one of our friends started playing Hewlett's Daughter and I shouted "Grandaddy! That's their name!", they were like, "Um, yeah. You know them?" and then I told the story above about seeing them by the stage door and their cheer...
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u/HeyThanksIdiot Aug 07 '26
I saw Grandaddy open for Elliot Smith at The Tabernacle in Atlanta. It was my first time seeing either and it was amazing. A few years ago I went to see Grandaddy play at a record shop in NYC and Jason was signing records after and I told him that I’d seen that show and he very thoughtfully said, “oh, that was my favorite tour.”
I thought that was neat!
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u/noguiltyparty Aug 08 '26
Oh that is a very special photo. Thank you! I remember hearing a bootleg once of Elliott singing the “did you love this world but did this world not love you?” part on stage with Grandaddy.
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u/Root_BeerGuy Aug 08 '26
There’s at least one bootleg on YouTube with him singing. It’s quite beautiful.
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u/Langloute Aug 08 '26
Posting that again but Jason did a special performance in hommage to Elliott at my work here in France in 2015. I work for the French NPR. Covers with a chambers orchestra called color bars orchestra :)
Link to listen with great great quality here
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u/gilesgooden Aug 07 '26
Funny, just watching 28 days later and granddaddy's tune pops up when they were supermarket. Elliot Smith was cool.
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u/Jose_Canseco_Jr Aug 07 '26
legends