OFF: Gov't Mule, "War Pigs" + upcoming live album

[Paul Mather]

Carl writes:

=> On tis 12 jan 1999 20.55 -0500 "Paul Mather" <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU>
=> wrote:
=> > NP: Gov't Mule, "War Pigs," 12/31/98
=>
=>      Damn it!  I *need* a copy of this.  (One good thing about going
=> back to the States at least--I can see Gov't Mule again)

You'll no doubt be glad to hear then that the entire 5-hour marathon New
Year's Eve show in Atlanta was professionally taped on a big recording
truck by Capricorn with a view to releasing a live album from it soon.
I don't know if they're going to release the *whole show* (including the
~1 hour jam on "Afro Blue" as encore!), or just "highlights," but I
wouldn't be at all surprised if "War Pigs" was included as part of it.

Apparently, "War Pigs" (played for the first time at NYE) came as a
complete surprise, and, it seems, was played without any rehearsal.
Near midnight, after noodling on "Dolphineus" until the appropriate
time, Warren does a 10..1 countdown to New Year's and then, after a
"Happy New Year!" the band launches right into "War Pigs."  It's
definitely no-frills, but nicely heavy and the crowd went totally
ballistic.  (There'd been lobbying for over a year by fans to do this
song live.)  To top it all off, Warren flubs the lines almost as well as
Monster Magnet do on "Brainstorm" from _Superjudge_.  A classic moment
in Mule history! ;-)

Cheers,

Paul.

NP: Black Sabbath, "Wicked World (Live)," _Paranoid_ (original UK CD)

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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