{"id":159,"date":"2006-11-17T20:14:02","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T19:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/2006\/11\/17\/elliott-smiths-two-meter-session\/"},"modified":"2006-11-17T21:20:19","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T20:20:19","slug":"elliott-smiths-two-meter-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/2006\/11\/17\/elliott-smiths-two-meter-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliott Smith&#8217;s Two Meter Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April &#8217;98 I had the good fortune of seeing Elliott Smith live at the Vooruit in Ghent. I remember him coming on stage: incredibly shy and unassuming, apparently totally unaware of the fact that the place was sold out to a bunch of people who had adored &#8220;Roman Candle&#8221;, &#8220;Either\/Or&#8221; and &#8220;XO&#8221;, and were delighted to hear him play live. The concert turned out to be mesmerizing. I don&#8217;t usually keep ticket stubs, but here&#8217;s my exception to the rule:<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/e_smith_concert_stub.jpg\" alt=\"e_smith_concert_stub.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Later that year, Elliott was scheduled to appear on a Dutch TV-show called &#8220;Two Meter Sessions&#8221;. I was away from home spending my time in Ghent at the time but managed to catch this appearance on video through the wonders of vcr programming. And now, thanks to a recently purchased vhs-to-dvd recorder, so can you.<\/p>\n<p>I had a bit of trouble splitting the footage in two so as to oblige YouTube &#8212; hope you enjoy it anyway:<\/p>\n<p>Part One:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/l3W6tQ6kqKk\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/l3W6tQ6kqKk\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l3W6tQ6kqKk\">YouTube link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Part Two:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YPCvPSIHCmY\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YPCvPSIHCmY\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YPCvPSIHCmY\">YouTube link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re dearly missed, Elliott.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April &#8217;98 I had the good fortune of seeing Elliott Smith live at the Vooruit in Ghent. I remember him coming on stage: incredibly shy and unassuming, apparently totally unaware of the fact that the place was sold out to a bunch of people who had adored &#8220;Roman Candle&#8221;, &#8220;Either\/Or&#8221; and &#8220;XO&#8221;, and were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}