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Mike Keneally Band
Guitar Therapy Live DVD
(Exowax Recordings)
Release year: 2006

NOTE: This DVD came with a limited run, 3,000-copy special edition of Guitar Therapy Live. For information on the regular CD version of Guitar Therapy Live, click here.

Personnel:

Mike Keneally - guitar, keyboards, lead vocals
Rick Musallam - guitar, backing vocals
Bryan Beller - bass, backing vocals
Joe Travers - drums

Relevant Track Listing:

1. Intro/Soundcheck
2. Quimby
3. Panda
4. Lightnin’ Roy
5. Tranquillado
6. Pride Is A Sin
7. Choosing To Drown
8. Self ‘N’ Other
9. Seven Percent Grade
10. Joe’s Solo
11. ‘Cause Of Breakfast
12. Hello Hello
13. Splane
14. Machupicchu
15. Frozen Beef
16. Hum
17. Voyage To Manhood
18. Spoon Guy
19. Uglytown
20. Beautiful
21. Top Of Stove Melting
22. Cowlogy
23. Own

Equipment used:

For DOG sessions:
Mike Lull Modern Jazz V
Mike Lull Modern Jazz V Fretless
SWR Mo' Bass Amplifier
(2) SWR Goliath II 4x10's
SWR Bass Monitor 12"
Peavey DPC1000 Power Amp
TC Electronics SCF Chorus/Flange
Raven Labs True Blue EQ

What do you get when you get the Special Edition DVD of Guitar Therapy Live? You get the entire, unedited, fully unabridged magic of the 7/30/05 Baked Potato show that makes up the bulk of the Guitar Therapy Live CD. An attentive listener will notice where we made the edits for the CD. An extremely attentive listener will notice some very subtle differences in performances.

My list of things to watch for: the unedited “Spoon Guy” and “Uglytown” set piece, the alternate version of my own tune, “Seven Percent Grade” (thanks again to Mike Keneally for having this on the CD, as well as the DVD), and the unexplainably funny first two minutes of “Voyage to Manhood.”

Thankfully there’s a commentary track on this DVD, so I’ll simply refer you to that for the entire band’s collective take on this show in as much detail as you care to sit through. All I’ll say is, for any Keneally completist, this DVD is a must, if only for the absurdly wacky menu graphics, and for the soundcheck blooper/outtake audio used as background music for said menus.

Click here for the official Mike Keneally Band website.

 
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