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    Songs recorded with fade outs - live performances?

    Sorry if this has been discussed before, and grateful if anyone can point me to a thread with answers.

    Does anyone have particular memories of hearing songs performed live which just fade out (e.g. on a fading repetitive pattern) in the studio recording version, and how the ending was adapted for live performance? I'm intrigued as to whether there's a general approach, and whether it leaves you thinking "why didn't you do that on the record?" or "Oh, yeah, there wasn't a good way to end that, was there, I can see why you went for fade-out".

    In particular, I'm thinking of guitar "solo" fade-outs. Those are often frustrating because you just want it to go on for ever.

    #2
    Here's a couple:

    Wuthering Heights. The guitar outro is omitted completely. It isn't horrible, but it definitely doesn't work as well as the record.

    This, OTOH, is horrible:

    Goodbye to Love The record has one of the most glorious extended fades in the history of music, here it's replaced by an obnoxious and totally inappropriate drum solo. Argggh!

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      #3
      Wow. I share your reaction to that.

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        #4
        Wouldn't It Be Nice (Brian Wilson live version) slows down in the same way as just before the middle 8, repeats the slow 4 bars, then does the crash chord thing.

        God Only Knows is better: just a repetition of the title by the lead vocalist while everyone else does a harmony chord.

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          #5
          Hallewulah from "The Can" (as Bobby Gillespie would say like a prick). I really wish that just continued forever. Or the proto techno whirring that starts on Future Days, just as it is fading out.

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            #6
            Depeche Mode, Never Let Me Down Again - an epic track that criminally fades on the recorded version - live, it gets the thunderous climax it desperately deserves

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              #7
              Not sure if this is what's inspired the thread or not, but Vox recently did a piece on the fade out (which has itself been fading out in popularity):


              Why more pop songs should end with a fade out

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                #8
                Blur's "For Tomorrow", on record just fades away* almost quite limply, but live they bring it to a nice rallentando finish, which may be a bit unoriginal but it does work (which is perhaps why so many songs finish that way), certainly way better than a fade out...




                *On the other hand, when they played their song "Fade Away" live, which also fades out on record, they finished it with a beautifully timed abrupt stop.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Evariste Euler Gauss View Post
                  In particular, I'm thinking of guitar "solo" fade-outs. Those are often frustrating because you just want it to go on for ever.
                  I want guitar solos to stop after five seconds, tops.

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