Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends

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Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends
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ReleasedNovember 16, 1999
RecordedDecember 31, 1998
Genre
Length247:24 / 141:51 / 49:57
Label Capricorn
Producer Gov't Mule
Gov't Mule chronology
Dose
(1998)
Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends
(1999)
Life Before Insanity
(2000)
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Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends is a live recording of Gov't Mule's 1998 New Year's Eve concert at The Roxy in Atlanta, Georgia. It was released as a 4-CD set Collector's Edition and as two separate albums.

Contents

Track listing

Live... With a Little Help From Our Friends   Collector's Edition

Disc One

  1. "Wandering Child" (Haynes/Abts) – 7:45
  2. "Thorazine Shuffle" (Haynes/Abts) – 9:02
  3. "No Need to Suffer" (Haynes) – 8:12
  4. "Dolphineus" (Haynes/Woody/Abts) – 1:22
  5. "War Pigs" (Iommi/Osbourne/Butler/Ward) – 8:24
  6. "30 Days in the Hole" (Marriott) – 6:32
  7. "Mr. Big" (Rodgers/Fraser/Kirke/Kossoff) – 8:07
  8. "The Hunter" (Jones/Wells/Jackson/Dunn/Cropper) – 8:34

Disc Two

  1. "Gambler's Roll" (Haynes/ Neel) – 13:46 *
  2. "Look on Yonder Wall" (James/Sehorn) – 10:40
  3. "32-20 Blues" (Johnson) – 9:36 *
  4. "I Shall Return" (Haynes) – 9:36 *
  5. "Soulshine" (Haynes) – 9:19
  6. "Mule" (Haynes/Woody/Abts) – 17:35

Disc Three

  1. "Spanish Moon" (George) – 20:10
  2. "Sad and Deep as You" (Mason) – 13:56
  3. "Third Stone from the Sun" (Hendrix) – 16:57 *
  4. "Devil Likes It Slow" (Haynes) – 10:38
  5. "Cortez the Killer" (Young) – 14:13

Disc Four

  1. "Afro-Blue" (Santamaria) – 29:30
  2. "Pygmy Twylyte" (Zappa) – 5:16 [Studio Outtake]

* on the Collector's Edition only

Live... With A Little Help From Our Friends

Disc One

  1. "Thorazine Shuffle" (Haynes/Abts) – 9:02
  2. "Dolphineus" (Haynes/Woody/Abts) – 1:22
  3. "War Pigs" (Iommi/Osborne/Butler/Ward) – 8:24
  4. "30 Days in the Hole" (Marriott) – 6:32
  5. "Mr. Big" (Rodgers/Fraser/Kirke/Kossoff) – 8:07
  6. "Look on Yonder Wall" (James/Sehorn) – 10:40
  7. "Soulshine" (Haynes) – 9:19
  8. "Mule" (Haynes/Woody/Abts) – 17:35

Disc Two

  1. "Sad and Deep as You" (Mason) – 13:56
  2. "Devil Likes It Slow" (Haynes) – 10:38
  3. "Cortez the Killer" (Young) – 14:13
  4. "Afro-Blue" (Santamaria) – 29:30

Live... With A Little Help From Our Friends   Volume 2

  1. "Wandering Child" (Haynes/Abts) – 7:45
  2. "No Need to Suffer" (Haynes) – 8:12
  3. "The Hunter" (Jones/Wells/Jackson/Dunn/Cropper) – 8:34
  4. "Spanish Moon" (George) – 20:10
  5. "Pygmy Twylyte" (Zappa) – 5:16 [Bonus Track]

Personnel

Gov't Mule

Additional Personnel

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