In Between Dreams Live is a live album by The Residents, recorded live at The Chapel in San Francisco in April 2018, on their tour of the same name. It was first released in several limited editions on Secret Records on 21st June 2019.
The album was reissued by Cherry Red Records, MVD Audio and New Ralph Too with new cover art and an alternate title, In Between Dreams Live In San Francisco, on December 7th 2020. The Cherry Red edition also contains a DVD with footage of the show, and initial copies included a bonus 7" single with two additional tracks recorded live in Japan.
History[]
The first live album from The Residents since Shadowland in 2015, In Between Dreams Live was recorded at the group's shows at The Chapel in San Francisco in April 2018, during their In Between Dreams tour.
The recording of this show released to the public features noticeably edited crowd noise; an intentional addition, according to The Residents' spokesperson from Cherry Red Records, Richard Anderson, which was designed to imitate what one Resident thought the crowd on James Brown's Live At The Apollo sounded like when he first heard it. This effect was also simulated on their cover version of the first half of Live At The Apollo, featured on 1984's George & James.[1]
The initial release was on Secret Records, making it the first newly-recorded Residents live album to be issued on vinyl since Cube-E: Live In Holland in 1990. The cover art for the Secret Records edition of the album was created by Stott Howard, portraying "a surreal Residents-themed fantasy world".
The CD was sold in a long box, a rare feature in 2019. One limited edition of 250 of the vinyl LP sets was also intended to include a bonus LP of extra material, entitled Dreaming Of An Eyeball Beaming, which is unavailable in any other format; however the bonus LP was delayed in the manufacturing stage and sent out separately from the live album to people who had purchased it.
In Between Dreams Live In San Francisco[]
The Chapel recording was reissued by Cherry Red Records, MVD Audio and New Ralph Too in December 2020, with updated cover art and an alternate title, In Between Dreams Live In San Francisco.
The standard edition of the Cherry Red version of the album includes a DVD of the performance, featuring two tracks not featured on the album; "The Cowboy Waltz" and "Six More Miles To The Graveyard". The first 999 copies of this edition also included a bonus 7" single with two further tracks, "Picnic / Loser" and "God's Magic Finger", both recorded live in Japan in March 2017.
Track listing[]
In Between Dreams Live[]
- Jelly Jack The Boneless Boy
- Mickey The Mumbling Midget
- Baby Sister
- The Black Behind
- Monkey Man
- It's A Man's World
- Rushing Like A Banshee
- Train Vs Elephant
- Plains To Mexico
- Africa Tree
- Hungry Hound
- Tell Me
- Die! Die! Die!
- Teddy Bear
- Tourniquet of Roses
In Between Dreams Live In San Francisco[]
CD
- Jelly Jack The Boneless Boy (7:42)
- Mickey The Mumbling Midget (5:13)
- Baby Sister (4:32)
- The Black Behind (5:00)
- Monkey Man (7:26)
- It's A Man's Man's Man's World (5:20)
- Rushing Like A Banshee (2:19)
- Train Vs Elephant (4:37)
- From The Plains To Mexico (7:04)
- Africa Tree (2:52)
- Hungry Hound (2:14)
- Tell Me (2:41)
- Die! Die! Die! (4:08)
- Teddy Bear (4:05)
- Tourniquet Of Roses (4:49)
DVD
- Jelly Jack The Boneless Boy
- Mickey The Mumbling Midget
- Baby Sister
- The Black Behind
- Monkey Man
- It's A Man's Man's Man's World
- Rushing Like A Banshee
- Train Vs Elephant
- From The Plains To Mexico
- Hungry Hound
- Tell Me
- Die! Die! Die!
- Africa Tree
- Teddy Bear
- Tourniquet Of Roses
- The Cowboy Waltz
- Six More Miles To The Graveyard (10:41)
Bonus 7" vinyl single (first 999 copies only)
- Picnic / Loser (Live In Tokyo, March 2017) (5:01)
- God's Magic Finger (Live In Tokyo, March 2017) (3:20)
Credits[]
In Between Dreams Live[]
- All Songs Written & Performed By The Residents
- Except, Teddy Bear: Bernie Lowe & Kal Mann/Glady's Music
- It's A Man's Man's Man's World: James Brown & Betty Jean Newsome/Dynatone Publishing Co
- Recorded By: Gabriel Shepard
- Mixed By: Eric Drew Feldman & Gabriel Shepard
- Sound: John Karr
Cover Art Gallery[]
See also[]
- In Between Dreams
- Dreaming Of An Eyeball Beaming
- George & James
- Live At The Apollo
External links and references[]
- ↑ "My understanding is the audience response on IBD was a play on one Residents' memory of hearing James Brown's live at the Apollo for the first time." - Richard Anderson, The Residents Facebook group, December 3rd 2020
