JTR evolved from John The Revelator was road tested during the 2000 tour and was recorded during the "Lillywhite Sessions". It was played frequently during 2000 and 2001 and was put to rest until the Jazz Fest in 2006 and through the 06 summer tour.
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Introduced in the 2006 Summer tour and was performed seven time and has not been played since. A couple lyrics were borrow for the song "Round and Round", only performed twice.
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During the 4.30.96 performance of this song, Dave refers to the common story spoken over the intro as occurring in January of 1996.
This was released as An' Another Thing on Dave's solo release Some Devil with a string background. Current versions are still labeled as "Little Thing," and this isn't moved to defunct because a.) when played on 1.14.04, the official road page labeled it as Little Thing, b.) there was no structural change with the name change, and c.) a post-Some Devil release, Live Trax volume 4 (4.30.96) still had it labeled as "Little Thing." - dmbalmanac
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This was released as An' Another Thing on Dave's solo release Some Devil with a string background. Current versions are still labeled as "Little Thing," and this isn't moved to defunct because a.) when played on 1.14.04, the official road page labeled it as Little Thing, b.) there was no structural change with the name change, and c.) a post-Some Devil release, Live Trax volume 4 (4.30.96) still had it labeled as "Little Thing." - dmbalmanac
This song began as an instrumental meandering intro tease into "Where Are You Going" on the Spring 2002 Tour. On the summer tour of 2002, the band's crew witnessed the development of the song as being a combined effort on the part of every band member.
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Introduced in the 2006 Summer tour.
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This song does not have any relation to the song that fans have labeled "Sister" which was played on 3.8.94.Dave has said that this song is about his sister Jane, who helped him over a case of writer's block by telling him to to just write some lyrics.
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Spotlight was played fairly often in the band's early years but will likely never be played again. Dave has several times expressed his dislike of the song, saying that if it were something other than a song, it would be a turd.
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The song debuted during the 2004 Summer Tour as the band road tested new songs.
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