Paranoid Android wrote on Mar 4
th, 2014 at 7:12pm:
re: Silver Train...aka ST...
So...
" we 'aven't done dis sawng...we 'aven't done dis sawng live since uhm...I don't know...we done it a couple'o times in the 70's but thats abou'it...so this is a bit o' a...triumph"
Didn't sound bad at all...it got a bit lost around the 3:18 mark for about 1/2 a minute but they reeled it back in again...This is one of those song like Emotional Rescue...when you hear it live it is like WTF? Why was this never done before?
Gazzapedia...when WAS the last time they played it???
Empire Pool, Wembley (now Wembley Arena) 7th September 1973.
First performance was at the opening show of that tour in Vienna on 1st September.
It was played at three - maybe four as there's no recording and confirmed setlist of the evening show in Cologne on 4th September - of the first five shows of that tour (the afternoon show in Cologne that day being the other verified performance) and then dropped.
Reason for dropping it - "it sounds too much like 'All Down The Line" when played live" (Keith)