As some of you know, one of my pet peeves is the misleading -- actually flat out
WRONG -- bit in Don Goede's book
Hi, How are You?: The Art, Life and Music of Daniel Johnston where he claims that Daniel's 1997 SXSW show was a chilling affair that "ended abruptly" with a heavily-medicated Daniel screaming "We're all gonna die!" to the crowd. As the "mastermind" behind that comeback gig, I take this error personally, especially since I contacted Don with a correction long before the book was reissued in its current edition.
Well, sure enough, I recently ran into yet
another person who took the book's erroneous info as gospel, and that finally got me up off my butt to put the ENTIRE show on Youtube -- actually, it wasn't all that big a deal, since Dan and the Rhythm Rats only had time to work up 4 songs that afternoon (I tried to convince Daniel to go back out for an encore, like maybe "Why Don't We Do It In The Road" or something else they could pretty much wing on the spot, but he declined on the grounds that under those circumstances "Elvis wouldn't have done an encore.")
Parts one and two of the gig can be found at these URLs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsbGE9xvtZYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXtfrz-6GGMAnd please, if anyone can find anything even resembling "We're all gonna die!" among Daniel's comments on these clips, share it with me!
- notdan
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PS: For those who missed these clips on my channel, they're still there:
Tim Hamblin's excellent "Funeral Home" music video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK4Q03v0Eyc My own visual interpretation of the never-released 1982 number, "Grievances/Greensleeves":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRCMt3sbaq8 And a clip of my old band with a cameo from Dan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVdn7ONh5SE 
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