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Song: "True Love" KEVIN MOYER: This was one of the songs that Elliott would often demo and play after hours at Largo, and also one of the last songs that Elliott ever performed at Largo on Valentine's Day in 2001. This was around the time that Elliott and Jon Brion went into a small studio to record the song, partially as an attempt to help him get to focus on non drug activity. I've heard I think two or three different versions of this song and the lyrics evolved and shifted from a love interest to a major drug interest instead. One of the versions seemed really scathing too, and I wondered if some of those references were about the intervention and the anger he had towards his friends in the aftermath. MARK FLANAGAN: I recall Elliott playing me early versions of songs. "True Love" had been brewing for a bit, other songs like "Stickman", "Memory Lane" and "Everything Means Nothing To Me"- he would keep chipping away at. The first set of lyrics he wrote really impressed me, they were very personal and he told me he was self-conscious of releasing that version. I suggested he make it third person like Dylan did with Blood on the Tracks. "They sat together in the park" instead of "We sat together in the park". He deduced from that, he sucked in comparison to Dylan!! Fucker knew he was good. I also have a rough copy on cassette of him playing "True Love" on Valentines Day... He performed it live at Largo in the middle of a comedy show in front of a stunned audience... and I remember being bummed that he had made the love song into a druggy song. That's where he was then and as he was playing it live sitting on the floor, pretty much in the dark, I remember thinking that 'I hope this fella makes it through this hell'. I still miss the guy from before all that.
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 2001 showsSunset Junction Street Fair - 2001Setlist
Great American Music Hall - December 17, 2001 |
