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Oct 21, 2003 Elliott dies at his home on Lemoyne Street in Echo Park.
 From A Basement On The Hill Release Date: October 18, 2004 in the UK and October 19, 2004 in the US The sixth and final studio album featuring "Coast to Coast" and "Pretty (Ugly Before)."
Listen to the previously unreleased version of "Coast To Coast" off of the Heaven Adores You soundtrack below and see commentary on the song from friends of Elliott.
KEVIN MOYER: This is a very early and previously unreleased version of "Coast To Coast" which would later be posthumously released on the album From A Basement On The Hill. LARRY CRANE: Another example of Elliott's recycling. A lot of the songs on FABOTH are built on older music he'd written. This older version feels like it could have ended up a Heatmiser track. NICKOLAS ROSSI: I love this stripped down yet totally powerful version of this song and the title itself helped in suggesting the move from Portland to NYC, but there were also lyrics in here that I found helped tell the story of this cross country adventure too. "Feels wrong, not for long, still something to do... It's really easy, I'll just forget it too, coast to coast..." KEVIN MOYER: Yeah this one starts off with similar lyrics to the released version, the lyrics are the same for about the first verse or so - he does change the lyric "If you can't help it then just leave it alone" to be "if you can't help me, leave me alone", although he goes back to the "it" version later in the song when he comes back and repeats the first verse. But other than that first verse or so, the rest of the words are almost completely different from the two versions. He mentions "Mary" whom appears in other songs too, and he sings "go home, go home"... ROB SCHNAPF: I can't really speak on it specifically but I can say Elliott was always tinkering with the words. Looking for a more precise way to get a feeling across or a better combination that sounded cooler or sang better or whatever. I remember working on a song, one that never came out, that was fantastic and he ended up having a problem with a word. So I asked him what it was and he said he didn't like how "the" sounded in a particular line, I was like, man that doesn't count, it isn't even a word, it's an article...
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2003 show highlightsSeptember 19, 2003Elliott's final concert Redfest 2003 Salt Lake City, UT, US
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