How were the songs chosen, and which ones brought back memories?
Well, the songs were chosen from hundreds of hours of tape that Ryan Ulyate went through, and he did the lion’s share of the listening and brought us 10 or 15 takes of each song. Mike Campbell, Ryan and I would pick the best, and the best was usually pretty obvious. So what I thought might be a chore turned into a really good time, and I really enjoyed it. It was kind of like looking at the family photo album but everybody was in the picture. We really had a good time. I couldn’t remember all of the concerts, but I could remember the time period when I heard the tracks. The strangest things would come back to me about maybe what the weather was like getting dressed in cold dressing rooms in England. There was one particular group of concerts that I had forgotten about that we used quite a bit from the stand we did at the Forum in Los Angeles; there was a three-night stand there in 1981. We found that those shows were really, really good. … I remember being shut down after the first g
