(11-10-2014, 02:26 PM)Tusk Wrote: I don't think Haley would ever say she performed better than any of the Fab Four, she holds her influences in high regard, and doesn't have that kind of personality 
I much prefer the 1st time Haley performed Helter Skelter, with just Dylan at Hotel Cafe, I thought that Mark and Casey joining in, looking like they hadn't rehearsed w/ her, the Room5 performance wasn't as tight as her Hotel Cafe performance with Just Dylan.
I'm with you preferring this performance over the other.
Also, beyond a very difficult comparison with P McCartney.. Haley mentions "they were just strumming around" .. as you suggest, hardly comparable to a really fully rehearsed show. (although miraculously that hasn't stopped Haley with other songs !)
What is also completely incomparable is the guitar playing.... Ballas isn't half bad at accompanying himself and others acoustically but he's not going to win any guitar contests..... and I think that song has more edge with electric guitars.
I can imagine Haley singing exactly as she does here in place of PM on the same stage with the same band he had and coming closer.
She'd also find it easier to be "in the pocket" instead of at times a bit ahead of the pocket (yeah its a driving beat but there is still a pocket even if a driving pocket) with a fully rehearsed and familiar band.
So.. haha.. one of the few comparisons she doesn't win.. but she didn't have a level playing-field to try !
