Wish You Were Here (Live, 2001) [Second Version]

We approach contributor Christina‘s last releases from the latest batch she forwarded a while ago with another live performance, this time recorded in 2001 for a very important cause.

Ten years after the 9/11 tragedy, some of the most famous artists leading the charts worldwide at the time were invited to perform live takes of songs dedicated to those who lost their lives in one of America’s biggest terrorist attacks on its soil. John Rzeznik was invited as well, and performed a cover of “Wish You Were Here“, originally written by Pink Floyd, featuring Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit. The performance was shot on video and aired on TV as well, and the live take also ended up in the 2001 compilation “A Tribute To Heroes“. Christina has more info about it:

Again, one you’ve posted before and that seems pretty widely available – I seem to recall these 9/11 tribute shows aired a few times to try and boost donations, so I think this would’ve been pretty widely taped by fans of both artists. My copy is just okay quality — the audio is very low and I didn’t want to hamper the quality even more by messing with it

This is not the first time the Goo Goo Dolls participated to fundraising events for pivotal social causes. To my knowledge, their first initiative in that direction dates all the way back to 1989 with the Lance Diamond Christmas cassette.

Christina’s version features lower quality than the one we published in the post linked above, however we share it nonetheless so the Temple has its own variant as well.

This is obviously a VHS rip coming with the standardized 640x480p encoding format.

You can watch the video below. Download links are available at the end of this post.

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