THE DAMAGE IS DONE

The Features
“Exhibit A”
Live @ Tucker Theater
January 20th, 2006

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Exhibit A, album release (2004)

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The Features
“Exhibit A”
Live @ Cannery Ballroom
January 13th, 2007

A VERSION APPEARS ON:
Exhibit A, album release (2004)

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The Features
“Exhibit A”
Live @ Bingham’s
February 1st, 2003

Here’s the fifth time “Exhibit A” was ever played, and also the second oldest bootleg of the song in my collection (the oldest is marred by a girl telling the microphone that she is moving to London with her boyfriend; you will hear it someday). This is also one of the three bootlegs I have with the old second verse that would get replaced when the band played the Red Rose just three weeks after this recording. The original second verse is something along the lines of (I’m never good at decoding lyrics, unless Pelham really IS saying “hand job clear” at the end of the second verse in “Circus”):

I’m not above suspicion
You’re not below the sheets
We slip into submission
Every time we (something?) meet (?)

This version of “Exhibit A” was only played six times before being changed to the version that would be included on the album of the same name.

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Exhibit A, album release (2004)

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The Features
“Exhibit A”
Live @ Grand Palace
January 21st, 2006

Here’s an acoustic version of “Exhibit A,” featuring only Matt and Parrish. A nice, breezy weekend tune.

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Exhibit A, US album release (2004)

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The Features
“Exhibit A”
Live @ The Red Rose
February 28th, 2003

The title track to the Features’ debut album sounds exceptionally ferocious in this bootleg, which makes sense as the song was barely over three months old at the time. The jangling guitar riff sounds like a punk rock buzzsaw and the cymbals, if they were a bit anthropomorphic, would definitely be left with some bruises on their noggins from Rollum’s pounding. The song itself, in all of its forms, is one of the more impassioned ones as the subject of the ditty tries with all his might to prove just how strong his love is. At just over two minutes, “Exhibit A” was the first of a group of fast-paced rockers that showed just how strong Pelham’s editing had become. With this, “Million Ways” and “The Way It’s Meant To Be” Pelham perfected presenting killer riffs, strong emotion and frenzied rhythms in just a scant amount of time. “Exhibit A,” both the song and album, is power pop perfection.

Of the 80 concerts I have in my database after this song’s debut on December 13th, 2002, “Exhibit A” has been played 70 times. It has never fallen out of rotation and, as the number’s indicate, it has rarely not been played. This made the song a no-brainer for inclusion on the band’s debut album in 2004. The song is still a regular at the band’s shows.

A VERSION APPEARS ON:
Exhibit A, album release (2004)