21 October 1986
Chick Evans Field House,
Northern Illinois University,
Dekalb, IL
support: Camper Van Beethoven

Disc One: 68:16
01. These Days
02. Harborcoat
03. Moral Kiosk
04. We Walk - Finest Worksong (snippet)
05. The One I Love
06. Gardening At Night
07. Underneath The Bunker
08. Spooky
09. Shaking Through
10. Feeling Gravitys Pull
11. The Flowers Of Guatemala
12. Finest Worksong (snippet) - I Believe
13 Swan Swan H
14. Old Man Kensey
15. Superman
16. Can't Get There From Here / Cushy Tush (snippet)

Disc Two: 58:21
01. Pretty Persuasion
02. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
03. Life And How To Live It
encore 1:
04. Fall On Me
05. Cuyahoga
06. Driver 8
encore 2:
07. We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) / Oddfellows Local 151
08. Strange
09. Pilgrimage
10. I Can Only Give You Everything
encore 3:
11. Cushy Tush (Instrumental) (snippet) / Begin The Begin
12.  Toys In The Attic - Free Money
13. Funtime
encore 4:
14. So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)

Timeline notes: Gary Zekley who wrote 'Superman' joined the band on stage on vocals for the performance of the song, & Jonathan Segal from Camper Van Beethoven joined on violin on 'Feeling Gravitys Pull'.

Notes:
-MS before Swan Swan H "I believe I cannot hear myself singing. Am I singing out of key?  Raise your hand...ok, sorry.  How much are the tickets tonight?  It's 1986, what do you expect?  This is what tax reform brings us. You know you pay $12.50 for a ticket, you get a singer who can't sing for shit.  Boost the monitors up a bit if you can.  I like my singing too.  I take a shower at home...this is a little different.   This song deserves no introduction.
-Before Superman, MM "This is Gary, he wrote Superman.  Now we're going to make hime rich".
-After Can't Get There From Here, MS removes his belt and encourages everyone to do the same & throw them on the stage. "This is evidence of an overzealous capitalistic country, and I don't like it.  He then picks one up and describes it.  He goes on to touch briefly on New Orleans, encourages people to throw money on the stage, then some politicians, admits to not wearing underwear, and finally thanks the crowd for his new belt.
-After Auctioneer MS breaks his mic stand "A little abject violence there to rouse your lower endocrine system.  I break mic stands quite frequently, and it's a problem sometimes".  He folows this statement with a standard Life And How To Live It story, with the addendum "He was Russian, he didn't like it here at all".
-After Life And How To Live It, MM "we're going to count all the money you guys threw up here and give, like twice that amount to Greenpeace to stop things like that from happening".
-There is a 17 minute video clip on youtube fron this show, including Superman, MS playing rythym guitar, dancing and windmilling.  Worth a watch.

Grade: C