4 November 1986
Cumberland County Civic Center,
Portland, ME
support: The Feelies
The Feelies set included: She Said She Said
Disc One: 70:55
01. These Days
02. West Of The Fields
03. Sitting Still
04. The One I Love
05. Shaking Through
06. Feeling Gravitys Pull
07. The Flowers Of Guatemala
08. White Tornado / Driver 8 / Tired Of Singing Trouble - I Believe
09. Swan Swan H
10. Superman
11. Can't Get There From Here
12. Oddfellows Local 151
13. Old Man Kensey
14. Pretty Persuasion / Auctioneer (Another Engine)
15. Little America
Disc Two: 33:04
encore 1:
01. Fall On Me / Lightnin' Hopkins
02. Just A Touch
03. Finest Worksong - King Of Birds - Strange
encore 2:
04. Begin The Begin
05. Cuyahoga
06. (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
07. Funtime / After Hours
Timeline notes:
-event: 4 November 1986 'Superman' 7" & 12" Single is released in the US
-Peter Buck played guitar on 'She Said She Said' (Beatles cover) during The Feelies set.
Notes:
-Apparently Elvis was to travel to Portland to play this venue the day he was found dead.
-After These Days, someone near the taper says "I like the hat".
-MS appeals for the crowd to back off after Sitting Still, singing "Step on back...you got it" several times.
-Before Superman, MM "Hi", MS "The Mills".
-Before Auctioneer, while PB plays harmonics and various notes, MS "A podium of desireable quantities. A quantum leap through time. A beuatiful prompter, to lead me astray. Throw out that man-made lake of old. I can sing, others dream. Worship Popeye, love Al Green. I can...drive across Texas. Turn on the radio, the radio gives me things. I'm gonna turn around. There's something T.O.S. used to be but isn't anymore. We do not like green eggs and ham. We do not like them, Sam-I-Am. We walk up the stairs, into the landing, and up the stairs into the hall. To find a podium of desireable quantities. A quantum step forward. Another election, another lost cause. [PB starts intro] She didn't want to get pinned down by a prior town.
-After the pledge, MS "It's a fundamental lie. It's mythology. It's a story. A lie."
-Before Just A Touch, MS "There's a man who lived one upon a time...I don't really want to tell a story, I was just wasting time 'till everyone was ready".
-MS thanks Feelies for opening, then "I'm going to adjust my hair and choose a song here. It feels very strange you know. This is a...this is a song that has a double meaning to it, you might be able to figure out from the title of the song, which will become evident to you once we begin playing it. Now then, many of us in this day and age are not used to double meanings in song titles and so it becomes somewhat difficult when you have to figure these things out on your own and you're living room you know with the headphones and stuff. It's a drag but you hang in there, you listen to it time and time again,sooner or later something catches and you're enlightened all of a sudden within yourself. You go out nto the neighborhood bowling alley and you tell your friends 'Heard this song, seems to me it had a double meaning to it and I was sitting there in my living room listening to it on the headphones and suddenly there it was right in front of me like uh, if it had been a snake I would have stepped on it. And I just wanted to tell you about it, so keep on with your game there' And this song has absolutely no meaning whatsoever.
-At least MM and MS harmonize briefly after After Hours
-My pal Mark Bettis notes: There’s an entertaining introduction to Begin the Begin, about the song having a double meaning which don’t think appears anywhere else. Funtime sounds pretty chaotic.
Grade: A+
-A stunningly good Aud recording (see hat comment). Excellent dynamics, You can hear every detail. Wanna hear the backup guitar in Driver 8? This is your show.