​17 October 1987
New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum,
New Haven, CT
support: 10,000 Maniacs

Disc One 39:11
01. Finest Worksong
02. These Days
03. Welcome To The Occupation
04. Pilgrimage
05. Exhuming McCarthy
06. Orange Crush
07. Feeling Gravitys Pull
08. King Of Birds
09. Sitting Still
10. ?
11. I Believe

Disc Two 59:00
01. Driver 8
02. Superman
03. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
04. Oddfellows Local 151
05. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
06. Begin The Begin
encore 1:
07. Strange (aborted)
08. Cuyahoga
09. Fall On Me
10. The One I Love
encore 2:
11. Wolves, Lower
12. Crazy
13. 1,000,000
encore 3:
14. Singing Cage
15. Harpers
16. So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)

Timeline notes: Natalie Merchant guests on 'Singing Cage', Michael guests on 'A Campfire Song' with the 10,000 Maniacs on their opening set.

Notes:
-Driver 8 has a large cut in it and was messed up during dubbing/transfer as the first part plays, then silence then the first part plays again with the last part smashed together.  Before the song MS "Quit throwing jellybeans".
-Auctioneer preamble touches on divining, a septic tank and climbing in to fix it(!), then the more typical town in a lake.
-Before ITEOTWAWKI, MS notes that the 10/14 show was the first time that the band ha played in W Virginia.  He also noted Bertis tells jokes about W Virginia because he is from Virginia "and people from Virgina are supposed to tell jokes about West Virginians".  He also notes there is a Union Carbide plant in Charleston and Bhopal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster).  And of. course eathquakes
-Strange is aborted.  There is a cut in the tape after so may have been restarted and missed.  Or may not have been restarted at all.
-Wolves suffers the same fate as Driver 8, but when the track starts over it is complete.

Grade: B
-little boomy