17 September 1995
Southpark Meadows,
Austin, TX
support: Natalie Merchant, Radiohead
Disc One 59:05
01. I Took Your Name
02. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
03. Crush With Eyeliner
04. The Wake-Up Bomb
05. Bang And Blame
06. Binky The Doormat
07. The One I Love
08. Undertow
09. Strange Currencies
10. Revolution
11. Tongue
12. Man On The Moon
Disc Two 54:48
01. Country Feedback
02. Losing My Religion
03. Departure
04. Pop Song 89
05. Get Up
06. Star 69
encore:
07. Let Me In
08. Everybody Hurts
09. Band intro
10. So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
11. Begin The Begin
12. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
notes: Natalie Merchant joined the band onstage & danced to 'What's The Frequency, Kenneth?'.
Notes:
-CDr was written with gaps between tracks
-Before Binky MS "I haven't been around the block, I laid the sidewalks. I poured the concrete and I decided where the cracks were gonna be". Seemed to have a slightly extended organ/guitar jam.
-MS note This is the 3rd time The One I Love has een played in the last 6 years.
-Before Undertow MS "If I was someone who strongly believed in the astrological signs and I happen to be a Pisces moon this song would mean a great deal to me. Actually I am a Pisces moon, I just realized that. Shit."
-No one wants to go to prom with you before Strange Currencies.
-Standard boy/girl songs before Tongue but MS adds "I didn't draw the lines and I didn't make the rules and I don't have to follow them".
Before MOTM MS "I get tired of introducing this next song from time to time but I feel obligated to do it. Tonight maybe a little bit of a different introduction. Cause I had these crazy dreams last night cause I've been taking all this herbal shit so that I can get better from my operation". He goes on to give the Cobain/yeahs story and dedicates the song to Kurt.
-LMR is dedicated to Natalie Merchant and "you".
-Departure "Was wtitten in February, two days after Thanksgiving". Maybe they have Thanksgiving in February in Spain? After Departure "This is the second time on this tour that a giant bud crawled up my shirt and started biting me".
-After Pop Song 89 has started, where the second verse should start we have a ver excited MS proclaim "There's the bug! That's it! Dont step on it! [laughing] I saw it!" [resumes singing, Should we talk about the weather...] then between verses "Get off the stage!" And when the song ends "Right there. He's right there". Very entertaining.
-Before band intros MS tells a story "I'll try to make this quick. I used to live in Texas, I don't know how many of you guys know that. I lived here for 5 years of my life. And so what I said earlier tonight about past present future--will you quit talking so I can concentrate? I'm trying to get something across to a large number of people here and make it seem warm and compelling so quit yelling at me ok? All right I was saying when I was in 7th grade, me and 4 of my friends, this was in Coppers Cove, outside of Ft Hood. Me and 4 of my friends drew straws and I got the short straw. [PB starts noodling] and what we were going to do was ask the teacher who we thought was the coolest what this word meant. There was this word and it was scientific and we had no idea what it meant. This teacher, Ms. Eunich it was at the time, it's changed. We went up to her and standing behind me were the four of them. I got the short straw in my hand for strength. It's not working. And I said 'Ms Eunich, I drew the short straw. What is masturbation?" And she laughed and laughed and laughed. The bell rang, it was time for us to go to our next class, she said 'It's when you play with yourself". And we looked at her kind of puzzled 'Like what, skipping a rope?' She was like 'no, you know...'. Now mind you I'm like 11 or 12 years old. This woman was so fucking cool and she's here tonight and that's why I'm saying this. I told her how much it meant to me, as an adult how much it meant to me as a child to have an adult treat me with a little bit of laughter but somebody with valid questions about masturbation and she was cool enough to tell us it's when you jerk off or whatever". After the band intros MS notes who has the best surgery scars and revisits his semi nude lawn fantasy.
-Country Feedback solo 1:21
Grade: C
-lots of chatter from very enthusiastic taper & friends