19 August 1999
Riverport Amphitheatre,
Maryland Heights, MO
support: Wilco
Disc One 62:14
01. Lotus
02. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
03. So Fast, So Numb
04. Jesus - New Test Leper
05. Fall On Me
06. Suspicion
07. Suspicion (repeated) / The Apologist (intro only)
08. Half A World Away
09. Daysleeper
10. The One I Love
11. Sweetness Follows
12. The Great Beyond (skip)
13. Losing My Religion (skips)
Disc Two 56:22
01. E-Bow The Letter
02. At My Most Beautiful
03. Finest Worksong
04. Walk Unafraid
05. Man On The Moon
encore:
06. Hope (Stipe solo)
07. Why Not Smile (Mills & Stipe)
Crush With Eyeliner / The Wake-Up Bomb / Tongue / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Notes:
-Whoever assembled these files seems to have included Suspicion twice and left out The Apologist.
-Before Daysleeper MS "This used to be my sister's. In 1972 she had this really cool leather bracelet. I was always really jealous of it when I was nine years old. I found it in my parent's basement two years ago and I went to my sister and said Is this yours? and she said yeah. And I said can I have it? And she said fuck yeah I don't want it. She's a teacher. She teaches the hearing impaired actually. She's a great teacher. So anyway, it's mine now". He starts to give his bull & bear intro to Daysleeper then interrupts himself "You think I'm going to throw it at you? Are you out of your mind? I've Been coveting this thing since 1972 I'm not going to (unintelligible). In fact, I'm going to place it gingerly on the drum stand". He then resumes his bull & bear imagery.
-Before Hope "I always thought when I as like 21 years old that they should do a Elvis Presley made for tv movie and I should star as Elvis. Thank you very much. (Unintelligible) The only difference is that Elvis could play guitar and I can't". He sings a verse then stops "When I was 15 years old I bought this record, and it was my first introduction to music actually. Can you turn off your cell phone? So I heard this record when I was 15, living not far from here and it was my first introduction to music and (unintelligible) There's not a lot to it I heard this record and I decided then and there at the age of 15 that (?) I was going to be a singer. I only realized about three weeks ago I as doing this song probably for kind of the first time. I figured out the chords on guitar and just decided that fuck it all I was going to play it even if I couldn't play it that well. But singing it, and I got to the part about the spaceship and I realized then and there that that's what it was. It was 1975. It was late in the year, I was about to turn 16 but I was still 15. And this song called Birdland and it's about this boy and he's lifted up into a spaceship, bright eyes and the little boy looked up with such a naked joy and that's the line and that's kind of what I feel like sometimes. So tonight I'm going to send this song out to Patti Smith (?)." He resumes playing and finishes the song.
-MS remains in falsetto for his thank you after Tongue.
Grade: D
-Tinny and blown out