23 August 1999
Pine Knob Music Theatre,
Clarkston, MI
support: Wilco
Disc One 66:15
01. Intro - Airportman
02. Lotus (cut after)
03. The Wake-Up Bomb
04. So Fast, So Numb
05. Suspicion
06. Jesus - New Test Leper
07. The One I Love
08. Daysleeper
09. Everybody Hurts
10. The Apologist
11. Sweetness Follows
12. The Great Beyond
13. Losing My Religion
Disc Two 59:16
01. Find The River
02. E-Bow The Letter
03. At My Most Beautiful
04. Finest Worksong
05. Walk Unafraid
06. Man On The Moon
encore:
07. Hope (Stipe solo)
08. Why Not Smile (Mills & Stipe)
09. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
Tongue / Cuyahoga / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Notes:
-MS asks if everyone is feeling beautiful a couple times early on.
-The Apologist gets a standard intro. After the song MS reminisces about a previous visit "Here's what I remember of the last time that we were here: I remember that backstage in the dressing room before the show, Chris Isaak was there. That's pretty cool right? He wrote Wicked Game. We sang that a lot, it's a great song. And Vic Chesnutt was there, that
is really cool. He's a great songwriter from Athens, where we live in Georgia. And Patti Smith was there. That's really cool. And it was my profound pleasure to be able to present Patti Smith and Vic Chesnutt to each other and be able to say 'great songwriter, meet great songwriter, Would you like a Coca-Cola or a 7-up or something?'. That was one of the high points of my actual tiny little pathetic life. Ok just kidding. It was a high point though. So that's what I associate every time I come in to this area, this county, this area. That's what I think of. I don't think of Italian food and I don't think of motorcycles downtown, late at night with all the street lights. I just think of Patti and Vic saying hello".
-Standard intro to Great Beyond with the addition that Andy Kaufman was equal to Patti & Vic.
-On a personal note, I'm a beginning mandolin player so of course I've learned Losing My Religion. Its a pretty easy song to play, but there is one note I miss in the intro riff often enough to make me crazy. This night I got to hear PB miss the same note in the same way, so maybe there is hope for me.
-MS asks for a refreshment after Find The River, then ends up getting a beer for one of his stage mates as well. He goes on to ask if anyone present is old enough to remember Jackie Gleason and mentions the tv show Taxi. He then intros E-Bow "This song started out as a letter". After the song MS continues "And you guys receive letters like that every other week, right? Yeah, I don't either. You just never know. You never know, do you? I saw the Sixth Sense last night for the second time. Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father ok? It's a really good movie. I don't know how to segue in to the next song with that but I just wanted to say it. I'll tell you this, at the end of the song I'm going to go like this towards Mike and I want everybody to applaud because I think he wrote it--not yet! Wait for your cue. [MM] You can start.
-Finest Worksong has a pedal steel part. This was done a few times in 1995 but first time I've noticed in 1999.
-Band Intros before Cuyahoga & MS promotes a charity for drug addicted pregnant women in the Detroit area.
-As band is leaving stage MM "Detroit Rock City, they don't call it that for nothing. Bye Ya'll".
Gtade: B