2 September 1999
Bumbershoot 1999, Memorial Stadium,
Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
support: Young Fresh Fellows, Saltine, The Picketts
soundcheck: Perfect Circle / Low Desert / Lotus / Take Seven / I'll Take The Rain (Instrumental)
01. Intro
02. Lotus
03. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
04. So Fast, So Numb
05. Fall On Me
06. Suspicion
07. Daysleeper
08. Everybody Hurts
09. Electrolite
10. The Apologist
11. Sweetness Follows
12. The Great Beyond
13. The One I Love
14, Find The River
15. At My Most Beautiful
16. Banter
17. Finest Worksong
18. Losing My Religion
19. Man On The Moon
20. Walk Unafraid
encore:
21. Banter
22. Long Road (Michael solo, one verse)
23. Hope (Stipe solo)
24. Long Road (Mills & Stipe)
25. Why Not Smile (Mills & Stipe)
26. Crush With Eyeliner
27. Tongue
28. Banter
29. Cuyahoga
30. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Notes:
-Before SFSN MS greets "The children of the corn"
-MS details his bull & bear imagery before Daysleeper.
-Before Electrolite MS "We had to fly Delta to get here. I hate Delta. They have really shitty service and the food is horrible. Oh, and the other thing is no longer do the flight atendants get up and do that [gestures?], which I love. Henry Rollins used to do that in his stand up act. That's a great gesture. I love that. No they just have video screens and they always roll and they're always fucked up and some idiot cartoon tells you where the exits are and I hate that. I don't like it. That's my big gripe today. I'm going to teach you guys a new--this would be a great flight attendant gesture if they still did it. This is the gesture, ok watch carefully [gestures?]. Do you know what that means? That's stuff that's behind us. That's gone now...that's over. Like separation of mind body and spirit. That's over, that's gone. So I want you all to watch very carefully in the next song because that gesture will appear a couple of times and it's very, very signifigant(?)". [MS refernced PB making this gesture in a recent show]
-Before The Apologist, MS rambles for a bit about the cities they have been in recently: Seattle, Atlanta (current homes) St Louis, Texas (past homes) before giving a standard intro to the song.
-Before The Great Beyond, MS discusses the movie The Sixth Sense and re-enacs a short scene from it.
-MS returns from the encore break and attmpts Long Road again "I'm trying to figure out an Eddie Vedder song, can you hold on a second? I played this once on live TV in front of 3 billion people--3 billion? Is that Possible? Yeah. 3 billion, is there that many people in the world. Yeah, it was in Europe, you know how they are. Aw fuck it. That's it but I don't know the chords, do you know them? It starts ith a D, I got that. That's all you know? You can go out the way you came in buddy, that was no help at all. Thank you for trying though, you have a very nice voice". He mutters a bit then starts playing Hope only to abort. "That's the D that's why. [Ansering someone in audience] You hate D? How can you hate D? I think you need to move somehere else buddy because this is the land of D. Do we have any E minor haters out there? Because if we do, you're at the wrong concert. Try Insync or CATS". [track changes to t06] He tries again with long road and gets through the entire first verse & chorus, then goes right into Hope only to stops after the line 'the people who are followers have written their own story' to interject "Like in Kansas. And Philadelphia too. And Georgia, let's face it. And washington State, let's face it" [track changes to t07] He resumes Hope and gets all the ay through. MM joins MS onstage for another go at Long Road [t08] Which goes off without a hitch. MS and MM go over the chords after the song.
-During Thanks and Intros, MS gets travel plans nailed down and promotes Jampac and The Washington Wilderness Coalition "They work to protect something that you still have and we don't have any longer. You know pine trees used to be these shitty little things that bugs shat on in Georgia. It was all old growth. And then they came in to put in the cotton, they cut don all the old growth trees. That's what the next song is about. And now the pine trees, which are the weeds came up like...punk rock or something, and they came up like weeds and suddenly there they were and everybody had to look at them. And now, every spring, when pine trees burst into pollen, they do it all at one time. It doesn't just happen. You know trees pollinate of course but when a pine tree pollinates--why am I talking about this? [MM] I was just wondering... [MS] We've already made the connection between audience and performer, right? So can I shut up now? Ok, I'll finish this thought really quickly. When pine trees pollinate, it explodes all at one time. Poof! Just like the bear and the bull walking the earth and lifting their legs and pissing on the NAFTA countries. I'd like to introduct--I'd like to introduct hehe. I'd like to introduce...". He goes on to start introducing the musicians before Scott asks to be introducted. MS goes on to promote their records which he claims to listen to in the car while driving.
Grade: B
-HD copy replaces flawed cdr