5 September 1999
Blockbuster-Sony Music Entertainment Centre At The Waterfront, Camden, NJ
support: John Faye Power Trip, Spacehog
Disc One 69:11
01. Lotus
02. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
03. So Fast, So Numb
04. Pilgrimage
05. Suspicion
06. Daysleeper
07. Crush With Eyeliner
08. The Apologist
09. Half A World Away
10. Sweetness Follows
11. The Great Beyond
12. The One I Love
13. Country Feedback
Disc Two 54:20
01. MS Talking
02. At My Most Beautiful
03. Finest Worksong
04. Losing My Religion
05. Man On The Moon
06. Walk Unafraid
encore:
07. Hope (Stipe solo) / Why Not Smile (Mills & Stipe)
08. The Wake-Up Bomb
09. Tongue
Cuyahoga / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Notes:
-Before Pilgrimage, MS notes the heat and introduces the song as being from 1232. After the song "Peter has just declared that you guys won the prize. The tour isn't quite finished yet but you won hands down for hottest and muggiest city in the world. So if you want to take your clothes off you can make it a lot funner for me. What you think that's a joke? [MM] What were you doing with a sweatshirt anyway? [MS] Put that in my sleeping bunk.
-MS adds to his Apologist story that the subject lives in San Diego and used to work in the film industry.
-Before Half A World Away MS and MM comment on the heat again and MS blames it on the [recent?] rain. "This is a song that was written many years ago after a pretty hard rain in the middle of August in a little state called Georgia".
-Sweetness Follows is dedicated to "A very special someone's father".
-Standard intro to The Great Beyond
-Before Country Feedback MS "I came to Philadelphia which is nearby. I know the difference between New Jersey and Philadelphia don't talk to me that way. I got friends from here ok? [MM] Yo". He rambles on for a bit about when he was last in the area then "I don't know how I got it in my head because I was downtown in Philadelphia for several days, but I know that Edgar Allen Poe had lived there. I'm not very good with history and I had it mixed up. I thought that Edgar Allen Poe died in the 1940s. It was the 1840s, of course it was. I don't know where my head was. So I wandered around Philadelphia for days thinking and actually talking to people about it, it was really embarrasing. I don't know why I'm telling you now. [MM] Yeah it was...[starts laughing]. [MS] Did he live in Baltimore? [MM] Yeah, I'm sorry. [MS] But he also lived in Philadelphia right? [MM] For a while. [MS] Phew! I would be really embarrased now. Anyway I had this vision of Edgar Allen Poe driving around in a taxicab to go get a pizza, which is absurd when you think about his body of work, it's a silly thought. [MM] His body period. [MS] It turns out I was off by 100 years or so. Anyway, that dovetails nicely into the next song. I'll leave it up to you and the internet people to figure out how".
-Country Feedback solo 1:41
-Vefore AMMB, MS ishes he was in the back looking at ta beautiful back of neck and wondering if he kissed it if he would get kissed back or punched.
-Before Hope MS notes the humidity makes his pants feel like saran wrap, that he forgot to scrape his tongue the previous show, and once again gives some love to the film 'The Sixth Sense'. After the song stage mics pick up MM complimenting MS "That was nice! It's getting better".
-After Tongue MS notes that John Faye Power Trip as there because they won a local radio contest. He also promotes the charity The Natural Lands Trust and notes that he sees a lot of really old R.E.M. t-shirts.
Grade: A
-SBD/Broadcast, albiet a little thin sounding