22 June 2003
Heineken Music Hall,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
support: Pete Yorn
Disc One 66:48
01. Finest Worksong
02. These Days
03. Animal
04. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
05. Fall On Me
06. Bad Day
07. Daysleeper
08. Imitation Of Life
09. I've Been High
10. The Great Beyond
11. Exhuming McCarthy
12. So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
13. Country Feedback
14. So Fast, So Numb
15. Losing My Religion
Disc Two 52:31
01. She Just Wants To Be
02. I Believe
03. Walk Unafraid
04. Man On The Moon
encore:
05. Everybody Hurts
06. Favourite Writer
07. Cuyahoga
08. People Have The Power - It's The End Of The World As We Know It
Timeline notes: First appearance of 'These Days', 'Exhuming McCarthy' and 'I Believe' since 11 November 1989. Linda Hopper guests on vocals on 'Favorite Writer'.
Notes:
-This is the remaster of Eachman's source but that is all the info I have on it. I also have MGeldere's MD source which grades out roughly the same. I remember getting the files from Matthijis and they were recorded at a very low level. I stumbled across some features that brought the levels back up to a listenable level though a quick check tells me they are still quite low
-After Fall On Me MS notes they are really hot, He goes on to note 'The first three shows and the last three shows of a tour...anything can happen" before apologizing again for cancelling two shows in 1995.
-Before IOL MS "When I say I'm in love you better believe it L-U-V".
-MS claims he is "terrified" of performing I've Been High before it is played 1and indeed he misses a couple notes.
-MS notes "It's tough to be from the U.S. these days, believe me" again before Exhuming McCarthy
-After So Central MS "Do you hate this venue? The sound is really good up here I hope it is for you too" before doing band intros and introducing Country Feedback "This is my favorite song that we ever recorded".
-Country Feedback solo 1:16
-Before I Believe MS "Peter just informed me that it's been 16 years since we performed this song. Wooo. It's really not that big of a deal from this end".
-After Favourite Writer MS "We've known each other 23 years, how about that? We all used to live in the same house. How about that? I can take it back a little farther, I really wanted to say this tonight, I'll keep it short. When I was seven years old, I'm going to sit down for a minute. When I was seven years old I lived in Frankfurt, Germany and my parents didn't have a lot of money and so we didn't go on vacation very often. But I had a favorite flower. But I was very happy. I was. I had all the toys I needed. I had some low cut pants that were wide well corduroy with a big thick belt like the guy in the Monkees had so I was a very happy young man. But I had a favorite flower and my favorite flower was the tulip. Do you see where I'm going with this? So for about four months and I think it was September, October, November, December of 1967, hold your breath, I bugged my mother and father to take me to Holland, the land of the tulip. And so it came to pass boys and girls, that John and Mary Ann Stipe of Hannel, Germany, packed up their station wagon, actually it was a Volkswagen, put their three kids in the back seat and drove to Amsterdam to show little Mike his favorite flower. Now John and Mary Ann Stipe are from the south of the Unites States where it doesn't get very cold. They didn't realize that in January, in Holland it might be very very cold. So they didn't dress me very warmly. It's ok, I made it through, I'm a balanced, well adjusted adult. But the entire time we were in Holland I was going 'I'm cold' and they're like 'shut up and enjoy the tulips. Here, here's some wooden shoes just go clog back to the room'. Anyway that was my first introduction to Holland as a seven year old". He goes on to ask how many in the crowd are computer savy and then "I promise, I'll call John and Mary Ann Stipe tonight I'll ask them to find the picture of me in my little jacket and we'll try to post it on REMHQ before this time next week".
Grade: C