29 August 2003
Thunderbird Stadium,
Vancouver, Canada
Greg = Core Sound Binaurals > Sound Professionals Pre-Amp w/ Bass roll-off @ 107hz > Sony MZR70 MD > Kenwood MD-203 MD Deck > S/PDIF > Cool Edit > CDWAV = (flac)
Disc One 65:35
01. Begin The Begin
02. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
03. Drive
04. The Great Beyond
05. Animal
06. Fall On Me
07. World Leader Pretend
08. Bad Day
09. The One I Love
10. Daysleeper
11. Orange Crush
12. Losing My Religion
13. At My Most Beautiful
14. Nightswimming
Disc Two 54:10
01. She Just Wants To Be
02. Walk Unafraid
03. Man On The Moon
encore:
04. Crowd Noise
05. Everybody Hurts
06. Country Feedback
07. Imitation Of Life
08. E-Bow The Letter
09. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Timeline notes: First performance of 'World Leader Pretend' since 15 June 1991. Thom Yorke from Radiohead guests on 'E-Bow The Letter' & 'It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)'. Tour debut for 'Nightswimming' and 'E-Bow The Letter'.
Notes:
-After Drive MS teases the crowd "Where are we again?" He also sends the song out to The Dandy Warhols.
-Before Animal, MS notes that the haven't been in Vancouver in three months. It feels really strange to be gone for so long. But in that time, we headed far to the east, across the ocean. This is taking much too long. We did a tour in Europe and we played a bunch of new songs that night, every night that we played there. All that to say we're going to play a new song now".
-Fall On Me is noted as a request via the website & is sent out to Wilco.
-World Leader Pretend is noted a s a request "we have finally become, in 23 years, the human jukebox. Just push the button and we'll play the song. That's what it sounds like". He goes on to note this is a very special request though and that they haven't played the song "even to ourselves" in 13 1/2 years.
-MS waits too long to start his introduction of Bad Day "We're from the United States..." as PB has already started the song, so MS aborts the intro.
-Before Daysleeper MS gives "A big shoutout to Motion Theory" and notes the song is also a request. Same for Orange Crush but it is sent out to Radiohead.
-LMR "has been requested for every single show we've done".
Before AMMB MS comments on the lawn of the venue, shoots down a request "it's a really hard song to sing. We can only be a jukebox to such a degree". He shoots down another request "the lyrics are great, the vocals are great, the music sucks". [MM] It's tough swimming upstream isn't it? [MS] It's tough being me". MS goes on send the song out to the staff of a couple hotels "The clue to the joke is in the title of the song because they had to look at us for the past 7 months when we get up and have our first cup of coffee and they see things that you will never see, and believe me you don't want to".
-Nightswimming was requested by a married couple MS "I don't know, maybe they first had sex to the song? I don't know the story completely but it sounded pretty great and they wanted us to perform it tonight". After the song MS "Look at that plane right there! That is a plane right?"
-Before MOTM MS "A;; right dude. Everybody have a donut? Visit the porta potties? What do you mean I could do better than that? I only had two coffees before I got on the stage tonight. I'm just hoping you guys on a Friday night will boost me up. This nect song is a very special song because it is the song that we're about to preform". He sends the song out to West-Van.
-Before Country Feedback MS asks if everyone took 30 seconds to look at Mars. He talks about Mars briefly then sends Country Feedback out to the red planet. PB's solo 1:45.
-IOL is sent out to Warehouse Studios & Pat McCarthy, and notes the song is #1 on the Japanese charts. After the song he thanks Tokyo and goes through a list of people and places he's sent out songs to this evening.
-Before ITEOTWAWKI Ms does intros, concluding with "My name is Michael, I stand in the middle. His name is Mike, he plays bass. His name is Peter, he's taller than all of us".
Grade: B