3 September 2003
Amphitheater At Clark County,
Ridgefield, WA
support: Wilco
Disc One 76:54
01. Finest Worksong
02. These Days
03. Drive
04. Animal
05. Daysleeper
06. Orange Crush
07. Bad Day
08. Electrolite
09. The One I Love
10. I've Been High
11. Feeling Gravitys Pull
12. Begin The Begin
13. Nightswimming
14. Losing My Religion
15. She Just Wants To Be
16. Walk Unafraid
Disc Two 25:08
01. Man On The Moon
encore:
02. Everybody Hurts
03. Imitation Of Life
04. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Notes:
-After Drive MS tries to make a joke about being in Maine, as the show is close to Portland, Oregon
-Before Orange Crush MS sings a line of the Banana Boat Song, notes a moth has landed on his head and asks for another Gatorade. He seems to give the bottle or cup away after the song "Here you go, have some DNA".
-MS has a back & forth with a fan before Electrolite, eventually declining his song request and introducing Electrolite as a song about LA and that it takes "little or no effort" for him him to sing it.
-MS explains his Robbie Williams comment before TOIL "Does anybody here know who Robbie Williams is? Raise your hand. This played so well in Europe because everybody and their grandmother and their two month old child knows who Robbie Williams is. The guy's bigger than Elvis. It's shocking. But I really admire him and I like his music a lot. He's like Elvis excpet it's 2003. He's got a lot of tattoos, that's true. I don't have a problem with that. Anyway, he's a really nice guy. But he always uses one of these microphones. It's big and kind of like a man's microphone. So in Europe, I go off my regular microphone, I've used it for 23 years. Same one. Not really it would smell really bad by now if that was the case. And I go into this thing and I get to be 'arena guy' and it fells really good. Just a couple times during the show I get to be 'arena guy'. So that's what this is about. We're going to do the Robbie Williams song now. Not really but I get to use the microphone all the same."
-MS notes they've only played FGP twice since '87, but I don't think this is correct as it was in heavy rotation in 1989's GWT. This version is much closer to the original album version with the strings presumably played on keys.
-Standard intro to LMR
-SJWTB is sent out to Wilco and MS adds "I just love singing this song".
Grade: B