I wasn't writing down a setlist last night, so this is from memory. I'm definitely missing songs between STTN and the Elvis song, and I'm sure some of the others are out of order. Hopefully Ted or someone else will be able to reconstruct the night a little more accurately.
WOW Hall, Eugene 9.2.03
Ambrosia STTN
Elvis Song Witch in the Kitchen Headshot> Marry Mary Shelly
E: Happy Snails Carry the Zero (Built to Spill) Poor Boy/ I Only Want to Be with you Children of December If One of Us Should Fall!!> Dogs on Bikes
Well, this was my last Slip show for a while, but it was a geat one to end on! I was busy all day long, and took off from Portland just as soon as possible, getting there during the STTN. I was a little bummed to miss the Ovulators, but they were out in force dancing and prancing all night long. I also missed the opener, but I could tell right away from STTN that BAM came to play!!!
First, though, a word on the room. I guess the WOW Hall is a community center or something, though there is a bar in the basement. The stage in in a wooden room with four or five rows of bleachers on either side of the board, about the size of a middle school gym. There were also wooden benches going down either side, and a camera allowed those in the bar to keep tabs on the show.
I missed a few of the tunes after STTN, but they were good, but nothing out of crontrol. Everything got turned up a few notches with the Witch in the Kitchen, and Marc tore a hole in my brain during Headshot. I'm not sure on the exact title of the last song of the set, but Ted said it was something like Mary Shelly, or Marry Mary Shelly. It started all slow and patient, very mellow, and over the course of the next ten or twelve minutes erupted into an unfettered gush of emotion and tension-release.
But it was the encore that really made this show special. As you see from the setlist, it was somewhat extended to say the least, but they were relentless the entire 45-60 minutes. Happy Snails is on the new album, and Andrew plays that PVC marimba-type instrument that he slaps with a pair of pink flip flops. This is the first I've seen him play it, and unfortunately he accidentally tapped the wrong part of the lowest tube and it fell off. After a minute he was back at it, though.
I had never heard Carry the Zero before, but it was GREAT!! Brad really nailed the lyrics on this one. He announced the Poor Boy/I Only Want to Be With You as the first song on their new live acoustic album that is due out in two or three weeks to be sold together with Alivelectric. He took the opportunity during this one to loop some feedback off his plugin acoustic. But when no one asked them to leave the stage afterwards, Andrew really showed us what he's made of when he stepped up for easily the most energetic and heartfelt version of Children of December I've heard. This one and the If One of Us Should Fall both put the Goodfoot versions to shame, as Brad had us on the verge of callapse with the latter song. But they resurrected the crowd with a short but varried version of Dogs that just sent my brain sputtering back to the Reed show.
In all, it was a great show largely because the encore turned into a set unto itself. By the end Brad and Marc looked really tired, but quite satisfied with themselves, and the crowd had spent enough energy that the incessant stomping and shouting that kept them from leaving the stage earlier had died to a much more reasonable applause.
Get ready Ashland and California, these guys mean business!!
Peace, Adam
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