Shows/1990-10-08
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Setlist: (incomplete and possibly out of order)
They Might Be Giants
Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC
October 8, 1990
Fan Recaps and Comments:
Anonymous:
- Flans hit a guy in my Calculus class with his bass drum on "Whistling in the Dark."
"Friendship Force" by Randy Bullock
Spectator Magazine, Oct. 18, 1990:
TMBG are very much a studio band. Through the magic of tape-delay, however, they are able to bring their multi-instrumental showcase on tour and still play everything themselves, but it never quite duplicates the careful structures of their albums. At the Cat's Cradle last week, they played guitar, metronome, accordion, bass drum and trumpet onstage, with most of the rhythm kept by a pre-recorded tape. On the surface, they succeeded adequately in approximating their polished, highly structured sound in a sloppy live environment, with the appropriately genial and clever between-song banter.
Beneath that, they were able to assemble the most well-behaved capacity crowd I think I've ever seen at the Cat's Cradle. It was as if the friendship of the two Johns grew to include the crowd, tricking them into acting like human beings without any of the enforced, love-thy-neighbor fluffiness that generally accompanies events designed to elicit such a response. The circle of friends that the crowd ended up acting like was created as spontaneously and as naturally as the band itself from the start of the friendship of the two Johns. Hard to believe?Yeah. I thought it might be.
