Shows/1998-09-11b

3 wikians attended: Broken Accordion Exit12 The Vanishing Dot

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Setlist:

• Severe Tire Damage Theme
• Doctor Worm
• Whistling In The Dark
• She's Actual Size
• Twisting
• They Got Lost
• Battle For The Planet Of The Apes
• "Dark Rhumba Intro"
• Exquisite Dead Guy
• Working Undercover For The Man
• She's An Angel
• I Am Not Your Broom
• Why Does The Sun Shine?
• Turn Around
• Absolutely Bill's Mood (called "Insane" on the setlist)
• Mr. Tambourine Man
• I Palindrome I
• Mammal
• Particle Man
• The Famous Polka
• Window
• Your Racist Friend
• S-E-X-X-Y
• Birdhouse In Your Soul
• New York City
• The Guitar

Encore 1:

• Spy
• Lie Still, Little Bottle
• To All The Girls I've Loved Before
• Don't Let's Start

Encore 2:

• Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
• James K. Polk

They Might Be Giants
House of Blues in Los Angeles, CA
September 11, 1998

Fan Recaps and Comments:

The Vanishing Dot:

Of the ten times I've seen the band in concert, I'd probably say this was my favorite show. The set was weird and unpredictable and it was the last time I saw them with the horn section (until 2007).

Highlights:

• Flans hauling out the bass drum for Whistling In The Dark.
• Exquisite Dead Guy, "performed by" the puppet heads on long poles.
• Lie Still, Little Bottle, with Flans keeping time with The Stick.
• Lots of material from Apollo 18.
• Absolutely Bill's Mood!
• Concert staples like The Guitar, Spy and She's Actual Size, before they did them to death.
• Flans, after someone tried to nick something from the stage early in the show: "We like to pretend there's an invisible barrier between the stage and the audience...to prevent you from stealing our s---."
• Flans talking about the presidency: "We represent the people...and the stuff they do."
• Flans sang, "I'm an artist and I'm sensitive about my s---" over and over in the improv section of "Spy", after he had plucked out five of his strings.
• Flans on their version of The Byrds' rendition of "Mr. Tambourine Man": "We're gonna do the version that Bob Dylan was irritated by."
• FLANS: Tonight we're awarding $10,000 to the song that's being played when the cannon shoots. So tonight's winner is the song we just played, 'Working Undercover For The Man.'
• LINNELL: "Exquisite Dead Guy." About a guy who's dead.
• Flans, instructing the audience during "Battle": "Those of you who have right arms, raise them in the traditional rock position and yell...'Ape!'"