Shows/1999-04-27
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Setlist:
- Gigantor Intro
- She's An Angel
- Doctor Worm
- Why Does The Sun Shine?
- (She Thinks She's) Edith Head
- Born In A Graveyard
- Shoehorn With Teeth
- New York City
- Till My Head Falls Off
- Birdhouse In Your Soul
- The Guitar
- Spy
- Whistling In The Dark
- Man, It's So Loud In Here
- James K. Polk
- Older
- Particle Man
- The Famous Polka
- Ana Ng
- Twisting
- Dig My Grave
Encore:
They Might Be Giants
— with Michael Shelley opening —
Missouri Southern College in Joplin, MO
April 27, 1999
Fan Recaps and Comments:
- This show was weird.
- It took place in a theater at a small college in Missouri. The place had fixed seating, and no place to stand. So when we got there part-way into the opening act, everyone was just sitting there, being creepily quiet.
- A few minutes in, opener Michael Shelly commented on the Children-of-the-Corn vibe in the room, by saying "I'm a little scared..."
- What happened next is an event that has haunted my conscience for the rest of my life, because it was a horrible case of mismatched intentions and actions.
- Agreeing with Shelly that the situation was indeed weird and frightening, I wanted to express my solidarity with his statement. However, I chose to do this by shouting "You should be!" Immediately, other fans nearby turned and shot me withering glares, and somebody muttered, "don't be an a**hole, dude." And rightly so, as I'm sure that Shelly interpreted my comment as an asinine heckle, and not the "yeah this place is creepy!" that I had intended.
- I've frequently imagined a scene in which I tried to clear things up and make my intentions clear through further outbursts of "heckling," shouting out "ACTUALLY I WANT TO CLARIFY MY EARLIER STATEMENT..."
- Anyway, I'm sure the show was great, but feeling like a jerk for the rest of the night sort of put a damper on it for me.
