Shows/2002-11-18
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Setlist:
They Might Be Giants
Borders in White Plains, NY
November 18, 2002
Fan Recaps and Comments:
Review by Jessie:
Very short show, but it was an instore, so one couldn't expect much. Major
points of interest:
Flans has a new guitar. It's something of a pastel green. Very cool. At the beginning
of the show, he said something like, "Isn't it fucking awesome?" but there were little kids
right in the front row, so he corrected himself, then made some comment on how he shouldn't
say "the cool words".
Au Contraire really does rock live.
Flans made some funny comments throughout the show, but nothing amazing. He told a story before
Maybe I Know about how they began playing it when they were really broke and needed money, and
they were playing in some horrible bar or something, and the mother of the person that wrote
the song happened to come in and give them $20. They then had an excellent supper. He also
screwed up the beginning of a song...I believe it was Bed Bed Bed. After a little bit of
playing entirely wrong chords, he said something like "Now, that's not right" and they started
over. Flans did, however, totally rock out during Istanbul.
Linnell didn't really say much at all. At the end of au contraire, he kept the "right on" thing
going for quite a while, and in the middle commented on how he liked to drag that part out.
At the end, he pressed the applause button, and said that during big concerts, he presses the
applause button and everyone starts to applaud. He compared it to an applause sign, but
involuntary. Another point of interest was that, during the box thingie in Bed Bed Bed, there
was a button that Linnell pressed that was the voice that says "wicked little critta". It was
fun.
