October 30, 2000 Sacramento Valley Amphitheatre, Marysville, CA



setlist : Whipping, Insignificance, Animal, Last Exit, State of Love and Trust, Given To Fly, Elderly Woman, Tremor Christ, Even Flow, Daughter/(?), Better Man, Jeremy, Light Years, Immortality, Do The Evolution, Brain of J, Rearviewmirror

enc 1: Breakerfall, Corduroy, Last Kiss, The Kids Are Alright [full band!], Go

enc 2: Yellow Ledbetter

notes: “Good evening. Cold enough for you?” Ed inquires as the band takes the stage. (It’s not quite Alpine Valley, but VERY cold.) Everyone is wearing hats or wigs. Mike has a black afro on. Ed has that big fuzzy hat he wears at the beginning of Single Video Theory when he’s punching in at the time clock. Stone has a dark Beatle-ish wig on. (Practicing for tomorrow night, perhaps!) ‘Better Man’ has one chorus of the instrumental ‘SIFL,’ not quite a tag. Two friends from down under get the Australian flag up to Ed during ‘DTE’ and he wraps himself in it, later spreading it over the monitors in front of Matt’s drumkit. When the guys return for the first encore, Ed has on the orange stocking cap that Stone wore on Letterman. After ‘Corduroy,’ Ed puts the hat on Stone, who is now wearing a wig AND a hat. “We’re gonna do a song we’ve never done together as a full band,” and Ed dedicates ‘The Kids Are Alright’ to his cousin. “This song is about desperation” introduces ‘Go’. By the time the band reaches ‘YL,’ Stone has his hooded sweatshirt over his head (over the wig and the hat) and Ed is over on the side during Mike’s solo, tying on layers, putting on gloves. Mike weaves a bit of ‘Little Wing’ into ‘YL.’ Short but brisk, fun show. Not much talking (it was cold)!