August 3, 2000 GTE Virginia Beach Amphitheater, Virginia Beach, VA

setlist : Long Road, Corduroy, Grievance, God’s Dice, Animal, Nothing As It Seems, Given To Fly, Even Flow, MFC, Wishlist, Off He Goes, Daughter/(It’s OK) [by Dead Moon], Better Man, Thin Air, Insignificance, Rearviewmirror, Porch

enc 1: Do The Evolution, Light Years, Black, Elderly Woman, Sleight of Hand, Go

enc 2: Soon Forget, Yellow Ledbetter

notes: Many lyrical changes tonight, including: ‘Long Road’ – “I have wished for so long, how I wish for them today”; ‘Cordoroy’ – “Absolutely everything’s changed”; ‘Grievance’ – I just wanna be, I swear to God I can be, I will be alive as long as I am free.” After ‘Animal.’ Ed asks for the back of the audience to be lit up, wants to see how everyone is, and tells them to be careful, it’s wet back there (it had been raining all day). Ed, near tears, said the band is happy to be back with the crew, who is like their family. Throughout much of the show a butterfly flutters about in the light around Ed, Matt and Mike. The disco ball reappears for ‘Wishlist.’ ‘Off He Goes’ is dedicated to, “There’s a guy named Anthony, and this was his favorite song”. (We think this is a reference to Anthony James Hurley, Australian fan who died the week after Roskilde.) Later Ed says, “The last time we had to ask the crowd to do something it was … a little nervewracking … I was gonna ask you to do something and maybe you’ll do it?” The crowd answers “YES!” Ed continues: “Sing loud ’cause it’s outside. And sing loud because you’re sti… you’re still alive… Just sing loud, all right?” and then they careen back into ‘It’s OK’ by Dead Moon (Ed consults his notebook for help with lyrics). ‘Porch’ is ended with a lovely Roger Daltrey-style mic swing. In ‘DTE,’ Ed changes the lyrics to “I’m a thief, I’m a liar, I’m George Bush, my son is an asshole.” The end of ‘Light Years’ has a couple of lines added at the end along the lines of, “Every day it’s that sun or that moon, that moon …” Ed stumbles on the first verse of ‘Elderly Woman’ but the band keeps playing while he smiles and picks it back up nicely later. A NY Rangers jersey with Ed’s name on it is passed to him right before the second encore. He looks at it and says “Hey, that’s me!” Also, someone gives Ed a large gold-colored scrapbook with “Memories of a Girl” written on the cover. He holds it up for the crowd to see and thanks her. A response to people cheering for the appearance of the ukulele: “If that many of you voted for Ralph Nader, the world would be a better place.” ‘Soon Forget’ is dedicated to corporate assholes, “we know who we are.” Ed shoots a half dozen Polaroids before ‘YL.’