August 12, 2000 Ice Palace, Tampa, FL

set: Interstellar Overdrive, Corduroy, Grievance, Last Exit, Animal, God’s Dice, Tremor Christ, Nothing As It Seems, Jeremy, Evacuation, (Romanza)/Better Man, Lukin, Light Years, Daughter/(Another Brick In The Wall)/(Androgynous Mind), Even Flow, Sleight of Hand, Elderly Woman, State of Love and Trust, Insignificance, Rearviewmirror

enc 1: Do The Evolution, Hail Hail, Garden, Immortality, Soldier of Love, Porch

enc 2: Soon Forget, Indifference

enc 3: Rockin’ In The Free World

notes: Towards the end of ‘Tremor Christ,’ Ed sings, “Even the east coast can get big, big waves!” He pays a lot of attention to the seats behind the stage, taking Polaroids, and addressing them: “We really wanna say good evening to south Tampa in the back. Glad you could make it. Watch our backs.” During ‘Daughter,’ prior to the tag, Ed says that he is seeing signs requesting songs, and if we didn’t do what he wanted us to do, he sure wasn’t going to do what we wanted to do. “Do you want to sing?” “Yeah!” responds the crowd. “I’ll pick something that you know…” and goes into ‘ABiTW,’ and then into “hey hey it’s okay” (which is ‘Androgynous Mind’ by Sonic Youth, NOT ‘It’s OK’ by Dead Moon as done at VA Beach). During “State,” Ed does a forward lean into Mike’s back left shoulder. Stone is especially animated tonight — just amazing toward the end of ‘RVM’. Ed ends ‘RVM’ with about three or four Townshend-style jumps. Introducing ‘Garden’ he says, “OK, you fulfilled our request so we’re gonna fulfill someone over here’s.” Before ‘Soon Forget’ Ed takes a Polaroid of himself and tosses it out into the crowd. The third encore is a total surprise as Ed has said goodnight, the band is gone, people start leaving and the crew picks up gear. The band returns to play a scorching ‘RITFW’ with the arena lights full on and the crowd going nuts, arms clapping overhead at Ed’s instructions. To end, Ed does a somersault at center stage – wine bottle in hand – complete with a running start. An amazing show!