October 26, 2000 -

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Tony

Well, I left Northern Va last thusday morning and drove 9 hours to Charleston, SC. It was my first trip to SC since Marine Corps boot camp 20 years ago. I'd have to say Charleston is alot nicer than Paris Island.....

I have a brother who lives there, so he took me on the tour. Then we headed to the Music Farm.

I think doors opened at 9:00 and when we got there there were a few people waiting. We were told at the door that they were still working on the sound check and it would be a little while. We were able to get in early and was able to watch a little bit of what turned out to be the last game of the World Series with Kenny and Frank. (They were both rooting for the Yankees)

The band was having ALOT of problems with the club's equipment/system. It probably delayed the show an hour or so....I think the problems were annoying the band most of the night. When the show started, I really couldn't hear David's vocals on 'Heaven Knows' for a while....

setlist, no real surprises....

 Heaven Knows I'm Lonely Now
 Been Around The World
 Seven Days
 Eurotrash Girl
 Teen Angst
 Sweet Thistle Pie
 Big Dipper
 Wedding Day
 Cinderella (LP)
 Sweet Potato
 Cracker Soul
 Mr Wrong
 Take Me Down to the Infirmary
 Perfect (LP)
 Happy Birthday (I think it went out to the women from the local radio station that
 intoduced the band. It was her birthday)
 I See The Light
 *encore*
 Get Off This
 Low
 Pictures Of Matchstick Men
 

David was quite talkative, constantly apologizing for the sound problems....... There was a guy yelling "Rock & Roll" the whole night, David had some fun with him '" what do you think we've been playing, polka?"

Also had fun with a big football type guy who was really into "Big Dipper". David was surprised that the big, strong football player type would really get off on "Dipper". He told the women in the crowd that here was this big & sensitive guy......they shouldn't let him get away.....David said something to Brandy about it and she said she didn't really hear what was said, only that she heard 'big' and 'sensitive'.

For this show Kenny was introduced as being from Greenville, SC and Brandy was David's cousin from Alaska.

Got about four hours sleep and headed back to Virginia. I couldn't help thinking of the line from "PLanes, Trains & Automobiles"......'all you see on the interstate is interstate'...

Looking forward to a shorter commute tomorrow in C'ville

Tony
smoke free for six weeks now!

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