September 10, 2004 - Maxam Fort'e Ballroom - Peoria, IL
Setlist
Age Like Wine
Play a Train Song
Beer Run
D.B. Cooper
Alcohol and Pills
Missing You
Trouble
[Trouble story interrupted]
Easy Money
Alright Guy
[Kingsmen story interrupted]
Ballad of the Kingsmen
Late Last Night
Somebody's Coming
Can't Complain
Statistician's Blues
Hey, Hey
Plastic Girl [Finlay]
Vinyl Records
Good News Blues [Shaver]
All My Life
Doublewide Blues
Heart of Gold [Young]
Encore:
Conservative Christian...
Better Than Ever Blues, Part 2
Food and Pussy [Reeder]
A Lot More
Notes
Originally scheduled to be held at Brewster's Comedy Club downstairs, this show was moved to this location after much confusion. Todd talks about this confusion after Play a Train Song: "People asked me if I was a comedian. I'm not. I'm a composer. This is some very serious, VERY serious shit. I don't want anybody laughing or smiling or having any fuckin' fun."
Each time Todd starts to tell a story, he's interrupted by one of the many jackasses in the crowd -- for example the idiot who yells, "Yonder Mountain!" from the back of the room (for no reason) during the Trouble story. Todd responds, "That REALLY enhanced the show" and moves right into Easy Money. After two attempted stories, Todd just plays music.
Variations
On Alright Guy:
"Hey, old timer, we're gonna have to ask you to step out of the car."
On Ballad of the Kingsmen:
"Now he gets a lot of chicks."
On Doublewide Blues:
"I don't get out much since O.J.'s been on."
Audio
SOURCE: AUD | QUALITY: B- | COMPLETE: Yes | LENGTH: 86:11 | TAPER: Tim Lybarger
NOTES: Quick recording adjustment after Ballad of the Kingsmen and Heart of Gold. Can't Complain split into two tracks -- no break in recording. The track with the second part of Can't Complain also includes Statistician's Blues.