SET 1:

Chalk Dust Torture: Great energy out of the chute, yet another rocker to open the show. Standard fare for Fall 98!!!

Wolfman's Brother -> Mind Left Body Jam -> Wolfman's Brother: Super slinky and funky. The MLB stuff is fantastic! Amazing in the two hole this early in the show!

Roggae: Standard.

Ginseng Sullivan: Mike forgets lyrics.

It's Ice: Sloppy intro and the immediate stuff that leads into the ‘jam’ – some of that is suspect as well. The jam is very lengthy, dark, and evil. >

Cars Trucks Buses: Standard.

Farmhouse: Standard.

Water in the Sky: Standard.

The Sloth: Sloppy.

Run Like an Antelope: What is Trey teasing in the intro? GTBT? Ramble On? I can’t place it. Anyway, very chill and mellow beginning of the jam. Patient. This version gets really strange in the 11 minute range, sounds like Trey is killing cats. Not good sounds coming out of that doc. But the trilling that comes out of that around 12:17 is sweet. Antelope's lyrics were changed to "suck the deershit from this side of the hole." As it turns out this was not a very good version, it’s just mostly off all the way around.

SET 2:

Down with Disease: Trey messes up the lyrics. I LOVE the space this gets into in the late 14’s. Not quite ambient but so chill and patient. Then Trey strumming that starts at about 14:53 and well beyond is very pleasing to my ears. Around 17:25 though it sounds like he is kind of running out of ideas. Someone needs to rescue him. There is no rescue to be had and they find their way back to the closing segment at 18:40. Kind of meh. The overall body of work is good enough though that I would recommend this version. >

Sample in a Jar: Oof.

Dirt: I love this tune, but not in this spot. No sir. Set needs much, much more.

Birds of a Feather: The band sounds tired and bored. This version is very meh. The fact that this is a jamcharts version is laughable.

Meat: I love loops - love them. This is basically a super mellow soundcheck jam. I don’t like this in this spot of the set based on what had come before, the set needed more. >

Harry Hood: Loops continue into the Hood opener which is neat. Pretty solid Hood right here.

ENCORE:

Good Times Bad Times: Raucous version, they rip it big time.

Summary: I remember reading that the night before the show the band was out raging it in The Flats. This is basically confirmed by Trey when before the second set he introduces Bruno and says he was late to work this morning because he got drunk partying in The Flats the previous night. I just don’t think this is a very good show. They crushed it in Grand Rapids, rolled into Cleveland and got wrecked the night before apparently and this show mostly just sounds tired/bored uninspired. The current rating of 3.828/5 (128 ratings) seems to strong. I would rate it a 3.5/5.

Replay Value: Wolfman's Brother, Mind Left Body Jam, Wolfman's Brother, Down with Disease