Erica, Larisa, Phil, Joe and I took off for Montreal where we went to a really cool pub. Crows were alright but the Live concert was spectacular! Think being five rows away helps the experience! Galaxie opened.
Setlist – Counting Crows
Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby
Mr. Jones
I Wish I Was a Girl
Goodnight Elisabeth
Children in Bloom
Omaha
Another Horsedreamer’s Blues
All My Friends
Perfect Blue Buildings
A Murder of One
Hanginaround
A Long December
Setlist – Live
They Stood Up for Love
All Over You
The Beauty of Gray
The Distance
Voodoo Lady
Shit Towne
Heropsychodreamer
Deep Enough
The Dolphin’s Cry
Lakini’s Juice
Run to the Water
I Alone
Lightning Crashes
Dance With You
Went alone to Summersault to see the Pumpkins for the last time. 🙁 I met up with a few guys which was great! Let’s see….who did I see. Pumpkins, Finger Eleven, Foo Fighters, A Perfect Circle, Our Lady Peace, Eve 6, Treble Charger…to name a few. Pumpkins were great. It was worth the trip.
Further notes from my memory writing this in 2019
I find it hilarious that I wrote that I met a few guys which was great. You know what really happened? Two guys needed directions to Molson Park so I pointed out how to get there and they offered me a ride. I then hung out with them for a few hours, even to the point of hanging out with them for supper. While having a slice of pizza one of the guy’s ask me what I think about God and religion and all of that stuff. Hey, I’m an open minded guy but alarm bells were ringing saying “Oh man, they are going to convert me to something! Get the heck out!!!” I answered some questions and then told them I was going to check out the merchandise booth and never went back!
Setlist – Smashing Pumpkins
Glass and the Ghost Children
The Everlasting Gaze
Heavy Metal Machine
The Sacred and Profane
Mayonaise
Stand Inside Your Love
An Ode to No One
Don’t You Want Me [The Human League] @Info[Melissa sang the male lead and James sang the female]
I of the Mourning @Info[with “Du Hast” tease]
Once Upon a Time
Cherub Rock
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Once in a Lifetime [Talking Heads]
Drown
Setlist – Our Lady Peace
One Man Army
The Birdman
Automatic Flowers
Naveed
Superman’s Dead
Is Anybody Home?
Thief
4am
Stealing Babies
Everyone’s a Junkie @Info[Demo version; different lyrics from version released on Spiritual Machines]
Life @Info[Pre-release of Spiritual Machines]
Clumsy
Starseed
Setlist – Foo Fighters
Breakout
Learn to Fly
My Hero
For All the Cows
This Is a Call
Big Me
Stacked Actors
Next Year
Monkey Wrench
Everlong
Setlist – A Perfect Circle
Renholdër
The Hollow
Magdalena
Sleeping Beauty
3 Libras
Breña
Orestes
Thinking of You
Thomas
Rose
Judith
Setlist – Finger Eleven
First Time
Above
Suffocate
Quicksand
For the Ocean
Tip
Drag You Down
Who DOESN’T like AC/DC? Danny, Mike and I drove from Kap to see this wild concert. Slash’s Snakepit opened and they played Nightrain. AC/DC was great with their classic rock symbolism.
Setlist
Life’s Sweet Drug
Been There Lately
Just Like Anything
Shine
Mean Bone
Back to the Moment
Serial Killer
It’s So Easy [Guns N’ Roses]
Mr. Brownstone [Guns N’ Roses]
Ain’t Life Grand
Speed Parade
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You Shook Me All Night Long
Stiff Upper Lip
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be
Hard as a Rock
Shoot to Thrill
Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution
Safe in New York City [Live debut]
Bad Boy Boogie
Hells Bells
Satellite Blues
The Jack
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Back in Black
Highway to Hell
Whole Lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
The Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond [Traditional]
T.N.T.
For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
19 years later and this is still one of the epic concerts Eric and I went to. Epic in that I arrived in Ajax, Eric never showed up and then I got in touch with him Saturday afternoon in Kingston. Turns out that he lost the address of my Aunt’s place and couldn’t find her in the phone book so stayed in a donut shop all night long hoping that I would come looking for him. He went back home the next day. When I phoned him up, I convinced him to hop back onto a bus and come down for a great show. A great story.
Setlist – A Perfect Circle
Magdalena
3 Libras
Sleeping Beauty
Breña
Orestes
Thinking of You
Thomas
Rose
Judith
Setlist – Nine Inch Nails
The New Flesh / Pinion @Tape
Terrible Lie
Sin
March of the Pigs
Piggy
The Frail
The Wretched
Gave Up
La Mer
The Great Below
The Mark Has Been Made
Wish
Complication
Suck [Pigface]
Get Down, Make Love [Queen]
Closer
Head Like a Hole
The Day the World Went Away
Just Like You Imagined
Starfuckers, Inc.
Hurt
Cool things happened concerning the OLP concert. First off I won 2 tickets AFTER I had bought some but also sent in a vocal review of the show into the band’s website. THEN Amanda got us into the soundcheck where we met the band and got their autographs. Mike was a very cool guy who seemed to be in it for the fans. I went with Ryan, Larisa, Joe, Amanda, Lindsay, Shawn and his friend.
Setlist
[Soundcheck]
Is Anybody Home?
Thief
Teardrop [Massive Attack]
[Main]
Dirty Walls
The Birdman
Automatic Flowers
One Man Army
Waited
Thief
4am
Naveed
Stealing Babies
Clumsy
Blister
Teadrop [Massive Attack]
Notes from scrapbook: Went with Joe and Scott. Edwin sucked and Live rocked. It was cool that I won tickets from The Bear but even cooler how we snuck into the floor.
Setlist
Where Fishes Go
Operation Spirit (The Tyranny of Tradition)
All Over You
Selling the Drama
The Distance
Shit Towne
Pillar of Davidson
Imagine [John Lennon]
Sparkle
Heropsychodreamer
The Dolphin’s Cry
Lakini’s Juice
Notes from scrapbook: Went with Joe and Amanda. Very cool concert in support of Triptych. Edwin opened. Pretty cool.
Setlist
Army Ants
Fire in the Head
Psychopomp
Great Big Lie
Silence
Temptation
The Bazaar
Heaven Coming Down
The Messenger [Daniel Lanois]
The Halcyon Days
Touch
Release
Save Me
Counting Crows-Metropolis, Montreal November 13, 1999
Went along with Joe and Amanda. Great place to have a concert….like Barrymore’s but bigger.
Joe 90 and Gigolo Aunts opened. Gigolo Aunts were really great and Dan came out for the last song and he was wearing a funny hat.
Charlie comes out talking about the AIDS booth in the corner and how to get information from it.
Then the radio station comes in and tells us this is being broadcasted over the radio and the net. Too bad I didn’t get a copy!
Starts off with Magical Mystery Tour.
Mr. Jones-Same as always…little intro and then rips into the cool version. Some guys started to crowd surf at this point.
Daylight Fading-I love this song and the lighting was great. Dan was wild in the solo.
Children In Bloom-First for me. Never heard it live. Very cool and Matt had a great bass solo.
High Life-Introduces this song while holding up a bristle board from a fan…it seemed to ask if he could play guitar on a song and he was saying how they already had enough guitarists on stage and they were handsome handsome devils. Introduced this song as off This Desert Life and it was pretty cool.
Omaha-Awesome accordion by Charlie. Gotta love it.
Monkey-I couldn’t believe they played this song. I never heard of them ever playing this and he even admitted he hasn’t played it for 3 years. He talked about meeting a Canadian girl in New York which prompted an interest in this optimistic love song again. Loved it!
Another HorseDreamer’s Blues-Great stuff! I love this song more ever since I saw it live in Kitchener and I’ve been playing it on guitar forever.
Catpult!!!-By far my favourite Crows song. I couldn’t believe they played it.
Hangin Around-Brought Joe 90 and Gigolo Aunts out for this one and had all of us clapping.
Amy Hits the Atmosphere-Adam sat at the piano for this one and the place shook when they sang ‘I’ve waited so long’.
All My Friends-Good song.
I Wish I was A Girl-WICKED! I love the lead in this song and it just builds up at the end! It was great.
St. Robinson And His Cadillac Dream-Good song.
Rain King-Great song with a little improv in the middle.
A Murder of One-Rocking song. I felt that the crowd just wasn’t as kerazy as the Kitchener crowd but I got right into this song.
ENCORE
Anna Begins-Always a favourite.
Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby-Thank God they played this song. It looked like they just came up with it too since it wasn’t on the setlist (that I caught a look of later on.). He sat down for this one and was shaking hands and stuff.
A Long December-Had a new intro with the accordion and piano. Kind of neat.
Walkaways-Started the song and stopped it concerned with a fan who might have fallen down. Then he goes ‘ah shit’ cause they never really fell down (I think). They started the song up again. Awesome song.
