02/19/2000 Chris Cornell (Rochester, NY @ Harro East Ballroom)
By Eric | February 19, 2000 11:59 pm
[Original post]
Mary was even more excited than me about this one… CC played an amazing set, almost everything off of Euphoria Morning, Sunshower, Seasons, Fell on Black Days, Like Suicide, Boot Camp, and even All Night Thing! Some dude with an amazing Badmotorfinger tattoo proposed to his girlfriend, and CC invited them backstage after the show…
[August 2013 re-visit]
This was the first time I’d been to Harro East for a show, and it was a great place for a show like this. I can’t remember if there even was an opener that we missed, or it was just CC. I do remember we got very close to the barrier, maybe a person or two back. It certainly was an amazing set, Chris was backed up by the members of the band Eleven (same as on Euphoria Morning). Definitely awesome to see/hear the (until then) non-album CC solo stuff (Seasons, Sunshower), a little Temple of the Dog (All Night Thing), and a little Soundgarden thrown in too (FOBD, Boot Camp, Like Suicide). I distinctly remember the guy proposing to his girlfriend, because I had seen him and noticed his tattoo earlier in the night. Wonder how the two of them are doing 13 years on?!
Digging around on setlist.fm it looks like all of the solo headlining shows had the same setlist, so I’m fairly confident this is what we saw:
Sunshower
Can’t Change Me
Flutter Girl
Mission
Preaching the End of the World
Seasons
When I’m Down
Pillow of Your Bones
Fell on Black Days
Boot Camp
Moonchild
Sweet Euphoria
Like Suicide
Follow My Way
Encore:
All Night Thing
Steel Rain
I’m a little bummed these are the only two pictures we took, but it’s something!
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02/01/2000 Our Lady Peace, Stereophonics (Toronto, ONT @ Air Canada Center)
By Eric | February 1, 2000 11:59 pm
I recall being super hyped for this show, especially after all of the stories about the Maple Leaf Gardens show in 1997. Mary and I drove into Buffalo and picked up our Clumsy Congress friend Niki, and headed up to Toronto. We got to the arena way, way, way too early, finally got in and ran to the barrier. The Stereophonics didn’t leave much of an impression on us, being terribly impatient for OLP.
And once OLP came out, the crowd went nuts, as they opened with Dirty Walls! From then on though, I felt like it could have been any show, anywhere. Not necessarily a homecoming show. The band looked good, sounded good, the crowd was into it, but being in Toronto, we certainly thought there’d be something more special, or different tunes, just… something. For instance, the aforementioned MLG show had a very cool piano version of Julia that had never been played before or since, and I think we were hoping for something similar. Instead, we got what was essentially the standard issue Happiness-era show, which again, was good, but it wasn’t GREAT. Then to top it off, after dropping Niki off back in Buffalo, we hit some of the worst blizzard-like weather on the Thruway in Batavia I’ve ever driven through. The trusty Escort made it however, and we lived to attend more concerts!
Setlist:
Dirty Walls
Birdman
Automatic Flowers
One Man Army
Potato Girl
Thief
4am
Naveed
Carnival
Stealing Babies
Clumsy
Blister
Teardrop (Massive Attack) / Hope
Starseed
Is Anybody Home?
Superman’s Dead
Pics thanks to Rich and Shelly’s OLP site.
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