Subject:       Philadelphia 1-1-99
 From:          WOGLOMLIN@aol.com


Howdy Folks,

Just woke up here in lovely York, PA after driving till 3 am to get home.  Ate
delicious fare at a Wawa market for my late
night snack so I wasn't up for a review session when I got home.  Here goes...
the opener was The Sounds of Urchin if I
recall  very quirky band, had an Elvis type guy dancing throughout the whole
show on stage.  Only tune I remember was "At
The Barbeque".  Very nice.  After TSOU Myself and my girly made our way from
the bar to the floor.  Rock Stars
The WeeN took the stage at a little before 9pm.  I thought it was going to be
a mellow night, you know day after new years
and all, nursing hangovers, no shouts of 'Get the goddam Jack or you're
fired'.  But I was wrong, the band kicked it off w/
1999 by the idiot who formerly had a name, Claude sang the callout lines..."I
was dreamin when I wrote this"...etc, and
proceeded to assuage all fears of the coming millenium.  Very rockin show, a
request was honored very early on for "Pork
Roll Egg And Cheese". "Pandy Fackler" was renamed Becky Wagner for a girl in
the front row.  "Birthday Boy" was another
request for some guy who squirmed his way up front and then had his friends
hold up a pizza box alerting Deaner to the
B-Day, afetr about 3 songs of that Deaner said "I see it Dude".  And B-Day boy
came shortly thereafter.  My repeated shouts
of Cold + Wet and Ode To Rene went unheeded.  Avery nice stripped down version
of "Homo Rainbow".  Some new tunes
"Stroker Ace" and "Back to Basom" were very brown as well.  The finale came in
the form of a 30 or so minute version of
L.M.L.Y.P. w/ Phil Ballard, the geetar player from TSOU standing in with the
group(he also played and sang on "Stroker
Ace") and adding some tempty little teasers to the tune.  Deaner gave us an
enlightening and frightening solo for much o fthe
middle portion, after words Claude said something that I couldn't quite make
out, to which Deaner replied "Fuck You, I
wanna hear Jimmy Wilson play", and Claude proceeded to take us to the far
reaches of the galaxy with some very groovy
percussion work.  A round of Solos FOR ALL MY MEN!  Then sadly The WeeN were
gone, I procured a set list from Phil
and then me and my Girly hopped back in the rig for the drive back to York,
you know!, Where LIVE is from Goddammit!
Here's the setlist.

Wog






From:  zentim@aol.com (ZenTim)
 Date:  Jan 2, 1999


Ok, I beat everyone home and get to be the first to gloat to all those who
couldn't make it.
First and foremost a big ass "You kick Ass" to Onionpalac who managed to score
me a ticket after the show sold out....thanks a bunch man.
Anyhow, The sounds of Urchin weren't that bad, if you're going to tommorow's
show I'd actually recommend checking them out...You gotta like a band who has a
singing drummer...I'm not so sure about thier tamborine player though...still,
he wasn't a bad dancer.
The boys took the stage shortly afterwords and kicked it off with 1999.
Keyboard sounds were NAILED, and Gene and Claude switching back and forth.
Claude did the Sheena Easton parts (I think that was her at least...)
A request for Pork Roll was next, and that's about all I remember from the
setlist (I'm sure that someone else is gonna post it though).
The crowd was so-so...I've noticed that alot of people bitch about philly
concert crowds, I can kinda see why...There was a noticable lull about an hour
into the set...about the time that they were doing The Mollusk...People started
to wake up right around She wanted to leave, and Blarney stone started waking
people up...With Deener fucking up the last verse.
Show ended on a,like 20 minute version, of LMLYP...with a lot of the crowd
leaving during the song...damn hippies, isn't that what they were there to see?
For the guitar geeks out there: Geaner played that gold top les paul thru the
whole set, Deen was mostly on his red strat, though something happened during
LMLYP and he left the stage returning with a black Paul.
Oh yeah, thrown into the set was a new song (missed the name), prettty spaced
out tune with a pretty good amount of delay thrown on the vocals...this is just
a theory, but I'm pretty sure the new album (whenever it comes out), is gonna
be pretty spaced out, as they kept joking about that thru the set.
K, that's it...

Tim.