02/23/01 - Osaka, Japan @ Zepp

Date: Friday, February 23rd, 2001 
City: Osaka, Japan
Venue: Zepp
SET LIST NOTES
She Is Not Alone 
Bull in the Heather 
Free City Rhymes 
The Burning Spear 
Hoarfrost 
Nevermind (What Was It Anyway)
Side2Side 
Small Flowers Crack Concrete 
Kool Thing 
White Kross 
NYC Ghosts & Flowers 
-- 
Lightnin' 
Drunken Butterfly 


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    QUOTES

    T: "Good evening everybody. Nice to see ya!"
    L: "How we doing?"
    - She Is Not Alone
    T: "Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen."
    - Bull in the Heather
    - Free City Rhymes
    - The Burning Spear
    T: "Hey uh, this is for Yamamoto."
    - Hoarfrost [w. 2-minute noise intro] [Lee sings additional lyrics before the "Wheels paddle" verse": "waiting for a plan / dashboard chimes in your hand / ??? maps / and gone again"]
    L: [over intro of "Hoarfrost"] "This is a winter song."
    T: "Thanks!"
    L: "Osaka, it's good to be here."
    T: "This song's called 'Nevermind'!"
    - Nevermind (What Was It Anyway) [long extended segue into "side2side"]
    - side2side
    T: "Hey, thanks. We're gonna do a song that I'd like to dedicate to uh, in memory of a musician named Abe Kaoru."
    - Small Flowers Crack Concrete
    - Kool Thing
    Kim's "Kool Thing" spiel: "Hey Kool Thing, c'mere. There's something I gotta ask you. Don't be shy, sit down beside me. I just wanna know, what are you gonna do for me? Are you gonna liberate us girls from male white corporate oppression? Fear of a female planet. Yeah that's right baby. That's right Eminem. Puff Daddy. Your revolution is a dollar sign. I just want you to know that girl revolution is free. But we can still be friends."
    K: "[?]"
    T: "This song is called 'White Kross'. Get it on, sex boy!"
    - White Kross
    L: "Hey. Listen, this next song is called 'NYC Ghosts & Flowers'. And tonight it goes out to a very special person, an American guitar player who passed away today named John Fahey. A great friend of ours, and I'm sure some of yours." [over intro of "NYC Ghosts"] "John..."
    - NYC Ghosts & Flowers
    T: "Goodnight everybody, thank you, see you next time."
    [encore break]
    - Lightnin' [6'40"]
    L: "Jim O'Rourke up here with us tonight ladies and gentlemen."
    T: "What? [laughs] Everybody start the song with a little hootin' and hollerin'. You go hoot and hollerin' like you do in there, you know? It's like um...WOO! It's like...WOO! WOO! WOO! WOO! OWW! WOO! [other band members and crowd join in] This is called 'Drunken Butterfly'."
    - Drunken Butterfly
    K: "Thanks a lot, goodnight!"
    T: "Bye guys. Seeya!"
    L: "Thanks a lot. Best show yet!"

    OTHER PERFORMERS

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