Looking back, I can't believe I even went - although I had heard Cut the Crap, I hadn't even heard Kids in Philly yet, and the number of times I've gone to a show and been blown away by songs I have never heard before still stands at exactly one. They immediately became my favorite band since high school; hell, not to be dramatic, but I had given up ever finding another rock 'n roll band to love. But I did, and it was them. And that KIP tour just kept on giving and giving, from this show to one a few weeks later where they played some tiny restaurant on a stage the size of a small desk, and the owner wouldn't let them quit cuz they were blowing the roof off the joint. Mercury Lounge, when I got kicked out maybe 3 seconds in. It all crested in November, three ridiculously good shows at the Khyber, which also set the look of the album into stone for me when we walked around Philly as surely-made-for-the-movies piles of multi-colored leaves were all around us.
Highlight of that night 10 years ago today: eating my first real Philly cheesesteak, and then watching BayonneMike laugh at me for twenty minutes while my nose bled as he ate a slice of pizza :)
I won't bother going into how much this night affected my life ever since, both (mostly) personally and musically, as a lot of it's probably chronicled throughout his blog. But of course the internet being the internet, here's the audio from the show that night, still one of my favorite rock & roll shows of all time.
Introduction (WXPN's David Dye)
Night Time
The Catfishermann
Point Breeze
Reservation Girl
d1t06 Round Eye Blues (Steve Earle on backing vocals)
"We've Got A Bandstand"
Christian Street
My Heart Is The Bums On The Street
Can't Stand It (Lou Reed)
Faraway You
After The Implosion
Come On (Chuck Berry)
The History Of Where Someone Has Been Killed
Formula, Cola, Dollar Draft
Transcendental Blues (Steve Earle on lead vocals)
State Trooper (Steve Earle on lead vocals)
West Nashville Boogie (Steve Earle on lead vocals)
Eventually Rock
Rain Delay
Can't Hardly Wait (The Replacements)
Keep A Knockin'
Acquiesce (Oasis)
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