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Neil Finn 11/14/1998

SHOWID 210802

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I remember this show well. I drove up to San Francisco to see my friend Allen Chen who was a Stanford University student at the time and also meet up with a friend from New Zealand who was flying into to SF airport for a layover on her way to Vancouver. I tried to persuade Monica to go to the Neil Finn show with Allan and myself but she declined. Oh well. She missed a great show! Neil played at the 7th Note, which is the old Wolfgang's in North Beach on Columbus. I recorded this show with custom-made Nyquist omni mics in a hat->Sony SBM-1->Sony TCD-D7 DAT under the rear ceiling monitors. We were in the back (but under the speakers) because it took FOREVER to find parking. (Hey, imagine that!). We finally had to park on the sidewalk between driveways like so many people do. Fortunately the car was not towed. Dave Dobyn opened and then Neil played his set with Grant Lee Phillips as a special guest. The airlines lost Neil's bags when he flew in from Los Angeles so he made comment between songs about his food-crusted shirt from the airplane. It was a great set and the recording sounds very nice too. There was a guy named Tom who was holding up a sign that said 'Neil can I sing with you'. Neil made up a song about the sign on the spot and then called him up later to sing 'I Got You' with the band. Tom made a joke that he wanted to be paid so Neil reached into his pocket and handed him a $100 bill! He said, 'I'm going to regret that later so you better go.' I wonder if he still has the C note. Funny. Later in the set, Grant Lee Phillips played a joke on Neil and asked him if he could have a 'bottle on stage'. Neil said sure, and that the only thing he didn't like was smoking on stage. Grant had a seven-foot-tall inflatable bottle of Bacardi rum brought on stage. Neil made a comment that, 'You could sail to New Zealand in that thing!' They threw the bottle out into the audience and it was passed around over everyone's heads. All in all, it was one of the best shows that I'd seen in San Francisco.

Set I

Last One Standing, Private Universe, Devil You Know, Try Whistling This, Message To My Girl, Faster than Light, Distant Sun, Pineapple Head, Into Temptation, Honey Don't Think, Souvenir, Four Seasons In One Day, Close to you, King Tide, ? 'Ben Ben Ben', Only Talking Sense, She will have her way, Sinner, Suffer Never, Weather with you, Fall at your feet, Fuzzy, I got you, Pale Blue Eyes, Don't Dream It's Over, Hallelujah Song

Set II

 

Set III

 

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