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12/31/02 Madison Square Garden - New York, New York
- Soundcheck 1 (~3:00pm): Frankie Says
- Soundcheck 2 (~5:00pm): Get Back on the Train, It's Ice, Wilson, Squirming Coil, Round Room, ?
- Set 1 (1:10): Piper, Guyute, NICU, Horn, Wilson*, Mound, Squirming Coil > David Bowie
- Set 2 (1:06): Waves
-> Divided Sky**, Lawn Boy, Carini, Rift, Harry Hood, Character Zero
- Set 3 (1:03) Sample in a Jar, Seven Below*** -> Auld Lang Syne^ > Runaway Jim -> Time Loves a Hero, Taste^^, Strange Design, Walls of the Cave
- Encore (0:08): Wading in the Velvet Sea
- Notes:
The sound check information is unconfirmed. Pre-show music on the PA
included the "Welcome Back Kotter" theme, "Feels Like the First Time,"
"Back in the Saddle Again," "Reunited," "The Boys are Back in Town," and
"Foreplay/Long Time" which was interrupted by the band coming on stage.
Post-show music was "Let's Stay Together" * - preceeded by footage from
the movie "Castaway" on the jumbotron screens on the scoreboard (scenes in
which Tom Hanks's character is yelling and kicks away, then goes to search
for his befriended volleyball named "Wilson"); with "Tom Hanks" (actually Page's
brother Steve McConnell; see Salon.com if you want explicit confirmation)
on guest vocals for the "Blat Boom..." part; ** - with a very long "pause" (2-3 minutes) and tremendous crowd roaring; *** -
"Seven Below" began approximately seven minutes before midnight; during
the song a disco ball was lowered from within the scoreboard and it began
snowing on stage; several dancers in white with blinking light "stick
figure skeletons", dressed as snow creatures (with a vaguely
"winter/forest kingdom" fantasy motif, including white costumes with fur
and some horned helmets) came out and began circling the band on stage
before moving off into the crowd - while in the crowd several grew into
large snow angels by standing on covered ladders; midway during the
song snow began falling on the fans on the floor from a pair of snowmaking
rigs on the right and left sides of the scoreboard above the floor;
shortly before midnight, the snow angels began shining small spotlights
around the crowd, appearing similar to search lights; ^ - at midnight,
pyrotechnics spiraled around and behind the stage (some coming from the
snowmaking rigs) and enormous white balloons with snow designs were
dropped onto the floor; ^^ - with "What's the Use" teases. (Thanks to ZZYZX for pre-show info, and "Chris" for the sound
check list. Thanks also to Ryan Phillips and many, many others for helping out with details.)
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