Oct 08 1998 @ Oberlin College Oberlin, OH

yeah, I made it out there. The people who put it on didn't publicize it for crap, though. Out of the 35 presale tickets that there were, my group accounted for 10 of them. Plus they ended up waiting for over an hour after the scheduled start time just to see if anyone else would show; about 100 people finally made it in. I saw them last spring at Peabody's in Cleveland. Peabody's is pretty small, but there were about 250-300 people packed in. But the place in Oberlin was a full sized gym. So you can imagine how much extra space there was. Kick Ass show, though. They opened with 'Monkey Dick' followed by 'Warmth of your Breath', only the intro was a slower groove of the ending of the song... you know "Doughnuts!!"...."Cigarrettes!!"..."Coffee!!". They played a set of mostly lesser-known songs with a few classics. I let my friend borrow the setlist for a couple days so he could show it off, but I can give you a rough idea:

Monkey Dick Warmth of Your Breath - Alcoholic Problems Aselection - Black Box (for those who haven't heard this yet, it's some powerful- ass political shit) - Lyin' Ass Bitch Beergut - If I Ma and Pa Party at Ground Zero

I'll get the whole thing on in a day or two. After the show I had a 20 minute conversation with Norwood about everything from Flea and the Peppers to basses and amps to Anti-Racist Action (the organization). Angelo was pretty conversational, too, but of course there were more people after him. Overall it was the best show that I think I've ever been to. It was great that the size of the audience didn't effect the performance in a negative way. Later...

Dan

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at the end of the long review, the guy says turnouts for bone shows is not that good. Well I can say that the bone shows I have gone to have always had a good turn out. This Oberlin show was not advertised worth shit. I heard about by chance by listening to Oberlin's metal show one night. One of the 5 times I ever even tuned into Oberlin radio. there was ZERO press. The bone cut short the se...

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