Jun 23 2000 @ Paradiso Amsterdam, NL

just got home from the Amsterdam show. Needless to say, I had a great time. I'm not going to give a complete rundown of the show, if only because I've been standing near the stage and did not take notes. ok, here goes.

They seem into orange. 2 of the shirts for this tour (with the smoking fish) are orange and Angelo came on stage with an orange bowler hat (not too sure they are called that, english type of hat, round top) an orange marching band jacket (short) and orange shorts. Ofcourse, at the moment Holland is completely covered in orange (our national color) because of the soccer championships.

Brian, Walt told me to tell you Hi.

They played about 2 hours. Highlights for me were: Question of Life, Give it Up, I wish I had a Date, Karma Tsunami and servitude. For those that want it, I can give a complete setlist (thanks to Denis, who was also there with his brother, I missed Bartek).

I gave Walt the first version of the Nuttwork Neighbourhood NuttSack during the Weed Plant encore and he and Norwood looked at it for a while. Walt said later that he was very curious as to what was on it. He also mentioned that his cd will be finished "any day now" (tm).

Contrary to 'normal' shows, mr Moore was not to be seen before the show. As a matter of fact, they all weren't going through the audience very much.

The show was poorly advertised and was not sold out. In the end it was nicely filled up (although the balcony was closed), but not crowded at all. Because of that probably there were only 2 people stagediving: Angelo and 1 member of the audience, who jumped once.

Anyway, I felt they were a lot more at ease and playing with eachother since the cannabis cup show a couple of months ago. Denis made an audience recording which turned out pretty good too.

One bad thing about it, the soundpeople had the sound way too loud, which made the sound really muddy. I'll be able to hear again normally on monday probably.

I hope I'll see them again in Cologne in a week and a half. They're of to a good start on this European mini tour.

cheers, Arno

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a little more on the Amsterdam show.

Yeah the sound wasn't too good. You could see Angelo looking at Spacey, wanting to hear him louder. Also, he was constantly placing the mic standards with little help from the roadies. To me it seemed like he didn't get into it enough during the first part of the set.

The opener was Ground zero. That surprised me. ...

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my ears are still ringing, but from the stereo in the car blasting this 12 minutes long version of servitude. This definitely was for me the highlight of friday's gig along with 'when problems arise' I was a bit disappointed by the turn out - there were almost more people waiting in line to get into the club after the show for an after party than for the gig itself. I'll try to say things ...

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