BECK
June 22, 2003
Berkeley, CA, USA
Greek Theatre
I was asking around for some Bay Area Beck shows I went to, and Dime user armogi offered up a couple uncirculated recordings. He taped this and transferred it, and he sent me the raw file to split into tracks and upload.
This was my third time seeing Beck for "Sea Change," and the only one of the three without the Flaming Lips. It was kind of a weird show. First, Dashboard Confessional were supposed to open but dropped out earlier in the tour, so the crowd was left with the other mostly unknown (at the time) opening band (the Black Keys). It was also on a college campus, which seems to have lead to the roughly 3pm show time, so it was all very early and very hot and sunny, and Beck wasn't able to use any of his regular set/props. I was in the front row and the crowd was dead. It probably didn't help that they played a lot of mellow/acoustic songs in a row (see tracks 8-15). But - it was the last time for years that I got to see Beck happy at a show. Not sure what happened for about 8 years, but he appears to be cheerful again.
I'll stop writing now. Enjoy. Samples below.
1. (intro)
2. Novacane
3. Mixed Bizness
4. Thunder Peel
5. The New Pollution
6. Get Real Paid
7. Nicotine & Gravy
8. Lazy Flies
9. Do You Realize??
10. Debra (Step Inside My Daiwoo)
11. Guess I'm Doin' Fine
12. Lost Cause
13. Lonesome Tears
14. Cold Brains
15. Paper Tiger
16. Loser
17. Hotwax / One Foot in the Grave (medley)
18. Milk & Honey
19. Beercan
20. Hollywood Freaks
21. Where It's At / High 5 (Rock the Catskills) (medley)
22. Erotic City / Hot In Herre (medley)
23. (encore break)
24. The Golden Age
25. It's All In Your Mind
26. Sunday Sun
27. (encore break)
28. Devils Haircut
1 hour, 45 minutes, 44 seconds
mic-->MD (mono)-->transfer via PCM-M10-->Audacity to raise volume-->CD Wave for track splitting-->you guys