They Might Be Giants
Pabst Theater
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
March 5, 2020
----Set 1-----
Intro
Dead
They Might be Giants
Twistin
We Want a Rock
Minimum Wage
Racist Friend
Particle Man
Hearing Aid
Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love
Sapphire Bullets (full song in REVERSE!)
Letterbox
Lucky Ball & Chain
Hot Cha
Women and Men
Someone Keeps Moving My Chair
Whistling in the Dark
Birdhouse in Your Soul
Road Movie to Berlin
----Set 2-----
Quiet Storm Intro
2082
Music Jails Part 1 & 2
Wicked Little Critta
Post Quiet Storm (*Underwater Woman video removed due to torrent rules)
The Communists Have the Music
Wearing a Raincoat
Pet Name
Spy
Older
Let Me Tell You About My Operation
Turn Around
Museum of Idiots
The Guitar
Doctor Worm
----Encore 1-----
Istanbul
Theme From Flood
----Encore 2-----
The End of the Tour
New York City
Edirol R09HR with on board mics (my Church Audio rig at back at the Church guy to get fixed, which probaby will take a year based on others comments)
EQ and some volume adjustments made in SoundForge to the softer parts, also removed a couple coughs on my part as I must have had a touch of the Corona and just about died during one song trying not to cough.
Notes:
OK, this show is only days away (seriously only 2 or 3 days) from being exactly 30 years from my very first TMBG show which was 1990 on the Flood tour in Madison, WI. I brought my 16 year old daughter (her 3rd TMBG show). She was excited as Flood is her favorite. Unfortunately we had some REALLY annoying people behind us, I mean they were horrible, our entire row was not happy with these drunk assbags. You'll probably hear them, but I refrained from blasting them too bad, especially in front of my daughter. They were have a debate at the intermission about whether Hearing Aid was played or not, I chimed in, "It was played, but you guys were too busy talking to notice, thanks for ruining the show", thankfully they were a little better the second set, but also a little more drunk.
A fun tidbit was an older guy that I know was sitting next to us, grey hair and beard, he bought a Science is Real t-shirt, I think that is what it says, but Flans called him out at one point in the show as the bright yellow shirt and his bright grey beard stuck out to the guys on stage. Our row was silghtly elevated from the row above us, and we chose this row for that reason.
I wasn't crazy about the second set outside of Older & Turn Around but the encores were great.
Linnell did make a joke about the 1992 show that I was at in Milwaukee where the stage collapsed, that is one show I will never forget, the Modjeska Theater, what a hoot that was watching the bodies fly went the stage imploded into the orchestra pit, thankfully without J + J in the mix :-)