2004-10-15 The Social

This was a JD/Peter duo show with special appearances from John Vanderslice and his band.

Setlist

Recording

• Jenny
• Dance Music
• First Few Desperate Hours
• Dilaudid
• Your Belgian Things
• Slow West Vultures
• Quito
• I Put a Spell on You (cover)
• International Small Arms Traffic Blues
• Jam Eater Blues
• Lions Teeth
• Southwood Plantation Road
• See America Right (JV)
• Palmcorder Yajna (JV)
• I Will Survive (cover)
• I Miss the War (cover)
• Terror Song (cover)

Banter

• This is a song about a man and a woman and the love they experience when they take a lot of pills. (Jenny)
• Oddly enough, this is a song from the album we're going to record with Mr. Vanderslice and Mr. Solter next month. I need to hear more of my guitar please, on account of how I play it so well that I must hear my sweet playing of the guitar. (Dance Music)
• I feel really weird, this is the firs ttour I've ever done standing up. And normally when I'm sitting down I'm looking at everybody's face level, exactly, i'm on the stool. And then people come up later and say it was a nice show, but I couldn't see you all night. But then my response is, I couldn't see you either, which is kind of cantankerous, and so here I am, feeling funny about looking at bottles instead of people. [unintelligible from audience] No, I want you to pogo. This is a new song. I always forget whether it's in D or E. [Peter: E!] E. You ever get in the hospital? And you done hurt yourself, and they give you, they play some music for you, and they have to give you some medication? Bring that beat back! [music from club next door becomes audible again] They have to give you some medication, and you say, the percocet never did it for me, doctor. And you're lying, but you're looking to get a little extra charge out of your meds, that's when they give you dilaudid, and that's what this song is called. (Dilaudid)
• This is a quiet song. We were playing it along with that little beat through the wall there, but that would probably confuse me. So. [audience: can you still pogo to it?] Oh, you can pogo. (Your Belgian Things)
• OK now admittedly my experience is not everyone's, and you can't really generalize from your own experience, that's the disease that infects our culture, but that's another question. There's these spaces in the audience. And in my experience, shows are a lot more fun when everybody's pressed up against everybody else. So y'all move forward, alright? To me, when I was 16 and saw Nick Cave, right, the best thing about it was the people just crushing me against the front of the stage. I was having to fight tooth and nail for my position there, but there was no way in hell that I was gonna give up my position in the front row of the first ever Nick Cave solo tour. No, fuck that, hairy skinhead guy with the big old burly arms trying to push past me. No, fuck that guy. I elbowed him and I stomped on his feet, and when Nick Cave lost his balance, he righted himself on my skull. And I knew that he was passing the torch to me because he would soon be old but I was yet young and had all kinds of piss and vinegar yet in me to pass on to you. In this song. (Slow West Vultures)
• This is a dance number, it was on Tallahassee. When I say this is a dance number, I mean to dance to it, because that makes me happy. Not that it's really your job to make me hapy, but at the same time, I'm your typical selfish sentient being, desiring happiness wherever I go. So if I can coax other people to provide me with it, I will. That's sort of, if not my job, my nature. Yours too, if you're honest. So dance, goddamnit, dance! (Southwood Plantation Road)

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