2013-04-22 Wexner Center (Columbus)
Recording
Setlist
Banter
- Every so often when you travel through this world, you may see a person and you say, as sure as I am standing here, and by the holy name of the god that made me, I'm gonna stab that person in the eye with a foreign object. This song is about that feeling. We call it....Foreign Object. (Foreign Object)
- This is on We Shall All Be Healed. It’s a song about wondering whether you’re actually going to get healed. (The Young Thousands)
- This is a song about how you remember your times that you spent in the thrall of the evil that lives inside of you. We identify these evils as external evils because it's a lot easier than suggesting that your dark times actually are a function of some... thing that's always in there, like the Blob. It's like, no matter how hard you freeze it, you know, it somehow thaws and comes out and ruins you for season after season. But it's never permanent. It feels like it's going to be permanent, but it's not permanent. But it feels like it is. And you get away from it and you remember, 'Oh, that was- that was a dark demon running my house at that time.' (In Memory of Satan)
- So this song is as old as dirt. [woo!] I like this one. I suspect that I played it in Columbus in the summer of 1994. I dunno, because I don't go back and listen to the old tapes. [ed note: I gotchu, JD. It was December 2, 1999.] Honestly, I can't imagine waking up and going, of all the world's great music, what am I gonna listen to today? Me when I was 20 years old. I am also holding a pick. The me of 20 years ago judges me harshly for my mistakes. So it won't sound as good, won't get that right hand action that I was known for among the 20 people who followed back then. This is a song - a lot of songs from back then are about this - the moment just before the storm hits. (Nine Black Poppies)
- You know what a tincture is? Where you reduce something to its essence, instead of having a whole lot of something, in the case of the last song, you have a whole lot of something, but then, as the years pass, I got the idea to distill it. Little harder to deal with. This is sort of the 2007 reflection of the same sort of sentiment. (Maybe Sprout Wings )
- This is a song about needing very badly to get free, and not being able to do so, and having that feeling over a long, long, long long period of time. (Never Quite Free)
- This is a song about Luna Vachon, the daughter of Butcher Vachon, whose ashes are spread on Andre the Giant's ranch in the south of North Carolina. (Luna)
- JD: You all are the best. Thank you.
Peter: I forgot people were even here. [audience laughs]
JD: I put on my machine. (Slow West Vultures)
- You know how they send the people from Rolling Stone, or Glamour, or Esquire, or Bass Fishing, I dunno why, and they say John, John, we already heard the thing you had to say about the songs, and stuff, but how do you feel about the wolves? [crowd howls, lol] I'm crazy about the wolves! I support their efforts! I'm pulling for them and I wrote this one. [?] (Up the Wolves)
- This is a song about doing what you must do. It's about doing what you must do. (Amy AKA Spent Gladiator 1)
- I would like to sing a song about the love between a person and the spirit that rests in him, or her. I consider it a song of worship. (The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton)