SlipBase: 2003

Updated: Thu Dec 14 11:43:20 EST 2023

02/27/2003:   Tribeca Rock Club:   New York, NY    
Set I: Song, Marry Mary Shelly, Through the Iron Gate, Shiver, bluesy improv, Memories of You, Sometimes There's Wine, Alsoa, Poor Boy
Notes: Brad Barr solo. [Casey - cisforcasey at hotmail]
03/07/2003:   The Cell Block:   Williamsport PA   
Set I: Munf, Nellie Jean* > Rainmaker, Aptos> Dear Milena
Set II: Jailhouse Rock! > Moral Decay, Johnny's Tune, The Soft Machine> Else%, Bad Ground> Tongue Jam> Rhythm and Gold
Notes: Ethan Fry, Patrick Stehley - March 09, 2003 - * Dogs on Bikes Tease? ! 1st verse only.. in honor of the cell block). % Built to Spill cover.
03/08/2003:   Murray's Inn:   Wilkes-Barre PA   
Set I: Sometimes There's Wine*, TEWDACYATM, Built for Zeal, Tenfold%, Get Me with Fuji, Tinderbox
Set II: The Lockless Door# > The Lucky Dragon^, Joe Higley, Before You Were Born, Dogs on Bikes
Encore: Imagine!, Sorry
Notes: Ethan Fry. * New song. % (Brad quotes Mr. P.C.) # a Robert Frost poem, set to music by Brad ^ aka "Squeezy Toe" or "Esquisito" ! John Lennon cover. First Time Played. The sound was pretty boomy, but the crowd was nicer, and the room felt like a venue for music, and not for misery. The Earth Will Disseminate is incredible. They played it in Pittsburgh last they were there, and it blew me away, though I didn't know it's name. What I wrote in my set list then was "Awesome!!!", and it's still true. Tenfold remains strong, and I think the Coltrane licks came from the day's listening. Fuji is still surprisingly interesting for as silly as it seems to be, and Tinderbox is a powerhouse. I hadn't actually heard it live until last night, and it has risen from 'alright' to "Holy Shit!". Sam seemed to recognize the Lockless Door, though Brad later told me it was a first time played. Lucky Toe was a nice treat, and I didn't know they remembered Joe Higley, it's been so long. Dogs was more mellow than the absolute all-out throw-DOWN that I remember it as (see late 1999). I guess they rehearsed Imagine just a few days ago, and pulled it out. Talk about a crowd pleaser. Marc (and Brad?) played the melody, and the crowd sang the lyrics (as much as we all remembered). Someone told me this theory that Marc always calls Sorry when he feels like he blew it somewhere. Like he's really apologizing. If he did blow it, it wasn't while I was looking.
03/21/2003:   Club at Water Street:   Rochester, NY   
Set I: War*, Sometimes True to Nothing, Mudslide, Tinderbox, surf-y instrumental (played 3/27/01 also) > Imagine#
Set II: Dogs on Bikes> jam, Rainmaker, Yaki Soba, 74, Alsoa
Encore: Moral Decay> instrumental (with Before You Were Born-ish ending)
Notes: * Bob Marley cover (instrumental), maybe not played in full since 1998? (!? also played on 3/29). # by John Lennon. [ Katie Cultrera - kcultrera at smcvt.edu - June 10, 2003, jenn - pittpharmgirl at hotmail.com - March 23, 2003 ] Brad makes several comments about the war throughout the show and says "I wish George Bush could hear this one" just before Tinderbox.
03/22/2003:   The Tralf:   Buffalo, NY   
Set I: Acoma% > Song of Mysterious Origin%, The Lockless Door^, Wolof, Mudslide^, Back in 15 Minutes &%^, Cumulus^, Hey Worrier, Sorry
Encore: Nellie Jean > Dear Milena, Imagine!
Notes: % Andrew playing recorder thing, Brad on nylon-string guitar w/flat pick ("Song" was originally called "Kuristan"). ^ Brad on sitar (lyrics by Robert Frost ;-}). #Andrew on udu. !John Lennon song. [Ethan Fry - Sun Mar 23 at 21:13] Andrew's lesson of the week - "Don't play djun djuns the night before a show." Apparently he went nuts with a friend of his and destroyed his right hand on Thursday. I challenge anyone to find a spot where he sounds bad, despite his claims that his hand went soft.
03/27/2003:   Narrows Center for the Arts:   Fall River, MA    
Set I: Intro jam > Song (of Mysterious Origin)$, Back in 15 Minutes% > TEWDACUATM > Trane-ing > Get Me with Fuji (slow version) > Sometimes There's Wine%, Brad talks - moment of silence
Set II: jam > Rhythm and Gold, The Soft Machine (instrumental), Else# > Tenfold > drums with bass, Mudslide, piano instrumental > The Weight of Solomon*
Encore: Sometimes True to Nothing, Love And Tears
Notes: $ Brad on nylon string guitar, Andrew on wooden flute. % Nathan Moore song. # Built to Spill cover, w/ Radiohead's "No Surprises" tease. * w/ "Sunny Day" (Sesame Street Theme), co-written by Fall River native, Joe Raposa. [ Chris Friel - March 28, 2003 at 17:36:15 (CST); Kosta. HarryMcQ. ]
03/29/2003:   Pearl Street Nightclub:   Northampton, MA   
Set I: Hoc No Seh, Aptos, Back in 15 Minutes#^, His Latest Flame*, Mudslide^, So Dope
Set II: Planet of Inexperience> Sometimes True to Nothing, Poor Boy?#, Yellow Medicine> New Piano Instrumental%, Sweet Thing!
Encore: Honey Melon
Notes: # Nathan Moore song. ^Brad on sitar. * Elvis cover; before the tune, Brad asked if anyone liked Elvis. #Brad on nylon string (new song). %Brad on Wurlitzer (same slow jazzy tune that segued into Weight of Solomon Thu. night at Narrows).
04/03/2003:   Toad's Place:   New Haven, CT    
Set I: Catacea> Dear Milena, Get Me with Fuji, Tonight We Leave Chicago, Built for Zeal, The Times They Are A-Changin'> ???(Sandman?)
Set II: Poor Boy, Shiver, Mudslide, Johnny's Tune> The Highlands, Tinderbox
Encore: The Weight of Solomon > Sorry
Notes: Cleantone 12/27/2005 [ Adam Clark - Fr. April 4, 2003; Ethan 10/1/03 ] - ? "Whisper Me off to Sleep" lyric.
04/04/2003:   University of Vermont [North Lounge]:   Burlington, VT    
Set I: Song of Mysterious Origin> Untitled Instrumental&, Pictures of Calysto, Spice Groove> Jam> Gemini (Kingdom of Light), Back in 15 Minutes, Mr. Meowskers, Tinderbox, Brad calls his mom, Julia's Kitchen*, A Closer Walk With Thee
Encore: The Soft Machine (no lyrics, just the slide> Else> Sleepwalk> Else> If One of Us Should Fall
Notes: * Perhaps not played since 12/31/99, Bethel Farm [Fred Torphy - ftorphy at zoo.uvm.edu - April 08, 2003; Paul Glowaski - E: corrections 10/28/2003 ]
04/05/2003:   The Blind Pig:   Ann Arbor, MI    
setlist missing
04/08/2003:   The Lime Spider:   Akron, OH    
Set I: Gecko> Third Stone from the Sun*> The Lucky Dragon, Back in 15 Minutes#, Clementine, The Slide Song> else%, Nellie Jean, If One of Us Should Fall, Mudslide, Before You Were Born, Love And Tears, Sandman!
Encore: Sweet Georgia Brown, Sorry, Sometimes True to Nothing
Notes: All one set (2hrs. 50 min!!!). * Hendrix song. # Nathan Moore song. % Built to Spill song, with "no surprises" (Radiohead) tease. ! w/ "Norwegian Wood" (Beatles) tease, and an instrumental verse of "The Times They Are A-Changin'". [Benjamin Kamen - April 09, 2003]
04/09/2003:   Mr. Smalls Theatre:   Millvale, PA   
Set I: Hoc No Seh, Get Me with Fuji, Nellie Jean, Back in 15 Minutes, Trane-ing, Sometimes True to Nothing
Notes: Ethan Fry - April 11, 2003 at 01:51:41 (CDT)
04/10/2003:   20th Century Theatre:   Cincinnati, OH   
Set I: ?*> Dear Milena, Tinderbox> Don't Foil the Mohel> Jam^> Don't Foil the Mohel, Mudslide@, Song of Mysterious Origin%, Dogs on Bikes
Notes: Charles Mac Barr - April 11, 2003 - * possibly Sea Legs? w/ lots of French horn & mumbling or perhaps just a call and response warm-up jam ^ Brad on(?)-percussion toy, also w/ 10fold tease
04/11/2003:   Newport Music Hall:   Columbus, OH    
Set I: Intro > Get Me with Fuji, Sometimes True to Nothing, The Air Is the Body, So Dope, The Woods
Notes: opened for Jazz Mandolin Project. BAM sat in for a long jam during JMP. Jerel Fish - Tue Apr. 15, 2003
04/12/2003:   Forward Hall:   Erie, PA    
Set I: Free Jam> With or Without You, Mr. Meowskers, Yo Yo Ma Ma Little Brown-Eyed Babushka?, Little Lulu^, Back in 15 Minutes&, "These cool things floating over our heads", Nellie Jean
Encore: Soft Warm Simple Wonder, Andrew jams%
Notes: ethan fry - April 13, 2003) - ^ by request & Nathan Moore song % w/ booming Synare
04/19/2003:   Somerville Theater:   Somerville, MA   
Set I: Song of Mysterious Origin, Poor Boy$, The Soft Machine*> Get Me with Fuji, Back in 15 Minutes, Trane-ing, Mudslide^, The Woods^#, Drum Jam#> The Air Is the Body#, Jumby#, Happy Snails (sails?)#**, intro > What is and What Should Never Be^^ > Livin' Lovin' Maid^^
Encore: Imagine##, New Piano Instrumental> Julia's Kitchen!!!, Before You Were Born
Notes: $ Contains lyrics "I only want to be with you". ^ Brad on electric sitar/guitar. #Ruskin Vaughan on percussion. ? I'm not sure, but I am sure that he greatly added to every song he jammed on. **This was a happy tune that featured Andrew playing melodic percussion on that new plastic pipe apparatus he's had at recent shows. He used (what were apparently) Sam Leonard's old flip flops as drum sticks. It was quite a sight. ^^Led Zeppelin covers, instrumental. ##Before the E:, roadmanager Tim brought out an old TV with the word "Obey" spray-painted on it. Brad used it as a stool during the main part of the song but during the outtro he grabbed a safety mask and sledgehammer and demolished it. It was a rather entertaining (but somewhat frightening) sight. [ Chris Knott - drteeth2z at aol.com> - April 20, 2003 ]
04/27/2003:   Amherst Common - Earth Day Festival:   Amherst, MA   
Set I: Children of December> 74, The Witch in the Kitchen, Back in 15 Minutes, Moral Decay, Get Me with Fuji, Dear Milena, Love And Tears*, Mr. Meowskers*
Notes: * Brad on 12-string green electric (Clinton's ole geetar). [Cleantone - Sun 4/27/03]
04/29/2003:   Harpers Ferry:   Allston, MA   
Slow Breath Silent Mind*, Fourth Aye*, Nibbles*, Three Splattered Eggs*, Improv "Friends are Fun", Tonight We Leave Chicago^, Improv "Brian & Andrew Duo", Righteous Tidings, All Blues > The Slip # E: Solar Siblings > (Brad & Andrew Barr), Improv "Torqued"
Night 4 of 4 of an April residency at Harpers Ferry by Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey. Each show had a different band share the stage.
*Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
^The Slip
# with Dueling Trios section including Honey Melon, Straight Up, Kid Charlemagne, Great Balls of Fire, My Room, Rhythm-A-Ning, Polly, and Zion teases
04/30/2003:   Mercury Lounge:   New York, NY   
Set I: Peace#, Calm Before the Storm, George Bush is a Liar&, (The Slip Joins Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey), What on Earth is That Smell, The Slip> Get Me with Fuji> The Slip, Dick Cheney is Also a Liar&, George Bush Lies to His Mom&, Solar*
Encore: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey tune> Lucky Dragon> same Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey tune
Notes: Night 4 of 4 of an April residency at Mercury Lounge. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey and The Slip together. Josh Marx - Deadjosh at aol.com - Thu. May 1 2003: # Ornett Coleman tune. & w/ Jay Rodriquez on flute and sax. * Miles Davis tune.
05/01/2003:   University of Rhode Island:   Kingston, RI    
Set I: Wolof, Pictures of Calysto, Ambrosia, Tenfold, Jumby
Set II: Johnny's Tune*, Piano Instrumental, The Weight of Solomon^, Rock and Roll%, Sometimes True to Nothing
Encore: Soft Warm Simple Wonder
Notes: Originally scheduled for 4/26, rained out. * w/Spice Groove jam. ^ On stage, Diana translated the lyrics into sign language. % Led Zeppelin cover. [Katie - kcultrera at smcvt.edu - May 02, 2003]
05/02/2003:   Calvary Baptist Church:   Philadelphia, PA   
Set I: Sometimes There's Wine, TEWDACYATM, Munf, Hoc No Seh, Poor Boy, Wompsett, The Woods*, Mudslide*, Song of Mysterious Origin^, Alsoa
Notes: * Brad on Sitar. ^ may have been called "Kurdistan", "Song of the World" previously.
05/03/2003:   St. Mary's College:   St. Mary's City, MD   
Set I: Planet of Inexperience> Nellie Jean, Mudslide, Don't Foil the Mohel> (Ray Charles jam), Tinderbox, Get Me with Fuji, If One of Us Should Fall, Sorry.
Encore: Just a Closer Walk with Thee (w/chicken dance in there)
Notes: This was St Mary's College World Day celebration. hip hop group FSU opened for The Slip. Posted by: tim [timbna at yahoo.com] - August 09, 2003 at 15:20:58 (CDT)
05/06/2003:   The Village Underground:   New York, NY   
Set I: Sometimes There's Wine*, Wolof^ > Planet of Inexperience# > Nellie Jean > Jam > Get Me with Fuji, Dear Milena
Set II: Landing% > Mudslide%, Be-Bop Tune (Yaki Soba?)%$, Back in 15 Minutes, Co-op City> Weight of Solomon, Wompsett, What is and What Should Never Be!
Encore: Soft Warm Simple Wonder*
Notes: *Brad dedicated these to his mom for Mother's Day. ^There were technical difficulties with Brad's guitar rig, namely it didn't work, so Marc and Andrew jammed on the intro for a bit until Brad got his juice back. #Thanks to Tim Lanterman for the title, I hadn't a clue this was an actual tune. % Brad on electric Sitar/Guitar. $Dedicated to the Japanese food BAM ate earlier in the day, not sure of the title. !Led Zeppelin cover, instrumental. [ Chris Knott - drteeth2z at aol.com - May 07, 2003 at 19:45:53 (CDT) ]
05/09/2003:   Olde Town Hall:   Andover, MA   
Set I: Dogs on Bikes, Nellie Jean, Carry the Zero^, Cumulus*, Hey Worrier, Yellow Medicine?
Set II: Happy Smells#, 5 am/Whisper me off to sleep> Song of Mysterious Origin, Soft Warm Simple Wonder, Yaki Soba
Encore: If One of Us Should Fall
Notes: ^ Built to Spill cover. Brad said "a favorite song of ours by Built to Spill..." * the power went out in the middle of Cumulus and Andrew (without missing a beat) kept the groove going with Brad on the tambourine; when the power came back on they ended Cumulus with Brad on the Wurlitzer. ? "Shortest set-break ever" - Yellow Medicine may have been the 2nd set opener (not confirmed). # with Andrew on the PVC pipes & Tim Lanterman on shakers [tasoula & kosta - May 10, 2003 ]
05/10/2003:   Middlebury College:   Middlebury, VT   
setlist missing
Notes: Gordon Stone sat in on three songs. [Paul Glowaski]
05/11/2003:   Club Helsinki:   Great Barrington, MA   
Set I: Before You Were Born, Poor Boy*, Torque^, 74#, Let the Morning In$, Nellie Jean, If One of Us Should Fall@, Hunny!
Set II: Untitled instrumental& > Song%, The Soft Machine+, "keep off the grass" > ^^, Sorry#> Kicked it in the Sun= (ending)> Sorry~, Through the Iron Gate
Encore: Lion on a Rock**
Notes: * Andrew on backing vocals. ^ Andrew on steelpan. # Brad on banjo, Marc on guitar, and Andrew on bass & drums. $ this was introduced by Andrew saying, "let there be no secret about this next song"... BJ's wholesale store really dug The Slip and asked them to write a jingle for the store, so they did, and BJ's didn't want it. I think my favorite lyric was "I'll be your BJ's wholesale lover". ;) Also, Brad ripped it up with the kazoo solo.
05/17/2003:   All Good Music Festival:   Marvin's Mountain, WV    
Set I: Cumulus*, Get Me with Fuji, Tomorrow tease> Nellie Jean> Lyric thing (sounded like new intro to else)> Else^> Else slide intro> Old 50's song?, Spice Groove, (Take A) Beetle to the Badlands, Jazzy new piano intro> The Weight of Solomon, Sorry
Encore: (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love & Understanding!
Notes: * Brad on sitar. ^ Built to Spill cover. ?not sure of title. ! Elvis Costello cover. [ Pat Stehley ]
05/18/2003:   Come Together Festival - Frontier Ghost Town:   Durham, ONT   
Set I: Planet of Inexperience* > Wolof*, Dear Milena, Aptos, Johnny's Tune, Back in 15 Minutes, The Soft Machine, The Woods, Children of December^, intro > song of the world, Imagine > Blue Moon> Sleepwalker&, Before You Were Born
Encore: Jumby, If One of Us Should Fall
Notes: * sitar ^ with "It's a Better Place" Kram Dangle tease! & by The Kinks, instrumental: Marc played a couple of bars of "My Favourite Things", going into Imagine, Brad identified "Sleepwalker" after as the last instrumental song to be a radio hit. [ Luke Bowden, kosta - kosta at ecomail.org - May 26, 2003 ]; This was a one set show. "Back in 15 Minutes" also had a 'howling monkey' intro where a guy with a monkey mask appeared onstage unannounced (even to the band seemingly) and began to howl, if that is indeed what it is called when monkeys yell real loud ;) [ Elmer <phiriedison at hotmail.com> - Jun 05, 2003 ; Jeff Dylyn ]
05/20/2003:   El Mocambo:   Toronto, ONT   
Set I: Lemonade intro > Get Me with Fuji, Tinderbox, Trane-ing, Sweet Thing^, Mr. Meowskers> Soft Warm Simple Wonder, Let The Morning In*#, (new Wurlitzer song@) > The Weight of Solomon!
Encore: Dogs on Bikes!
Notes: ^ Van Morrison tune: "just the moment, just a memory" as to reason played. * B.J..s commercial theme without lyrics (see 05/22). # conversation around B.J..s/ Let The Morning In revealed it is a composite containing a .whole other song that went along with it. written for Brad's Mom.s husband who died to .keep his spirits up. might as well keep his spirits up our/ spirits up.
05/21/2003:   Babylon Nightclub:   Ottawa, ONT   
Set I: Built for Zeal#, TEWDACYATM, Tonight We Leave Chicago, Mudslide, Yaki Soba, Children of December> Nellie Jean^> jam (another song?)> Nellie Jean, Aptos, Poor Boy> Whisper Me off to Sleep?%, (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding
Encore: Sometimes True to Nothing, If One of Us Should Fall
Notes: # aka "Built Frisell". ^ SlipBase had "5:00am", ???some cover???" % lyrics "Even though your body is warm I still shiver", "Even though it's 5 AM I'm still playing" (same song played 5/9/03 Set II after Snails). [ Cleantone - July 25, 2003 ; Dylyn 4/6/04 ]
05/22/2003:   Elixir Nightclub:   Kingston, ONT   
Set I: space > Ode to Dean and Terry~, Mr. Meowskers, Aptos$, Yellow Medicine^ > The Yipiyuk@, From Russia With Love*
Set II: Cool #9, Dear Milena#, Moroccan Song&, Carry The Zero!, Before You Were Born, Frog Waltz+
Encore: B.J.'s theme, Sorry > With or Without You
Notes: ~ First time played a currently untitled airing was not anticipated by Brad. First or prominent lyric is .today is the day of my death. eerily reminiscent of a sentiment expressed by a testicular cancer stricken headbanger (Dean) in the Canadian film FUBAR (fucked up beyond all recognition) which this reviewer saw that afternoon before hitting the road to Kingston. In the scene in question the supposed documentary filmmaker (Ferris) is dragged along on a camping trip/binge in exchange for Dean having sought medical help for his cancer, after Ferris peters off into the Alberta night Dean and Terry are up drinking Pilsner (a low grade stock beer common in the West of Canada particularly Alberta) at which point Dean opens up with what turns out to be a very profound idea. The sentiment "from the mouths of babes" is about how every year a day goes buy which is in effect the anniversary of your death. $ Brad was bummed about this rendition, was on the Strat, always "challenging". ^ "for those kids" (Rhode Island, Get The Fuck Out!).
05/23/2003:   Pepper Jack Cafe:   Hamilton, ONT   
Set I: Cumulus, Poor Boy, So Dope, Hey Worrier, In Your Dreams, 54-46 Was Your Number, Moral Decay> Beat Box Jam> Else, ^Children of Atlantis, Love And Tears, Hallelujah (instrumental)> Children of December
Encore: Sometimes True to Nothing, Dogs on Bikes
Notes: ^ with Kazoo [josh marx - August 14, 2003 ]
05/24/2003:   Le Swimming:   Montreal, QUE    reviews/20030524/tasoula-Le_Swimming.html
Set I: Planet of Inexperience* > Wolof* > Get Me with Fuji, Tinderbox, new vocal tune%, ???
Set II: Back in 15 Minutes, Song of Mysterious Origin $, Poor Boy$, happy birthday!, Gemini (Kingdom of Light)^, Tenfold*, Sometimes There's Wine
Encore: Mudslide* > Sandman*, Hallelujah&
Notes: * on the sitar ??? a jazz standard? % sounded like a reworked version of the opener from 4/27/03 $ acoustic ! the crowd sang happy birthday to Andrew ^ with Andrew singing!
& leonard cohen cover; fire alarm went off a few seconds after the band left the stage... [ kosta & tasoula harlan - May 26, 2003 ]
06/05/2003:   Webster Theater:   Hartford, CT   
Set I: intro> Mr. Meowskers!> Built for Zeal, Munf, Back in 15 Minutes, Children of December, Get Me with Fuji> funk/drum & bass jam-> Fuji, Eube
Encore: Stand by Me*
Notes: ! It is Mr. Meowskers, not Tenfold, which is a huge problem with some setlists getting traded around with circulating discs. * By Ben E. King (1986) (instrumental). [ Betty furbally1 at aol.com - June 09, 2003 ]
06/07/2003:   Creekside Jamboreee (Festival):   Forksville, PA    
Set I: Intro> Cumulus, Children of December, Aptos, Get Me with Fuji, Before You Were Born*, The Soft Machine^, Dogs on Bikes
Notes: * dedicated to all those under 3 feet tall :) ^ Was "slide tune"?... is this what it's being called? [ tasoula - June 10, 2003 ]
06/10/2003:   St. Andrews:   Detroit, MI   
setlist missing
06/11/2003:   House of Blues:   Chicago, IL   
setlist missing
06/12/2003:   The Vogue:   Indianapolis, IN   
Set I: The Nashua Rose> Nellie Jean> Jam> Yellow Medicine> Drum+Noise Jam> Yellow Medicine, 74, Dogs on Bikes
Notes: 1 set, opened for Robert Randolph & The Family Band. Finally tracked down a recording of this show that was missing from the setlist archive for this year... and it's a great set! e-mail if anyone wants me to b&p a copy. Katie <kcultrera at smcvt.edu> - December 15, 2003 at 16:14:23 (CST)
06/15/2003:   Bonnaroo Music Festival:   Manchester, TN   
Set I: Jam> Get Me with Fuji, The Soft Machine, Nellie Jean> Jam> Born in December, Song of Mysterious Origin *, Sorry
Notes: * this is one of the new Indian sounding instrumentals (I think they may have played it on 4.19.03). [Ben Murrill - b_murrill at hotmail.com - July 10, 2003 ]
06/16/2003:   Proud Larrys:   Oxford, MS   
setlist missing
06/17/2003:   Sticky Fingerz Chicken Shack:   Little Rock, AR   
setlist missing
06/19/2003:   32 Bleu:   Colorado Springs, CO   
Set I: TEWDACYATM > The Soft Machine, Built for Zeal, If One of Us Should Fall, Get Me with Fuji
Set II: Planet of Inexperience> Wolof > jam with mudslidey tease, happy birthday to Marc> jam with "All Apologies" teases (Aptos?) > 74, keys intro > Weight of Solomon
Encore: Children of December, Sweet Thing
Notes: Maura - 12/6/03; Jeffro - jmalinow at gwu.edu - 10/23/2003
06/20/2003:   Mishawaka Amphitheater:   Bellvue, CO   
Set I: Flute Song> Song of Mysterious Origin, The Soft Machine(?), Dear Milena, Tenfold??, (Built to Spill tune?), Trane-ing, Moral Decay, (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love & Understanding%
Notes: one set... unsure about "The Soft Machine" and Built to Spill tune--might be "Stop the Show" from 'Perfect from Now On'. % Elvis Costello tune.
06/21/2003:   Mishawaka Theater:   Bellvue, CO   
Set I: Catacea?* > Invocation, Tenfold, Cumulus, Mudslide, Children of December#, Back in 15 Minutes, Sorry > With or Without You, (jazz tune), Dogs on Bikes&
Notes: * improv jam, similar to Catacea but more intense, starts out slowly & builds into free-jazz explosion which unfolds beautifully into Invocation. Brad gives a poignant little speech on being grateful to be in such a beautiful place, amongst such beautiful people :). & with MC Scottrohedron (Sector 9), rockin' it.
[June 29, 2003]
06/24/2003:   Abe and Jakes Landing:   Lawrence, KS   
Set I: Ambrosia Drunk, Torque, The Soft Machine, Headshot, Meowskers, Tinderbox, Witch in the Kitchen, Children of December, Munf, Lemonade, Sorry
Encore: Whisper Me off to Sleep, Poor Boy, Johnny's Tune
Notes: I recently got this show from the taper. He had the date as 6.25.03. The Slipbase has another show for that date. I'm not sure which is correct.
06/25/2003:   The Blue Note:   Columbia, MO   
Set I: ??? , Don't Foil the Mohel, ???, If One of Us Should Fall, ???
Encore: Sometimes True to Nothing, From Russia with Love
Notes: All one set. Setlist incomplete. During the show, Marc was on his cell phone (which could be overheard) talking to a weird sounding person speaking gibberish. Marc passed the phone to Brad and Brad would act as if he knew what the speaker was talking about and had a short conversation. Brad then gave the phone to Andrew and Andrew spoke the same gibberish language as the speaker (this was right before don't foil the mohel). [ larry <fox087 at earthlink dot net - August 21, 2003 ]
06/27/2003:   Higher Ground Music Festival:   Terra Alta, WV   
Set I: Planet of Inexperience> Song of Mysterious Origin> Dear Milena, Get Me with Fuji*, The Soft Machine, Lemonade, Nellie Jean#> Aptos#, Sorry
Notes: * Andrew on beatbox. # Brad on sitar/guitar. [Pat Stehley - July 09, 2003 ]
07/04/2003:   High Sierra Music Festival (Tulsa E. Scott late night stage):   Quincy, CA   
Set I: Intro> The Soft Machine, Wolof, Back in 15 Minutes, Mudslide, Children of December, Sweet Thing, Witch in the Kitchen
Notes: from AZ mike recording [ Harry McQuillen <harryATspunturtle.net> - Jan 9 2007]. Nathan Moore with The Slip + Marco Benevento (melodica & percussion). [Jonny Bahr - 12/22/2003, Cleantone fixes. Set order not sure. Surprise Me Mr. Davis set was actually 2004 (HarryMcQ - moved). ]
07/05/2003:   High Sierra Music Festival (Big Top Stage):   Quincy, CA   
Set I: Trane-ing, The Soft Machine, Wolof, Back in 15 Minutes, Mudslide, Children of December, Sweet Thing^, Headshot
Notes: ^ Van Morrison tune. [Sean - sneaksox at aol.com - July 09, 2003]
07/06/2003:   Fillmore Jazz Festival:   San Francisco, CA   
Set I: Song of Mysterious Origin^, ??, techno tune > Mr. Meowskers, Back in 15 Minutes, Yaki Soba, Get Me with Fuji, Piano Instrumental (same as 4-19-03) > Sorry
Notes: ^ Brad on nylon string. [ Setlist needs clarification. Dennis Lee - Sun Jul 20; Derek Baker - July 07, 2003 ]
07/07/2003:   Kuumbwa Jazz Center:   Santa Cruz, CA   
Set I: Catacea > Trane-ing, ??, ??, Sometimes There's Wine*, Aptos
Set II: Song of Mysterious Origin %, The Soft Machine > ??, Techno tune > Mr. Meowskers > Soft Warm Simple Wonder, Johnny's Tune > If One of Us Should Fall
Encore: Else^
Notes: * dedicated to Brad and Andrew's mom, who was sitting in the front row. % this is the eastern song - after they ended, someone yelled "what's that song called?" Brad answered "it's a song of mysterious origin." he then introduced the next song as "The Soft Machine." ^ Brad asked this guy in the front row what he wanted to hear for the E:, and Else it was. The Techno tune (Brad doing percussive tapping on guitar) was the same one from Fillmore. [ Dennis Lee - lee_den at yahoo.com - July 11, 2003 ]
07/08/2003:   Yoshi's:   Oakland, CA   
Set I: ??, Cumulus*, ?? (2nd song played at Fillmore Jazzfest), The Soft Machine, Lemonade%, Yaki Soba ("one-minute song" - they were running out of time)
Set II: Song of Mysterious Origin, Poor Boy, (new wild Techno Tune) > Mr. Meowskers ??^ Jumby, Ride On!, (Piano Instrumental)
Encore: Intro (Brad tapping guitar cord with hand) > Dogs on Bikes
Notes: Set 1-Early show (8 PM), set 2-late show (10 PM). * Brad on guitar/sitar. % with Rob Ewing on trombone ^ with Leslie Helpert singing and Rob Ewing on trombone - with lyrics like "Straight into the Sun" ! ACDC Cover. with Jay Garcia painting throughout both shows. [ Dennis Lee - lee_den at yahoo.com - July 20, 2003]
07/09/2003:   Studio Z:   San Francisco, CA   
Set I: Wolof, Children of December, Get Me with Fuji*, Jumpin' Jack Flash%, All Blues, Tenfold, Love And Tears!
Encore: If One of Us Should Fall, (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love & Understanding@
Notes: * w/ Carlos Washington on sax. % w/Mike Gordon on bass.
07/17/2003:   Rocks off Boat Cruise:   New York, NY   
Set I: Sea Legs*, Brooklyn$, The Soft Machine^, Spice Groove, Proud Mary#, Mudslide, If One of Us Should Fall&, Children of December#, Drifting+, Rhythm and Gold, Simmer Down instr>Happy Snails Jam> Sorry+
Notes: * According to SlipBase, last played 2/7/99 !!!! Great old Slip tune...fitting song to start the boat. $ Steely Dan cover. ^ Correct name for Slide tune aka "If". # Creedence Clearwater Revival cover (instrumental, with crowd sing-along). + Herbie Hancock cover. & Dedicated to NYC. # Correct name for "The Zeroes". + Before Sorry, there was a jam, which included Simmer Down, Happy Snails, and In Life You Were An Ocean (In Death You Are the Rain)!!! [ Jonny Bahr - jonnybahr at hotmail.com - July 18, 2003; Cleantone - Fri Jul 18 ]
07/18/2003:   River Street Jazz Cafe:   Plains, PA   
Set I: Phase One> All Blues, Torque, Nellie Jean> jam(?)> The Nashua Rose, Yaki Soba
Set II: The Girl From Ipanema!, Jam> Mr. Meowskers> Soft Warm Simple Wonder> The Soft Machine, (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding&
Encore: Sometimes True To Nothing, Before You Were Born
Notes: ! Cover, 1st time played. & Elvis Costello tune. Brad had tape recorder at this show (first time?). [Ethan, Jeremy Shinko - jts211 at hotmail.com - July 19, 2003; Ethan, Jul 21 ]
07/19/2003:   Endless Mountain Music Festival:   Uniondale, PA   
Set I: Planet of Inexperience (?)> Wolof, Children of December$, All Blues, Poor Boy, Song of Mysterious Origin, Love And Tears^, Sorry, (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love & Understanding#
Notes: $ Belatedly dedicated to long-time friend, Zac (?). # Elvis Costello cover. ^ Brad on electric 12-string. [ ethan - July 27, 2003 ]
07/23/2003:   Hot Tin Roof:   Martha's Vineyard, MA   
Set I: Song of Mysterious Origin*> If One of Us Should Fall, Poor Boy, (new vocal)!, Get Me with Fuji, The Soft Machine, Witch in the Kitchen^, ? slow sitar tune ?, Mudslide, Happy Snails#
Encore: Children of December> Soft Warm Simple Wonder
Notes: * very sick version!!! heavier than past versions. ! Debut. ^ Excellent version--Brad played some rippin Kazoo! # with the PVC pipes (Tim Lanterman). [ cleantone - cleantone@hotmail.com - July 24, 2003 ]
07/25/2003:   Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel:   Providence, RI   
Set I: Honey Melon!, Poor Boy, Song (of Mysterious Origin)> The Soft Machine, Don't Foil the Mohel, Headshot > Mr. Meowskers, Predicting the Rain, Yellow Medicine
Set II: The Woods, Children of December> So Dope, Alsoa, Sorry%> In Life You Were an Ocean (In Death You Are the Rain)^> Sorry
Encore: Happy Snails, Honey Melon%
Notes: ! "BAM impersonators" -- At the beginning of the show (before set one), Sam Leonard, John ??? and Tim Lanterman (SJT) came out dressed as Brad, Marc and Andrew (respectively--beards, clothing, etc.). The lights were dim, so folks didn't notice. Many of the long-time Slip fans were fooled by this point, and SJT played Honey Melon! extremely ("surprisingly") well, catching the audience off-guard. The Slip then appeared and began posing, which cracked up the audience. Before Yellow Med., Brad said they had been playing a lot of "new songs" and that they were going to play an older one. Tim came out during Happy Snails and played the maracas while Andrew played the PVC pipes. During The Slip's 'Honey Melon' E:, SJT came out on stage and did their version of The Slip's posing from earlier. [Cleantone, unknown, Sammy, Phrazz - July 26, 2003 at 15:04 - 19:00 ] % new vocal tune in the middle? [BRAD BARR: ^ I just wanted to let you guys know, the song that came out at the end of Sorry that night, the one you thought might have been by Built to Spill, is a song I wrote years ago for my Uncle Ted, who passed away("As a token of my appreciation/so you can verify/that nothing in this life you did in vein/to that I'll testify........"). I call it "In Life You Were an Ocean(In Death You Are the Rain)". For the record, the only BTS songs we've played have been "Else", "Carry The Zero"(not to be confused with "The Zeroes", aka "Children of December", aka "Children of December", aka "Birthdays"), and a slight tease of( I forget the name)"We're special in other ways", at the acoustic show at Helsinki, also at the end of Sorry. Any questions, let me know. Kewl. Out..... [ Brad - Mon Aug 18 2003
08/02/2003:   Northeast Kingdom Music Festival:   Albany, VT   
Set I: ???, ???> Mr. Meowskers, ?country blues (acoustic) eastern-sounding?, Children of December, If One of Us Should Fall, (Andrew on PVC pipes [guest on shakers]), Dogs on Bikes> MC (into Soulive Set)
Notes: They played a song that Brad said they had only played two previous times...the lyrics talked about the rain alot of the time. They then played a "country blues" song that was dripping of Delta Blues and New Orleans. Both of these songs were done on an acoustic six-string guitar...with Brad ripping some eastern sounding riffs. I believe they played the song Children of December...great song with Brad getting some nice sounds out of the sunburst. If One of Us Should Fall was played with Andrew playing some off-kilter beats that somehow blended perfectly with Brad and Marc. The following song had Andrew playing some sort of hand percussion with what looked like flip-flops (my eyes are horrible) and with someone sitting in with two shakers. Whoever was playing the shakers did a fantastic job of playing off Andrew's beats....best song of the night IMO. The band ended the set with a quick warped version of Dogs on Bikes with someone MC'ing to give a nice segue into the Soulive set. [Cecil Thomas - August 03, 2003; Greg - 12/14/2003]
08/03/2003:   Bethel Fest:   Hillsboro, NH   
Set I: Built for Zeal, Lemonade, Let the Morning In, Driving Backwards With You, Love And Tears*, Something Learned> Tenfold> Planet of Inexperience> Joe Higley, The Lucky Dragon, Children of December> Soft Warm Simple Wonder, Get Me with Fuji> (Stanley Gemmel Poem)> If One of Us Should Fall^> (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love & Understanding?
Encore: "Drill Sergeant Meowskers"> (instrumental improv)!, Angels Come on Time#, Alsoa^
Notes: *included a debut of "12 string slide loop" song. ^ with Sara Azriel on vocals. ! with Marc on guitar, Brad on Drums and Andrew on Bass. # Kram Dangle!! (Matt Rudnicki on vocals, Chris Montecablo on drums, Brad on guitar, Marc on bass) [ Cleantone - August 04, 2003; also Cecil Thomas Sun Aug 3, 2003; Jeff Dylyn ]
08/06/2003:   Club Passim:   Cambridge, MA    
Set I: 74, Still Shiver, Dispossessed, Before You Were Born, Ambrosia Drunk, Soft Warm Simple Wonder, Cut from the Cloth^, Chasing Rabbits, Sound Escapes, Poor Boy
Notes: Brad Barr opened for Leslie Helpert (Andrew sat in on percussion on one tune). [cleantone at hotmail.com] - August 08, 2003]
08/15/2003:   Berkfest (Main Stage):   Great Barrington, MA   
Set I: Intro jam> Children of December, Poor Boy, new vocal tune*, Get Me with Fuji, The Soft Machine, The Lucky Dragon, Happy Snails/Smells^, Baba O'Riley!
Notes: * New slow vocal tune (debuted at 7/23/03 MV show) , mostly in 3/4, chorus contains lyric 'you were the worst at predicting the rain', 'drop in the bucket'. ^ with Andrew on flip flops, Tim and then Jamie Janover on maracas. !The Who cover (first time played? ). [ tasoula - August 18, 2003 ]
08/16/2003:   Berkfest (Upper Lodge):   Great Barrington, MA   
Set I: Wolof*, Headshot> Mr. Meowskers, Mudslide*, Song of Mysterious Origin, (new vocal tune)^, Children of December, Johnny's Tune#, Else% > Blue Moon > Else
Encore: If One of Us Should Fall!
Notes: * Brad on sitar. ^ "Today is the day of my resurrection" # Brad said they were foregoing the "band leaves stage audience applauds band comes back on stage" thing and so this was sort of a pseudo-E:. % Built to Spill cover. ! more uptempo than usual. [tasoula - August 18, 2003 ; greggyb - 12/28/2003 ]
08/17/2003:   Berkfest (Upper Lodge - d'Addario Improv Workshop):   Great Barrington, MA   
Set I: jazzy improv> All Blues, What Is and What Should Never Be^, free jazz and some slower more mellow jazz, audience question session*, Heard It through the Grapevine, Eggs Benevento (order?)
Notes: ^ Led Zeppelin cover. * "Cantaloupe or Honey dew?" to which Brad responds "cantaloupe" [Mike Fleder - djuggler85 at aol dot com] An hour long set of Jazz improv and standards. Marco Benevento (www.organanddrums.com) sat in on Organ for the whole set. This was for D'Addario's improv workshop. Since it was not announced, there were maybe 10 people there at first. Some of the set was recorded but not in its entirety.... [cleantone - August 18, 2003]
08/25/2003:   Matt Murphy's Public House:   Brookline, MA   
Set I: Baba O'Riley^ (The Who), Before You Were Born, Sometimes There's Wine, Instrumental, Poor Boy, Little Red Corvette$, Walking Talkin' Round Town Blues, Hold On%, I'm In No Hurry To Get To Heaven, Dispossessed, Cut From The Cloth
Set II: Predicting The Rain, 6 Sided, Diggin' Uncle Sam's Backyard # , Sometimes True to Nothing > "jam", If One of Us Should Fall, Slow the Boat, Instrumental
Set III: Something's Gotta Be Arranged (Paul Geremia)
Notes: ! Brad Barr solo. ^ The Who cover. $ Prince cover. % Tom Waits cover. # Paul Geremia cover. [cleantone Jan 21 2008]
08/29/2003:   Bumbershoot Festival:   Seattle, WA   
Set I: Song of Mysterious Origin, Children of December, Nellie Jean> (Brad juggling while balancing) > Get Me with Fuji, Poor Boy, Sometimes True to Nothing
Notes: Ted Kartzman - 9/2/2003
08/30/2003:   Reed College:   Portland, OR   
Set I: The Soft Machine, TEWDACYATM, Get Me with Fuji, "Sickest Jam of the Night with Beatbox Loops", Else, Before You Were Born, Yellow Medicine> Sandman, Children of December
Encore: Dogs on Bikes!
Notes: Ted Kartzman - 9/2/2003
08/31/2003:   Goodfoot Lounge:   Portland, OR   
Set I: Desert Blues Improv> Rainmaker, (sit-down acoustic vocal number about predicting the rain), Headshot> Mr. Meowskers, Softwarmsimplewonder, Joe Higley
Set II: Phase One / All Blues, The Weight of Solomon> Drown in My Own Tears^, Children of December, Spice Groove> "sick beatbox loop"
Encore: If One of Us Should Fall, (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding%
Notes: ^ Ray Charles cover. %Elvis Costello cover, with "Sorry" jam. [ Ted Kartzman - ted at theslip dot com - Sep 02, 2003 ]
09/02/2003:   WOW Hall:   Eugene, OR   
Set I: Ambrosia Drunk^, Something Learned!, The Witch in the Kitchen, The Soft Machine, Marie's the Name$, "amazing alien noises" > Headshot> Muffin Number Five#, Carry the Zero%, Marry Mary Shelley?
Encore: E1: Happy Snails*, Born in December E2: Something's Got to be Arranged+, Poor Boy E3: If One of Us Should Fall > (Brad falling and starting to play) > Dogs on Bikes
Notes: Thanks to The Ovulators for opening the show. ^Nathan Moore song. ! Debut. $ Elvi$ Presley song. # 1st time played? % Built to Spill song. ? new song - title set? * Andrew on PVC tubes with Sam's flip flops. + Paul Geremia. [TedK: The audience would simply not let the band leave, we made so much noise they just had to come back for an E:. And then another one. And then a third one...what an experience! ] Ted Kartzman - September 05, 2003
09/03/2003:   Q's Bar and Restaurant:   Ashland, OR   
Set I: Slow Fuji> Get Me with Fuji (end), Wolof, Predicting the Rain, The Soft Machine, Tinderbox
Set II: Song of Mysterious Origin*, Poor Boy, Sorry> With or Without You, Ashland/You'll Find a Home, To Russia With Love
Encore: Dear Milena> (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding> Funky Thing
Notes: * w/ Brett from Hamsa Lila on Gimbre and Marc on electric 12-string guitar) [ Ted Kartzman - September 05, 2003 ]
09/04/2003:   Six Rivers:   McKinleyville, CA   
Set I: The Air Is the Body, Ambrosia Drunk, Sometimes True to Nothing, The Soft Machine, So Dope, Clementine, Drown in My Own Tears, Something Learned, Sweet Thing^
Encore: Children of December, If One of Us Should Fall
Notes: * Ray Charles) ^ Van Morrison . [Ted Kartzman - September 05, 2003 ]
09/05/2003:   The Little Fox:   Redwood City, CA   
Set I: Ambrosia Drunk, Built For Zeal, Instrumental, Hoc No Seh, Trane-ing, Back in 15 Minutes, TEWDACYATM, Predicting The Rain, Something's Got To Be Arranged
Set II: new vocal tune, The Soft Machine, Happy Snails, Headshot > Else > Blue Moon? > Else, untitled^, The Weight of Solomon, Spice Groove
Encore: Stand By Me/Wonderful World, (Tonight We Leave) Chicago
Notes: ^? untitled as of yet - Brad on Wurlitzer. [tk - September 18, 2003] ? Is this Blue Moon by Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Rod Stewart, or who?
09/06/2003:   The Little Fox:   Redwood City, CA   
Set I: Get Me with Fuji, Rainmaker, Driving Backwards With You, The Woods, Rhythm-A-Ning, Poor Boy
Set II: Cut From the Cloth, Children of December, Aptos, Sometimes True To Nothing, Happy Snails, Dear Milena
Encore: Love And Tears> Muffin Number 5, If One of Us Should Fall
Notes: Ted Kartzman - September 18, 2003
09/08/2003:   Moe's Alley:   Santa Cruz, CA   
Set I: Ambrosia Drunk, Sometimes True to Nothing, Headshot> Mr. Meowskers, improv, The Soft Machine
Set II: Poor Boy, Cut from the Cloth, Happy Snails^, 74, Children of December, If One of Us Should Fall
Encore: Love And Tears (instrumental)> dancehall dude ? rappin, (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love & Understanding
Notes: ^ with Jeffree Lerner of STS9 [Ted Kartzman - September 18, 2003]
09/10/2003:   SOhO:   Santa Barbara, CA   
Set I: piano intro> Nellie Jean, In Your Dreams, The Soft Machine, Tinderbox, Love And Tears
Set II: Poor Boy, Cut from the Cloth> Tenfold> Children of December, Sometimes True to Nothing
Encore: E1: Baba O'Riley (Marc solo intro), Dear Milena. E2: Man in the Mirror jam> Sorry.
Notes: The place was getting so down and dancy on this particular evening. The E: was ridiculous. Marc brought the intensity with the Baba O'Riley intro, the crowd erupted and screamed "teenage wasteland" with Brad, and then this second E: was a good 20 minutes of improv, that funky loop jam in the style of Charlottesville in February of 2002. It proceeded to get very risque and stony in that place and the jam, which was dedicated to 9/11, broke down into MJ's "Man in the Mirror" and then into "Sorry." After everyone left and the place was just about empty, Brad closed the bar down with "Drown In My Own Tears" solo on the grand piano. [ Ted Kartzman - September 18, 2003 ]
09/11/2003:   The Knitting Factory:   Los Angeles, CA   
Set I: Ambrosia Drunk, Sometimes True to Nothing, The Soft Machine, Poor Boy, Predicting the Rain, Headshot> Get Me with Fuji, Children of December
Encore: Happy Snails, If One of Us Should Fall
Notes: [ Ted Kartzman - September 18, 2003 ]
09/12/2003:   Victor's On The Bay:   San Diego, CA   
Set I: Song of Mysterious Origin, Before You Were Born, Torque, 74, Don't Foil the Mohel, The Soft Machine, Just A Closer Walk With Thee
Set II: Come Over, Autobody Experience> Drown in My Own Tears, Back in 15 Minutes, Talkin' Knockin' Blues, Marry Mary Shelley
Notes: Ryan - Sept. 19, 2003.
09/13/2003:   Victor's On The Bay:   San Diego, CA   
Set I: Cumulus, Dogs on Bikes, Driving Backwards With You, Pass It On, Sorry, In Life You Were An Ocean (In Death You Are The Rain)
Set II: Love And Tears, Sparrow*, Sometimes True to Nothing*, Planet of Inexperience, Wolof
Encore: Children of December^, Soft Warm Simple Wonder
Notes: * w/Sara Azriel on backup vocals. ^ aka "The Zeroes" [ Ryan - Sept. 19, 2003. ]
09/20/2003:   The Wheelhouse Tavern:   Narragansett, RI    
Set I: Jam> Poor Boy, Predicting the Rain, Get Me with Fuji, Children of December, Jam > Hallelujah tease > Mr. Meowskers > Soft Warm Simple Wonder > Johnny's tune > Else > Blue Moon, Ride On
Encore: Nellie Jean
Notes: [tasoula - taso at ecomail.org - September 21, 2003]
09/27/2003:   WMEB Indie Fest [University of Maine]:   Orono, ME   
Set I: intro > If One of Us Should Fall, Wolof!, Sometimes True to Nothing, Headshot > Mr. Meowskers, Johnny's Tune, The Soft Machine, (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding
Encore: Children of December, Dogs on Bikes^
Notes: !Brad fell to the ground at the end and played the beginning of Wolof while laying on the ground. *instrumental number w/ Brads 'familiar' loop almost throughout and then played backwards and inside out and around again. loads of fun! ^ lights & curfew may have prompted this shorter version. [ Elmer - September 29, 2003 ; thx also to spifo, peep ]
10/01/2003:   Gothic Theatre:   Englewood, CO   
Set I: Intro^, Ambrosia Drunk, TEWDACYATM, The Witch in the Kitchen, Sorry#, Homeland, Poor Boy, Predicting the Rain (NEW), Sometimes True to Nothing
Encore: 10. Happy Snails*, If One of Us Should Fall
Notes: ^Very experimental - kind of reminded me of John Cage or Edgard Varese's "Poeme Electronique" #Amazing version of Sorry!!! *Tim Lanterman on percussion, Andrew on PVC pipes. --- Great show... small, intimate crowd, and RI/MA/CT/NY was definitely representing. [ Parker - cparker428 at yahoo - October 05, 2003 ]
10/02/2003:   Fox Theatre:   Boulder, CO    reviews/20031002/cecil.html
Set I: Back in 15 Minutes, Headshot, (new vocal tune), Carry the Zeros?, Wolof, Poor Boy, Children of December, Love And Tears^, Sometimes True to Nothing, The Weight of Solomon#
Encore: Happy Snails, Sorry
Notes: ? Might actually be BTS's "Something Learned". ^ Brad on Cleantone's 12-string green electric; trombone player from JBB on djembe (trumpet player, too, maybe also from JBB); Brad solos on kazoo & guitar. # Brad on Rhodes. [ Cecil <cthomas at naropa dot edu> - October 08, 2003 ]
10/03/2003:   Club 8150:   Vail, CO    
setlist missing
10/04/2003:   The Starlight:   Fort Collins, CO   
Set I: Tenfold, Spice Groove > Nellie Jean, The Soft Machine, 74, Song of Mysterious Origin, Poor Boy, Gemini*, Children of December
Encore: Alsoa > Dogs on Bikes
Notes: Very intimate show, only about 70-75 people in attendance!! [ Sean - sneaksox at aol> - 10/05/2003 ]
10/22/2003:   The Haunt:   Ithaca, NY   
Set I: Tinderbox, Poor Boy, Predicting the Rain, Headshot> Mr. Meowskers> Soft Warm Simple Wonder, Dogs on Bikes
Set II: Come Over (Cut from the Cloth), The Soft Machine, (lengthy experimentation)> Get Me with Fuji, Children of December
Encore: Rhythm and Gold
Notes: * Brad loops tape recorder through his pickups, Marc and Brad metal balls on strings
10/23/2003:   Revolution Hall:   Troy, NY   
Set I: intro* > Yo Yo Ma Ma Little Brown-Eyed Babushka, Something Learned, Ambrosia Drunk#, Wolof#, Nellie Jean#> Children of December, Happy Snails%, Sometimes True to Nothing
Encore: Poor Boy+, Rhythm-A-Ning, If One of Us Should Fall
Notes: Town Hall opened. * Brad used a children's toy/ music box that plays when you turn a knob. He held it up to the pickup on his black strat and made a loop of the sound. # Brad on Sitar. % Andrew on pvc pipes. + Brad on acoustic, Marc on SG; before the tune Brad gave away a copy of each of the new live albums. [ Jeffro - jmalinow at gwu.edu - 10/24/2003 ; Hoby Ebert ListServ corrections 10/25/2003 ]
10/24/2003:   Le Swimming:   Montreal, QUE   
Set I: funk soundcheck> The Soft Machine, Headshot> Else#> Blue Moon, Poor Boy, Come Over (new vocal)*> Song of Mysterious Origin tease > Come Over, Love And Tears
Set II: jam > Something Learned (new vocal #2)^, Driving Backwards With You, Yellow Medicine%, Mt. Zion> Yellow Medicine&, Children of December, crowd loop, Alsoa
Encore: (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love & Understanding, If One of Us Should Fall
Notes: # Built to Spill cover. ^ lyrics: "wipe your record clean...". % w/Gecko teases. & teases included Green Onion and Pink Panther Theme. [ Betty - furbally1 at aol.com - October 25, 2003 ]
10/25/2003:   WWPV FM Broadcast:   Burlington, VT    
Set I: Torque, 74, brief interview, The Soft Machine*, Poor Boy, Before You Were Born
Notes: Acoustic set with an audience of about 10 - 14 people, no tapes. * first time acoustic. [Betty - furbally1 at aol.com - 10/26/2003 ]
10/25/2003:   Higher Ground:   Winooski, VT   
Set I: funk intro* > The Soft Machine, Yo Yo Ma Little Brown-Eyed Babushka, Something Learned, Sorry> In Life You Were an Ocean (In Death You Are the Rain) > Rhythm and Gold
Set II: Get Me with Fuji > Headshot^ > Children of December, Ambrosia Drunk+, Ode to Joy (on PVC pipes) > Happy Snails, Honey Melon> Planet of Inexperience> Honey Melon
Encore: Poor Boy
Notes: * same intro as the montreal show. ^ featured a new slower ending. + this song was dedicated to Elliot Smith. [ Betty - furbally1 at aol.com - 10/26/2003 ]
10/26/2003:   UVM [Billings Lounge] Brad Solo show:   Burlington, VT   
Set I: [tasoula] Sometimes There's Wine*, Before You Were Born, Poem?, Predicting the Rain, Ramona^> new vocal> new instrumental w/loop, "Hi Nancy!"#, Song (mysterious)%, vocal tune!+, vocal tune@, Not Dear Milena&+, etude in 3/4~ > fingerpicked instrumental in 4/4> Uncle Sam's Backyard$, 74^^, vocal tune=, instrumental**, Six-Sided, Little Red Corvette##, If One of Us Should Fall, [standing ovation]
Set I: [ted k] Before You Were Born, Predicting The Rain, Ramona, 74, Glad I Found You, Song (with Andrew), Dispossessed, Ambrosia Drunk, 6-Sided, Little Red Corvette!
Encore: blues vocal!!
Notes: * with loop and alternate lyrics.? Brad read this out of his notebook so I assume he wrote it. The poem was short and sweet but I didn't take note of any of the words. ^ Bob Dylan cover; first time played. # Brad called his mother to say hello. She said "don't you have a show tonight?" and asked if his hair was combed; the audience said "Hi Nancy!" on cue. % With Andrew on a hand drum that resembled a small djembe. ! Included lyrics "I don't care if you don't want me there".
10/27/2003:   Matt Murphy's Public house:   Brookline, MA   
setlist missing
Notes: 40 minute set of "Meowskers": Matt Rudnicki (piano, vocals, songwriter); Brian Sayers (drums); Andrew Barr (bass!); Brad Barr: guitar. [Cleantone - 10/20/2003]
10/31/2003:   Paradise Rock Club:   Boston, MA   
Set I: "Spooky Intro"^, Jam> The Soft Machine, *In the Light, "gorilla disturbance"!, Poor Boy, Don't Foil the Mohel, "River Sang to Buddha"~, #Happiness is a Warm Gun
Set II: Cumulus, December's Children, %Sorry> "In Life You Were an Ocean (In Death You Are the Rain)", "rabbit cello"+ > @Happy Snails, Sometimes True to Nothing
Encore: Stand By Me$, Baba O'Riley#
Notes: Mahi Mahi opened. BAM was dressed as primary colors: Brad (red), Marc (blue) and Andrew (yellow). ^ a "spooky voice" (Sammy) came over the PA saying "It is time to KILL YOU!!!". His cell phone rings and it's Marc Friedman asking him to just introduce them, since his intro was not going over well. * Led Zeppelin cover (Physical Graffiti). ! someone in a gorilla suit stormed around the stage, making grunting sounds over the PA. Afro-wearing Tim Lanterman bounced him from the stage. ~ Debut (tentative title): Lyrics: "You closed your eyes and sang to me / like River sang to Buddha / You closed your heart and wept for me / like Jesus wept for Judas" [Brad]. # Beatles cover (White Album). % this was played very differently. I think the key was modulated and maybe more than that. + consisted of someone dressed in a big rabbit suit faux playing a cello to some song over the PA. They proceeded to jump on the cello and smash it before the band sequed into Happy Snails.
11/04/2003:   The Stone Pony:   Asbury Park, NJ   
Set I: If One of Us Should Fall> Driving Backwards With You, Get Me with Fuji, Something Learned, Hey Worrier, new song^, Happiness is a Warm Gun$, Built for Zeal, Planet of Inexperience> Nellie Jean> drum solo%> (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding
Encore: (Take A) Beetle To The Badlands
Notes: ^ Marc on SG. $ Beatles cover. % Androo only. ? Elvis Costello cover. Secret Sound and Dave Pittenger opened. [ Ted Kartzman - 11/5/2003 ]
11/05/2003:   The Funk Box:   Baltimore, MD   
Set I: intro > The Soft Machine, Poor Boy, Come Over, Don't Foil the Mohel, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Love And Tears
Set II: Tinderbox, Get Me with Fuji> "Stylin' with Mister Free"*> Get Me with Fuji, "a spelling interlude"%> Aptos> The Shouters > Dogs on Bikes
Encore: Children of December
Notes: * Mister Free gets up and does some hip hop, while Androo beatboxed a nice loop. % Avant, very 'out there' jam w/ Androo heavy on the Synaire and Brad plays tape recorder into his guitar pickups. Sickness! [Ted Kartzman - 11/6/2003]
11/06/2003:   Starr Hill Music Hall:   Charlottesville, VA   
I. The Woods, Nellie Jean > Predicting the Rain, Poor Boy, Trane-ing, Mary Shelley, The Soft Machine^, Ambrosia Drunk, Let the Morning In > Sorry
Encore: Children of December*
Notes: ^ Marc on guitar! * aka "The Zeroes". [TK - 11/7/2003]
11/07/2003:   Aroma Cafe:   Norfolk, VA   
Set I: Munf, Before You Were Born, Let the Morning In, The Soft Machine, Happiness is a Warm Gun, improv > slow jazz ending, fast blues in b flat, Else > Blue Moon > Else, (Take A) Beetle to the Badlands
Encore: (Take A) Beetle to the Badlands
Notes: Venue change from Plaza Azteca to Aroma due to a fire. One set--due to opening band running 30 minutes late :-( . "this chance won't come again". [ TK - 11/7/03 ]
11/08/2003:   Marrz Theater:   Wilmington, NC    
Set I: Improv (vocal) > Song (of Mysterious Origin), Something Learned, The Witch in The Kitchen, The Soft Machine*, Driving Backwards With You, Headshot, Hey Worrier%, Mudslide, December's Children, If One of Us Should Fall!
Encore: Poor Boy
Notes: * At the end of The Soft Machine someone in the crowd screams for the funk and Marc jams a few notes. % By Request. ! Brad falls to the floor and jams for a couple minutes. Near the end of the show Brad brings a fan on stage to introduce himself because it was his first time seeing The Slip and The Slip's first time in Wilmington, NC. [ Jeff Hartzell <slipserver at carolina.rr.com> - November 09, 2003. Jeff's Photos: http://public.fotki.com/JEFFfromNC/ ]
11/10/2003:   Blue Cats:   Knoxville, TN   
Set I: Dear Milena*, The Earth Will Dissever and Consume You After These Messages, Headshot > Mr. Meowskers, Tonight We Leave Chicago, Happiness is a Warm Gun$, Wolof, The Soft Machine%, "Happy Birthday Katie"& > The Shouters? ^ > My Room, Children of December
Encore: Happy Snails+ > Baba O'Riley@
Notes: * Brad played on the acoustic guitar in the CGCGCE tuning, also with Andrew on the udu; also Marc w/ slide on electric guitar. $ Brad pulled out a live bullet that they had found on the train tracks outside Charlottesville, VA the day before and played the national anthem during this tune. also featuring Marc on the guitar and foot-bass pedals, and a small blue moon tease at the end. % Marc on guitar. & The crowd sang happy birthday to Katie which went into a new vocal tune. ^ This song contained the lyrics "You'll never be a boy again" and "They took you to the fallen place"(???)..really beautiful. + w/Tim Lanterman on the shakers. The Greyhounds opened.
11/11/2003:   Smith's Olde Bar:   Atlanta, GA   
Set I: funk startro*> The Soft Machine, The Shouters% (new vocal tune in b-flat), The Girl from Ipanema!, Tinderbox, Poor Boy, Dear Milena+, So Dope, Hey Worrier, Johnny's Tune^, Love And Tears> Blue Moon> Love And Tears> Blue Moon
Encore: Sometimes True to Nothing
Notes: [ Ted Kartzman - ted at theslip dot com - Nov 12, 2003 ] * like Montreal, Baltimore. % (played in knoxville and baltimore - my friend scott called it 'solitude' and it fits) ! Debut. + now on two guitars-Brad (acoustic) and Marc (electric). ^ Sickest Marc solo, then Andrew...something cosmic broke through here.
11/12/2003:   Georgia Theater:   Athens, GA   
Set I: Get Me with Fuji, Nellie Jean> Aptos
Set II: ??? funk startro^ > The Soft Machine, (new vocal tune in b-flat%, The Girl from Ipanema, Tinderbox, Poor Boy, Dear Milena#, So Dope, Hey Worrier, Johnny's Tune$, Love And Tears> Blue Moon> Love And Tears> Blue Moon !!!
Encore: Sometimes True to Nothing
Notes: [corrections: Joel. Setlist incomplete.] ^ like Montreal, Baltimore. % Also played in Knoxville and Baltimore - my friend, Scott, called it 'Solitude' and it fits. # now on two guitars, Brad acoustic and Marc electric. $ sickest Marc solo, then Andrew, something cosmic broke through here! [ Ted Kartzman - ted at theslip dot com - November 12, 2003 ]
11/13/2003:   The Orange Peel:   Asheville, NC   
Set I: Wolof^, ?*, The Earth Will Dissever and Consume You After These Messages&, Dear Milena^, River Sang to Buddha, Joe Higley, Children of December$ > The Woods, Happy Snails#, Sandman > The Times They Are a Changin', Before You Were Born > Moral Decay% > (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding
Encore: Yaki Soba
Notes: ^ Brad jams a theme on "Hunter/Gatherer" (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey) and keeps it alive for 1.5 minutes. * played at the higher ground show (10/25/03)[ED:???] & Brad started up the "River Sang to Buddha" song from the halloween show, but Marc's guitar wasn't making any sound, so that was abandoned and went into TEWDACYATM. about two minutes into it a string broke on the Strat so Brad switched to the Sometimes True To Nothing guitar. ^ with Marc on electric guitar. $ There was a minor jam in there that happened at the knoxville show as well. # Begins with "Ode to Joy" by Marc; The illustrious Tim Lanterman on the shakers, and Marc rolling a ball around on his level bass, creating all sorts of wonderful sounds, also Brad playing the tape recorder into his guitar, and Andrew doing a nice classical jam on the pvc pipes at the beginning (with "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" tease). % it sounded like they were teasing a tune here (from the 80's perhaps) but I couldn't name it. [ kosta harlan - kosta at ecomail dot org - November 14, 2003 ]
11/14/2003:   Baylee's:   Blacksburg, VA   
Set I: Song (of Mysterious Origin, Cut from the Cloth, Poor Boy, Serpentfly cover, Torque, Intro> Hey Worrier, loop beat jam*> "Token of our Appreciation" (In Life You Were An Ocean [In Death You Are the Rain])?
Set II: Children of December> Dear Milena, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Spice Groove, A Crack in the Sundial#
Encore: Improv> If One of Us Should Fall%
Notes: * Brad was looping beats created by tapping the tip of his guitar cord. Then he started tapping it off of Tim's head. # By Request from someone who had not heard the song in over two years. % Brad Falls out and continues from the floor. [ Jeff Hartzell - slipserver at carolina dot rr dot com - November 17, 2003 ]
11/15/2003:   The Pour House:   Raleigh, NC   
Set I: improv, Ambrosia Drunk#, The Soft Machine$, Don't Foil the Mohel, Sometimes True to Nothing, 74, improv jam
Set II: Improv???(Vocal)%, Poor Boy> "Happy Birthday Blair", Get Me with Fuji, Children of December, Happy Snails^, Intro> Honey Melon> Born on the Bayou@> Honey Melon
Encore: Mudslide, If One of Us Should Fall!
Notes: # Dedicated to Elliot Smith. $ Jam with Brad on the scratch beat box. % Andrew and Brad started off the set speaking through the mini Casio keyboard. Unknown vocal. ^ Tim Lanterman on shakers.
11/21/2003:   Pearl Street Ballroom:   Northampton, MA   
Set I: Intro> More Intense Surveillance, Nellie Jean> Headshot> Mr. Meowskers, The Woods, Children of December, "Come Over", "Got to be Arranged", Poor Boy, Jam> Jumby
Encore: Yellow Medicine, The Soft Machine
Notes: "Come Over" = "Cut by the Cloth'' neither is an official title as far as I know. "Got to be Arranged" is a bluesy tune that I have seen Brad play solo twice but this was the first time I had seen The Slip perform it. Yellow Medicine included Zion teases and possible Sea Legs as well. 20min+ Brad mentioned the live album and the track from Pearl Street the year before. He didn't mention that it was 365 prior to the night... [ cleantone - November 22, 2003 ]
11/22/2003:   Colby College:   Waterville, ME    
Set I: More Intense Surveillance> "Instrumental in 4"*> slight "Song" tease> Get Me with Fuji, Dear Milena^, Something Learned%, Nellie Jean> Aptos, Love And Tears&
Set II: Cumulus#, Mudslide!, The Soft Machine^, (Take A) Beetle to the Badlands%, Happy Snails@
Notes: * I believe this is the same intro played at Pearl st. 11/21; it's a pretty slow but funky jam over I to IV7. ^ with Marc on guitar. % aka "Chrysanthemum". & with Blue Moon tease. # with Brad on sitar. (I've seen Cumulus on the Sitar referred to as "Concubus" before. also included a jam similar to the Cumulus jam heard at 5/09/03 and 10/31/03, and a tease of a tune Chloe told me was called "hit em up style". ! with Brad on sitar and tape recorder. $ with Marc on guitar, also with Brad playing the cuica and the windy music-box thing. % Brad asked what song we wanted to hear next, and there was a huge shout out for Beetle. the verse included "take a wagon to waterville" and Brad made a little speech about how maybe we would one day all be driving biodiesel cars and how it's important for people to talk to each other and travel and network and learn from the people and things in the world.
11/28/2003:   Narrows Center for the Arts (acoustic show):   Fall River, MA   
Set I: Predicting the Rain, Poor Boy, Chasing Rabbits^, Get Down and Sruti, 74*, Torque, Through the Iron Gate-, Let the Morning In (BJ's tune), SoftWarmSimpleWonder#,
Set II: Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell%#, Something's Got to be Arranged, Back in 15 Minutes@, Before You Were Born, Shango Dance&, Sometimes True to Nothing$#, Alsoa#, Beethoven's 9th!, Happy Snails~, "Fear of Falling" (New Vocal, tentative)+, Love And Tears=
Encore: Joe Higley, Get Me with Fuji> Sometimes There's Wine
Notes: Acoustic show. ^ included lyrics "a history... chasing rabbits down the rabbit hole". previously played at Brad's solo show (club passim). * Marc on guitar, Brad on banjo. - aka "Lazilee" % Flaming Lips tune from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. # with Isaac Taylor on additional vocals.
11/29/2003:   Narrows Center for the Arts (electric show):   Fall River, MA   
Set I: More Intense Surveillance^ > Pictures of Calysto%, Built for Zeal~, Something Learned+, Cut from the Cloth=
Set II: Intro > The Soft Machine, Wolof$ > The Shouters*#, Soft Warm Simple Wonder*, Dogs on Bikes@ > It's Only Rock and Roll (But I Like It)! > Dogs on Bikes
Encore: E1: Children of December, *Stand By Me E2: Sweet Thing, Rhythm and Gold? > You Don't Have to Say You're Sorry 'Til You Go^
Notes: Just before showtime, BAM was introduced as "Ziggy and the Flying Paper Cuts" (?). ^ New composition (third time played)--included same I to IV7 jam heard at recent NoHo and Colby shows. % Brad teased a couple bars of the scarecrow/tin man/cowardly lion song from The Wizard of Oz. ~ "The Clap" (Yes) tease. $ Andrew on steelpan drum for the intro. + aka "Something Learned" (official title?). = fka Come Over, w long Heart-Shaped Box tease (Nirvana cover). # also played in Knoxville. *Ben E. King cover, w/Isaac Taylor on vocals. ! Rolling Stones cover. ^ Nathan Moore cover. [Johnny Kuckens Nov. 28, 2021]
12/01/2003:   Matt Murphy's Public House:   Brookline, MA   
Set I: Instrumental*, Ramona^, Fancy Glass@, Got to Be Arranged, Womb of Mother Night$, Don't Have to Say You're Sorry Till You Go%, Sparrow&, bluesy tune~, The Woods!, Nashua Rose, Before You Were Born
Encore: Sometimes True to Nothing, What's so Funny (about Peace Love & Understanding)?%
Notes: Brad Barr solo show. * played 10.26.03 at UVM. ^ Bob Dylan cover. % Elvis Costello cover.
12/26/2003:   Knitting Factory (Main Stage):   New York, NY   
Set I: Ambrosia Drunk, Back in 15 Minutes^, Song, Predicting the Rain, Fancy Glass#, (new slow instrumental)*, War (beautiful spacey instrumental)%, 74&, You Don't Have to Say You're Sorry 'Til You Go!, Through the Iron Gate
Set II: Intro> More Intense Surveillance, Chasing Rabbits, Poor Boy, Get Down and Sruti, Nellie Jean, Sorry*> Something Learned
Set III: Funk Startro> Sometimes True to Nothing, ?untitled vocal?, Dear Milena, piano tune (not Solomon), Happy Snails^
Encore: Before You Were Born, Else%> Blue Moon$> Else
Notes: Set I - early acoustic show; II & III - electric. ^ Marc plays slide on Brad's hollow-body. # Leslie Helpert cover. * Andrew on steel drum, may have teased Steel Drum Zion. % Andrew played a set of wine glasses filled with water at different levels by swirling his finger around the edge to make a ringing sound, he also swung around a large orange tube. & Brad on banjo. ! Nathan Moore cover. Notes: Late show (Electric). * w/ Jingle Bells tease. ^ w/ Tim Lanterman on shakers. % Built to Spill cover. $ "Just This Side of Love" is a line in the song. [ Johnny Bahr, cleantone - December 27, 2003; Betty ]
12/30/2003:   Lupo's at The Strand:   Providence, RI   
Set I: Happy Snails^, Sometimes True to Nothing> Headshot, Poor Boy, Cut From the Cloth, Wolof*
Set II: From the Gecko> Zion> Children of December, Get Me with Fuji%, Something Learned, 74, The Weight of Solomon
Encore: Baba O'Riley
Notes: ^ with Tim Lanterman. * with Mousa and Esah (spelling?) of Troupe Badenya. % Brad on voodoo board. [Cleantone, Betty]

110 total shows for 2003

8 setlists missing for 2003 (7.27%)