The Mountain Goats
China Clipper
Olympia, WA
06-18-05

Taper: mycarrion 
5 feet in front of right stack, mics ~ a foot above the crowd 
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Lion's Teeth*
Dinu Lipatti's Bones
Dance Music
Old College Try
Game Shows Touch Our Lives
I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone - John a cappella(Billie Holiday)
Commandante
Onions
This Year
Song For Dennis Brown
It Froze Me
Alpha Double Negative: Going To Catalina
Alpha Desperation March

enc thing w-uno n cheaters skit

You Or Your Memory
Up The Wolves

* First minute's sound affected by my inability to plan ahead.  Rumble from mic
adjustment ends exactly at one minute.  No other major issues with recording.
Really entertaining set from a master lyricist.

Venue notes:

A very small setting is the Clipper with a seperate dining room that resembles
a train car, in a neighborhood with clubs in spitting range varying from
Punk/Metal to Hip-Hop.  Pabst Blue Ribbon flows from the tap or you can buy it
in a can.  The stage is obscured by a makeshift mirrored room which supports an
elevated soundboard.  Perhaps this comment by Peter on the following nights
accomodations at Neumos in Seattle explains it best:  "I cannot emphasize enough
how great it is to have a dressing room that is something more than a closet
with four hundred sets of cocks and balls scrawled on the walls."  Good times.

Show notes:

John played the set barefoot and very willing to improvise.  This is the last night
bassist Peter plays his "ten-year-old red Mexico-built Fender Jazz with a small gash
in the bottom, a big Swedish vehicle ID sticker on the back, and a Barack Obama for
U.S. Senate 2004 campaign sticker on the front".  Too bad.  It sounded sweet.  The 
"low-e" breaking turns out to be a score for fans of both the Goats and Billie.
A real gem of a night.  The Double and Sarah Dougher opened.