15 October, 2000 - Lola's, Portland, OR

review byChristopher

First of all, thanks to everyone who attended who chose to speak with me. Met alot of cool folks. It was also neat it was a sit down show.
Mike was not as wittily acerbic this night as he was on Friday. He did have a good line: "This is a song by a famous pop band, that I'm sure you're all familiar with: the Brothers Gibb and I'm going to attempt to play it." His set was quite good and included the following: Love and Other Crimes / A Minor Aversion / Save Today / Turn Around / Left in the Dark / cover song(Run To Me)/ Eclipse / I Don't Love You / All There Is
Mark came out about 15mins later, to a very enthusiastic crowd. Bombarded by requests after the 3rd of 4th song, he just said "All the ones we don't know, we'll just stick to the ones we like." During a new cover [Blues Run the Game] Mike's amp blew out a bit and they had to stop, but finished the song at the audiences request.
Mark was very funny this night, and came out for a 2nd encore during which he told Ben Shepherd "You ain't going nowhere" before guiding him through the chords of [A Taste of Honey] using hand signals.
the songs: Carry Home / Ba Di Da / Bell Black Ocean / I'll Take Care of You / Slide Machine / Together Again / the Winding Sheet / Blues Run The Game (aborted, eventually finished) / Creeping Coastline of Lights / Deep Purple / On Jesus Program / Tomorrow Night
encore 1: Mockingbirds / Last One in the World
encore 2: new intro/the River Rise / Because of This / A Taste of Honey
Afterwards a bunch of us met up with Mark by the stage door, and he was gracious enough to give us five minutes or so of his time.
Good night overall