I'm sure most of you guys have this boot. I just bought it yesterday. I listened to the show last nite without looking at the set list. That's pretty fun, by the way if you've never done it. Don't know what to expect, it's a surprise, like during the actual show! But that's not the point of the thread. When BREATH came on I was like 'wooooooo wooooo woo'.

At the end of the second verse the lyrics are:

whoa, i suggest you step out on your porch
run away my son...see it all...oh see the world

Ed forgets everything after suggest...and after the crowd sings it he's like,

"on your porch, yeah yeah yeah" in a tone that says, "i knew what it was."

I found it hilarious. One of the funniest things he's ever said on stage monologue, song or w/e.

I always try to do this when listening to boots, I hate knowing which song is next so I purposely try to avoid looking at the setlist.

I've never actually listened to State College. I've never really listened to many Riot Act era shows, in truth. I own the retail boots for MSG II and Boston III but was really disappointed in the latter. MSG II is a great show, though.

Boston III is just depressingly sloppy and loose; I think that always scared me away from State College, as I tended towards thinking that huge long shows equal sloppy, unfocussed perfomance...but I might be wrong.

I couldn't make it to this show.

i'm on board with you. state college isn't much different from boston but at least has some gems (daughter is sweetness) to make up for it.

Yellow Ledbetter is great, too. And I rarely type those kind of words in reference to that song.

if it came from this show it also has one of my favorite ever betterman's. This was a really good boot (great e-flow too). The sloppiness came at the end and even then it was a fun, playful kind of sloppy. Very tight main set (again, if I remember--it has been a while)

As long as we're talking about the State College show I have a question about Alive from that night. It's one of my favorite versions of the song, Mike just burns up the solo but why does he cut out for about 8 seconds near the end? From 5:01 to 5:09 Mike cuts out and then comes back in, I've always wondered if he had some sort of obvious gear trouble on stage, did he stop to get a drink of water, was he pointing at someone in the crowd? Just what happened there? Inquiring (and bored) minds want to know. I wonder about this every time I hear the song.

very tight main set. continued the run of superior performances during last half of that leg.

the Breath from Det I is as tight a version as I've heard. it was such a plesant surprise to hear in that slot, should be repeated more often. but give it a listen

Fuck you Boston III haters.

SC=epic


You had to be there.

i was... and it was. There was electricity in the air that night.

ed fucks up breath on every boot i have except MSG n1...and its usually in the same spot. i dont know whats so hard about the end of the second verse, but i think it probably has something to do with the fact that breath is always played later in the set and ed is always fairly drunk by then.

Greatest show of my life.

It'd be tough for even PJ to top it for me.

The place was rocking.