Date: February 10, 1997

Leg: Odelay North American Tour 3 (West Coast)

Venue: EMU Ballroom

City: Eugene

State: Oregon

Country: United States

Notes:
"We've got some special activities planned," Beck tells the audience. Somehow, even after 6 months of touring through 1996, the 1997 shows stepped UP the energy. (And 1996 wasn't too shabby!) A hyper "Lord Only Knows" is cool; in fact many of the songs sound a bit sped up and hyper. Never my personal favorite on stage, tonight's "Derelict" is pretty impressive.

Beck's long acoustic set (8 songs! Though he stops one after one line.) is quite noteworthy, from rare songs never heard before or since ("See Your Face"), to reinterpretations ("Ozzy"), to ad-libbed songs about Eugene, to blues covers ("Grinnin' In Your Face"), Beck throws it all in there.

In a strange mix of music allusions, Beck says "we come higher than a boy's choir" before singing a line of Color Me Badd, playing "Thunder Peel" and then singing "So Long, It's Been Good To Know Yuh" before a particularly heavy "Mutherfuker." So that goes from R&B to rock to folk to punk all in quickfire!

Bass: Justin Meldal-Johnsen
Drums: Joey Waronker
Guitar (Acoustic): Beck Hansen
Guitar (Electric): Beck Hansen, Smokey Hormel
Harmonica: Beck Hansen
Keyboard / Synthesizer: Theo Mondle
Opening Act: Olivia Tremor Control
Turntables: DJ Swamp
Vocals: Beck Hansen

Recorded: Yes

Source: Audience

Length: 1:45:00

Notes:
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