Date: May 17, 1998

Leg: Pre-Mutations Gigs

Venue: Galaxy Theatre

City: Santa Ana

State: California

Country: United States

Notes:
This was a "secret" show, announced just a few days before it happened. It was to rehearse and introduce some of the new Mutations songs before the summer tours. The album had been recorded a month before this, and wouldn't come out until fall.

The LA Times wrote up the show, and said the highlight song was an "escapist fling called 'Running Away'" (I don't know where that title came from, but it later became "Electric Music and the Summer People"). It also referred to the new songs like the "sultry Latin song," "folk song with East Indian strings," and "one journey into the hard-squalling world of heavy metal" ("Tropicalia," "Nobody's Fault," and "Diamond Bollocks," I assume).

Bass: Justin Meldal-Johnsen
Drums: Joey Waronker
Guitar (Acoustic): Beck Hansen
Guitar (Electric): Beck Hansen, Smokey Hormel
Harmonica: Beck Hansen
Keyboard / Synthesizer: Roger Joseph Manning Jr.
Saxophone (Alto): David Brown
Trombone: David Ralicke
Trumpet: Jon Birdsong
Turntables: DJ Swamp
Vocals: Beck Hansen

Recorded: No