9:30 Club, Washington DC, October 10, 2000
compiled by Anne TenagliaConsequence Free-- Here Alan mentioned about missing Friday's concert in Philly and sitting in his hotel room all evening and saying it sucked. He said they were watching these VH1 specials on Behind the Music about bands and how they all had the same themes. "There's a pattern to the life of the bands, there's the good stuff in the beginning, then the drug problems, car crashes and so on, then back to good stuff. We sat around wondering where we were in the life of the band. We decided we could start after the car crashes and problems and just go to the middle of the band's life. Of course, there's Bob's Internet problem..."
Alan's guitar was out of tune and he directed Séan to entertain us while he tuned up. So Séan pulls a tall tale out of his mind and says, "Once there was a fish monger who lived in Petty Harbour. He wanted his son to be a fish monger, but his son wanted to play guitar in a folk band..."