7/29/01 Anaheim, CA
Craig's New Do!
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I have to say that this show wasn’t quite as good as Saturday’s show. It’s not Everclear’s fault at all though. I felt like the audience wasn’t quite as good as the one in La Jolla, regardless of what the lead singer of American Hi-Fi might say (he said that the La Jolla audience sucked and the Anaheim one was better). In La Jolla, everyone was jumping around and moshing and crowd surfing and just seemed to be having such a great time while in Anaheim people kinda just stood there and only really jumped around when Art told them to. I was in the second row the whole time which was pretty cool. I did enjoy Flipp a lot more this time around though. They were a lot of fun and I think that the sound was better for them than in La Jolla. During Flipp’s set, Art came out and started playing the beginning of Santa Monica just for fun and then they all did part of Cat Scratch Fever. That was a nice surprise. Of course Craig was on the side taking pictures so hopefully they’ll be up on the official site soon. Mayfield 4 and American Hi-Fi were about the same as in La Jolla. I really enjoyed Everclear’s show, regardless of the crowd’s lack of enthusiasm. They played all the same songs that were played in La Jolla. They actually seemed to be having a better time. Craig got a Mohawk! It is so awesome. It was funny because he did it right before they went on. When he was out taking pictures during Flipp he still had the same hairstyle as before but when they came out he had the Mohawk. It really surprised me. Everyone from Everclear kept making fun of him the whole night. Art patted it and then drew his hand away as if he was in pain and went ’ow!’. And then during Strawberry Greg came up to do backup vocals with Craig and he put his hand on top of his head with all his fingers sticking out, like he was trying to imitate Craig’s Mohawk. Also, at the beginning of Santa Monica Craig and Art and Davey were all lined up and they were moving their guitars back and forth at the same time and both Art and Davey were doing the same thing with their hands that Greg had been doing during Strawberry. It was very funny. I was standing right in front of Craig the whole time and during one song (I believe it was Wonderful) he saw me looking at him and he smiled at me! It was such a beautiful thing ; ). I also got a Craig pick though it wasn’t given to me by him. After the show was over there were still some left on his microphone so a crew guy just handed the rest of them out. So now I have that one and the Art one I got in La Jolla on a necklace. I got Davey water! At the end of the show he threw out an open bottle of water and some of it splashed on me. That’s pretty much the highlights of the whole night. I’m probably a little biased because of the great time and all the great things that happened to me in La Jolla (you can read that review too on my site) but I just felt that it wasn’t quite as good. Don’t get me wrong, I was by no means disappointed in Everclear’s performance. I just wish that the crowd would have been a little more enthusiastic.
