Date
Venue
City
State
Add
Sources
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
Comment
Bumpershot Festival Memorial Stadium
Seattle
WA
July '98 Demos
Seattle
WA
Ash Grey Sunday
Tomorrow Changes
Low Life
Anita Grey
line-up:
Mark Lanegan
Gary Lee Conner
Van Conner
Barrett Martin
with
Josh Homme (second guitar)
Peter Buck (guitar on 5, 6, 7 & 15)
7/98 Demos
Ash Grey Sunday
Tomorrow Changes
Low Life
Anita Grey
The late, great Screaming Trees joined by none other than Josh Homme of QOTSA and Mr. Buck of R.E.M. This was the first of two sorta last hurrahs for the band (the second in 2000), playing a hometown show at the Bumbershoot Festival a couple of months removed from a session (produced by Buck if memory serves) that produced five very finished demo recordings they shopped around unsuccessfully to various labels or so I have been lead to believe.
A song from the sessions, "One Way Conversation," was eventually "released" through a dot.com company called Music Blitz. I have omitted that track here per DaD guidelines, but the other four unreleased songs from the demo session are included. I half assumed some of these tracks would appear on the new best-of Ocean of Confusion, to be released by Sony tomorrow, but alas none of them are.
La Luna
Portland
OR
Halo Of Ashes
Dying Days
Caught Between
Winter Song
Nearly Lost You
Look At You
Witness
All I Know
Gospel Plow
Dollar Bill
Dime Western
Butterfly
Shadow Of The Season
Where The Twain Shall Meet
Ash Grey Sunday
Julie Paradise
tr. 6: ft. Queens Of The Stone Age Josh Homme guest appearance on guitar
Memorial Stadium
Seattle
WA
Halo of Ashes
Dying Days
Caught Between
Nearly Lost You
Dollar Bill
Butterfly
Look at You
Change Has Come
All I Know
Witness
Dime Western
Gospel Plow
Shadow of the Season
Twain Shall Meet
Ash Grey Sunday
Julie Paradise
Club Townsend
San Francisco
CA
Halo of Ashes
Dying Days
Caught Between
Nearly Lost You
Dollar Bill
Butterfly
Change Has Come
All I Know
Witness
Dime Western
Gospel Plow
Encore 1:
Shadow of the Season
Where the Twain Shall Meet
Ash Gray Sunday
Julie Paradise
Encore 2:
Winter Song
Troubled Times
Trees:
Mark Lanegan
Gary Lee Conner
Van Conner
Barrett Martin
Josh Homme
Notes:
On the third date of the '98 West Coast mini-tour, the Trees were on fire, breaking out into a great jam during Caught Between and dusting off Troubled times for the second encore.
here's a snippet from an online review I wrote back in '98:
"Lanegan sounded perfect, Van was gregarious as usual, Josh was really rocking out, and Barrett was his usual solid, stick twirling, kit-crushing self. They closed their encore with an extended jam at the end of Julie Paradise, again with Lee going off on some otherworldly jams. The most remarkable thing about that song was how much Lanegan was into it. he was still hanging on the microphone as usual, but he was really rocking out and kept looking over toward Lee as he soloed. I hadn't seen him that into a song in many years..."
Roxy
Los Angeles
CA
Halo Of Ashes
Dying Days
Caught Between
Nearly Lost You
Dollar Bill
Butterfly
Water Song
Change Has Come
-Wedding Proposal-
All I Know
Witness
Dime Western
Gospel Plow
Shadows Of The Season
Where The Twain Shall Meet
Ash Gray Sunday
Julie Paradise
Sworn And Broken
The Roxy
West Hollywood
CA
Halo Of Ashes
Dying Days
Caught Between
Nearly Lost You
Dollar Bill
Butterfly
Winter Song
Change Has Come
All I Know
Witness
Dime Western
Gospel Plow
Shadow Of The Season
Where The Twain Shall Meet
Ash Gray Sunday
Julie Paradise
Sworn And Broken