08/30/98 Laguna hills, ca
Irvine Meadows
Tour blowout-last show, last setlist
rough set list, performed wearing the blue Matchbox 20 jackets that band was selling:
review borrowed without permission from the Soul Asylum BBS (for historical reasons)
Posted by Jason on August 31, 1998 at 03:25:42:
Well, All I can say is what a disappointment and waste of money.
Semisonic was good, even though they started about 10 minutes early. Soul Asylum came
out with all band members wearing the blue jackets Matchbox 20 were selling. SA
started off playing Jump by Van Halen, then worked into the Mercedes Benz song
(commercial). The set list continued as follows (but not quite in the
correct order).
Gone till November by Wyclef Jean, Free Bird by Lynard Skynard, a Steve
Miller song I forget the name of, Rhinestone Cowboy, 2 songs I didn't recognize
(but not SA songs), Sexual Healing by ?Billy Ocean?, that "Thunder Only Happens
When It Rains" song from ????. Thats about it. They played for about 45 minutes.
They ended by thanking everybody for indulging them to play whatever they felt like for
the last show on the tour. I was extremely disappointed. This was the
fourth time I have seen them live and I was looking forward to another great show like
they did the last time they came to LA. A few cover songs to start the night
would have been good. But not playing ONE original song was just not right. I do have to
say, however, that all the cover songs were done very well. I was just
looking so forward to seeing them again.