Barenaked Ladies
at Riverfest

This is a very good audience boot. The concert was part of a days-long community festival along the river in Brockville, Ontartio, of which BNL was the headliner. (The night before, the stage hosted Glen Campbell - the humor of which did not escape the Ladies.) The seating, apparently, was general admission with the invitation to bring lawn chairs to set up in front of the stage. This may have worked for the Glen Campbell show but proved to be inappropriate for a Barenaked Ladies audience who can't help but start dancing around from the strum of the first chord.

Security, it seems, was given instructions to keep people from standing up, let alone dancing, and were keen to carry them out. That was until, in a rare case of stage seriousness, Steve and Ed made it clear to them that if folks were made to stop dancing the show would not go on.

That drama was over just in time for an infestation of May Flies onto the stage. This tape is also a treat since it includes Lovers In A Dangerous Time, a song rarely played live outside of Canada and therefore not on too many U.S. boots.

Highlight: The impromptu Men Without Hats Safety Dance cover to relieve the tension during the security confrontation - "You can dance if you want to..."


Side One:
Shoe Box
Be My Yoko Ono
This Is Where It Ends
Lovers In A Dangerous Time
Enid
Life, In A Nutshell
Hello City
"The Safety Dance"
Stomach vs. Heart
Alternative Girlfriend
These Apples
Jane
“This Is It”

Side Two:
I Live With It Every Day
Crazy
Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank
"Song #2" play
"Jump!" play

Spider In My Room
Great Provider
The Old Apartment
If I Had $1,000,000
Barenaked Rap
Brian Wilson


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