I'm Allen Rarig, and I'm an alcoholic. I saw Thee Sgt. Major III the other night, and need YOU to know what songs they played, so you can be glad that you missed them, if they didn't play any songs you like! That doesn't apply to ME, because I DIDN'T miss them, and they DID play songs that I like. LOTS of them. I had a LARGE bowl of chili there before they played, it didn't treat my stomach too well, as witnessed by many up front who may have been slightly annoyed. It was really delicious, though, as good or better as I'd expected, and mine was served over a bed of jalapeño macaroni and cheese, and topped with a whole grilled jalapeño, and lots of purpose-fried tortilla strips. If the band were not as good as they were on that occasion, I might even say that the chili was the highlight of the evening.

But it wasn't - not quite. But I'm no writer, and certainly no food critic, so let's get right down to brass tacks, and here's what the band chose to play on the Slim's Last Chance Stage, it was Saturday June the 21th, I do believe.

Opening act = Bowl of rich, meaty chili, as previously described.

Hello There (Cheap Trick)
Break It All (The Los Shakers)
Underneath It
Battery Operated
Everything Is New
They Should've Known
Into The Rhizome
Make It Brighter
(the chili REALLY started acting up at this point!)
The Forgotten Three
In The Garden
IOU (Replacements)
New Painter Man
No Information (Fastbacks)
Cretin Hop (Ramones)
Gone To The Moon (Fastbacks, again!)
Information Seminar

Now if you've ever experience acid reflux, you'll know what I'm talking about, and for those of you who have not, I suggest you may STOP READING now, but I was behaving like a madman, as I am know to do at concerts like this one, and my gosh it was a real banger! But my belly didn't particularly agree with the Ice-cold TEN beers, and especially not the "you-know-what" I put on top of those beers, and I'm sorry to the fellows (and ladies) around me immediately following the last song, but it was REALLY time for me to go. So I pulled my pants back up and stopped the RUDEness