Episode 122: St. Petersburg, FL – 3/29/1994
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Episode Release Date: March 23rd, 2021
Episode Guests: Gabe Spece
We’re back into our run of early 90’s episodes as we tackle a great show and memorable bootleg in this episode. St. Petersburg happened on the well documented 1994 tour that the band was on the top of their game for. This is a Patreon requested episode and joining us for this one is Horizon Leg Patron Gabe Spece!
Coming off a night in Miami where 24,000 fans attempted to cram into a venue that could only fit 8,000, the local Florida newspapers made attempts to sabotage the band by stating that they incited the “riots” that led to some incidents happening during the show. Unlike what we saw in our Ann Arbor episode that happened just nine days prior, the band didn’t want to let yet another issue (to go along with bomb threats, ticket distribution challenges, backstage break-ins) to hamper their show for a new live crowd that seemingly couldn’t care less what happened to them the night before. The result of that was a very relaxed show with tons of positive energy. Almost a rarity for that tour year.
This show has gone down in lore as being one of the better fan recorded bootlegs of that year which helps take in all of the fantastic moments that happened here. Highlights from this one that we’re gonna dig into are opening the set with Rearviewmirror, a fantastic Daughter with both Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2 tag and W.M.A. which essentially led to a full version played. Great improvs off Black and Alive and a rare 3rd encore closer of Throw Your Arms Around Me. But possibly the most important thing to come out of this episode is a bit of a debate that ramps up during Porch. This Porch has always been known for having a Dirty Frank tag, but we dig a little deeper and question if that’s the case here or not. Check it out, you’ll know what we mean!
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It’s been 5 years since this episode came out, so I’m sure you’ve forgotten the debate, but just coming to it now… and here’s my 2 cents on Dirty Frank vs. Freaky Styley: it’s both. DF is a play on FS to begin with. But while he does sing the FS “fuck”, not the DF “cook”, Ed’s reference to the Gainsville serial killer right before the song makes it clear that he’s got DF in mind… and the fact that there was necrophilia rather than cannibalism involved in that case explains the switch from “cook” to “fuck”. He also says “hang” at one point which harks back to what he says about bringing back public hanging for this guy. So yeah, for me, it’s clearly DF, with a nod to FS.