Horde Fest/Phil Collins, July 1994
Since coming across my notebooks (previously buried under much stuff) I found a few more tidbits. Though this one will be brief.
Yesterday in 1994, 7-23, Alex, Chris, Scott, & Kyle went to see what I think was the third H.O.R.D.E Fest* line up. It came right at a point where the Jam Band scene was getting some love commercially via Blues Traveler (Run Around was one of the hits of that summer) and Dave Matthews who was just starting to get a airplay on the radio and MTV. A friend at work saw DMB when they played his frat house and had to pay more to cover his share of the keg than his share of the band.
In any case…
The Headliners for our fair city were (in order):
Sheryl Crow
Big Head Todd & the Monsters
Blues Traveler
Allman Brothers Band
Dave Matthews Band, The Black Crowes and a hip hop act of some sort played on other dates. It seems St. Louis usually get’s shorted on stuff like that. There was a busy second stage but the only band I remember off hand was the Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies. Alex had put a song or two of theirs on his Smashing Fish series of jam orientated mix tapes.
A brief search for information about St. Louis’ stop yielded only a Kiss The Stone bootleg of the Allman Brothers Band’s set.
The Allman Brothers Band. Midnight Riding
Recorded live in Riverport, St. Louis on July 23, 1994. KTS. 508-09. sb6
Disc 1:
1) Sailing
2) Statesboro Blues
3) Blue Sky
4) Samething
5) Soul Shine
6) Southbound
7) Seven Turns
Midnight Rider
Disc 2:
1) Jessica
2) No One to Run With
3) Back Where it All Begins
4) In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
The sad part is that I adore the song Soul Shine and Seven Turns but the first 3 songs totaled about 50 minutes and we left early. None of us were particularly fluent with the Allman Brothers catalog and we were tired from being on a lawn in the sun for 8 hours in July. And at least I had a headache from all the pot being smoked around us. Speaking of, more people asked if they could by from me than usual.
Sheryl Crow was enjoying the upward mobility that ‘All I Wanna Do’ enabled. I think she was nominated for a Grammy for that tune.
I was most into Blues Traveler‘s set which I really enjoyed though I can’t bust out any specifics. Sheryl Crow did a nice set, Big Head Todd was just ok (never really got into them).
Steak N Shake afterward was 50 degrees in there and we had all been sweating until we walked in the door. This may have been a different gig.
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Then, the next night, Alex, Jake & Kate, Jason (Alex’s roommate), Mike, Scott, Tracy, and myself holed up at the very top middle of the lawn for Phil Collins. It was a nice change from the wandering and bizeeness of the day before. It was a nice night, everyone was laid back and Phil did a nice ‘best of’ sort of set list. It may be the first show where I socialized as much as I listened. I might have a full review somewhere in my Important Stuff box but I’ll tackle that another time.
Here’s the set list.
Phil Collins 7/24/94 at Riverport Amphitheatre
1. Don’t Care Anymore
2. Don’t Lose My Number
3. Everyday
4. Survivors
5. Another Day In Paradise
6. I Wish It Would Rain
7. Do You Rememeber
8. One More Night
9. We Wait And Remember
10. Seperate Lives
11. Both Sides Of The Story
12. In The Air Tonight
13. Hang In Long Enough
14. Find A Way To My Heart
15. It Don’t Matter To Me
16. Easy Lover
17. Missed Again (with a few lines from Englishman In New York)
18. Behind The Lines
19. Something Happened On The Way To Heaven
20. You Can’t Hurry Love
21. Two Hearts
22. Su-su-sudio
23. Take Me Home
*For your Trivial Pursuit gland, H.O.R.D.E stands for ‘Horizons Of Rock Developing Everywhere’