ok, then layne talked about how the guys were excited we were all there b/c they had been hoping to this show for a long time now (about time, mtv!!!)and to me, at least, he seemed very sincere then, they kicked in "noexcuses" layne was kinda mellow at first, i mean you cant be very very energetic sitting on a chair the whole performance, right? so even though he was just sitting there, you could definitely tell when he was getting into the song when his voice started building up and carrying the song off onto a higher level, some songs were just amazing, the way he expressed his voice ok, then (haha, mike) they tried sludge factory um, they tried, and layne forgot the words amid the second verse he went something like: you insult me in my home...yayayayayaya(to the tune) aaaaaaaaaagh(to the tune).....(silence) (looks at jerry who's still playing) (music stops) layne yells DO OVER!!

he seemed peeved then he looked at the papers (and turned away from my part of the audience, for almost the rest of the show) and he said, ok, ok, and they started over it was good the next time (and we cheered like crazy anyways) then, (yes!yes!) they did down in a hole...sigh...it was SO BEAUTIFUL with the extra guitarist they could do all parts of the song and jerry and layne just took the song and ran with it.....the second time they did it the first time: layne sang ive eaten the sun.... instead of see my heart, i decorate it like a grave...and i think from then he realized he was a bit lost and then in the middle he just stopped...then the music stopped and then they did it over (magnificently this time) then they started jamming, jerry and sean, and came up with some wierd hick song, and jerry was singing some strange western accented country ditty and mike got up and did a nice little foot stomp for us ok, they brought out a guitar for layne, and kicked into angry chair lemme tell you, he did NOT forget the words to this song! it was very happy

then...yay! the crowd went wild as we heard the first strains of rooster and i defintely think this was one of the best performances of the night layne was totally into it, jerry was amazing, it alllll came together right after that, got me wrong and then heaven beside you which i think mtv will edit because jerry did NOT say thats tacked up or whatever the radio version plays...it was very very wonderful of course layne didnt have much to do, he just kinda stared at the papers and chimed in when neccesary

ok. the audience is going crazy after jerry stops, and we almost miss mike ripping (unplugged, of course) the beginning to would? mike said that someone he met heard them jamming would? b4 the show, so i expected it, but i was SO SO SO happy when i actually heard it yes, its amazing unplugged, i wonder if thats kinda what it would have sounded like if it were on sap instead of dirt, but it was still good stuff then afterwords, jerry did a little jam again with sean, just messing around basically and they ended up playing frogs this song, as you can expect, is so adaptable to unplugged, if you dont really like this song onthe new album, you would have been sadly disappointed because it sounded great unplugged layne even did the last part of the song where he sings about it being 7am, on a tuesday mroning in august, etc.

he changed around some of the words and i dont remember him saying expiration date, but he repeated date/fate a lot and dont fuck with me again...i guess you wont be seeing that on mtv ok. jerry started over now and that was, like frogs, completely adaptable to unplugged, so it sounded wonderful and then jerry said he would we like to hear "a little something we've been messing around with at soundcheck"