The Stage Diving Olympics

Five Hundred in Both

The two documents agree on the room and the figure, the Melkweg and 500, and neither marks the night sold out. They write the country differently, Netherlands in the chronology and Holland in Five Horizons. The chronology's opening act, The Covenant, has no counterpart in Five Horizons, which names no opening act at all; that is an absence in one document, not a disagreement between two.

The Performance

Both documents list "Wash," "Once," "Even Flow," "State of Love and Trust," "Alive," "Black," "Deep," "Jeremy," "Why Go" and "Porch," with "I've Got a Feeling" as the encore. Before "Porch" the chronology prints "(Bad Mouth)" and Five Horizons prints "Bad Mouth improv," joined to "Porch" by a slash; the chronology says the singer sang a few lines of Fugazi's "Bad Mouth" there, and Five Horizons says the improvisation was based on a few lines from the beginning of it and prints them. The two notes run in parallel: stage diving out of control, with the singer asking "So who taught this guy to stage dive feet first?" and "Is this the stage diving Olympics or something?"; Mike lifted onto his shoulders during "Alive"; Chris Cornell asked for after "Deep," and not appearing.

On the final notes of "Porch" the singer fell into the crowd and, in what both call an unusual move, Jeff jumped into the pit. Toward the end of "I've Got a Feeling," both say, the singer helped Dave out on drums, in a version both call extended and more than ten minutes long, and both say part of the show went out on radio. The chronology alone says that at the end of "Black" he quietly sang a line for the first time, and quotes it; Five Horizons does not mention it.

The Next Step

The night before, at La Locomotive, is told in Not From Seattle. Both documents put the next show in Madrid on February 15; it is told in Sold Out, or Room for Nine Hundred.