Review by Jason T

November 30, 2002

I'm from around vancouver,and with the new songs that steve has been working on decided to make the 7 hour drive to eugene,it totally surprised me how small the venue was, i was expecting small , but this was like having your own private show with a few hundred of your friends.I got there around 4:00 and hung out and listened to the soundcheck outside with a few people that id met in portland earlier in the year.After 4 hours of standing around and freezing our asses off it was finally time for fingertight.First of all everyone else is voicing their opinion so i guess i will too. I have to disagree with josh and kira , I was standing right beside Jason and fingertight's show was amazing especially considering the guitar problems they had at the beginning of the show.They put out so much energy and I loved the singers voice.After what seemed forever olp finally made their way on stage.Their set began like most shows this year and then the mystery song, i saw it on the setlist and the words taped to the floor but didnt know if it was a cover or one of the new songs that raine was talkn about. It definetelly turned out to be one of the new songs, id describe it as harder than gravity but not quite as hard as whatever.After that they went into innocent,birdman(awsome solo by steve, different than the one he did in portland and seattle), clumsy and then instead of playing are you sad which was on the setlist they played stealing babies which was incredible,but the highlight of the night was opening the encore with wonderful future. Its probably my favorite song of off spiritual machines and it was finally nice to see it played live.After the show i got a pick from steve and steve's set list.We then waited outside where jeremy signed my setlist and sot single and was very talkitive as usual.The show was over at just after 11 but the rest of the band never came out untill after 12:30 and alot of encouragement from Jeremy.After they did however they were very nice and willing to sign everything i had as well as take pictures with me and the 15 or so people that was left waiting. And as steve was getting on the tour bus to leave i asked him if anything was confermed for a canadian tour and he said that they are beginning in kelowna on the 24th of january and playing vancouver on the 25th or 27th. It was already 1:00 in the morning and were in a hurry to leave so i never was able to get the rest of the tour info.