From Cornerstone 1994

So...Cornerstone...if I jump this time, is someone going to catch me here?

Hey, hey, hey, I got something I gotta ask you guys.  I'm a little confused here.  So we're driving in early this morning.  And we drive by this bunch of tents everywhere.  And I say to the driver, "whoa, whoa, whoa, what are these tents?"  He said, "that's where all the campers are sleeping at night".  Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, let me get this straight!  Like, we got these hotel rooms back in town.  You know, beds and sheets and all that stuff.  You guys are sleeping on the ground out here?  Is that the deal?

(Audience cheers)

Man, I just don't feel good about that.  I mean, I don't know how you expect us to get any sleep knowing that our brothers and sisters are going to be out here.  It could rain.  Under these little canvas tents.  Curled up in little sleeping bags on the ground.  I feel really bad about this.  I'm just trying to figure out if there's something, something I can do to make it up to you guys.  Well, unfortunately we gotta leave town tonight.  But I've worked it out.  You know, those guys in The Choir, they're really nice guys.  Good band.  Good guys.  I think what they're willing to do is...well, there's about five of them, there's about ten thousand of you...I think they're willing to swap out if you guys wanna work this out.  They'll sleep in the tents, you guys take the beds.  I'm sure we can work this all out.  I didn't actually talk to them about this ahead of time, but I know those guys are going to be really happy to do it.  So if you see 'em around, you guys just work this out.  And, really, don't thank me, it's the least I could do.  I want to do this for you guys.  I feel like I owe it to you.

So, listen, we got a few old songs that we're gonna do tonight.  The problem is, I just heard this album where a bunch of bands do these songs better than I do.  So I'm a little bummed out about it.  And this is, in fact, one of them, a little bit faster than usual.  And Wade will set it up for us... (go to "I Want To Be A Clone")

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