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Live at Cornerstone 2000: Gene Eugene/Adam Again Tribute is a 3CD set released on Millenium Eight Records in 2000. Disc one features Adam Again’s last concert, given with friends of Gene Eugene filling the lead vocals after his death earlier in March of 2000. Disc two and three feature Adam Again live at the Cornerstone Festival in 1997 and 1995, respectively. Produced and engineered by Rev Hillstrom for Creation Station.
It was pretty much a given that, whatever tribute the late Gene Eugene‘s friends cooked up for him at Cornerstone, it would not be enough. Eugene accomplished far too much in his 15+ years in the industry to compress into a two-hour concert. Thus, the multi-artist homage held at midnight on July 7 felt painfully insufficient, and while artists like Riki Michele and Mike Roe delivered heart-stopping vocal performances, questions abounded when the show was finished: Why was it so short? Where were Terry Taylor, Michael J. Pritzl, Scott Silletta, et al? Why did Mike Knott get five songs?
Forgive me, then, if I find it hard to be satisfied with M8’s three-disc coverage of the event. It’s not their fault, really: their recording of the actual tribute show has excellent sound quality, they’ve included short snippets of interviews with Eugene’s friends, and they’ve even given us two other (rather poor quality, but I’m not complaining) discs containing Adam Again’s shows from 1995 and ’97. As is typical of M8 products, the packaging is rather poor, featuring a four-page booklet with impossibly small type and one small photograph of the event, but I think the real problem here is that the material isn’t enough, and could never be enough.
Still, let us be thankful. M8 has done a wonderful job with the materials they were given, and while not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, this boxed set tribute helps us, to some extent, to bid farewell to a true artist. [Michial Farmer, The Phantom Tollbooth, 1/7/2001]
There are two versions of this live tribute show floating around out there – both pretty much out of print. The original version was released by M8 records as a three disc set. It included live sets from 1995 and 1997 as well as the 2000 Cornerstone tribute show. The 2001 Galaxy 21 re-issue doesn’t have the live shows from the 90s, but it does have a new track from Riki Michele and a bonus disc from Greg Lawless – his first solo album. The re-issue is much easier to find. Both have the live tribute concert that featured a who’s who of Alternative music singing Gene’s parts of classic Adam Again tunes. I was at this concert when it happened. It was a powerful night. There is really just no way to capture what was experienced in person that night. Emotions were high, understandably. Cornerstone was it’s usual hot, humid, muddy self… and this concert was late at night. But none of that stopped anyone from enjoying a great concert. This quality of the CD is really good, seeing that they had planned to record the show from the beginning. If you can hunt down the original M8 version, I would highly recommend it – that version contains some touching stories at the end from different friends of Gene. However, the re-issue is the better deal in my opinion, due to the new material it contains from Riki Michele and Greg Lawless. All of the new songs are totally different style-wise from than anything Adam Again ever did, but still solid music compositions all around. [Matt Crosslin, Down The Line Zine, 13 March 2009]
3CD tracklist:
Disc One – Adam Again: Live at Cornerstone 2000
1-01. Tribute by John J. Thompson
1-02. Introduction by Riki Michele
1-03. Strobe (Riki Michele with Karin Bergquist of Over The Rhine on bgv)
1-04. Dance Around In Circles (Riki Michele with Karin Bergquist on bgv)
1-05. Worldwide (feat. Derri Daugherty of The Choir)
1-06. Hide Away (feat. Steve Hindalong of The Choir)
1-07. Deep (feat. Mike Roe of The 77s)
1-08. Dig (feat. Mike Roe)
1-09. Stone (feat. Mike Roe)
1-10. Don’t Cry (feat. Sim Wilson of Undercover)
1-11. Tribute by Michael Knott
1-12. Hopeless, Etc. (feat. Michael Knott)
1-13. It Is What It Is (feat. Michael Knott)
1-14. Homeboys (feat. Michael Knott)
1-15. Relapse (feat. Michael Knott)
1-16. All You Lucky People (feat. Michael Knott)
1-17. Tribute to Gene. Interviewee: Derri Daugherty
1-18. Tribute to Gene. Interviewee: Michael Roe
1-19. Tribute to Gene. Interviewee: Joe Cody
1-20. Tribute to Gene. Interviewee: Dan Michaels of The Choir
1-21. Tribute to Gene. Interviewee: Ralston Bowles
1-22. Tribute to Gene. Interviewee: John Thompson
1-23. Tribute to Gene. Interviewee: Jeff Elbel
1-24. Tribute to Gene. Interviewee: Michael Pritzl of The Violet Burning
1-25. Tribute to Gene. Interviewee: Marc Byrd of Common Children/Hammock/The Choir
1-26. Tribute to Gene
Disc Two – Adam Again: Live at Cornerstone 1997
2-01. Introduction
2-02. Hopeless, Etc.
2-03. It Is What It Is (What It Is)
2-04. Deep (False Start)
2-05. Improv while Gene fixes his guitar
2-06. Deep
2-07. All You Lucky People
2-08. Strobe
2-09. Stone
2-10. Worldwide
2-11. Dig
2-12. Dance Around In Circles
2-13. Untitled
2-14. Homeboys
2-15. Band introductions
2-16. River On Fire
2-17. So Long
Disc Three – Adam Again: Live at Cornerstone 1995
3-01. Occam’s Razor
3-02. Dig
3-03. Deep
3-04. Beat Peculiar
3-05. Dance Around In Circles
3-06. Ain’t No Sunshine
3-07. So Long
3-08. Hidden
3-09. Stone
3-10. It Is What It Is (What It Is)
Adam Again – Live at Cornerstone 1997. Tracklist: 00:15 Hopeless, Etc. / 04:21 It is What Is What It Is (what it is) / 08:07 Deep (false start) / 09:32 band improve / 10:36 Deep / 15:00 song intro / 16:00 All You Lucky People / 20:08 Strobe / 23:22 Stone / 28:24 Worldwide / 30:25 Dig / 34:06 Dance Around In Circles / 39:14 Homeboys / 50:25 intro of new band members / 50:40 River On Fire / 56:04 So Long.
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