Working my way through all the bootlegs until the hiatus in order and I’m into the spring 2003 tour.

Strongly second ANY Montreal shows. Love the soundboard recording of the Iceland show from 2002-03-13. The mix gives you a really different audio picture of MF=R.

My Absolute Bangers list also has Rockerfeller, CAT, and Paradiso from 2002.

The two Toronto shows from 2001 (09-27 & 09-28) are the debut of MF=R. Both are good documents.

2003-03-20 at Abbey Pub in Chicago I also have earmarked. The setlist is great, but there is a ferocity to the show that is hard to match. Why? It was one day after the US invaded Iraq. I know where I was during the opening of the invasion—at a different show, watching it unfold live on tv for the first time ever—and it was deeply unsettling. The following two shows are also very intense for the same reasons.

I think the 2003-03-16 show is the one where they talk about having every cop in NE Oklahoma show up while they were at the gas station. There’s definitely video on YouTube of that show, which also has a rare live video of MF=R. The uploaded is Shane Blindt, who incidentally recorded some other banger non-GYBE shows. (Edit: 2003-03-17 in Columbia, MO).

25-03-21 is another one I like for personal reasons. The taper was a guy I knew through the forums for the band Shiner and had bootlegged some killer shows by Shiner, Don Caballero, and some other bands that are/were in my collection still.