Song

The Last Straw

Times played

140

First

1987

Last

2013

Avg length

6:08

from 140 timed

The longest it ever went missing

184 shows without it, ending 2005-04-23.

Where it sits

2opened the show
2opened a set

Longest on record

Only where a tape gives a length, so this is the longest anyone timed — not necessarily the longest ever played.

10:161999-07-09Big Mountain Amphitheater
10:131997-09-08Club Soda
10:122008-07-02Uptown Theater
10:072008-10-18Lakewood Amphitheatre
10:041996-06-10Two Rivers Auditorium

Across the decades

2180s
7890s
2700s
1210s

Segues

Goes into

Comes out of

1Cryptical Envelopment1988
1You Got Yours1999

Counted only where the setlist records the join. Every segue in the archive.

Every performance

Played by yearMost in 1996: 17

19872013

Date	Band	Venue	Length
1987-12-31	WSP	Rockfish Palace, Athens	6:11
1988-01-05	WSP	Uptown Lounge, Athens	6:02
1988-01-18	WSP	Uptown Lounge, Athens	6:03
1988-02-01	WSP	Uptown Lounge, Athens	5:31
1988-02-29	WSP	Uptown Lounge, Athens	5:43
1988-03-04	WSP	Captain Harry's, Charleston	4:43
1988-03-17	WSP	Al's Pump House, Greenville	4:44
1988-03-18	WSP	New Deli, Greenville	5:11
1988-03-22	WSP	South Main Cafe, Blacksburg	5:27
1988-03-31	WSP	Cat's Cradle, Chapel Hill	2:17
1988-04-27	WSP	The Cockpit, Lexington	5:27
1988-10-13	WSP	The Brewery, Raleigh	4:42
1988-10-31	WSP	Uptown Lounge, Athens	5:54
1988-11-19	WSP	Little Five Points Pub, Atlanta	6:03
1988-12-31	WSP	Uptown Lounge, Athens	6:12
1989-01-03	WSP	John Keane's Studio, Athens	4:40
1989-02-17	WSP	The Cotton Club, Atlanta	5:48
1989-04-01	WSP	Unknown, Savannah	5:56
1989-04-08	WSP	The Armory, Valdosta	5:08
1989-04-21	WSP	Phi Delta Theta House University Of The South, Sewanee	5:23
1989-05-27	WSP	Math Fields, Griffin	5:19
1989-08-10	WSP	Max's On Broadway, Baltimore	5:31
1990-04-21	WSP	Antenna Club, Memphis	4:55
1990-08-16	WSP	Central Tavern, Seattle	4:38
1990-09-01	WSP	John Keane's Studio, Athens	4:40
1990-10-13	WSP	The Wetlands Preserve, New York	4:27
1990-12-30	WSP	The Cotton Club, Atlanta	4:56
1991-02-09	WSP	College Station, Tuscaloosa	4:39
1991-10-18	WSP	St. Andrew's Hall, Detroit	5:23
1991-11-08	WSP	Ziggy's, Winston-Salem	4:55
1992-04-04	WSP	Zephyr Club, Salt Lake City	5:06
1992-05-23	WSP	The Mad Monk, Wilmington	5:03
1992-08-08	WSP	Palladium Amphitheater Carowinds, Charlotte	5:47
1992-09-09	WSP	Fort Lewis College, Durango	5:34
1992-09-21	WSP	WOW Hall, Eugene	5:22
1992-10-29	WSP	Tad Smith Coliseum University of Mississippi, Oxford	2:03
1993-01-16	WSP	Ritz Theatre, Tampa	5:38
1993-01-27	WSP	Rialto, Raleigh	4:57
1993-03-06	WSP	Tipitina's, New Orleans	5:39
1993-04-24	WSP	Benchwarmers, Lawrence	5:19
1993-07-09	WSP	Trout Aire Amphitheatre, Forest Lake	5:13
1993-10-29	WSP	Snow King Center, Jackson	5:15
1994-02-19	WSP	Electric Ballroom, Knoxville	5:04
1994-11-01	WSP	American Theater, St. Louis	5:10
1994-11-06	WSP	Theater Lory Student Center Colorado State University, Fort Collins	4:45
1995-03-25	WSP	Michigan State University, East Lansing	5:26
1995-03-29	WSP	Somerville Theatre, Somerville	5:17
1995-04-03	WSP	Pearl Street, Northampton	5:09
1995-04-23	WSP	Van Riper's Lake, Afton	4:58
1995-05-17	WSP	Buena Vista Theater, Tuscon	2:13
1995-05-23	WSP	Galaxy Concert Theatre, Santa Ana	4:52
1995-07-13	WSP	Bricktown Amphitheater, Oklahoma City	5:33
1995-08-04	WSP	The Vic Theatre, Chicago	5:01
1995-09-16	WSP	Bast Center Roanoke College, Salem	4:42
1995-10-03	WSP	Bogart's, Cincinnati	4:54
1995-10-15	WSP	The Moon, Tallahassee	2:19
1995-10-26	WSP	State Palace Theatre, New Orleans	4:41
1996-01-19	WSP	Fox Theatre, Boulder	4:42
1996-01-26	WSP	Wheeler Opera House, Aspen	4:41
1996-02-03	WSP	Zephyr Club, Salt Lake City	4:48