June 14, 2000.

Disturbed was still in that early Sickness era, and the package came through twice.

The Other Side in Tulsa.
The Diamond Ballroom in Oklahoma City.

The lineup was stacked for that moment:

Disturbed.
Deadlights.
Apartment 26.
Workhorse Movement.
Underside in Tulsa.
Element in Oklahoma City.

Looking back, that bill should have been a monster.

The Diamond show had 258 people. Not terrible, but not what it should have been for what Disturbed was about to become. The Other Side probably felt stronger, and the Tulsa crowd may have turned out harder that night.

That was the thing about those early 2000s shows. Sometimes you were watching a band right before the explosion, and nobody fully knew it yet.

Disturbed would go on to become one of the biggest hard rock bands of that era, but in 2000, they were still grinding through rooms like The Other Side and the Diamond.

Some shows look small on paper years later.

But when you know what came next, they become history.

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