Umphrey’s McGee — Atlanta, GA (12/3/2004)
A fantastic show played at Atlanta’s Variety Playhouse in Little 5 Points. For the uninitiated, this is a great place to start. The second set is one of the best I’ve personally seen from UM and one of the most played on my iPod since I bought the UM Live discs that night.
Set 1: Mulche’s Odyssey The Haunt> Jazz Odyssey > Sociable Jimmy 40′s Theme The Pequod > Ahab > The Pequod Senor Mouse FF> Jimmy Stewart > Robot World > Black Water
Set 2: Much Obliged > Jimmy Stewart > Hajimemashite > Hurt Bird Bath The Bottom Half > The Triple Wide > The Crooked One Kat’s Tune > And Justice For All
E: Crowd Front Porch > Norwegian Wood > Kashmir > Front Porch
Did You Know??
In 2000, Swedish pop group ABBA was offered $1 billion to reunite and tour by a concert promoter. They turned him down cold.
Lettuce — Live Oak, FL (11/14/2008)
Blast Off
Sam Huff’s Flying Ragin Machine
Squadlive
Speak E.Z.
Salute
Move On Up*#
Making My Way Back Home
Break Out Reprise#>
Relax#
Last Suppit
* with Nigek Hall on vocals
# with Kofi Burbridge on flute
Bonnaroo ’09
From Jambands.com:
The eighth annual installment of the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival will return to Manchester, Tennessee in June. The festival has confirmed that the event will take place from June 11-14, which marks the first time in a few years that Bonnaroo will not occur over Father’s Day weekend. Pre-sales for the festival will begin on Thursday December 4 with the initial face value of general admission tickets set at $209.50 plus fees. This year Bonnaroo also is offering g.a. tickets via a five payment plan, which comedian Lewis Black promotes via a video on the festival site, that offers a nod to the Crazy Eddie TV commercials of yore.
Phish — Happy Silver Anniversary (12/2/1983 – 12/2/2008)
Today marks 25 years for Phish as a band. Little has been heard from the band since announcing their return on 10/1, but their fanbase has collectively experienced an excitement and energy that hasn’t been felt in years. The past is a beautiful thing with a few bumps in the road, but the future has never looked brighter. Congratulations guys.
12-02-83 Harris-Millis Cafeteria – University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Set I: Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress, Proud Mary, In the Midnight Hour, Squeeze Box, Roadhouse Blues, Happy Birthday
Set II: Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain
Show Notes: Trey, Mike, Fish, and Jeff Holdsworth recall being billed as “Blackwood Convention” for this show (though no one is certain what band name was used), which is believed to be their first public gig together. The band was short on equipment, so a hockey stick was used as a microphone stand. Between sets, the DJ spun some Michael Jackson and Trey drummed along to the album. The house music (which included more Michael Jackson) was presumably turned up after Fire to drown out the band. The setlist may be incomplete, though, as the master tape contains nothing after Trey’s sarcastic comments about Michael Jackson following Fire. All songs are, of course, live debuts. While this show is often billed as an ROTC Halloween Dance that took place on October 30, 1983, this is incorrect. The master copy of the recording of this show, as unearthed by Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro, contains a handwritten note that pegs the date as December 2, 1983. In recent discussions with Kevin, band members confirmed that they recall rehearsing for this show over the Thanksgiving Break, and that the show was a Christmas semi-formal. Also, though many ROTC students lived in the dormitory (Mike’s dorm at the time), it was not an ROTC-sponsored event; it was a dorm dance in a predominantly ROTC dorm.
Click here to download Scarlet>Fire from band’s first show.
Phish’s 20th Anniversary Montage:
Just think, the band formed when Reagan was in his first term, Cabbage Patch Kids and Rubick’s Cubes were the hot toys and Michael jackson’s Thriller was broadcast for the first time (12/2/1983).
