SlipBase: 2021
Updated: Thu Dec 14 11:43:20 EST 2023
08/13/2021: Lockn' Farm: Arrington, VA
Set I: Nobody Waits That Long Anymore%, Even Rats, Get Me with Fuji@, Reverse Blues*, The Boy in the Bubble^, Motherwolf, Paper Birds
Notes: @ story about Shaolin temple, "what is the opposite of life? ...". % Brad on Dano (new song). * fka Catch a Villain. ^ Paul Simon cover. [Cleantone Aug 2021 ; YT:v=fyZ2RYLpz2o; Phrazz]
08/14/2021: Lockn' Farm: Arrington, VA
Set I: From the Gecko, Driving Backwards with You, Ernie Mickey, The Weight of Solomon, Sometimes True to Nothing, Autobody Experience > The Weight > Dogs on Bikes*, If One of Us Is Standing$.
Notes: * newly-rearranged version of The Weight (w/ Autobody intro and Dogs outro). $ with Nathan Moore and Marco Benevento. [Cleantone Aug 2021, Phrazz Nov 17 2021, Scott Marks Apr 16, 2022]
08/15/2021: Lockn' Farm: Arrington, VA
Set I: Hit Song^, The Soft Machine, Yellow Medecine, If One of Us Should Fall, Jumby$, When a Woman*, Wolof
Notes: ^ new song. $ with Marco Benevento. * with Nathan Moore and Marco Benevento. [Cleantone, Phrazz Nov 17, 2021; Scott Marks 12/4/2021]
11/11/2021: Higher Ground: South Burlington, VT
Set I: Landing, Get Me with Fuji, Nobody Waits That Long Anymore, Even Rats, Sometimes True to Nothing, Motherwolf, Chasing Rabbits, Trane-ing, Through the Iron Gate, Life in Disguise, The Weight of Solomon, The Original Blue Air, Paper Birds
Encore: The Weight > Dogs on Bikes*
Notes: * new version (no Autobody intro). [Cleantone Nov. 11, 2021; Scott Marks 12/4/2021]
11/12/2021: Fete Music Hall: Providence, RI
Set I: Landing, Trane-ing, The Original Blue Air, Paper Birds, Get Me with Fuji, Superterranean Onlyness^, Driving Backwards with You, Even Rats, intro, Hit Song^, Chasing Rabbits, Motherwolf, Sometimes True to Nothing, Aptos, Something Learned, Life in Disguise, Autobody Experience > The Weight% > Dogs on Bikes
Encore: Children of December
Notes: ^ new song debuts; Superterranean Onlyness was released on YouTube on Nov 4, 2021 (v=HNHkn8gdBq4); Hit Song was fka "new Brad song". % new version, w/ Autobody intro. [Cleantone - Nov. 12, 2021, Moshe Weitzman]
11/13/2021: The Sinclair: Cambridge, MA
Set I: Landing, Psych Guitar? > Get Me with Fuji, Nobody Waits That Long Anymore, Even Rats%, Sometimes True to Nothing$, Motherwolf
Set II: Trane-ing, The Weight of Solomon, Hit Song > Aptos, Through the Iron Gate > Life in Disguise^, Autobody Experience > The Weight > Wolof jam > Dogs on Bikes
Encore: Children of December
Notes: ? debut, working/tentative title. % w/ Physical tease (Olivia Newton-John). $ w/ Zion jam. ^ with Jealous Guy teases; Brad on what he introduced as a raquinto during one of the Barr Brothers' Patreon videos (looks like a uke, tuned like a guitar). Ryan Montbleau opened. 1st set, at start, Brad says, "we're paying you in deli meats ... and vegetarian, too? That's tough. It's going to be a long drive back to VT. So happy to see so many old friends here, and happy to see folks from my parents graduating class. Don't let these young kids intimidate you! ...". "On Marc Friedman, this is the bass! I am the git-ar." 2nd set...(roughly Life in Disguise [?]) Brad looks out at the crowd and says "I don't even know what time it is. Usually I'm the one watching the clock...don't tell me! I just want to say you guys have aged well" (cheers from the fans) "...we're making a new album? Who's talking out there? Call security!" (shouts and laughter from crowd) "Pete Pidgeon...where's Pete Pigeon?" "Colorado??? Thank god!!!" (more laughter...) [Cleantone - Nov 14, 2021, Brenda Goetz, Sam Gustin, Phrazz]
11/17/2021: Brooklyn Bowl: Philadelphia, PA
Set I: Trane-ing, You Might Say > Ernie Mickey, The Soft Machine, Hit Song > Motherwolf > From the Gecko, Something Learned, Get Me with Fuji% > Proud Mary%^ > Sometimes True to Nothing%
Encore: Reddish Moon
Notes: % w/ Steve Marion (Delicate Steve) on guitar and Charlie Hall (War on Drugs) on drums. ^ Creedence Clearwater Revival (cover). [Cleantone, Scott Marks - Nov. 17, 2021]
11/18/2021: Brooklyn Bowl: New York, NY
Set I: Landing > Even Rats, Superterranean Onlyness*, Invocation > Yellow Medicine%, The Weight of Solomon, Motherwolf, Chasing Rabbits, Through the Iron Gate> I Hate Love%, Jumby%
Encore: Sometimes True to Nothing
Notes: * new song, released Nov. 2021. % with Stuart Bogie on tenor (from Antibalas and Fela! Broadway Musical). Scott Metzger Trio opened. [Scott Marks Nov 18, 2021; Phrazz Nov 22 2021]
11/19/2021: Relix Studio: Manhattan, NY
Set I: Superterranean Onlyness*, Sometimes True to Nothing, Motherwolf, The Original Blue Air > Paper Birds
Notes: afternoon set, livestreamed on Twitch - www.twitch.tv/therelixchannel. * new song. [Cleantone, Phrazz - Nov. 19, 2021]
11/19/2021: Brooklyn Bowl: New York, NY
Set I: Aptos~ > Airplane/Primitive, Wolof%, Bloodstone*, Hit Song, Driving Backwards with You, First Panda In Space > The Soft Machine, The Shouters& > Get Me with Fuji@, Through the Iron Gate#, Life in Disguise$, Jealous Guy!, Autobody Experience > The Weight+ > Dogs on Bikes (outro)
Encore: Children of December^
Notes: ~ BAM was introduced by Brett Siddell, a comic friend from their high school, who called From the Gecko "seminal" and "one of the best albums of all times". % Brad banter: "I know some of you traveled. Thank you for traveling. That's not easy to do these days." He then looked up at the bowlers and said, "All right, you guys on the bowling lanes, are you ready?" (pauses...) "So, if anyone bowls a strike during this song ... (smiles) ... we didn't started the song yet, did you actually bowl a strike when I said that?" (Brad tries to keep a straight face, a few fans start chuckling) "...I don't know, have to say starting right now..." ... "you get a credit, you get a cd... I don't know what we do with a CD these days but...anyone who bowls a strike during this song gets a t-shirt, and a handshake from Marc". * new Brad song (working title). & incomplete. @ w/ (short) Sweet Child o' Mine and (longer) Moby Dick tease. # Brad mentions being "under the jam umbrella", the band's identity crisis, and how it was so good to be back at the Brooklyn Bowl. # Brad on uke, reflects on The Wetlands, shouts out to Lettuce, Schleigho, The Duo, etc., talks about the "jamband umbrella" and the history of the band "it's hard to see what's great about you as a group...that means a lot to me". # w/ So What (Miles Davis) teases from Marc & Andrew. $ unfinished. + new version, rearranged w/ Dogs outro. ^ Brad quips, "...you all knew how this was going to end" :). John Kimock & Friends feat. Karina Rykman on bass and Dan Klug on keys opened. [Harry McQ - matrix audio - Nov 20, 2021; initial setlist Scott Marks - Nov 19, 2021 ; updates Phrazz - Dec. 7, 2021: +Brad's dialogue w/ fans, +Encore, other notes (from videos) ; Phrazz Feb. 25, 2022: added openers info. ]
11/20/2021: Levon Helm Studios: Woodstock, NY
Set I: Suffocation Keep, Trane-ing, Bloodstone*, Aptos, Sometimes True to Nothing > Motherwolf
Set II: If One of Us Should Fall, ? > Chasing Rabbits, Jumby, Yellow Medicine%, Through the Iron Gate^, Life in Disguise^, Jealous Guy$, Honey Melon
Encore: The Weight#
Notes: * new Brad song, previously untitled. % w/ Zion intro. ^ the only two songs in second set w/o Marco Benevento on Hammond. $ John Lennon cover. # new version, with Dogs on Bikes outro and Autobody intro. [Cleantone - Nov 20, 2021; Rob Maher]
11 total shows for 2021
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