Vogue Theater Indianapolis, IN: August 15, 2002
Twenty years ago Umphrey’s McGee played a three night run in the midwest, and this first night at The Vogue Theatre in Indianapolis, IN is an awesome example of pre Kris Meyers Umph, with Mike Mirro on drums. The sound in this recording is excellent. It’s a 4-song second set, with lots of time spent improvising.
Notable:
A 5-minute jam to start the show, and then a beautiful early Sweetness to start the show after an intro improvisational jam, followed by 5 more minutes of improv. Sweetness is a song that debuted way back on 9-25-1999 in Noblesville, IN.
When it debuted, Sweetness was situated in the middle of Slacker, as an instrumental jam. This 1999 show is available at the Live Music Archive and on the Live Music Archive app, which streams shows directly from that resource. The 1999 show was at Dead Creek Campground after the Phish show at Deer Creek.
After Crooked One, jam includes Mad Dog on trumpet and Nick Blasky on Ryan’s bass. (Their band, Ray’s Music Exchange, had opened the show.)
The jam at the end of August and before Walletsworth contains solid roots of JaJunk, which will be debuted in less than a month on 9-6-2002 at Mishawaka. Jam ends with No Quarter tease (Led Zepplin).
Setlist from allthings.umphreys.com
Set 1:
Intro-> Sweetness-> The Fuzz-> The Fussy Dutchman, The Crooked One, “Jimmy Stewart”[1], Phil’s Farm > Drums[2] > Phil’s Farm
Set 2:
40’s Theme, August[3]-> Walletsworth, Jam[4]-> Andy’s Last Beer
Encore:
Dump City > Thin Air
Footnotes:
[1] with Michael “Mad Dog” Mavridoglou on trumpet and Nick Blasky on Ryan’s bass; with FF teases
[2] with Nicholas Mavridoglou and Jake on percussion
[3] with No Quarter (Led Zeppelin) tease
[4] first part with Joel, Ryan, and Mike only; with Miles Runs the Voodoo Down (Miles Davis) teases
Links to Audio
The Live Music Archive app (iOS) and the Taper’s Section app (Android) is a great way to find and listen to these shows. You can stream, download for offline listening, save favorites, and mark shows as already listened to. The app pulls all data directly from the public repository of live music recordings posted at archive.org.
