Blue Cats Knoxville TN: October 14, 2002
Highlights: Miss Tinkles into Muche’s is new but becoming common. Jake sings “coffee, pancakes and sausage” (instead of bacon) for one of the last times. A rare Band on the Run with Mikey on vocals in the chorus, and JaJunk is getting some improv jam love.
Notable:
Short improv intro into a solid White Man’s Moccasins.
Smell the Mitten into Uncommon are two great versions too.
Soul Food I has a Barney Miller (tv show) theme tease.
They telegraph Sociable Jimmy before jumping right in.
Wappy Sprayberry is still just an improv jam
on the bass line, but this time Ryan plays a section of the song an octave or two lower, before returning to the high bass notes of the song.
All in Time has a beginning segment that’s similar to the way they do it today. It doesn’t have the previous written rhythm and riffs, but they just build the guitar harmony parts until launching into the opening.
Band on the Run is a classic cover by Wings that Umphrey’s has played since 2001. It’s only been performed 33 times, and most of those were in 2001-2002. Mike has a prominent vocal part during the chorus, which may be part of why they mostly stopped playing it.
This time, JaJunk goes into an instrumental jam and culminates in a transition into It’s About That Time, the Miles Davis tune that’s a staple cover for UM.
They play another stellar version of Visions, back on electric guitars, and it has a tidy little jam to end.
Then the rare Beatles cover, I Am the Walrus. It’s been performed 49 times, mostly in 2001-2002, and the last time on 1-26-18.
A great FF goes into the tune Miss Tinkles Overture in fits and starts. It’s only the fourth performance; I can’t find a recording of the previous show, which contained a Visions > Miss Tinkles Overture > Mulche’s Odyssey.
Miss Tinkles has a short improv jam, that morphs into an extended intro to the third performance of Mulche’s Odyssey. Mulche’s still has the “coffee, pancakes and sausage” rather than “bacon” again.
In just a few days from this show, Jake changed the “sausage” to “bacon” in the Mulche’s lyrics. Listen to the next couple shows to hear it transform.
The end of The Haunt has a great transition into Get in the Van.
Three question marks for the track title here, it’s the Caddyshack number by Chevy Chase (Ty Webb) “….I was born to lick your face.”
Then it goes right into Glory, this time started solo by Jake.
Setlist from allthings.umphreys.com
Set 1:
Intro > White Man’s Moccasins > Smell the Mitten, Uncommon > Soul Food I[1] > Sociable Jimmy, Wappy Sprayberry[2] > All In Time, Band on the Run
Set 2:
JaJunk > It’s About That Time, Visions > I Am the Walrus > FF > Miss Tinkle’s Overture > Mulche’s Odyssey > Pay the Snucka[3], The Haunt > Get In The Van
Encore:
Hangover[4] > Glory
Footnotes:
[1] with Barney Miller theme (Elliott/Ferguson) jam
[2] ended with Flight of the Bumblebee (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov) jam
[3] part III only; with Rollout (My Business) (Ludacris) quote
[4] ended with “Ty Webb Ballad” from Caddyshack
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