People’s Ames IA: November 22, 2002
The track titles are off in the Live Music Archive and any apps that access it. The setlist in the archive notes is correct, as well as the setlist at allthings.umphreys.com.
Notable
A 5-minute jam to start the show, into Resolution.
Resolution has the B section of Den jam segment to end, about 7 minutes in, then ends with The Who Knows (Jimi Hendrix) tease.
Uncommon starts from The Who Knows tease. Uncommon has a cut off last note in the ending, leading into the soft warm-up into Utopian Fir.
Utopian Fir has In the Kitchen experimentation, and goes into a Good Ole’ Boys.
Blue Echo is purposeful and deliberate. The jam explores sound starting with a Joel on the synth, and still doesn’t go into the 2x tempo section that’s played these days.
Instead, the jam drifts smoothly into the beginning of The Haunt, and right into Roulette, a great combination to end set one.
Prowler is high energy, as usual to start the set.
And they bring it back down to earth with a beautiful Hajimemashite.
Nothing Too Fancy has a cool Professor Wormbog tease section. Attendees probably thought they were going into that song, but instead they end it and play 13 Days.
Out of Order is a strong version including the Jake and Brendan call and response guitar with harmonies too.
Bob Marley’s Kinky Reggae is an awesome cover of this era. It’s only been played 39 times, mostly in 2001-2002.
Tribute to the Spinal Shaft.
Walletsworth goes into a jam that teases Smell the Mitten before they go into the song itself.
Encore: the very last (of only 23) performance of Get Down, by War, a Mikey vocal tune.
Setlist from allthings.umphreys.com
Set 1:
Intro > Resolution[1] > Uncommon > Utopian Fir[2] > Good Ol’ Boys[3], Blue Echo[4] > The Haunt > Roulette
Set 2:
Prowler > Hajimemashite > Nothing Too Fancy[5], 13 Days > Out Of Order[6] > Kinky Reggae, Tribute to the Spinal Shaft > Walletsworth[7] > Smell the Mitten[8]
Encore:
Get Down
Footnotes:
[1] with Who Knows (Jimi Hendrix) tease
[2] with Carol of the Bells (Mykola Leontovych) jam
[3] began with Tennessee Jed (Grateful Dead) tease
[4] with Thunderstruck (AC/DC) tease
[5] with Carol of the Bells, Smell the Mitten, and No Diggity (Blackstreet) teases and a Professor Wormbog jam
[6] with Yankee Doodle (traditional) tease
[7] with Last Call teases
[8] with Sweet Child o’ Mine (Guns N’ Roses) tease
Links to Audio and Apps
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.
