The State Theatre South Bend IN: December 11, 2002
Notable:
The show starts with a nice mellow build in a 7-minute improv jam.
August starts with a cool Jake riff that doesn’t resemble August, but let’s the song drift in while the band jams around the key, and then slowly into the song at around 2 minutes.
After the second jam and Bayliss’s solo, there’s a quiet Norwegian Wood jam as they tease the next song, Roulette.
In the banter between the songs, BB asks for any “reasonable” requests, like something from George Michael. Mike sings a verse from a Christmas song and wishes the crowd a Merry Christmas, just a bit early.
The All Things Ninja has a cool tease section with the Fletch movie theme song by Harold Faltermeyer, and the song has Jake on Stylophone.
One the last drum solo parts that Mikey plays with the band in All Things Ninja, including what sounds like Andy on percussion.
Brendan: “Thanks everybody for coming out, it’s good to playin South Bend city of dope.”
Push the Pig. Mmm, tasty. Brendan performs the Weed Rap during the finishing Salvos of the song. This part has Steve Krojniewski on drums.
The slide right into resolution, and it’s a normal, but solid beginning to the song
The end of resolution drifts slowly into In the Kitchen. But no, that’s just a tease and they go into Soul Food I.
Finally, the jam after Soul Food I goes into In the Kitchen proper, and it contains the first inkling of the guitar riff that the beginning of the song has in the modern day versions, performed by Jake. I think this is the version that adds the instrumental portion after the new second verse, I’ll have to check on that. In the Kitchen ends with just four bars of an improv tease, then it goes into the drum section beginning of The Triple Wide.
Set 2 opens up with the Led Zeppelin The Rain Song tease and it goes right into The Somg Remains the Same.
Brendan says, “this next song is dedicated to my good friend Mike Nolan, because he wrote the vast majority of this song; we kind of changed it a little bit and asked him if it was OK, and we kind of did it anyway, but he’s never heard it before, so hopefully you like it.”
This song is Uncommon, which they’ve been playing quite a bit over the last few months, and only debuted a few months ago.
After Uncommon, Brendan says, “I hope we didn’t massacre it, Mike.“
A slow and purposeful start to the song JaJunk, and a solid version. It’s virtually unchanged to this day, even 20 years later. However, it doesn’t yet get the improvisational jam sections that often accompany the song these days.
FF has a cool start with a key change to go into the song.
The transition into the fussy Dutchman is real smooth. They start teasing it a little bit and then go right into the song from FF.
A cool Ryan bassline jam for a couple minutes to start 40s theme, and you can hear the crowd chanting chanting SBC, SBC
The rap that is a guest artist performance as a part of 40s theme is a really cool freestyle sounding rap all about Mike Mirro and how he’s leaving the band and getting a medical degree. It’s pretty awesome!
13 days, sounding great, well performed, right into Mullet (over).
Pay the Snucka: “Back hair, don’t don’t fuck with Cummins, cause Cummins, will fuckin grow you.“
Ok, really cool Jazz intro to Hurt Bird Bath led by Mikey Mirro.
Then the encore with Andy and Adam Budney on vocals for Snoop Dogg’s Ain’t No Fun.
Setlist from allthings.umphreys.com
Set 1:
Intro > August[1] > Roulette, All Things Ninja[2], Push the Pig > Weed Rap[3] > Resolution[4] > Drums[3] > Soul Food I > In The Kitchen > The Triple Wide
Set 2:
The Song Remains the Same[5], Uncommon, JaJunk, FF > The Fussy Dutchman, 40’s Theme[6], 13 Days > Mullet (Over) > Pay the Snucka[7], Hurt Bird Bath
Encore:
Ain’t No Fun (If the Homies Can’t Have None)[8]
Footnotes:
[1] ended with Norwegian Wood (The Beatles) and Will You Be There (Michael Jackson) teases
[2] with Jake on stylophone; with Fletch theme (Harold Faltermeyer) teases
[3] with Steve Krojniewski on drums
[4] with Steve Krojniewski on drums; with In The Kitchen tease from Joel
[5] began with The Rain Song (Led Zeppelin) tease
[6] with Gary “Dope Rhymes” Stanfield on rap
[7] with Killing in the Name (Rage Against the Machine) quotes from Brendan
[8] with Adam Budney on vocals
Show Notes:
with Please Come Home for Christmas (Charles Brown) quote from Mike after Roulette
with Front Port was tease before Ain’t No Fun (If the Homies Can’t Have None)
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