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FAITU#16

FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE
(FAITU#16)
1994-05-29

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  • MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD

    Homage @ Little 5 Points, Atlanta, GA
    Sunday, May 29, 1994


    One Set: Open Improv > Vergessene Improv* > Open Improv > Shack, We’re So Happy > Friday Afternoon In The Universe, Wiggly’s Way

    * this improvisation centres around a melody we find popping up later in MMW’s shows: On April 14/2000 they open an acoustic show with a loose working of this melody but it’s underdeveloped and never heard from again; the song first debuted in full on April 25/2007 as part of a short acoustic tour. A version of the song from that tour was later released on the 2012 live acoustic album Free Magic with the following title: Ballade In C Minor, ‘Vergessene Seelen’. The song was then subsequently played on the Fall ’12 and Spring ’13 acoustic tours in support of the album. ‘Vergessene Seelen’ translates to “Forgotten Souls”, so I labeled this improvisation ‘Vergessene Improv’ — the forgotten improv. From 3:50-6:45 of the track is kind of a lead-in to the ‘Vergessene’ melody which comes in strong at that point and is the main theme for the following 6min or so.
    + “Mystery Gus” melody first introduced just past the 9min mark and solidified @10:05 of this track, might be from a real song but the only other place I’ve identified the melody is during the band’s 4 instrumental performances of the Combustication tune ‘Whatever Happened to Gus’ in early 1999 (1/14, 1/16, 3/20 & 3/23) — see The Shack Project 1999 page for links to the shows.
    ^ recording fades out/cuts at the end of this track leaving Set II incomplete

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Little Five Points, Atlanta, GA

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– SET I (tracks 1-5) –
– SET II incomplete (tracks 6-8) –


– SHACK THOUGHTS –
FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE (FAITU#16)
The Shack Project celebrates MMW @25 years!

This show was a real treasure to listen to, by which I mean I found some special unique musical items that should prove VERY interesting for those of you interested in such stuff. I’d made some notes years ago when listening to this show and noted a couple of parts that had sounded familiar to me at the time, and then listening to this show over this past week I’ve paid fresh attention to those passages and discovered some melodies and music used here that don’t really surface again as more complete songs until years later in MMW’s performing history. Let’s dig into this week’s FAITU pick and find these treats along with the fun of hearing a young MMW in the early stages of developing their onstage explorations … this show is a perfect example of why this band is so rewarding with repeated listens, and how rich the music is …

MMW c.1994/95

MMW c.1994/95

– SET I –

Complete chaos! That’s how things begin — it’s MADNESS! Like they’re trying to scare the weak-hearted, thin the crowd … was there even much of a crowd? ’94 MMW in Atlanta? Sounds like a small group … this isn’t the band’s first visit to the venue though and the crowd seems engaged.

@3:50 this opening track takes on a nice funky feel — Chris’ bassline is super fun! This is the beginning of something more though, leading somewhere … to the first buried treasure my listening dug up this past week >>>

OH WOW! @6:45 the melody here that John strikes on the keys is something that eventually made it’s way into an acoustic tune, Ballade In C Minor, ‘Vergessene Seelen’, which the band didn’t debut until April 2007! That melody was sitting around that long … incredible. They bat this riff around and play inside its context for the next few minutes, getting funky and circling back to that head. Unreal … can’t believe I just found this melody — again! The only other place I’ve found it since it became an actual tune in ’07 was in the opening of an acoustic gig from April 2000, so it seemed at that point the band (or John?) felt the melody belonged more in the acoustic realm, tried it, and then left it for 7 more years before flushing out a more proper composition and arrangement, which was then released on the live acoustic album Free Magic, released in 2012, and the subsequent acoustic tours that fall in the spring of 2013 found the band just nailing Ballade In C Minor, ‘Vergessene Seelen’ and seemingly loving it. Haven’t heard from the tune since … mind you, the band’s schedule has been pretty sporadic these past few years as well … but interesting that ‘Vergessene Seelen’ translates into ‘Forgotten Souls’ because this melody is oft forgotten … anyhoo, we’re led back into more open space that gets pretty wacky for a few minutes before settling down into some calm open space with just some subdued keys, one long bowed note from Chris, and sprinkle of gentle percussive sounds from illyB … this all leads nicely into the first proper tune of the gig, 20min into the show …

Shack twinkles in, grows very smooth and organically, interrupted by the keys that closed out the preceding improvisational section, and then you’re suddenly shuffling along with the Shack groove and it feels good. The band brings the sound way down and intimate at times and then they just erupt into the celebratory groove — fun listen.

Billy lets loose with some quick scattered metallic percussive sounds before moving to the kit to drop the beat a little more proper, @1min Chris plunks in heavily and the mood is getting cheery folks … John weighs in tentatively with some sprinkles from his Clav, starts working it a bit more frenetically but still underscoring the groove that illyB & Wood are laying down … the mood is getting more ebullient yet again … tension building a bit … groove pulsing … a break here and there — will it kick in? … not yet … then just past 3min the Clav sprinkles bring in the happiness, you can feel it, but they’re still fuckin’ with us … and @4:20 (nice timing!) the swirl comes in and WE’RE SO HAPPY! And the happy feeling just keeps growing until it unravels over the last couple minutes … breaking down further and further … until it’s time for a wonderful …

Friday Afternoon In The Universe … oh yeah. Love the open tinkering that gets the piece moving — this is a composition of the utmost gravitas, if I could get serious for a moment. FAITU, also the moniker for this weekly series, is a song the band has never overplayed throughout their career and always delivers. It’s an incredible balance between that open exploration, but composed, and the discovery of a sweet, sweet riff/groove, also pre-written. But it sounds like a surprise every Friday Afternoon I spend In The MMW Universe

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Wiggly’s Way wiggles its way in, like really wiggles, and finally arrives to the full groove which still maintains this dragging pulse to it … like the beat is gonna fall behind, but doesn’t … how can it? *It’s* the beat! A great groove to wrap up the set — although you can hear the guys wonder if they’ve reached break time or not, and then, surprisingly to modern MMW listeners, John (not Billy) speaks up and introduces the band and whatnot and says they’ll be back after a break.

– SET II – INCOMPLETE

Unfortunately, we don’t have a full recording of the 2nd set, but what we do have is really great to hear and also provides the 2nd treasure I found while re-listening this past week. But first …

The set opens in fine form with a song I think we all love (you will if you don’t know it yet) and can’t understand why it fell by the wayside: PAKALOLO! Hits smooth in musical and herbal form … and always welcome. As far as we know from circulating recordings the tune debuted in spring of ’94 and was a treat from the start — this version does not disappoint.

Syeeda’s Song Flute, that oddity-to-my-ears in an MMW set, is up next and the band delivers a hard hitting version of such a sweet tune which busts out its ending into some Open Improvisation before finding a groove @5:42 on this last track which again sets the stage for a melody we don’t hear again until years later. The groove moves along and just past 9min something I’m calling “Mystery Gus” sneaks into the groove and then the melody hits in full @10:05 — WHAT IS THAT? DO YOU KNOW?! If you know, please leave a comment! The reason I call it “Mystery Gus” is because before this week I hadn’t placed that familiar melody, which I’ve now realized is a melody that John plays during instrumental takes on Whatever Happened To Gus at 4 acoustic gigs in early 1999 (1/14, 1/16, 3/20 & 3/23) — see The Shack Project 1999 page page for links to the shows.

Anyway, I’ve never been able to place that melody which I think belongs to some old jazz tune or familiar tune of some kind — it’s always eluded me. John mixes it into Gus the same way he mixes Creole Love Call into Your Name Is Snake Anthony. At this ’94 gig the melody drives the improvisation around it — or is it composed? We don’t really have enough of ’94 to know what else may have happened with this melody, or the Vergessene piece, but hearing that stuff in this gig this past week was muchos fun for this MMW addict

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FAITU#14

FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE
(FAITU#14)
2006-04-22

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  • MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD

    Skidmore College Sports Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
    Saturday, April 22, 2006


    Set 1: Improv > Improv > Drum Solo > Improv > Open Improv > Tootie Ma Is A Big Fine Thing*, New New Orleans, Tequila & Chocolate

    Set 2: Shackman, Waking Up (aka The Squalb)+, What’d I Say* > Cat Creeps > Paris, Where’s The Music, Nocturne, Nostalgia In Times Square/Angel Race (I’ll Wait For You) > New Planet

    Encore: Bass Solo > Chubb Sub

    * all piano version
    + 1st known electric performance

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MMW poster 2006-04-22

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– SET I (tracks 1-5) –
– SET II (tracks 6-15) –


– SHACK THOUGHTS – 10 YEARS AGO TODAY
FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE (FAITU#14)
The Shack Project celebrates MMW @25 years!

If you have a chance to catch MMW during the month of April, on any given year, do NOT sleep on that chance. Besides December, I don’t think any other month of the year rivals for consistently stellar gigs, and it doesn’t seem to matter whether it’s that the band is on tour or just playing one-offs, April is consistently a HOT month in the band’s history (see last week’s FAITU#13 for further evidence). And this week’s FAITU choice is no exception, it simply confirms the theory.

Martin @Willisau Jazz Festival, Willisau, Switzerland 2006-09-01

Martin @Willisau Jazz Festival, Willisau, Switzerland 2006-09-01

At the start of April ’06 MMW played a short 4-night acoustic run, debuting some music, some acoustic favourites and the acoustic treatment of some unlikely candidates. Then they take a week break and play a one-off set at Wanee Fest in Florida, followed by a 2-set gig the next night @Music Farm in Charlston, SC. Then another week break and this stand alone gig @Skidmore College before taking a month off. Weird schedule. Back to the music …

– SET I –

Show begins with a groove pulled from the ether and given to MMW for human dissemination. Where do they get all this music!?!? An endless tap that pours … this improvation has nice big open drums with a fuzzy bassline and some harsh/piercing key sounds — it really gets your blood flowing over the first 5min or so. Then there’s a slight shift with more murky keys, a more defined bassline and illyB skittering the kit a little more. The band plays this out, tinkering with it more, until it breaks down to some controlled noise-ish-like sounds in the final couple minutes …

The 2nd Improv is smooth with a popping bassline from Chris, steady illyBeat, and John swirling one wild key sound (Mellotron?) with the more appealing yet broken sounding keys carrying the melody (Wurlitzer?). Then (what I think is) the Mellotron drops out for a bit while yet a 3rd key sound steps in (Hammond B?) with a complimenary line to (what I think is) the Wurlitzer’s melody; then the Mellotron line comes back in; and we weave back again to (what I think is) the Hammond. All the while, the bass and drums are responding and morphing a bit in contrast — Chris’ bassline pulls in more of a slide and Billy introduces some rests in the beat. That plays away into a brief Drum Solo from illyB, just really taking us into the next improvisation, where Chris is the first to join back in establishing quite a funky line with the illyBeat. John slowly joins, quietly under the bass riff when Billy’s stopped, eventually raising the volume but still just playing around Chris’ work — this is wild!!! — until Billy starts with some shakers; John and Chris morph their interplay, Billy moves to the kit and just starts pounding — these 3 parts make no sense in isolation, but together we’re establishing a KILLER groove … it’s in the making … Chris holding strong, while both John and Billy basically freak out, respectively … until it almost just blows apart, but then locks into a HEAVY GROOVE for a couple of minutes before spiraling out again …

Wood @Willisau Jazz Festival, Willisau, Switzerland 2006-09-01

Wood @Willisau Jazz Festival, Willisau, Switzerland 2006-09-01

After some open space exploration the band tinkers around to resolve into the opening chug of (new at the time) Tootie Ma Is A Big Fine Thing — a wonderfully celebratory tune if there ever was one! If you don’t feel good listening to this, I’m not sure I can help you further … the song will find its way onto the MSMW release of Out Louder later in ’06, but at the start of the year it got some wonderful trio-only-treatment.

New New Orleans continues the vibe Tootie Ma started — again, you just have to feel good as the band rocks this number, which doesn’t end up on Out Louder (or any album) but does find its way into the MSMW live set eventually.

And an interesting note to close the set, Tequila & Chocolate (another Out Louder tune with Sco) slinks in to comfort our souls into set break. It’s fun yet again to hear this trio-only version of a tune that lands in MSMW’s repertoire instead and disappears from MMW’s shows … so check it out! (These Out Louder tunes were also played during the acoustic run at the top of April ’06.)

– SET II –

The Shackman groove gets the set going nicely and begins MMW’s version of a song oriented set, as in very little interplay between songs with the playfulness confined to each song’s boundaries.

Waking Up (aka The Squalb) is such an amazing piece of music — what a composition! I loved it from the first note when they played it as part of the acoustic run earlier in the month. Any time Billy plays the thumb-piano it’s a GOOD thing. The tune was recorded for the children’s album the band (finally) released in early 2008 (we heard about this album for quite a while before it finally saw release). On the album the song is broken up over two tracks: the opening track, titled “Waking Up”, just tinkers with that main lullaby-ish riff briefly before the album gets going; later in the album “The Squalb” appears which is the more full version of the tune but accompanied by Mr. John Lurie on vocals telling the children the story about “The Squalb” — this is a slightly creepy kids’ story and even tells the kids not to believe their mom at one point … moms won’t like that.

Medeski @Willisau Jazz Festival, Willisau, Switzerland 2006-09-01

Medeski @Willisau Jazz Festival, Willisau, Switzerland 2006-09-01

The run from What’d I Say > Cat Creeps > Paris injects some dancing into the set after the more contemplative opening tunes. John says all he needs to say using only the piano during Ray Charles’ blues What’d I Say, and then Cat Creeps creepily jams in to electrify the groove (another kids’ album tune, not heard from much after ’06-’07), and then Paris takes John back to the piano, Chris on upright, and Billy grabs the mic to sing us a song! Nice little break-down in Paris between Chris and Billy with some nice plunking of the Wood until it’s just illyB kicking it briefly — interesting to find a short solo inside the tune!

Where’s The Music, another tune for the kids’ album, bubbles up to keep the energy going and butts movin’! This song is an opportunity for crowd interaction with the band: “WHERE’S THE MUSIC?!”

Nocturne is up next — this song is another top favourite for me and was wonderful to hear the band milk it a bit during this time period since they rarely played it around Combustication’s release … Nocturne is always welcome … love the sparseness at the top of the tune and then the way it fills in when Billy moves to the kit and things start cooking … hmmm … similar design to Waking Up (aka The Squalb).

The set wraps up with the MMW tailored medley of Nostalgia In Times Square/Angel Race (I’ll Wait For You), which is really a perfect mix and this version doesn’t disappoint — it’s fun electric or acoustic, and this electric version smokes. New Planet’s trippy groove closes the set, which is an odd but welcome final note … and oh, I dig Chris’ poppin’ bass on this tune!

Classic encore of Bass Solo > Chubb Sub ends the night — again, Medeski’s ’06 key sounds lend some new breath to this oldie.

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FAITU13

FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE
(FAITU#13)
2003-04-19

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  • MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD
    ~ Acoustic Show ~

    Napa Opera House, Napa, CA
    Friday, April 19, 2013


    Set 1: Open Improv > Hip Chops > Open Improv > Improv > Improv, Old Wyne

    Set 2: “Melodiccordian Shuffle”, Ballade In C Minor – ‘Vergessene Seelen’ > Drum Solo, “Wild Instrument Jam”* > Legalize It, Suspicious Minds

    ~ Acoustic Show ~
    * w/ John on fujara

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MMW @Kirkland Performance Center, Kirkland, WA 2013-04-17

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– SET I (tracks 1-6) –
– SET II (tracks 7-13) –


– SHACK THOUGHTS –
FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE (FAITU#39)

The ACOUSTIC goodness of MMW … oh yeah. Perhaps more accurately referred to as “Chamber Music” — that’s what Billy called the music at the shows I hit at this time … has a nice ring to it … reverent …

MMW 2013 Acoustic Tour

– SET I –

Show begins carving through the open space, everyone filling the sound, and then c.3min Medeski plays this lilting line on the piano (familiar?) and the vibe changes to something soothing, which slides right into Hip Chops on the next track, a killer romp, courtesy of Roland Kirk, that is always fun to hear the guys play. The tune takes a turn near the end back into some Open Improvisation, which almost feels like it’s picking up where the pre-Hip Chops open exploration left off — cool! This set’s open playing so far has been rather comforting, but around 3min into track #3 the sounds take a turn towards the eerie and anxiety-inducing — tension! So it gets more tense for a bit before breaking apart into some random note playing (or so it sounds), which all pulls together into a groove of sorts when we roll into track #4.

MMW @Roseland Theater, Portland, OR 2013-04-18

The Improv takes a little shift @3:06 that sounds like the beginning of what is more developed by @6:03 of track #4 — I’m not sure if this is just really beautiful improvisation, or if we’ve hit a tune … kind of reminds me of something from Medeski’s solo album that came out around this time, A DIFFERENT TIME … but I’ve never been able to place it. A lovely listen …

A big swig of Olde Wyne wraps up the set leaving you feeling all warm inside …

– SET II –

A quick bassline from Chris and a sprinkling of melodica from John, while illyB interjects some snare accents, gets us going into what I’ve (stupidly?) temp-named “Melodiccordion Shuffle”. The tune debuted on the previous fall’s East coast acoustic tour and had John on the Claviola upon the debut of the tune’s melody on Oct 3/2012 in Fall River, MA — and it’s been unclear to me if itwas a song at that point, or just an improvised melody that night because it wasn’t until the next night that we hear a more “full” version of a song, and it continued to morph over that fall tour, the Blue Note run, and in these spring ’13 gigs. Anyway, the Claviola was new to me when I witnessed that first melody performance in Oct ’12, and I dubbed the instrument a “Melodiccordion” — it’s like a hybrid of the melodica and an accordion, hence the odd temp-name for this track since I often try to be descriptive with temp-names for new tunes. Not too long after I discovered the name of the instrument as the Claviola. Pretty sure this performance is on the melodica though.

Wood @Roseland Theater, Portland, OR 2013-04-18

The next piece is hauntingly beautiful in all the right ways: Ballade In C Minor, ‘Vergessene Seelen’. This also has a VERY interesting history in MMW’s live repertoire. First (known) appearance of what I’d term the ‘Vergessene Seelen’ melody dates way back to May 29/1994 where the band jams off this in an electric setting — VERY cool discovery I made earlier while preparing FAITU#16. The ‘Vergessene’ melody surfaces yet again 6 years later, now in an acoustic setting, when the band began their run of acoustic gigs in early 2000; Apr 14/2000 began with yet another embryonic version of the “tune” — again, more like it’s a melody in John’s head that he toys with from time to time … I wonder how many other times it’s been used? I haven’t found others yet, but I’m listening! Finally on the 2007 acoustic spring tour the band debuts the tune they developed around that lingering melody, and Ballade In C Minor, ‘Vergessene Seelen’ is played each night, then disappears, eventually making its way onto the release of Free Magic in 2012. leading the band to playing it again — and REALLY working it! — over the fall 2012 tour, and again on this spring 2013 tour. This night’s version, like any of them, is well worth hearing. It’s a weird tune, but I REALLY dig it. This 4/19/2013 performance moves through the “Ballad” section smoothly and the ‘Vergeessene Seelen’ section seems especially hopping — the fall versions seemed to all move towards breaking down earlier or more slowly, but this one just quits the energy right to a short Drum Solo to finish out.

MMW @Roseland Theater, Portland, OR 2013-04-18

“Wild Instrument Jam” was great when I caught versions on the fall tour, and this one doesn’t disappoint either — well, except for the one idiot who keeps calling for the band to “fill it in”. Sometimes it’s best to just be quiet and listen, you might be rewarded in your soul for such attention. Maybe that’s just me? So, this is another “wild” and wacky improvisation with John on the Fujara (a Slovakian shepherd horn) — John gravitated to this choice of instrument over the fall acoustic shows, but the first few times this moment happened in the fall gigs it seemed he might introduce a new/unique instrument each time or at least shuffle between the newly played Claviola, Bamboo Sax, or Fujara. This jam works weirdly into Bob Marley’s Legalize It — a tune they’ve covered electrically as a trio since 2003, but then became part of their MSMW repertoire and was recorded on the OUT LOUDER album with Scofield.

Suspicious Minds closes the set and the show — as unlikely a cover as any MMW have tackled. I LOVE It. Got to hear it a couple of time on the fall ’12 East Coast leg of the tour.

Medeski & Martin @Roseland Theater, Portland, OR 2013-04-18

So no encore, which is how the band rolls sometimes … in this case, no worries, as each set sits as a nice whole in and of itself … I think these acoustic chamber sets will treat you well on this (Good) Friday Afternoon In The Universe

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Friday Afternoon In The Universe @12 weeks

~ FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE ~
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– THE SHACK PROJECT CELEBRATES MMW @25 YEARS! –
This year I started a weekly series highlighting a specific show each FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE. Below is the ongoing list of those select shows, shared each Friday, and I’ll be adding to this page as the year moves ahead … if there’s continued interest at year’s end, I’ll see about keeping these weekly FAITU picks going into the future, but for now I thought it was a great way to celebrate MMW @ 25 years old!

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MMW @The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA 2010-02-21

MMW @The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA 2010-02-21


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1993-09-12.aud-web+vid.partial.30852.t-flac16
[TSP1993#1]
Lucille’s, Knoxville, TN
Sunday, September 12, 1993

FAITU#01:
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[TSP2004#31]
Mishawaka Amphitheatre, Bellvue, CO
Friday, August 06, 2004

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MMW 2004-05-28 @Harmony Park Music Garden, Geneva, MN

MMW 2004-05-28 @Harmony Park Music Garden, Geneva, MN

2009-11-12.schoeps-mk22.102558.t-flac16
[TSP2009#1]
Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
Thursday, November 12, 2009

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1997-04-11.octava-012.78853.t-flac16
[TSP1997#1]
Ashgrove, Santa Monica, CA
Friday, April 11, 1997

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2005-10-23.s1-at943c+s2-akg-c1000.87712.t-flac16
[TSP2005#29]
Rialto Theatre, Tucson, AZ
Sunday, October 23, 2005

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1995-10-22.dsbd+akg451.matrix.32330.t-flac16
[TSP1995#10]
The Fox Theater, Boulder, CO
Sunday, October 22, 1995

FAITU#06:
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MMW 1995-10-03 @Georgia Theater, Athens, GA

MMW 1995-10-03 @Georgia Theater, Athens, GA

2000-10-23.fob.b+k4022.28543.t-flac16
[TSP2000#3]
Wait Chapel, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC
Monday, October 23, 2000

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[TSP1999#13]
House Of Blues, Myrtle Beach, SC
Sunday, November 14, 1999

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[TSP2002#6]
The Web Theater, Phoenix, AZ
Monday, April 15, 2002

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2003-11-01.akg482.31417.t-flac16
[TSP2003#25]
Club Laga, Pittsburgh, PA
Saturday, November 01, 2003

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MMW c.2002/2003

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2008-11-19.fob.neumann-km140.96123.t-flac16
[TSP2008#1]
Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

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2007-05-03.senn441.85121.t-flac16
[TSP2007#15]
The Howlin’ Wolf, New Orleans, LA
Thursday, May 03, 2007

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FAITU#10

FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE
(FAITU#10)
2003-11-01

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  • MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD

    Club Laga, Pittsburgh, PA
    Saturday, November 01, 2003


    Set 1: Bloody Oil* > Improv > Improv > Queen Bee* > Drum Solo > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Think

    Set 2: Improv > We’re So Happy > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, Acht O’Clock Rock > Note Bleu > Open Improv > Church Of Logic, Fire, Smoke

    Encore: I Wanna Ride You

    * 1st known performance

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John Medeski 2003-08-18 @Club Laga, Pittsburgh, PA

John Medeski 2003-08-18 @Club Laga, Pittsburgh, PA

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– SET I (tracks 1-7) –
– SET II (tracks 8-18) –


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FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE (FAITU#10)
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MMW c.2002/2003

MMW c.2002/2003

Reasons, in case you need them:

  • first known performances of both Bloody Oil and Queen Bee, in nice raw and raunchy forms, sandwiching some killer improvisation
  • Improv (short) > We’re So Happy — this tune is ALWAYS worth hearing, and was kind of a treat at this time and certainly would be now
  • Note Bleu > Open Improv > Church of Logic is a wonderfully delicious deep 2nd set run of music
  • Hendrix Fire means there’s Smoke, interesting combo to close
  • Gospel vibes close us out with I Wanna Ride You, always fun
  • the rest of the show is worth your listen too, but those moments strike me

(Oh, love me some Acht O’Clock Rock too!)

enjoy the grooves,
dug


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