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Friday Afternoon In The Universe @12 weeks
~ FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE ~
** SELECT SHOWS ANNOUNCED ANY (NOT EVERY) FRIDAY **
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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 |
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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: Shared on Friday, Jan 22/2016 |
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| 2004-08-06.dpa4022.26327.t-flac16 [TSP2004#31] Mishawaka Amphitheatre, Bellvue, CO Friday, August 06, 2004 FAITU#02: Shared on Friday, Jan 29/2016 |
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 MMW 2004-05-28 @Harmony Park Music Garden, Geneva, MN |
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| 2009-11-12.schoeps-mk22.102558.t-flac16 [TSP2009#1] Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA Thursday, November 12, 2009 FAITU#03: Shared on Friday, Feb 5/2016 |
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| 1997-04-11.octava-012.78853.t-flac16 [TSP1997#1] Ashgrove, Santa Monica, CA Friday, April 11, 1997 FAITU#04: Shared on Friday, Feb 12/2016 |
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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 FAITU#05: Shared on Friday, Feb 19/2016 |
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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: Shared on Friday, Feb 26/2016 |
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 MMW 1995-10-03 @Georgia Theater, Athens, GA |
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| 2000-10-23.fob.b+k4022.28543.t-flac16 [TSP2000#3] Wait Chapel, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC Monday, October 23, 2000 FAITU#07: Shared on Friday, Mar 4/2016 |
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| 1999-11-14.mg-m210.117421.t-flac16 [TSP1999#13] House Of Blues, Myrtle Beach, SC Sunday, November 14, 1999 FAITU#08: Shared on Friday, Mar 11/2016 |
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| 2002-04-15.fob.dpa4022.9274.shnf [TSP2002#6] The Web Theater, Phoenix, AZ Monday, April 15, 2002 FAITU#09: Shared on Friday, Mar 18/2016 |
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| 2003-11-01.akg482.31417.t-flac16 [TSP2003#25] Club Laga, Pittsburgh, PA Saturday, November 01, 2003 FAITU#10: Shared on Friday, Mar 25/2016 |
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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 FAITU#11: Shared on Friday, Apr 1/2016 |
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| 2007-05-03.senn441.85121.t-flac16 [TSP2007#15] The Howlin’ Wolf, New Orleans, LA Thursday, May 03, 2007 FAITU#12: Shared on Friday, Apr 8/2016 |
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FAITU#12
FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE
(FAITU#12)
2007-05-03
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Martin & Wood @Langerado Music Festival, Markham Park, Sunrise, FL 2007-03-10
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2007-05-03.senn441.85121.t-flac16
– SET I (tracks 1-7) –
– SET II (tracks 8-15) –
– SHACK THOUGHTS –
FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE (FAITU#12)
The Shack Project celebrates MMW @25 years!
What we’ve got here is MMW at the opposite end of the spectrum from the 2006 acoustic gigs I’ve been seeding in my 10 YEARS AGO seeds. This show is FREAKIN’ AWESOME! The opening Improv is hot leading > a quick Bass Solo that finds us in a TRIO ONLY version of Miles Behind — and it is incredibly energetic. That energy moves forward to a fun New New Orleans, which is just always a good time. Cat Creeps was a tune we were digging but not knowing the name at this time — it’s temp name had been “Creeping” or something like that though, oddly enough! HA! That tune opens up the remaining run of the set and breaks down to an Organ Intro > Tubby (with a Drum Solo in the middle, which is unusual) > an always welcome Dracula, and a tune that doesn’t often close a set: New Planet. I dig it!
Martin @Lugano Estival Jazz, Lugano, Switzerland 2007-07-05
Fuck You Guys was brand new at this time — I think this was it’s 2nd performance, after debuting at the Fillmore in Colorado back in April. We were calling it “Fillmore Freak” for a while until somebody caught site of an onstage setlist at an MSMW gig and saw it was noted as “Fuck You” on one night and Fuck You Guys on another. Its recent release in the 20 download series confirms the title as Fuck You Guys. (Speaking of which, if you haven’t grabbed those 20 studio tracks released this past year, why the hell not?!? Go and get them, NOW!) Baby Goats was still new at this time, dubbed “New ’07” for a while, but actually originating in some Medeski trio gigs outside MMW in the summer of ’06. Back & Forth, always catching flack, was also new at this time — I totally dig the carnivalesque feel to the song, and Chris always tears it up. What’d I Say is some good blues .. but the Spy Kiss > Shackman (aka After the Onsen) and the Sugar Craft to close ends the evening on a high note for sure with Logic helping the guys create some crazy sounds through Set II.
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FAITU#11
FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE
(FAITU#11)
2008-11-19
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MMW poster 2008-11-19
Source info:
2008-11-19.fob.neumann-km140.96123.t-flac16
– SET I (tracks 1-6) –
– SET II (tracks 7-13) –
– SHACK THOUGHTS –
FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE (FAITU#11)
The Shack Project celebrates MMW @25 years!
2008, year of the Radiolarians! 3 new sets of music over 3 seasons, Winter, Summer, and Fall. MMW basically rebuilt their live repertoire and from ’08 through ’10 MMW will play exclusively Radiolarians music aside from a few exceptions. The band plays the 3 new sets of music separately during each season, and then the 3 sets of tunes mix over ’09-’10 to become their new repertoire, along with some new music from their children’s album and the Zaebos disc they recorded for Zorn’s Book of Angels series.
MMW @McDonald Theatre, Eugene, OR 2008-11-15
On this Radiolarians 3 tour some of the tunes found usual placement, but in this gig some of those usual setlist spots get shifted around. And we also get quite a treat in the encore.
– SET I –
Unlike the other Radiolarians tours, this tour the band opened gigs with the exploration of open space, which in this case finds them landing into Broken Mirror, which is a simply beautiful piece of music — check out John using the Melodica on this tune in place of some of the piano string plucking! It’s fun to go back and listen to these inaugural Radiolarians tours because the tunes hadn’t solidified into what they became in the album recording process that followed the tour and/or what the playing over the next couple of years developed. Raw honest music. Gwyra Mi is a HEAVY reggae-ish beat that often leads to a Drum Outro, but not always. Walk Back is a wonderful dancey groove, leading to some more open space (guys are itching to loosen the confines of composition, maybe?) and coming to one of my favourite Radiolarian tunes, Chantes Des Femmes. On the album this tune leads to a song that it became inseparable from over the next couple of years, and with which it was paired a few times on this tour as well, but that tune instead opens the 2nd set …
Martin & Wood @McDonald Theatre, Eugene, OR 2008-11-15
– SET II –
Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down begins, as usual, with a solo from John before hopping into the melody proper, and this is eventually the usual device used to have this song follow Chantes Des Femmes, but it’s cool to hear the solo just erupt on the spot and off we go — when Chris picks up the slide and starts in with that main melody, WHOAH! I love that sound! (Had the pleasure of catching this tune once the following year and I was standing right in front of Chris all night, so this tune was a VERY nice treat to watch him dig into that slide sound on the bass!) SYKMCD always slammed into Satan Pt.II during this R3 tour (or as I liked to call it, “Satan’s Little Helper”) and it is a great groove! They played it a handful of times in winter/spring ’09, and then it disappeared … like so many other tunes, so enjoy ’em while you hear ’em!
The rest of the set continues the onslaught of new R3 tunes, with Jean’s Scene finding the guys having a hard time keeping it together, which is interesting to hear … at least it sounds to me like they haven’t quite hooked up on the tune just yet — let’s remember this music is ONE WEEK old at this time. Bold move, these tours. Kota, like Broken Mirror, is a thing of beauty, but leaning a little on the scary side of that, a dark haunting tune, again in its early stages of development. Clifton didn’t make it onto R3 the album, but did get added as a bonus track to R2 in the Radiolarians box set that came out later in ’09. It’s a raunchy blues, nothing ground breaking, but damn it’s solid with a heavy edge I dig.
Wood & Medeski @McDonald Theatre, Eugene, OR 2008-11-15
Undone is incredible. A pop-tinged anthem of celebration. Wow. I love it. Hearing it at this point, it hasn’t quite hit its stride but you can feel it. Interesting it’s not in the closer slot, a set position it comes to inherit often over the next couple years. Wonton closes the night in fine fashion getting your head bopping and feet moving.
The encore is a treat with the cover I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free, a tune you may have heard around by a number of other artists — I love the Derek Trucks Band version, myself. The tune is written by Billy Taylor and Richard Carroll Lamb (Dick Dallas), and according to Wikipedia is best known for the version by Nina Simone — check it out! It’s super nice:
… or check out Billy Taylor’s instrumental:
… I’m not sure it matters who is playing it since that melody is infectious! I’m humming it for days …
And in case anyone’s interested, or has this show but has the setlist we circulated around the time the show happened, here’s a list noting what the actual album title is for a given R3 tune and what the temp name used to be. For R3 we actually got an onstage setlist so these are the titles the band was using for reference before locking down the album titles (except for “Satan’s Little Helper”, that was my temp name — I think the band only identified “Satan” and the 2 were always paired on the tour).
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RADIOLARIANS III Tour
ALBUM TITLE = TEMP TITLE
1 Chantes Des Femmes = “Chant”
2 Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down = “Satan”
3 Kota = “Koto”
4 Undone = “Yeah”
5 Wonton = “Won Ton”
6 Walk Back = “Moose”
7 Jean’s Scene = “Mon Tum”
8 Broken Mirror = “Mancini”
9 Gwyra Mi = “Dub”
Clifton = “Clifton” (Bonus track on R2)
Satan Pt. II = “Satan’s Little Helper” (Bonus track on R3)
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FAITU#10
FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE
(FAITU#10)
2003-11-01
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John Medeski 2003-08-18 @Club Laga, Pittsburgh, PA
Source info:
2003-11-01.akg482.31417.t-flac16
– SET I (tracks 1-7) –
– SET II (tracks 8-18) –
– SHACK THOUGHTS –
FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE (FAITU#10)
The Shack Project celebrates MMW @25 years!
In the interests of getting this torrent up and seeding, let me keep this short and sweet: Download it. Or stream it. That’s why I’m sharing the gig!
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!)
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FAITU#9
FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE
(FAITU#9)
2002-04-15
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MMW ticket stub 2002-04-15
Source info:
2002-04-15.fob.dpa4022.9274.t-flac16
– SET I (tracks 1-5) –
– SET II (tracks 6-16) –
– SHACK THOUGHTS –
FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE (FAITU#9)
The Shack Project celebrates MMW @25 years!
Scrambled at the last minute for this week’s FAITU pick — had a different idea that didn’t work out this week (stay tuned for next week!), but then stumbled back upon this gem from spring ’02, a tour known for its inclusion of the Uninvisible Horns led by Steven Bernstein (plays in Billy’s new-ish band Wicked Knee). However, this gig precedes the point where the horns join the tour (and the players differed a bit over the tour, with Bernstein being the only constant), but we’ve still got a couple of guests adding nice flavour to the gig. Brahim always fits nicely with the guys … I have a very neutral attitude towards DJs in general … none of them make me overly excited, and others work better than some … P Love fits fine for my tastes and there’s some fun interplay in the 2nd set with him, Brahim and illyB …
Wood & Martin c.2002/03
– SET I –
Show begins exploring the space with a nice beat from Billy and Brahim, P Love sprinkling sounds, and John and Chris making noise, albeit searching noise that settles in eventually with the 5 performers all locking into this spontaneous composition. A fine start to any evening, which moves ever so smoothly into the opening notes of Henduck. Henduck has cool percussion/DJ breakdown in the middle, with Billy kicking in on the kit at one point and we’re led back to the closing refrains of Henduck … and that pairs so well with the Lifeblood that follows — this opening Improv > Henduck > Lifeblood is exactly what you’re looking for. Check it.
The set closes in a less brooding atmosphere with the combo of Pappy Check > Partido Alto — again, so nice playful sounds from Brahim during the transition between tunes, and he fits perfectly on Partido! End set.
– SET II –
The set begins with the swirling gospel organ intro to I Wanna Ride You, and then the trip begins. Nice tight concise version of the tune gets us dancing, followed by the HEAVY groove of Uninvisible — oh, I dig that bass! — which is the beginning of a nice run taking us into another HEAVY groove in Big Time, and wrapping with the wackyness of Seven Deadlies which grows out of the usual open ending from Big Time, and that open ending has some fun sounds from Brahim.
After a brief pause we’re suddenly on Fire, MMW/Hendrix style! And where there’s fire there’s Smoke — seriously, at this time these tunes are virtually inseparable, switching their order on any given performance, but together like 99% of the time. I always liked that though, how we couldn’t have Smoke without Fire, or vice versa depending on the show.
MMW c.2002/03
Out of the Smoke a super slinky Improv emerges, maintaining that Smoke-y vibe but a substance all its own which helps open up a VERY playful mood for the remainder of the set.
The run Ten Dollar High > Percussion Improv > Percussion/DJ/Bass > Bass Solo > Shacklyn Knights > Percussion’n’DJ > Moti Mo is, once again, exactly what you’re looking for — you better download or listen to this gig! Seriously, this closing of the show involves so many wonderful moments between all 5, or just a couple players at a time, to just some solo moments. Moti Mo is the perfect closer, bringing us back to the methodic grooves that opened the show.
Then some Wiggly’s Way leaves a smile on your face … at least it does on mine.
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