Umphrey's McGee

Phescador

Idunno if any of you have heard of the prog-rock/jam-rock/electro-rock band Umphrey's McGee. I've seen them 7 times live. Always an awesome show and always something completely different. They are playing back to back nights in Ft. Liquerdale Jan. 7th and 8th for the pre-jam cruise party with Toubab Krewe and New Mastersounds. Just seeing if anyone else is going. My buddy's Uncle is their tour bus driver. I'm trying to get free tix or hopefully backstage. We will see. If not. I'll still be there anyways. Incredible show. I suggest you check them oot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4yl6Es6ERg

Toubab Krewe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddj1kWxkt1c

New Mastersounds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Os5CpNsqM

Seen all these guys live before....I highly suggest you check out at least one night of the run.

drkptt

New Mastersounds is great; I saw them a couple of weeks ago at Bear Creek. Surprised you didn't make that, with Trey playing and all.

Given what Toubab plays I'm surprised I get into it, but I really like them live.

BTW, last night WMNF in Tampa played a couple of songs from a tape of the Grateful Dead at the University of Florida in the old gym on November 29th, 1980 (so exactly 31 years later). That was the only time I saw the Dead; never really got into them.

Phescador

Nice. I really wanted to make it to Bear Creek but just couldn't swing it. I heard the venue is just incredible. Who was the best of the fest? I know TAB killed it, Jennifer Hartswick alone is just incredible, and with Trey, Ma'don!

Toubab is amazing live. I saw them and Dr. Didg at All Good. It was awesome to say the least.

Lol....the only good music we get on the radio down here is on NPR. Sara Watkins(of Nickel Creek) and Garrison Keilor did a nice version of Brokedown Palace and Ripple with the Big Band last week on Prairie Home Companion....it was incredible. That's the closest we get to Dead Air down here.

BTW, Jake, the guitarist in Umph is one of the best out there today. Listen to the first link, Miss Tinkle. It's like funky Rush mixed with Dream Theater and awesome.

drkptt

If I tell you that I don't like Phish and only listened to about a 1/2 hour of Trey you'll probably ignore anything else I say about music. Untypically for this fest they gave TAB 2-1/2 hours and shut down the other 5 stages so I could still hear him back at the campsite and it did sound funky good. My favorites were Pimps of Joytime and Lettuce's second set on Sunday (sandwiched between NMS and Dumpstaphunk). Quite a few posters on the Bear Creek forum agreed that Lettuce was the set of the weekend.

The venue is truly awesome; you're camping for days in a beautiful spot just a few steps away from live music almost nonstop (11am to 5am on Fri). Find some videos of the Amphitheater stage; it's in a natural depression, standing/dancing room up front, terraced slopes away from the stage, and an oak-tree forest draped with hammocks that people leave up for the duration.

Doesn't hurt that the crowd is younger than for the other fests there (Magnolia, Spring, Wannee) and it's crawling with young hotties, at least till it drops below 40 and everyone is bundled up tight. Check out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH0qFypNcfA
I'm front and center in the Pet de Kat Krewe shirt. Note the butt crack on the young latina with the flower in her hair. She had a string of Pac Man characters tattooed on her lower abdomen, disappearing below her belt line.

WMNF is a listener-sponsored community station that plays music shows of diverse genres. Deadhead Ed's show is Tuesday nights, he always includes some rare live Dead. The Jamband show is later the same night; the guy downloads fresh live music to play. He did two solid hours from Bear Creek last week. You can listen online and they archive the shows for replay (for a week). http://www.wmnf.org/ The station also puts on about 40 concerts a year--Todd Snider is net week.

Phescador

nice...Nice....NICE! It's cool you didn't dig Trey band or Phish...lots of people don't get it...haha, jk. You like(and know) Lettuce. One of my favorite bands EVER. Nobody throws it down funkier or jazzier than Lettuce. Not even Soulive.

I definitely plan on making it up there next year. I got three festival's I am going to for sure. All Good(of course). I always go to that one. They moved the venue to Legend Valley right outside Columbus where I am from. We had about 50 people at our campsite in W.Va. last year. This year will be insane. I'll miss the mountain top though... Bear Creek I am gonna have to check out after this rave revue. Then I was thinking about Hangout. One in the spring, middle of summer and fall to spread 'em out a little bit. I need a few weeks to recover after 4 days of festival life.

Thanks for the heads up on that radio station. Some Zappa-esque Umphrey's, for you are a gentleman and a scholar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh-1fFWkSdw

Gotta love their mashup's as well....Good Times Bad Times, Fat Bottomed Girl's and their tune Nemo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6qe_P3XETI

drkptt

I'm not sure this year topped 2010 when Lettuce fronted the three James Brown Horns--Fred Wesley, Peewee Ellis, and Maceo Parker. When they announced that was going to happen I posted it on the New Orleans Jazz Fest board and within two hours a guy in Salt Lake City had booked a flight. It did not disappoint. There are better videos, but this one gives you a wide-angle shot of the Amphitheater stage at the start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPR5ISvCPz8

The whole set is on LMA:
http://www.archive.org/details/lettuce2010-11-14
Read the reviews on that page. Funny thing was I gave the disc away last week and had just burned another copy and it's in the player now.

aniano

Prog rock- Awesome

Electro rock - Awesome

Jam bands- God Awful

Umphrey's McGee - 66% good songs

aniano

drkptt wrote: »

Doesn't hurt that the crowd is younger than for the other fests there (Magnolia, Spring, Wannee) and it's crawling with young hotties, at least till it drops below 40 and everyone is bundled up tight. Check out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH0qFypNcfA
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Like the PImps of Joytime

Stetson Law

Their drummer was my next door neighbor growing up, same age. When we were four years old, I guided him to his first bluegill and bass off my dock. I'll post the pic if I can find it.