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Apollo Theater

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08/22/1950
Charlie Parker
Set 1Repetition
April In Paris
Easy To Love
What Is This Thing Called Love ?
CommentCharlie Parker - as
Al Haig - p
Tommy Potter - b
Roy Haynes - d
Tommy Mace - oboe
Teddy Blume, Sam Caplan, Stan Karpenia - violins
Dave Uchitel - viola
Bill Bundy - cello
Wallace McManus - harp
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08/23/1950
Charlie Parker
Set 1Repetition
April In Paris
Easy To Love
What Is This Thing Called Love ?
Set 2Repetition
April In Paris
Easy To Love
What Is This Thing Called Love ?
CommentCharlie Parker - as
Al Haig - p
Tommy Potter - b
Roy Haynes - d
Tommy Mace - oboe
Teddy Blume, Sam Caplan, Stan Karpenia - violins
Dave Uchitel - viola
Bill Bundy - cello
Wallace McManus - harp
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02/14/1952
Buddy Rich
Set 1The Apollo Blues
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??/??/1955
Rhythm and Blues Revue
Set 1Musical variety show filmed at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York City featuring a cast of popular African-American performers: Willie Bryant, Freddie Robinson, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Faye Adams, Bill Bailey, Herb Jeffries, Amos Milburn, Sarah Vaughan, Nipsey Russell, Big Joe Turner, Martha Davis, Little Buck, Nat 'King' Cole, Mantan Moreland, Cab Calloway and Ruth Brown.
CommentRhythm and Blues Revue's copyright has lapsed and it is now in the public domain. a download from http://www.archive.org
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02/11/1967
Otis Redding
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
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02/11/1967
Percy Sledge
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
Commentline up:
Otis Redding
Percy Sledge
Arthur Conley
The Manhattans
Bettye Swan
James Carr
The 5 Stair Steps
Betty Harris
Sad Sam
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06/25/1967
James Brown
Set 1Introduction
Think (vocal Duett With Mara Withney)
I Want To Be Around (violin Accomp. By Sylvia Medford)
Thanks
That's Live (violin Accomp. By Sylvia Medford)
Kansas City
Let Yourself Go
There Was A Time
I Feel All Right
Cold Sweat
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??/??/1968
James Brown
Set 1If I Ruled The World
That's Life
Kansas City
It's A Man's Man's Man's World
Lost Someone
Bewildered
When A Man Loves A Woman
Set 2Get It Together
There Was A Time
I Got The Feeling
Try Me
Cold Sweat
Maybe The Last Time
I Got You
Please Please Please
I Can't Stand It
Cold Sweat
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12/17/1971
John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Set 1Attica State
Imagine
CommentBenefit Concert for Attica State Prison
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07/03/1973
Kenny Burrell
Set 1Do What You Gotta Do
God Bless The Child
Work Song
Set 2
Set 3
CommentKenny Burrell - g
Richard Wyands - p
Larry Ridley - b
Oliver Jackson - d
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07/03/1973
Junior Mance
Set 1I'm So In Love With You
I Can See Clearly Now
The Good Life
Cubano Chant
Set 2
Set 3
CommentJunior Mance - p
Martin Rivera - b
Bruno Carr - d
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11/30/1974
James Brown
Set 1All For One
Same Beat
Damn Right I Am Somebody
Pass The Peas
Payback
Soul Power
The Boss
Make It Funky
Doin It To Death
Man Has To Go Back To The Crossroads
Try Me
Gimme Some More
Cold Sweat
I Can't Stand Myself
Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
Sex Machine
Papa's Don't Take No Mess
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07/12/1978
James Brown
Set 1Doing It to Death
Get Up Offa That Thing
Give Me Some Skin
Eyesight
Georgia On My Mind
Kiss in 77
Sex Machine
It's A Man's World
Get on the Good Foot
Cold Sweat
I Can't Stand Myself
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
Please, Please, Please
Jam
Set 2
Set 3
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07/16/1978
James Brown
Set 1Gonna Have A Funky Good Time
Get Up Offa That Thing
Bodyheat
Sex Machine
Try Me
Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
Get On The Good Foot
It's A Man's Man's Man's World
I Got The Feeling
Cold Sweat >
I Can't Stand Myself
Please, Please, Please >
Jam
Payback >
It's Too Funky In Here
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10/20/1979
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Set 1source1:
39:41
1.Positive Vibration 6:42
2.I Shot The Sheriff 4:51
3.War> 3:37
4.No More Trouble 1:55
5.Exodus 7:43
6.Encore 2:13
7.No Woman, No Cry 7:10
8.Jamming 5:27
Set 2source2:
60:40
1.Positive Vibration 5:20
2.Burnin? And Lootin? 5:07
3.Wake Up And Live 5:18
4.Them Belly Full 3:31
5.Concrete Jungle 5:17
6.I Shot The Sheriff 4:29
7.Ambush In The Night 3:53
8.The Heathen 5:31
9.Running Away/Crazy Baldhead 7:09
10.War/No More Trouble 6:17
11.Africa Unite 4:24
12.One Drop 4:17
Set 3source3:
45:50
1.the heathen 4:05
2.running away 3:42
3.crazy baldheads 3:18
4.war 4:10
5.no more trouble 1:49
6.africa unite 5:10
7.one drop 3:42
8.exodus 11:26
9.is this love 3:54
10.jamming 4:30
Commentall three of these have unknown dates.
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10/25/1979
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Set 1The Heathen
Running Away
Crazy Baldheads
War
No More Trouble
Africa Unite
One Drop
Exodus
Is This Love
Jammin'
Commentearly show
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10/?1/1979
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Set 1Heathen, Running Away-> Crazy Baldhead, War!-> No More Trouble, One Drop, Exodus, Is This Love?, Jammin'
Set 2
Set 3
Comment
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10/?3/1979
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Set 1Positive Vibration, Wake Up And Live, Heathen, One Drop, I Shot The Sheriff, Running Away-> Crazy Baldhead, Zimbabwe, War!-> No More Trouble, Exodus, No Woman No Cry, Jammin'
Set 2
Set 3
Comment
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12/07/1986
B.B. King
Set 1Blues Band Instrumental
B.B. King Intro Jam
That’s The Good Times
Outside Help
The Thrill Is Gone
Rock Me Baby
Set 2
Set 3
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12/07/1986
Albert Collins
Set 1Intro
Tired Man
If Trouble Was Money
Master Charge
Cold Cold Feeling
Black Cat Bone
Cross Cut Saw
Set 2
Set 3
Commentopening for B.B. King.
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??/??/1987
Alexander O'Neal
Set 1Hearsay
Criticize
What's Missing
Never Knew Love Like This (feat. Cherrelle)
Fake
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??/??/1987
Force M.D.'s
Set 1Be Mine Girl
Touch And Go
Here I Go Again
Tears
I Wanna Know Your Name
Take Your Love Back
?
Itchin' For A Scratch
Tender Love
Love Is A House
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09/01/1988
Rick James
Set 1Intro
Ghetto Life
Sweet & Sexy Thing
Standing On The Top
Ebony Eyes
Bustin' Out
Party All The Time
All Night Long
In My House
Deja Vu
Happy
Fire & Desire
I'm So Proud - Fire & Desire
Mary Jane
You & I
Give It To Me Baby
Super Freak
Loosey's Rap
Set 2
Set 3
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02/06/1989
Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers
Set 1disc1: 46:07
1.survival 3:19
2.get up 5:17
3.we propose 6:29
4.help us 8:16
5.true love 4:26
6.what is true 5:22
7.people get ready 5:15
8.lee and molly 7:39
disc2: 46:12
1.stir it up 4:25
2.tumbling down 6:18
3.tomorrow people 7:25
4.buffalo soldier 5:28
5.conscious party 4:26
6.rat race 5:44
7.we are gone 3:17
8.heaven hell 5:04
9.reggae music 4:00
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02/06/1989
Ziggy Marley
Set 1Survival
Get Up
We Propose
Help Us
True Love
What Is True
People Get Ready
Lee And Molly
Stir It Up
Tumbling Down
Tomorrow People
Buffalo Soldier
Conscious Party
Rat Race
We Are Gone
Heaven Hell
Reggae Music
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11/10/1990
B.B. King
Set 1When Love Comes To Town
Sweet Sixteen
The Thrill Is Gone
Ain't Nobody's Business
Paying The Cost To Be The Boss
All Over Again
Nightlife
Since I Met You Baby
Guess Who
Peace To The World
CommentThis was the last performance with Gene Harris and the Phillip Morris Super Band
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07/??/1992
Public Enemy
Set 1"Lost at Birth"
"Night of the Living Baseheads"
"Bring the Noise"
"Welcome to the Terrordome"
"Nitetrain"
"By the Time I Get to Arizona"
"Fight the Power"
"Anti Nigga Machine"
"Radio Consultant"
"Hit the Road Jack"
"More News at 11"
"Yo Nigga"
"Buck Whylin"
"Public Enemy Number 1"
"Don't Believe the Hype"
"Shut Em Down"
"911 Is a Joke"
"Who Stole the Soul"
"Can't Truss It"
"Hazy Shade of Criminal"
Commentliberated boot: "The Enemy Strikes...Live" -Recorded sometime in July 92'
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??/??/1992
Public Enemy
Set 1Prophets of Rage
Night of the Living Baseheads ->
Bring the Noise -> Welcome to the Terrordome
Nighttrain
By the Time I Get to Arizona
Fight the Power
Anti-Nigger Machine -> freestyle over ?Deep Cover? beat
More News at 11
I Don't Wanna Be Called Yo Nigga
Buck Whylin?
Public Enemy No. 1
Don?t Believe the Hype
Shut ?Em Down
911 is a Joke
Can?t Truss It
S1W?s
I Don't Wanna Be Called Yo Nigga
Rebel Without A Pause
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06/15/1993
B.B. King
Set 1Rock Me Baby
Sweet Little Angel
Let The Good Times Roll
Let The Good Times Roll (Reprise)
CommentB.B. King, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Albert Collns & Jeff Beck
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11/16/1999
Korn
Set 1Dead; Falling Away From Me; Trash; 4U; Beg For Me; Make Me Bad; It's Gonna Go Away; Wake Up; Am I Going Crazy?; Hey Daddy; Somebody Someone; No Way; Let's Get This Party Started; Wish You Could Be Me; Counting; Dirty
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12/30/2001
The Strokes
Set 101. When It Started
02. Alone Together
03. Hard To Explain
04. Last Nite
05. Meet Me In The Bathroom
06. Trying Your Luck
Set 207. NYC Cops
08. Is This It
09. The Modern Age
10. Soma
11. Barely Legal
12. Someday
13. Ze Newie
14. Take It Or Leave It
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12/31/2001
The Strokes
Set 1Last Nite
CommentOne song FM Broadcast
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06/02/2003
B.B. King
Set 1The Thrill Is Gone
Every Day I Have The Blues w/Eric Clapton
Set 2
Set 3
Comment2nd Annual Spring Gala
"Blowing The Blues"
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03/28/2004
Bob Dylan
Set 1Introduction
A Change Is Gonna Come
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05/06/2004
Morrissey
Set 1Intro: Imperfect List
The First of the Gang To Die
Hairdresser on Fire
How Could Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?
I Have Forgiven Jesus
Don't Make Fun of Daddy's Voice
Shoplifters of the World Unite
Everyday Is Like Sunday
Now My Heart Is Full
A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours
All the Lazy Dykes
Such a Little Thing Makes Such a Big Difference
I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday
No One Can Hold a Candle To You
Jack the Ripper
I'm Not Sorry
Irish Blood, English Heart
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
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05/08/2004
Morrissey
Set 1Intro: Imperfect List
My Way/First of the Gang To Die
Hairdresser On Fire
Irish Blood, English Heart
Headmaster Ritual
I Have Forgiven Jesus
Don't Make Fun of Daddy's Voice
Let Me Kiss You
Rubber Ring
Such a Little Thing Makes Such a Big Difference
Subway Train/Everyday Is Like Sunday
The World is Full of Crashing Bores
How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?
No One Can Hold a Candle to You
All the Lazy Dykes
Jack the Ripper
I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
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06/06/2004
Bob Dylan
Set 1# Intro
# It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (Bob on harp)
# Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bob on harp)
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06/07/2004
Bob Dylan
Set 1Announcement; It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Bob on harp); Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bob on harp)
CommentBob backed by Wynton Marsalis Septet
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10/17/2004
Rod Stewart
Set 1This old heart of mine
Rythm of my heart
The first cut is the deepest
You're in my heart
Downtown train
Blue moon
They can't take that away from me
What a wonderful world
The nearness of you
I love you for sentimental reasons
Maggie May
Having a party
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03/18/2005
Van Morrison
Set 1Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart #1 (instrumental)
Have I Told You Lately
Whining Boy Moan
In The Midnight
Don't Worry About A Thing
Jackie Wilson Said
Sometimes We Cry
Walking My Baby Back Home
Philosophers Stone
Back On Top
Saint James Infirmary
Set 2Moondance
That's Life
Stop Drinking
It's All In The Game
Burning Ground
Brown Eyed Girl
And The Healing Has Begun
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08/11/2005
Stevie Wonder
Set 1Heaven Help Us All
Voting Rights Video
Uptight (Everything's Alright)
Any Day Now (Chuck Jackson)
I Don't Want To Cry (Chuck Jackson)
Stage Banter (Anthony Weiner)
Lives In The Balance ( Richie Havens)
Freedom (Richie Havens)
Here Comes The Sun (Richie Havens)
Stage Banter (David Patterson)
Faith That Conquers (Kim Burrell)
Love's In Need Of Love Today
Did I Hear You Say You Love Me
All I Do
Master Blaster
Higher Ground
Ribbon In The Sky
Superwoman
Too Shy To Say
If You Really Love Me
My Cherie Amour
Overjoyed
Rocket Love
Send One Your Love
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
Sir Duke
I Wish
How Will I Know w/Stevie's Daughter Aisha
Send One Your Love
Superstition
Can't Imagine Love Without You
Do I Do
Friday Night
So What The Fuss
As
Set 2
Set 3
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04/15/2008
Joe Jackson
Set 1Steppin' Out
Invisible Man
Too Tough
Not Here, Not Now
Dirty Martini
Cancer
King Pleasure Time
On Your Radio
Solo (So Low)
The Uptown Train
Knowing Me, Knowing You (ABBA cover)
Chinatown
It's Different For Girls
Good Bad Boy
One More Time
A Place In The Rain
encore:
You Can't Get What You Want
Is She Really Going Out With Him?
A Slow Song
Set 2
Set 3
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08/06/2008
The Police
Comment"Spectacle: Elvis Costello with The Police"

Elvis Costello's 2008 brief TV show with different guests each week.
This episode featured the Police,interviews and jamming...
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08/06/2008
Elvis Costello & The Police
Set 1Elvis and The Imposters
- Every Breath You Take > Please Stay
Andy Summers Interview
- Weird Nightmare
Stewart Copeland Interview
Sting Interview
Elvis and Sting perform:
- Roxanne (just Sting)
- Allison
- Flow My Tears
The Police Interview
Elvis + Imposters and The Police perform
- Watching The Detectives >
- Walking On The Moon
- Sunshine Of Your Love

CommentFrom The Spectacle TV Series
53 minutes
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10/27/2008
k.d. lang
Set 1Upstream
Helpless
Thread
Western Stars
Coming home
Once in a while
I Dream of Spring
Wash Me Clean
Sunday
Smoke Dreams
band intros
Miss Chatelaine
The Valley
Hallelujah
Constant Craving
Close Your Eyes
Pay Dirt
Jealous Dog
A Kiss to Build a Dream On
Shadow and the Frame
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10/31/2008
Ryan Adams
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Set 1Cobwebs
Everybody Knows
Born Into A Light
Fix It
Natural Ghost
Goodnight Rose
The Sun Also Sets
The Rescue Blues
Peaceful Valley >
Bartering Lines
Wonderwall
Dear John
Go Easy
Set 2Let It Ride
Desire
Grand Island (Neal Casal)
Sink Ships
Evergreen
Please Do Not Let Me Go
Two
Magick
Cold Roses
Shakedown on 9th Street
Freeway to The Canyon (Neal Casal)
Crossed Out Name
Like Yesterday
Stop
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09/24/2009
Elvis Costello & Friends
Set 1 Rag Mama Rag / EC Intro
Richard Thompson Interview
Shoot Out The Lights
Allen Toussaint Interview / Holy Cow
Nick Lowe Interview / The Beast In Me
Levon Helm Interview
Tennessee Jed
Group Interview
A Certain Girl
The Weight

Elvis Costello - guitar, vocals
Levon Helm - drums
Nick Lowe - guitar, bass, vocals
Richard Thompson - guitar, vocals
Allen Toussaint - piano, vocals
The Imposters:
Davey Faragher - bass, vocals
Steve Nieve - keyboards
Pete Thomas - drums
Larry Campbell - guitar, vocals
Ray LaMontagne - vocals



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09/25/2009
Bruce Springsteen
Set 1Elvis Costello Presents Spectacle with ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

She's the One
interview #01
Wild Billy's Circus Story
interview #02
American Skin (41 Shots)
interview #03
I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
Radio Silence
Radio Nowhere
Radio Radio
interview #01
Pretty Woman
interview #02
Seeds
interview #03
Black Ladder
interview #04
Galveston Bay
The Rising
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09/25/2009
Bruce Springsteen Compilations
Set 1Elvis Costello Presents Spectacle with ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

She's the One
interview #01
Wild Billy's Circus Story
interview #02
American Skin (41 Shots)
interview #03
I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
Radio Silence
Radio Nowhere
Radio Radio
interview #01
Pretty Woman
interview #02
Seeds
interview #03
Black Ladder
interview #04
Galveston Bay
The Rising
CommentT.V. Show - ELVIS COSTELLO's SPECTACLES
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03/13/2010
Puscifer
Set 1Introduction
Vagina Mine
Dozo
Sour Grapes
World Up My Ass (Circle Jerks)
Queen B
Drunk With Power
Trekka
Rev 22:20
Cuntry Boner
"What Is A Puscifer?"
Momma Sed
Polar Bear
Potions
Indigo Children
The Undertaker
Dozo
The Mission
Band Introductions
The Humbling River
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04/29/2013
How To Destroy Angels
Set 1The Wake-Up
Keep It Together
Parasite
And The Sky Began To Scream
Ice Age
The Believers
How Long?
Welcome Oblivion
BBB
Between The Spaces (SONOIO Rework)
Fur Lined
The Loop Closes
A Drowning
On The Wing
Strings And Attractors
We Fade Away
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07/25/2013
Paul Weller
Set 1Sunflower
Wake Up The Nation
From The Floorboards Up
Fast Car/Slow Traffic
Sea Spray
My Ever Changing Moods
Kling I Klang
The Attic
Going Places
Friday Street
Porcelain Gods
That Dangerous Age
Above The Clouds
Dragonfly
7 & 3 Is The Strikers Name
Peacock Suit
That's Entertainment
Start!
Whirlpool's End
The Changingman
Wishing On A Star
Out Of The Sinking
Be Happy Children
Town Called Malice
Set 2
Set 3
CommentPaul Weller - lead vocals, guitar, & piano
Steve Cradock - lead guitar
Andy Lewis - bass
Andy Crofts - keyboards
Steve Pilgrim - drums
Ben Gordelier - percussion
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06/16/2015
James Taylor
Set 1Something In The Way She Moves
Today Today Today
Lo And Behold
Copperline
Country Road
Angels Of Fenway
Carolina In My Mind
(I've Got To) Stop Thinkin' 'Bout That
Sweet Baby James
Walking Man
Stretch Of The Highway
You And I Again
Steamroller
Montana
Fire And Rain
Up On The Roof
Mexico
Your Smiling Face
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
Shower The People
Wild Mountain Thyme
Set 2
Set 3
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12/04/2015
Neko Case
Set 1Outro With Bees
Hold On, Hold On
Bought And Sold
Man
Vengeance Is Sleeping
Ghost Wiring
This Tornado Loves You
Look for Me (I'll Be Around)
Nothing to Remember
Blacklisted
I'm From Nowhere
Night Still Comes
At Last
Duchess (Scott Walker cover)
The Needle Has Landed
Middle Cyclone
Maybe Sparrow

-Encore-
Lady Pilot
Margaret vs. Pauline
Knock Loud (Sook-Yin Lee cover)
Set 2
Set 3
CommentBand:

Jon Rauhouse
Eric Bachmann
Tom V. Ray
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10/23/2016
Melissa Etheridge
Set 1Hold On, I'm Comin'
Memphis Train
Wait A Minute
Any Other Way
I Wanna Come Over
Im A Lover
Whos Making Love?
Ive Got Dreams To Remember
Respect Yourself
Come To My Window
Born Under A Bad Sign
Bring Me Some Water
Im The Only 0ne/Rock Me Baby/Im The Only One
I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
Hold On Reprise(Band Intros)

Encore:
Like the Way I Do
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02/16/2017
Ryan Adams
Set 1Do You Still Love Me?
Magnolia Mountain
Dirty Rain
Prisoner
Kim
Haunted House
Peaceful Valley
Let It Ride
Breakdown
Everybody Knows
Outbound Train
Gimme Something Good
Am I Safe
Cold Roses
Fix It
Anything I Say To You Now
Doomsday
Wonderwall (Oasis)
To Be Without You
When The Stars Go Blue
Shakedown On 9th Street
Come Pick Me Up
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07/20/2017
Guns N' Roses
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
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06/11/2018
U2
Set 1I Will Follow
The Electric Co
Out Of Control
Red Flag Day
All Because Of You
Vertigo
Elevation
Beautiful Day
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Get Out Of Your Own Way
American Soul

E1: Angel Of Harlem (w/Sun Ra Arkestra)
Desire (w/Sun Ra Arkestra)
When Love Comes To Town (w/Sun Ra Arkestra)
Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of (w/Sun Ra Arkestra)

E2: Every Breaking Wave
Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way
Set 2
Set 3
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09/10/2022
Pearl Jam
Set 1Footsteps
Pendulum
Sleight of Hand
Parachutes
Hard to Imagine
Keep Me In Your Heart (Warren Zevon cover)
Who Ever Said
Even Flow
Dance of the Clairvoyants
Quick Escape
Spin the Black Circle
Alright
Retrograde
Never Destination
Take the Long Way
Whipping
Porch
Encore
Better Man
Do the Evolution
Baba O'Riley (The Who cover)
Indifference
CommentSound problems during the first 5 songs, then a 15 minute pause, before the concert continued
Bold dates can be downloaded from the Internet Archive    Italic dates have been a featured show