Medeski Martin & Wood
and Related Artists
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1994
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Billy Martin (illy B)
, Medeski Martin & Wood
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Flamingo's
Knoxville
TN
Knoxville Beat*+ > Open Improv, It's A Jungle In Here, Screeching Flamingos*+, Shack, Worms > Open Improv > Friday Afternoon In The Universe > Bass Solo > Chubb Sub, Clav Intro > Pakalolo > Improv > Chinoiserie, Moti Mo
* first known performance
+ Not official song title
Homage @ Little 5 Points
Atlanta
GA
Knoxville Beat*, Syeeda's Song Flute > Shack > It's A Jungle In Here, Bass Solo > Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself, Worms
Screeching Flamingos*, Pakalolo > Improv > Chinoiserie
* Not official song title
Homage @ Little 5 Points
Atlanta
GA
Improv > It's A Jungle In Here, Shack > Improv, Worms > Friday Afternoon In The Universe, Bass Solo > Chubb Sub
We're So Happy > Pakalolo, Bass Solo > Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself, Chinoiserie, Moti Mo.
Variety Playhouse
Atlanta
GA
It's a Jungle in Here, Bass Solo > Bemsha Swing / Lively Up Yourself, Worms, Chubb Sub
opening for ARU; mmwsetlists.com notes: possibly more before It's a Jungle In Here
Local 506
Chapel Hill
NC
Shack, It's A Jungle In Here, Shuck it Up > Drum Solo > Shuck It Up , Bass Solo > Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself, Chubb Sub
Grant Park Jazz Festival
Atlanta
GA
It's A Jungle In Here, Syeeda's Song Flute > Bass Solo > Bemsha Swing-Lively Up Yourself, Worms > Chubb Sub, Shack
Homage @ Little 5 Points
Atlanta
GA
Open Improv > Vergessene Improv* > Open Improv > Shack, We’re So Happy > Friday Afternoon In The Universe, Wiggly’s Way
Pakalolo, Syeeda’s Song Flute > Open Improv > Improv (w/”Mystery Gus” melody)+ > Open Improv^//
Set II incomplete
* 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
https://theshackproject.com/tsp1999/
^ recording fades out/cuts at the end of this track leaving Set II incomplete
Homage at Little Five Points
Atlanta
GA
The Lover > Jam > Last Chance To Dance Trance (Perhaps), Bass Solo > Bemsha Swing-Lively Up Yourself, We're So Happy, Shack
Chinoiserie > Caravan > Beeah > Sequel
setlist as per cassette in the possession of user trlrnr
Hole in the Wall
Richmond
VA
The Lover > Shack, Last Chance to Dance Trance (Perhaps), Sequel, Syeeda's Song Flute > Chubb Sub
We're So Happy, Friday Afternoon in the Universe, Pakalolo > Beeah, Chinoiserie, Moti Mo
The Covered Dish
Gainesville
FL
One Set Only: We're So Happy, Syeeda's Song Flute > LCTDT(P) Open Intro > Last Chance To Dance Trance (Perhaps)*, Shack, Bass Solo, The Lover > Friday Afternoon In The Universe, Chinoiserie, Chubb Sub
Encore: Sequel
One Set Only
*on the circulating recording @00:11-00:20 there is DEAD AIR during this break -- not sure this is really a set break since Billy says that LCTDT(P)+ was the last song they played; he does say it's "good to be back", but I think he means the town not back on stage after a break ... although, we have no record of them playing in this town before, that doesn't mean they hadn't, but it also doesn't mean they had - HA! However, our MMW gig history for 1991-1993 is spotty:
http://mmwhistory.com/1991.html
http://mmwhistory.com/1992.html
http://mmwhistory.com/1993.html
... conclusion: Noting this as a ONE SET show. (dug)
Blues Alley
Washington
DC
Syeeda's Song Flute, LCTDT, Think-> Chinoiserie
The Lover, Sequel, Bass Solo-> Bemsha Swing-> Lively Up Yourself, Worms, Chubb Sub
The Cooler
New York
NY
Intro > Think, Last Chance to Dance Trance (Perhaps), Sequel, The Lover > Friday Afternoon In The Universe, Chinoiserie
The Homage
Atlanta
GA
Shack, Syeeda's Song Flute-> Jam-> Beeah
Intro/Jam-> Think, LCTDT-> Sequel-> The Lover-> Jam-> Bass Solo-> Bemsha Swing-> Lively Up Yourself, Pakalolo, Jam, Chubb Sub, Moti Mo
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