moe. - 02/02/2008 - Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA

7:52 PM EST Friday, February 8 2008

Last weekend Eileen and I headed up to Boston to visit Kevin and Jaime and see our favorite band, moe. Here's a little clip from the show I posted to YouTube:

I have seen moe. probably 20-30 times and I think this might be the best show I've been to, although I feel like every time I see moe., it's the best show ever. But this one really was great. For those of you who don't know moe., they are a Jamband, which is a sort of Rock-Fusion similar to Phish and many other bands. One of the great things about Jamband is that the continue the tradition initiated by the Grateful Dead of allowing and encouraging their fans to bring audio equipment to the shows and record and distribute audience recordings.

Typically these recording are not as high quality as a live album, which uses the feed from the soundboard mixed with some audience microphones. Audience recording just use a microphone, so the clarity isn't as good, but it does often better capture the feel of a live show as it collects the ambient noise of the crowd. This show is no exception and there is an excellent audience recording available from the Live Music Archive at http://www.archive.org/details/moe2008-02-02.flac or from the BitTorrent site that I originally downloaded it from.

Here's the setlist:

moe.
February 2, 2008
Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA

I: Also Sprach Zarathusa* > Crab Eyes, Queen of Everything, Understand, 
   All Roads Lead to Home > Waiting for the Punchline,
   Brent Black > Bring You Down > Brent Black

II: Skrunk > Lazarus, Lost Along the Way > Brittle End, 
    Four > Yodelittle** > Rebubula

Encore: Raise a Glass, Captain America

* Not played by the band, recording played over PA while the band took stage
** Baby Elephant Walk tease

For me, the highlights of the show were the Brent Black > Bring You Down > Brent Black, which was something original that I've never heard on any recording, the 2001 theme right into Crab Eyes to start the show, the Skrunk > Lazarus 2nd set and the epic Four > Yodelittle > Rebebula to close the 2nd set.

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1. Paul, its driving me crazy that i can't figure out what song this is... Lazarus?

# Posted By Andrew on Saturday, February 23 2008 at 06:34 EST

2. @Andrew: It's the end of Waiting for the Punchline

# Posted By Paul Barry on Saturday, February 23 2008 at 11:16 EST

3. Cool to see programmers into & writing about this sort of music. I spent several years following the Disco Biscuits around, another traveling circus jamband.

# Posted By Lar Van Der Jagt on Saturday, August 16 2008 at 02:16 EDT

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