Eileen and I went to the Ratdog shows at Rams Head Live! in Baltimore this Friday and Saturday night. Both shows were great, here are the setlists courtesy of ratdog.org:
8/25/2006 Rams Head Live, Baltimore, MD
I: Jam > Casey Jones > Easy to Slip > Supplication Jam >
Easy to Slip > Odessa, Big Boss Man, Wrong Way Feelin' >
Jus' Like Mama Said > Lost Sailor > Saint of Circumstance
II: Looks Like Rain, Corrina, Tuesday Blues >
West L.A. Fadeaway > Ashes and Glass > Stuff >
Come Together > Good Lovin
E: Johnny B. Goode
8/26/2006 Rams Head Live, Baltimore, MD
I: Jam > Shakedown Street > Big River >
Queen Jane Approximately > Money for Gasoline
Even So > October Queen > The Deep End > Jack Straw >
Dark Star > Big Railroad Blues
II: Mexicali Blues, Candyman, Victim or the Crime >
Silvio > Tequila > Silvio > Tequila > Silvio >
Scarlet Begonias > Stuff > Dear Prudence >
Dark Star > One More Saturday Night
E: Ripple
And here's a video clip of Mexicali Blues that I shot with my Canon PowerShot SD450:
I mixed the sound in from the Ratdog Live CD. I thought the show was great, I loved the way the jammed from song to song and they played a lot of great songs, such as Lost Sailor > Saint of Circumstance, West L.A. Fadeaway, Shakedown, Jack Straw, Scarlet Begonias and Ripple. If Ratdog is coming near you, I suggest you check it out.
There's some pretty good music coming to the DC/Baltimore area in the coming months, I'm looking forward to it. The easiest way to check out the whole schedule is the calendar on My Jambase page. This Sunday has Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Umphrey's McGee and Marc Broussard at Wolftrap. Definately excited about Umphrey's and Bela, don't know much about Marc Broussard. I have to download some of his shows off of the Live Music Archive.
Also, I just bought tickets for Ratdog for two nights at Ram Head Live! in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. It's a new, pretty cool music venue, I saw The Weekapaug Orchestra, a Phish cover band, there a few months ago. They were pretty good and it was my first chance to check that venue out. It has that new, state-of-the-art feel. It was pretty empty for Weekapaug Orchestra, there were even parts of the venue that they had blocked off. There are a couple of different bars throughout, and there are two-levels. I'm not sure exactly how many people it holds, but their website says it is 26,000 square feet, if that is help to anyone. I would say it's bigger than the 9:30 Club but smaller than Pier 6 Pavilion.
Anyway, I've been listening to some of the Ratdog shows from this summer tour and they sound pretty good. If you want to listen for yourself, try the July 15th show from Great Woods, which you can get off of bt.etree.org. I really like the way Ratdog jams. They have a lot of good segways from song to song where it feels like no one person is really soloing, the whole band is just improving as one. Reminds me of moe.
