Medeski Martin & Wood
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2004
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Aoyama Round Theatre
Tokyo
Japan
Down On Me, Open Intro > Seven Deadlies > Thaw > Drum Solo > Drums'n'Bowed Bass > Afro Blue, Afrique > Drum Solo > Miyagawa
Mami Gato > Piano'n'Percussion > Hermeto's Daydream, Nostalgia In Times Square/Angel Race (I'll Wait For You), Brigas Nunca Mais > Open Improv > No Ke Ano Ahiahi, Swamp Road
Encore: Drum Solo > Caravan
Acoustic show
O-East, Shibuyaku
Tokyo
Japan
Open Improv > Improv > Shine It > Bass'n'Drums, Drum Solo > Miyagawa > Bloody Oil > Drum Solo > Queen Bee
Whiney Bitches > Third Stone From The Sun > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, Macha > Wiggly's Way, Just Like I Pictured It > "Bounce Bitch" > Toy Dancing > Chubb Sub
Encore: Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho
Bay Side Jenny
Osaka
Japan
End Of The World Party > We're So Happy > Legalize It > Bass'n'Tambourine > Legalize It > Open Improv > Down On Me > Drum Solo, Whiney Bitches
Shine It > Beeah, Queen Bee > Organ Solo > Hey Joe, Jelly Belly, Drum Solo > Drums'n'Bass > Bass Solo > Think > Acoustic Outro
Encore: Bubblehouse*
* unverified (i.e. not on the circulating recording)
The Blue Note
Fukuoka
Japan
Early Show: Syeeda's Song Flute > Open Improv > Down on Me > Bass'n'Drums > Drum Solo > Bass'n'Drums > Improv > Big Time > Queen Bee
Encore: I Wanna Ride You > Acoustic Outro
Late Show: Mami Gato > Drum Solo > Shine It, Bass Solo > Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself, End Of The World Party > Percussion Improv > Open Improv > Partido Alto > Drum Solo > Partido Alto, Whiney Bitches, Uninvisible
Encore: Bass Solo > Chubb Sub
RAG
Kyoto
Japan
One Set Only: Improv > Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus > Shine It > The Lover > Dracula > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, End Of The World Party > Blue Pepper, Last Chance To Dance Trance (Perhaps) > Drum Solo > Whiney Bitches
Encore: Queen Bee
The Mangy Moose
Teton Village
WY
Improv > Improv > Open Improv > Improv > Drum Solo > We're So Happy > Legalize It > Bass Solo > Chubb Sub
Shine It, Mami Gato > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Whiney Bitches, Blue Pepper Improv > Blue Pepper > Open Improv > End Of The World Party, Jelly Belly > Drum Solo, Uninvisible
Encore: Queen Bee
The Mangy Moose
Teton Village
WY
Curtis > New Planet > Drums'n'Bass > Blue Monk Improv > Mami Gato > Drum Solo > Crosstown Traffic > Open Improv > Night Marchers, Queen Bee
Whiney Bitches, Bass Solo > Shine It > Bloody Oil > Sasa > Partido Alto > Just Like I Pictured It, End Of The World Party, Bubblehouse
Encore: The Dropper
Suede
Park City
UT
Anonymous Skulls > Bass Solo > Bass'n'Tam > Tambourine Solo > Think > Sasa > Improv > Drum Solo > Whiney Bitches
Curtis, Mami Gato, End Of The World Party > Open Improv > Bloody Oil > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High > Drum Solo > Improv, Queen Bee, Hey Joe
Encore: Bass Solo > Chubb Sub
Levelz
Steamboat Springs
CO
New Planet > Bloody Oil > Bass Solo, Shine It, Mami Gato > Big Time > Drums'n'Bass > Drum Solo > Whiney Bitches
Start/Stop > Curtis > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Sugar Craft > Legalize It Improv > The Lover > Sasa > Bass Solo# > Crosstown Traffic
# Billy joins near very end
Club 8150
Vail
CO
Shine It > Bass'n'Drums > Improv > Improv > Improv > Open Improv > Curtis, Macha > Drum Solo > Open Improv > Queen Bee
End Of The World Party > New Planet, Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus, Whiney Bitches, Sasa > Drum Solo > Fire, Smoke, Jelly Belly
Encore: Uninvisible
32 Bleu
Colorado Springs
CO
New Planet > Improv > Felic > Note Bleu > Bass Solo > Mami Gato, Sasa > Improv > Wiggly's Way, Queen Bee
End Of The World Party, Whiney Bitches, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Curtis > Drum Solo > Bass'n'Drums Intro > Legalize It > Shine It > Blue Pepper, Bass Solo > Chubb Sub
Encore: Uninvisible
Bowery Ballroom
New York
NY
One Set: Improv > Improv > Open Improv > Improv > Bass Solo > Open Improv > Mami Gato, New Planet# > Improv# > Drum Outro > Shine It#, Sasa#, Whiney Bitches#, Juanito#^, Curtis#, End Of The World Party#, Bloody Oil#* > Drum Solo > Sugar Craft#* > Open Improv#* > Queen Bee#* > No Ke Ano Ahiahi#*
Encore: Night Marchers#* > Uninvisible#*
# w/ Marc Ribot - guitar
* w/ DJ Logic - turntables
^ by Joe Bataan from the album "Subway Joe"
Music for America Benefit show; also on bill: Tarantula, DJ Logic
Tractor Travern
Seattle
WA
Tractor Travern
Seattle
WA
Improv > Improv > Bass Improv > Improv > Improv > Drum Solo > Improv > Improv > Improv
Improv > Improv > Open Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv > Open Improv > Improv
Encore: Sasa
Tractor Travern
Seattle
WA
Arcata Community Centre
Arcata
Ca
Improv > Improv > Open Improv > Improv > Improv > Open Improv > Improv > Bass Solo > Improv > Drum Solo* > Improv
Piano Solo# > Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv > Drum Solo > Improv > Acoustic Improv
Encore: Curtis
* Chris joins in at very end
# Chris & Billy join in at moments
Café du Nord
San Francisco
CA
Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv > Open Improv > Improv > Drum Solo > Drums'n'Bass > Improv > Open Improv > Improv
Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv > Drum Solo > Open Improv > Improv > Improv > Bass Solo > Improv > Improv > Improv
Encore: Whiney Bitches
Café du Nord
San Francisco
CA
Improv > Improv > Open Improv > Improv > Improv > Open Improv > Improv > Improv > Bass Solo > Bass'n'Percussion > Improv > Improv
Improv > Improv > Open Improv > Improv > Open Improv > Improv > Drum Solo > Improv > Open Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv
Encore: Queen Bee
Café du Nord
San Francisco
CA
All Improv (presumably since the entire run followed this pattern)
Improv > Improv > Improv > Drum Solo# > Improv > Improv* // Improv > Drum Solo > Improv > Improv
Encore: Curtis
* only available recording cuts at this point for a few minutes and starts again; what was played is unknown
# John minimally joins in at end
Set I does not circulate; hence the presumption about it too being comprised entirely of improvisation.
The Roxy
Los Angeles
CA
Open Improv > Improv > Improv > Bass Solo > Improv > Improv > Open Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv
Drum Solo > Improv > Improv > Improv > Bass Solo > Open Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv > Drum Solo > Improv
Encore: Queen Bee
The Roxy
Los Angeles
CA
Improv > Improv > Improv > Bass Solo > Open Improv* //
All Improv (presumably since the entire run followed this pattern)
Encore: Unknown (presumably a song from EOTWPjic)
* only available recording cuts at this point; presumably improvisation ensues for the remainder of the set
This was the last show of the west coast tour and the last for sound engineer Sean "Murr" Murray.
State Palace Theatre
New Orleans
LA
Anonymous Skulls# > Improv > Mami Gato > Piano Intro > Down On Me#, Sasa# > Improv# > Creole Love Call (w/ Snake Anthony bass line)# > Drum Solo > Curtis > Bass Solo > Queen Bee, New Planet > Improv*, End Of The World Party
Encore: Whiney Bitches > Wiggly's Way#
One Set Only
# with Steven Bernstein (trumpet) & Briggan Kraus (sax)
* with G. Calvin Weston (percussion) & Briggan Kraus (sax)
April Grooves Compilation
Compilation
CA
placeholder for any/all of 5 vols of selected improv from all-improv 4/2004 run, assembled by Scott Shannon. On your trade list just state which one(s) of the 5 you might have, under this single umbrella entry.
McCarter Theatre, Princeton University
Princeton
NJ
Open Improv > Improv > Mami Gato > Bass Solo > Anonymous Skulls > Drum Solo > Open Improv > Seven Deadlies > Improv* > Seven Deadlies > Piano Solo# > Brigas Nunca Mais > Thaw > Bass'n'Drums > Acht O'Clock Rock
Encore: Shine It > Legalize It
Acoustic Show; One Set Only
* seems based on Nostalgia In Times Square
# Billy joins in near the end
Performing Arts Center at SUNY Purchase
Purchase
NY
Open Improv > Improv > Improv > Open Improv > Mami Gato > Norah 6 > Drum Solo > Shine It > Improv > Improv
Bass Solo > Sasa > Miyagawa > C-Jam Blues > Drum Outro > Whiney Bitches > Afro Blue > Drum Solo > Curtis > Organ Solo > Improv > Queen Bee
Encore: Swamp Road
Big Wu Family Reunion - Harmony Park
Geneva
MN
Improv > Improv > Improv* > Improv > Improv > Lonely Avenue, Curtis, Whiney Bitches, Macha > Improv, Legalize It, Sasa
Encore: Queen Bee
* w/ Macha teases
Three Sisters Park - Main Stage
Chillicothe
IL
One Set: Shine It > The Dropper > Curtis > Drum Solo > Mami Gato, Improv Intro > Tubby* > Big Time
Summercamp (Music Festival)
One Set Only
* very loose/odd version
Memorial Auditorium
Burlington
VT
Medeski Martin & Wood was billed with Soulive and DJ Logic. The day of music looked like this:
DJ Logic > Soulive > DJ Logic > Medeski Martin & Wood
Hot Tin Roof
Edgartown
MA
Improv > Improv > Open Improv > Improv > Improv > Open Improv > Toy Dancing, New Planet > The Dropper
End Of The World Party > The Lover > Sasa > Syeeda's Song Flute > Uninvisible
Encore: Bass Solo > Chubb Sub
(Martha's Vinyard)
Point State Park
Pittsburgh
PA
One Set: Syeeda's Song Flute > Open Improv > Mami Gato > Drum Intro > Improv > Lonely Avenue > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Felic > Drum Solo > Toy Dancing > Whiney Bitches, Legalize It > Bass Solo > Sasa
Encore: Bass Intro > Queen Bee
Three Rivers Arts Festival
One Set Only
Bonnaroo Music Festival - Which Stage
Manchester
TN
One Set: Drum Intro > Curtis > New Planet > Toy Dancing#, Down On Me# > Percussion Outro#, Sasa#, Shine It > Open Improv > Queen Bee > Organ'n'Pedal Steel* > Lonely Avenue*
One Set Only - Show ended early due to weather
# w/ Cyro Baptista
* w/ Robert Randolph
Truckee Amphitheater
Truckee
CA
Improv > Lonely Avenue > Bass Solo > Sasa > Afro Blue > Drum Solo > Open Improv > Curtis
Blue Pepper > Improv > Improv > "Truckee Tune"* > Drum Outro > Legalize It > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High
Encore: Bubblehouse
* sounds like a familiar tune (possibly a cover) starting @0:11, kicking in by 0:28, and then lasting throughout the track [email dug if you know this tune!]
Marquee Theatre
Tempe
AZ
Open Improv > Improv > Mami Gato > Bass Solo > Rise Up > Organ Solo > Lonely Avenue > Improv > Toy Dancing > Improv
Seven Deadlies* > Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv > Bass Solo > EOTWP Improv+ > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Drum Solo > Blue Pepper
Encore: Bass Solo > Queen Bee
* starting @7:49 the tune's outro riffs on Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues Are (Thelonius Monk)
+ not really the song proper, but this improvisation is built around End Of The World Party
Eau Claire Regional Arts Center
Eau Claire
WI
???, Drum Solo, Chank, Seven Deadlies, Interlude, ???
???, ???, C Jam Blues, The Dropper, Big Time, Dracula, ???, ???
Encore: Chubb Sub
Piggly Wiggly MusicMarket Stage (Summerfest)
Milwaukee
WI
Riverbend Music Centre
Cincinnati
OH
The Dropper > Curtis > Hey Joe > Sasa > Chubb Sub
Medeski, Martin and Wood, provided support for "The Roots" and "311", opening first.
DTE Energy Music Theatre
Clarkston
MI
I Wanna Ride You > Brigas Nunca Mais, Big Time, Queen Bee, Bubblehouse
The Odeon
Cleveland
OH
Improv > Anonymous Skulls > Improv > Buster Rides Again > Drums > Toy Dancing > Bass Solo > Sasa > Lonely Avenue
Curtis > Legalize It, The Lover > Shine It > Down On Me > I Wanna Ride You > Where's Sly?, Queen Bee
Encore: Night Marchers
Marvin's Mountaintop - All Good Festival
Masontown
WV
One Set Only: Improv > Bloody Oil > Mami Gato, Curtis > I Wanna Ride You, Queen Bee > Drum Solo > Bass Solo > Lonely Avenue
Encore: Uninvisible
Not Sure if d102 was Bloody Oil or Anonymous Skulls...
Mishawaka Amphitheatre
Bellvue
CO
Improv > Open Improv > Improv > Drum Solo > Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv > Bass Solo > Improv > Queen Bee
Toy Dancing > Open Improv > Drums'n'Bass > Sasa > Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus > Curtis > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke, Bass Solo > Chubb Sub
Encore: Whiney Bitches
Telluride Town Park
Telluride
CO
I Wanna Ride You > Mami Gato > Open > Sasa, Lonely Avenue, Big Time, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho, Brigas Nunca Mais > Partido Alto > The Dropper > Queen Bee
The Gateway Arch
St. Louis
MO
Shine It > Last Chance To Dance Trance (Perhaps), Seven Deadlies > Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus? > Big Time > I Wanna Ride You > Partido Alto
Sasa > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Olde Wyne > Macha > Curtis, Toy Dancing > Queen Bee
"Riversplash"
Free Show
Chichibu Muse Park, Chichibu City
Saitama
Japan
Anonymous Skulls > New Planet, Bloody Oil, Sasa, Partido Alto, Note Bleu > Shine It, Curtis > Drum Solo, End of the World Party, Queen Bee, E: Moti Mo
True People's Celebration
Chichibu Muse Park, Chichibu City
Saitama
Japan
Lonely Avenue > Toy Dancing, Brigas Nunca Mais > Start/Stop > Fire, Legalize It > Africa, End of the World Party, Sasa > Jelly Belly, E: Chubb Sub
with Cyro Baptista and DJ Spooky
Blue Ridge Harvest Festival
LaFayette
GA
Zilker Park
Austin
TX
Sasa > Shine It > New Planet > Toy Dancing > End of the World Party > Curtis > Drum Solo > Queen Bee
Austin City Limits Festival
Alten Feuerwache
Mannheim
Germany
Anonymous Skulls
Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Impro >
Whiney Bitches
End Of The World Party
Sasa
Queen Bee
Festival "Enjoy Jazz"
The Forum
London
England
Toy Dancing, Sasa, Anonymous Skulls, Whiney Bitches, End of the World Party, Improv, Legalize It, Curtis, E: ?
Ancienne Belgique
Brussels
Belgium
Improv > Shine It, Sasa, Improv > Toy Dancing, Bass Solo > Everyday People, End of the World Party, Curtis > Drum Solo, Queen Bee, Encore: I Wanna Ride You
Le Bataclan
Paris
France
Improv > Bloody Oil > Shine It, Curtis > Drum Solo, Note Bleu, Bass Solo, The Lover, End of the World Party, Encore: Queen Bee
Hammerstein Ballroom
New York
NY
One Set: Drums/Percussion Improv > Improv Intro > New Planet > Open Improv > Whiney Bitches > Shine It > Bloody Oil, Sasa# > Netsanet#*+ > Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself#, Paris+, Anonymous Skulls > Who The Fuck?+, The Letter+^, Pocket Knife+^ > Lonely Avenue^ > Drums/Percussion Improv^ > Curtis^ > Queen Bee
Encore: The Lover > End Of The World Party > No Ke Ano Ahiahi
One Set
# with Antibalas Horn Section
* cover of a song by Ethiopian keyboardist/composer Mulatu Astatqe, from the album "Liberty" (1974)
+ 1st known performance
^ with Cyro Baptista (exact performance tunes unconfirmed, but sounds like these are the tracks)
The Showbox
Seattle
WA
Who The Fuck?^, Improv (w/ Felic bassline) > Improv > Improv > Lonely Avenue, Queen Bee
Pocket Knife^ > Open Improv > Toy Dancing, Paris, Sasa > Shine It > Drum Solo > We Are Rolling# > The Letter^ > New Planet > End Of The World Party, Curtis
Encore: I Wanna Ride You
^ PJ Harvey Cover
# loose & unfinished
Crystal Ballroom
Portland
OR
The Letter, Whiney Bitches, Shine It Paris, End Of The World Party > Open
Curtis, Sasa, Mami Gato, Legalize It, Who The Fuck, New Planet > Anonymous Skulls > Toy Dancing, Queen Bee
E: I Wanna Ride You
Avalon
Hollywood
CA
Improv > End of the World Party > Curtis > Sasa > Improv > Toy Dancing, Lonely Avenue, Who The Fuck
Improv, Paris, Shine It, Whiney Bitches, Bloody Oil, Pocket Knife, Fire, Queen Bee; Encore: Chubb Sub
w/ Brahim Fribgane on percussion throughout most of the show
New Daisy Theatre
Memphis
TN
Improv > Shine It > New Planet > Toy Dancing > The Letter, Bloody Oil > Sasa
Queen Bee > Whiney Bitches, Paris, End of the World Party > Pocket Knife > Who The Fuck Drum Solo > Curtis > Is There Anybody Here That Loves My Jesus > Uninvisible, E: Lonely Avenue
Mississippi Nights
St. Louis
MO
Improv > End of the World Party > Improv > New Planet > Afro Blue > Sasa > The Letter#
Who the Fuck# > Shine It > The Lover > Pocket Knife# > Paris%, Curtis, Lonely Avenue, Whiney Bitches, Queen Bee
Encore: Blue Pepper*
# - PJ Harvey cover
% - Cachao cover
* - w/Beatle Bob on the Maracas
The Blue Note
Columbia
MO
Intro, Old Wyne > Shine It, Improv > Anonymous Skulls > Improv > Whiney Bitches > Who The Fuck#
Curtis, Paris*, End of the World Party > Toy Dancing > Pocket Knife# > Bass Solo > Sasa > Lonely Avenue, The Letter#, Queen Bee
Encore: New Planet, Brigas Nunca Mais
# PJ Harvey cover
* Cachao cover
The Eagles Club (The Rave)
Milwaukee
WI
The Letter (PJ Harvey), New Planet > Improv > End of the World Party, Improv > Mami Gato, Paris *, Sasa
Curtis, Shine It, Who the Fuck? (PJ Harvey), Whiney Bitches, Legalize It (Peter Tosh), Toy Dancing, Queen Bee, E1) I Wanna Ride You, E2) Chubb Sub
* Billy Martin on vocals
Tremont Music Hall
Charlotte
NC
New Planet > Shine It* > The Letter^ >
Toy Dancing, Sasa > Lonely Avenue, Paris**, Who the Fuck^, Curtis > Drum Solo > End of the World Party, Legalize It > Bass Solo, Queen Bee
* acoustic
** Billy on vocals
^ PJ Harvey
The Orange Peel
Asheville
NC
Open Intro > End Of The World Party, Olde Wyne, The Letter, Whiney Bitches, Sasa# > New Planet# > Drum Intro > Lonely Avenue#, Paris, Who The Fuck?, Curtis > Drum Solo > Open Intro > Queen Bee#
Encore: Wiggly's Way#
ONE SET ONLY
# with Oliver Wood on guitar
Lincoln Theatre
Raleigh
NC
Shine It, The Letter, Curtis -> Drum Solo, Sasa *, End of The World Party, Pocket Knife**, Bass Solo, Lonely Avenue, Paris ***, ? ***, New Planet ^, Queen Bee ^, E: Crosstown Traffic ^^
* w/ Ryan Zoidis on Recorder
** w/ Alan Evans on Percussion
*** w/ Rashawn Ross on Trumpet
^ w/ Eric Krasno on Guitar
^^ w/ All Members of Soulive
9:30 Club
Washington
DC
Improv, The Letter^, New Planet, Sasa, Olde Wyne, Paris, Queen Bee
End of the World Party, Shine It, What the Fuck^ > Curtis,Pocket Knife^, Mami Gato, Whiney Bitches, Lonely Avenue, E: Partido Alto
^ PJ Harvey Tunes
Toad's Place
New Haven
CT
one set; tarantula opened
Colony Cafe
Woodstock
NY
Improv > Anonymous Skull > Improv > Shine it, Paris, Syeeda's Song Flute > Improv > Your Lady, Brigas Nuncas Mais > Improv > Seven Deadlies > Legalize It, Olde Wyne, Hey Joe, E: Buster Rides Again
Acoustic Show
Pearl Street Night Club
Northampton
MA
ONE SET ONLY: Improv > Sasa > New Planet, Who The Fuck, The Letter > Pocket Knife > Shine It, Paris, Curtis > Open Intro > Afro Blue > Bass Solo, End Of The World Party > Queen Bee
Encore: Partido Alto
Kool Haus
Toronto
ON
New Planet >
Whiney Bitches
Shine It >
Paris >
Anonymous Skulls >
Lonely Avenue
The Letter
Who The Fuck >
Open >
Bloody Oil >
Bass Solo >
Sasa >
Curtis >
Drum Solo
Queen Bee
Encore: End Of The World Party