2026/02/11 - State Theatre - Portland, ME
Set 1: Bathing Digits > Nopener > Conduit, Resolution > Muff II: The Revenge, The Crooked One > Syncopated Strangers, Remind Me
Set 2: Der Bluten Kat > Take Me to the River > Der Bluten Kat, 1000 Places to See Before You Die, Suxity > Wappy Sprayberry > No Diablo, Release
Encore: The Floor
The Crooked One is kinda cool
So glad I missed Suxity. Not going to any of the other shows this run, I’m just glad I didn’t see it.
Looks pretty solid. Late S2 Suxity and No Diablo feels weird, those are S1 songs in my mind and not ones I’m excited about either way. Nopener, Muff 2, Crooked, Release are good gets.
On initial listen the first set is one of my favorites of the tour. All the jam vehicles have a real patient, full-band sound rather than Jake overload.
Will need to listen again but the Reso might be on my JOTY shortlist. Both jams have super patient grooves, with Joel leading the way in the back half of the second jam with some slide guitar also going on. Really unique Reso.
I liked Resolution as well. I feel like Pony used a bassline from a long time ago Resolution or Front Porch in the 2nd slot.
I’d also be remiss if I didn’t mention how good the boards sound the last few weeks. Assuming it’s the same guy from the last year or so, I think he’s getting this figured out, and fair play to him.
The band can’t seem to get out of 7th gear on a 10 speed. I found myself wanting way more, especially out of the first set. Wappy was fun, and they had the opportunity to go back into the peak after slowing down, but they went into the end of the song instead. Too many songs, not enough patience and consistency. They have all the talent in the world. Im hopful they can figure out what makes fans show up night after night because this ain’t it.
This is a very Stasik setlist. Lots of pretty, heavy, and dance. Also too many songs. Having more than 6 songs in a DBK set should literally be illegal.
In all fairness, it was Wednesday, they’ve done a little more of a tour than they did at all last year(26 shows through middle of February 26 shows from June thru Sept last year), and idk what kinda vibes are in Portland considering that they had their own ICE/DHS drama recently.
I’m in total agreement with the TMSNEI business tho.
Umphreys doesnt care if im not paying attention to them. They will play shows anyway
Wappy > No Diablo is a hilarious segue. Definitely a Stasik setlist
Apologies for the double post but part of me has noticed the setlists are being written in a way that may help Scotty practice more and actually get things down, which I can appreciate and be patient with. I noticed Words showed up Saturday on a gap of just 2 weeks - that ordinarily would not happen. Same with Muff II last night. Their catalog is simply too big for the practice room, especially on a 5-week tour, so I think they’re helping Scotty out by giving him a 2nd go at songs within a couple weeks of his 1st, so he’s not having to learn something like Sociable and then sit on it for 6 months (which he also just did.) I recognize the need for that and will try to be patient with it.
I would think if they wanted to help Scotty out, they would improvise more vs. play a lot of structured material.
They encored Floor after opening the last show with it 4 days prior.
Umphrey’s is the kind of jam band where using the stage as a practice room is probably a really good thing - the band even at their floor of improv isn’t super noodl-y and boring. And that’s worst case scenario…
Of course, assuming they are practicing their improv communication on stage and not just playing standards and songs the whole time on stage…
What is this, 9/26/15?
oh wait that was the other way around
Great show
Great Reso, second jam especially from 10m-13m is fantastic
Cool to see them open with Noopener. I wonder if Scotty will do the lounge version someday?