Y’all listen to UM on the way to UM?
One of my friends from my college touring days would never let us listen to Umphrey’s on the way to a show for fear we’d hear a superior version of a song we might hear that night. Kind of stuck with that going forward but I’m not going to knock someone else’s jam. I listen to a ton of Umphrey’s.
i’ll usually abstain for a few days ahead of seeing a band
The “wife” is a religious follower of this. No music of the band you’re seeing within a week of the show.
I had a couple friends with that superstition. IDGAF these days and I listen to whatever I’m feeling.
Everyone who enjoys UM in a way different from the way I do is doing it in an inferior way.
I always knew I was off somehow…
What an amazing back to back pair of shows! 
Parents wouldn’t let 14 year old cole go up to Madison on a Sunday for this. Listened to it all the time tho
11 year anniversary bump!! 
February 21, 2014 Umphrey’s McGee — The Riviera Theatre — Chicago, IL, USA
Set 1: A Mild Sedative > Plunger, Passing, The Crooked One, Cemetery Walk, Comma Later > Preamble > Mantis Ghetts > Mantis
Set 2: All In Time, The Triple Wide, Hajimemashite > Glory > Hajimemashite > Glory[1], Prowler > Intentions Clear → Dance Hall Days, Hangover[2] > Voodoo Child[3] > Hangover
Encore: Comfortably Numb > 1348
Footnotes:
[1] with Hajimemashite teases
[2] with La Grange (ZZ Top) jam
[3] incomplete
**Show Notes:**during the band intros before Prowler, Flight of the Bumblebee (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov) and Highway to Hell (AC/DC) were teased and a verse of Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin) was played
Links:
UMLive
“Jimmy Stewart”:
· In Mantis: Jimmy Stewart
Giving this show a spin again this morning and this first set is way better than I remembered it being. Comma Later and Plunger were both great jams.
First set is really great.
Plunger Outro jam is fantastic.
Crooked One has a short but sweet jam
Comma Later is killer
One of the first extended standalone Mantis jams
Second set is fun but not necessarily great.
Decent show. I really like the Plunger. Pretty decent 3 day run.
And the best show they’ve ever played
Honestly that run was super mediocre IMO. First sets all 3 nights were decent and second sets were mehhh.
I think for me at least it gets overshadowed by the previous fall riverside run, which I’m sure a ton of people were at both.
I decided to look at the shows and the 1st set of the last show looks rough. In gonna agree with you because, after revisiting, I really don’t know wtf i was thinking. Plunger is still dope.
February 22, 2014 Umphrey’s McGee — The Riviera Theatre — Chicago, IL, USA
Set 1: Bathing Digits[1] > Phil’s Farm, Miami Virtue > 2nd Self, Thin Air, Red Tape[2] > Bad Friday, The Weight Around[3], Bullhead City[4], Night Moves[3]
Set 2: Der Bluten Kat, Just What I Needed[5], Divisions, Believe the Lie, Puppet String
Encore: Cherub Rock[6]
Footnotes:
[1] debut, original
[2] unfinished
[3] with Brendan and Jake on acoustics
[4] with Brendan and Jake on acoustics, and with Daphne Willis on vocals
[5] debut, The Cars
[6] with Jimmy Chamberlin on drums and Kris on percussion
This was the 2014 Riv show I went to (I make a guest appearance in the credits of the Blu-Ray recapping the run, waiting in line bundled up like a motherfucker because it was damn cold). Very solid Phil’s, Red Tape, DBK, and Just What I Needed was a great surprise. An even better surprise… Jimmy Fucking Chamberlin! I still find myself needing to remind myself that this sit-in actually happened. Wild.
