Today in Umphrey's McGee History

Serac · November 30, 2025, 9:11pm

Honestly, it kinda stunk. There was good reason to shelve imo. I should have specified it was not necessarily a good edge. More just curiosity and wonder.

No idea on outstanding versions.

CarpetCrawler · December 1, 2025, 12:13am

The 10/05/2002 Barrymore has one of the early versions w/o lyrics…I’ve always loved that version of OG Wappy-> Phil’s

CarpetCrawler · December 1, 2025, 12:17pm

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This 3rd day/night of the 11-29 through 12-1 run was a truly special way to top off 2007. The NYE run had some good stuff for sure, but these 2 shows in Ann Arbor were super fun. The Border’s set was wild, as we had walked in expecting an all acoustic set, being that it was in a bookstore. We were pleasantly surprised when we saw the amps & Pony’s bass. That was so much fun, but was only the start of the amazing day/night. The show that night was top tier for sure. A very special evening, which I will always remember very fondly!

December 1, 2007
BORDERS
ANN ARBOR, MI

One Set: Great American, Intentions Clear, Last Man Swerving → Bridgeless, Kat’s Tune[1], Wizard Burial Ground

[1] played while Joel interviewed with the crowd

Notes:
in-store performance
with an extensive Q*Bert tease before Kat’s Tune

December 1, 2007
MICHIGAN THEATER
ANN ARBOR, MI

Set 1: Out Of Order, Utopian Fir[1] > In The Kitchen > Utopian Fir, Words > Baba O’Riley

Set 2: Wizard Burial Ground > Resolution[2] > Wizard Burial Ground, Bright Lights, Big City[3] > August, JaJunk

Encore: The Triple Wide[4]

[1] with One Nation Under a Groove (Funkadelic) and Life During Wartime (Talking Heads) teases
[2] with Norwegian Wood (The Beatles) jam
[3] with Portrait of Tracy (Jaco Pastorius) tease by Ryan (12.01 was Jaco’s birthday)
[4] with Carol of the Bells (Mykola Leontovych) jam and Greensleeves (trad) teases

Anniversary bump for the amazing 3rd night of this run. For a personal little side note, I talked our show neighbors into crashing in our hotel room instead of driving back to Niles that night, and have had a friend ever since. They had recently had a baby, and were on their 1st night away from their daughter. They were very intent on getting back to Niles, to relieve the grandparent who was watching her, as well as just wanting to be back with the kid. Those roads were way too treacherous, so they turned around as soon as they got to the freeway & ended up taking me up on the offer. I feel like we may have forged a decent type of friendship regardless, but that definitely solidified it.

Final portion of the 15 year anniversary bump trilogy. I’m so grateful for the fond memories of this little run of shows.

Day late bump!!