Gimme some Moe.

Later days, the preamble of Moe.’s music is the best thing could have occur to life and to make it better Monday night was my freshman effort to be an official Moe.Ron! Previously, in this post, I have appraised Wormwood a big time, and oh boy any thing I say will be less. To put it simpler, I was entirely blown away for four hours (four hours seven minutes concert to be precise, with a 20 minute break after the first set).

Moe. initiated the show with stranger than fiction, a popular show starter and in the first set they covered two of my fave. tracks crab eyes and four. The jam bridges were extra-ordinary, jazzier than normal, full credit goes to Loghlin’s dual job on xylophone and percussions (and regular drinking of Getorade!). “Thunderfinger Derhak” was even more superior to all studio & live (Warts and all vol. 1 to vol.4) albums, I was following his bass notes and progressions without any twinkle! Chuck and Al were as usual brilliant, (though Al was little tired at the end of second set) they switched the lead roles numerous times so fast, I was really amazed. Often I was looking to Chuck’s flashy guitar works and in the next second it was Al with the lead! They controlled the speed so accurately I was even more astonished that every thing they are doing live! Hats off to Vinnie for maintaining the rhythm pattern throughout.

The highlight of the second set was the first jam and sudden crossover to acoustic letter home. The best part of Moe. is the “teases” of different songs; the second set contained a lot “teases” from kids and other Wormwood songs (pity I missed teases from china cat sunflower which is pretty common in their shows!).

Before the encore, the crowd was chanting their favorite encore tracks (well me and my pal GTom were screaming for rebubela and havah nagilah) but they launched a neat jazz rendition of time (the Floyd one)! At the end part of the song (“the song is over, thought I’d something more to say…”) they started flashing their skills of lots of funks and jazz (I smelled a little of various galactic (SCI) versions which made it more special). Splendid blending and they moved into don’t f*** with flo to wrap off.

The fraternity of jam followers were familiar, 90% were in Garcia/dead t-shirt (rest in Phish, SCI, Keller Williams, and Disco Biscuits). I was in a String Cheese Incident hood :) Made couple of new friends and signed up as a moe.ron.

Do catch my school seniors soon!

Setlist –
Set 1: Stranger Than Fiction, Crab Eyes, Lost Along The Way, Blue Jeans Pizza, Jazz Wank > Four > She
Set 2: Time Ed > Dr. Graffenburg > Water, Letter Home, Hi & Lo > Brent Black>
Encore: Time > Don't F*** With Flo

Song of the day - Shoot First (Album- Wormwood by Moe.)