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Covers - Performances of a song with the same name by different artists

Song Title	Versions	Compilations	Covers
jam with Umphrey's McGee -> ^
Brent Black jam ->
Recreational Chemistry ->
Brent Black -> @
jam ->
Enter Sandman -> ~
jam with Umphrey's McGee %

Notes

Despite having no scheduled performances on-site this night, moe. staged a full band takeover during Umphrey's McGee's setbreak

^ = moe. takes over the stage one-by-one to play through UM's setbreak on their gear -- including moe.'s sound and lighting crew members
@ = w/Michael Travis (String Cheese Incident) on additional percussion
~ = with Vince Iwenski (UM's manager at the time) dressed as Lars Ulrich on vocals; PA cuts out due to power failure from 3:47-4:24 in the song (though you can still hear the on-stage instruments in the background)
% = UM returns and jams with moe.

Original recording, DAT transfer to WAV (5/18/2012), mastering & tracking (5/30/2015 + 10/27/2015) all done by Scott Bernstein

Taper notes:
After giving lots and lots of love to many of my favorite bands in the jamband world -- especially moe., I decided for BARN169 it was time to give some love to another awesome jamband I've been seeing for a very long time -- Umphrey's McGee. I originally heard of them thanks to their association with my moe. boys, and got to see them for the first time at the 2003 moe.down. Fast forward nearly a year and I'm at the 2004 edition of the Bonnaroo music festival. moe. was scheduled to play the main stage (early) on Sunday 6/13 as well as an unannouced acoustic set on the Sonic Stage on Saturday. But I guess they all got to town a little early and, I guess, decided to repay Umphreys with a full-band takeover during Umphreys' setbreak (the UM boys did the same full-band switch with moe. for their late night set the previous year -- though I wasn't there for it). This recording and frankly my attendance at this set is totally thanks to fellow moe.-ron Jenn Ritchie, who I saw out and about on the grounds earlier in the day and pulled me aside to tell me I HAD to go see the Umphreys late night set because there would be some moe. sit ins -- and this was no rumor, she had gotten the inside info right from the band members themselves! I'm not sure what I'd been planning to do that night before I got the tip-off from Jenn (maybe Vida Blue, Page Mcconnell from Phish's side project?), but given the news, there was now no question where I needed to be for the late nite sets.

At the time I was only slightly familiar with UM's music, but this was a dive right into the deep end of their music. They played a MARATHON show here, which -- if you include the moe. setbreak, is nearly 4 hours and 15 minutes long. If you subtract the 45 (or so) minutes of moe.'s set, you're still talking about a set that's 3 1/2 hours! All the classics are here -- Wife Soup, Nothing Too Fancy, Bright Lights Big City, Ocean Billy, The Triple Wide, Bridgeless, Hurt Bird Bath, In The Kitchen, 40's Theme, Nemo, JaJunk, Miss Tinkle's Overture, etc. -- all in splendidly jamming versions -- exactly the way you'd expect a band ecstatic for the plum late night slot and about to have a huge bust out onto the jamband world should sound!

But frankly without the inside info about the moe. sit-in, there's no way I would have dedicated so much of my late night at Bonnaroo to this band. So, was it worth it? HELL YEAH! Even disregarding the hours and hours of Umphreys McGee music I got to hear, the moe. "sit-in" was even better than I could ever have imagined. One by one the members of moe. came onstage to join Umphreys, and then one-by-one the Umphreys guys filtered off leaving moe. staging a "setbreak takeover" from UM (even Steve Young and Jefferson Waful, moe.'s sound and lighting techs at the time took their positions during moe.'s set). The resulting 45 minutes of "just moe." was far and away the best music I heard at Bonnaroo this entire weekend -- and even thinking about it now (and of course while listening back to it), I can still feel the pure joy and electricity moe. put out from the stage on this night. They're not always known for making great use of their time -- but this 45 minute chunk of music (plus a few minutes leading into and out of the Umphreys sets where they were jamming together) was pure bliss from start to finish. I mean, just look at the tracking -- in that 45 minutes of time, they did *3* songs, and they were ON FIRE. This is a textbook example of what a sit-in should be -- a spectacularly jamming "Recreational Chemistry", a huge "Brent Black" with Travis from String Cheese Incident adding extra percussion, and then a cover of Metallica's "Enter Sandman" (which they would, interestingly enough, perform acoustically the following day on the Sonic Stage) with UM's manager Vince Iwenski handling the vocals while dressed up (fake beard and all) to look like James Hetfield. Of course when they returned, Umphreys pulled out an impromptu (not on the setlist) Metallica cover of their own -- "And Justice For All".

At this point, it's probably worth noting how difficult it was to pull this recording off at all! First off, after spending all day at Bonnaroo seeing Ani DiFranco, String Cheese Incident, and Dave Matthews And Friends (with Trey Anastasio and Tony Hall) on other stages, I was pretty exhausted. But beyond that, by taping buddy Curtis I did not want to set up back by the soundboard -- we wanted to be up close where it sounded best. We got a little space on someone's tarp, but there was a LOT of people who were a MESS -- drunk, and on all sorts of varied substances. And there were (sorry to make this graphic) way too many people throwing up from partying way too at this point in the evening -- including somone who barfed right next to us right onto the tarp we were set up on. UGH! There was a small river of barf flowing around us and my taping gear at this point!!! :( Beyond all of that, this marathon set was after a long day of other music. At the time, my gear required a LOT of power -- especially the Apogee A>D converter/pre-amp which I was using. I had to bring a 15 pound lead acid battery with me to the festival just to power the Apogee and another smaller one to power the DAT recorder! I had 2 of them with me, but as you might understand, I only carried one inside to save my arms and back from having to carry 30 pounds of batteries into the festival -- since by my calculations the batteries that I had would have been enough power to cover everything I could potentially see that day and night. Sure enough, in "Jajunk" the last song before the encore (after their very left-field choice to cover the Flock Of Seagulls 1982 hit "I Ran..."), my battery gave out. And frankly my own internal batteries gave out as well. I could have trekked all the way out to the car in some far away parking lot, grabbed another 15 pound battery, and then come back in to finish the recording and see the end of the set, but I decided it was time to head back to the hotel, get some sleep, and recharge the batteries.

Thanks to the only other audience recording to circulate of this night, I am now able to add the last few songs of the set by patching in the Scheops recording that was previously in circulation.

Anyway, I hope that more than 10 years later you enjoy my recording of this super classic, incredibly jamming piece of history for both Umphrey's McGee and moe.!

Previous entries in my BARN series:
BARN1 - Col Bruce Hampton and the Code Talkers at Bret & Joyce's wedding 9/17/2005
BARN2 - Col Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit (w/guest Warren Haynes for all of set 2) Wetlands 11/20/1993
BARN3 - moe. Wetlands 7/8/1995
BARN4 - Dan Bern Bottom Line 7/31/1998 (late show)
BARN5 - moe. Birch Hill 10/31/1996
BARN6 - moe. Maxwells 1/20/1996
BARN7 - Dan Bern Central Park Summerstage 9/19/1997
BARN8 - Dan Bern, Bottom Line 8/1/1998
BARN9 - moe. Bayou 4/5/1997
BARN10 - moe. Irving Plaza 4/4/1997
BARN11 - moe. AKA 9/7/1995
BARN12 - Yolk AKA 9/7/1995
BARN13 - Robert Walter/Johnny Vidacovich/James Singleton/Donald Harrison Preservation Hall 4/30/08
BARN14 - Phish Las Vegas, NV 10/31/1998 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN15 - Phish Great Went @ Loring AFB, Limestone, ME 8/16/1997 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN16 - Phish Great Went @ Loring AFB, Limestone, ME 8/17/1997 (on bt.etree.org), includes orchestra set - by request
BARN17 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/4/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN18 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/6/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN19 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/7/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN20 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/5/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN21 - God Street Wine, Irving Plaza, NYC 6/24/1993
BARN22 - Leftover Salmon, Wetlands, NYC 10/1/1994
BARN23 - Anders Osborne, Manny's Carwash, NYC 11/5/1997
BARN24 - Anders Osborne, Manny's Carwash, NYC 11/6/1997
BARN25 - moe. Pool Party, Morganville, NJ 6/2/1996
BARN26 - Widespread Panic, Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ 11/7/1992 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN27 - Stew ["Passing Strange"], The Turning Point, Piermont, NY 4/6/2003 (on bt.etree.org. dimeadozen.org)
BARN28 - Stew ["Passing Strange"], Joe's Pub, New York, NY 5/22/2003 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN29 - Percy Hill, Lion's Den, NYC 3/16/1996
BARN30 - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Irving Plaza, 8/3/1995
BARN31 - Percy Hill, Wetlands, NYC 6/8/1996
BARN32 - Bad Livers, Mercury Lounge, NYC, 11/15/1999 (opening for Leftover Salmon)
BARN33 - Bad Livers, Mercury Lounge, NYC, 11/16/1999 (opening for Leftover Salmon)
BARN34 - G. Love And Special Sauce, Central Park Summerstage, NYC 6/18/1995
BARN35 - The Band, The Great Lawn, Central Park, NYC 5/16/1993 (on dimeadozen.org)
BARN36 - The Band, Mountain Stage Radio broadcast, Charleston, WV, recorded 4/4/1996 (on dimeadozen.org)
*** Start of New Orleans Jazzfest Appreciation mini-series (note that BARN13 technically belongs in this series) ***
BARN37 - Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Tipitina's, New Orleans, LA, 5/5/2008
BARN38 - Steve Kimock Band, Tipitina's, New Orleans, LA, 5/6/2001 (2AM show)
BARN39 - The Funky Meters, Tipitina's, New Orleans, LA, 5/6/2001 (11PM show) (on bt.etree.org)
BARN40 - Anders Osborne, Tower Records instore, New Orleans, LA, 5/7/2001 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN41 - Joe Krown Trio w/Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Russell Batiste + special guest Mike Gordon, Tipitina's, New Orleans, 5/5/2008
BARN42 - Russell Batiste and Friends, The Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans, 5/1/2008 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN43 - Global Noize, The Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans, 5/1/2008 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN44 - Deep Banana Blackout, The Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans, LA 5/6/2000
BARN45 - Bela Fleck And The Flecktones, The Saenger Theater, New Orleans, LA 5/5/2000
BARN46 - Medeski Martin And Wood, The Saenger Theater, New Orleans, LA 5/6/2000 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN47 - String Cheese Incident, The Saenger Theater, New Orleans, LA 5/5/2000
BARN48 - Soulive, House Of Blues Parish, New Orleans, LA 5/5/2001
BARN49 - String Cheese Incident, Cajun Queen Riverboat, New Orleans, LA 5/3/2000
BARN50 - New Mastersounds, House Of Blues Parish, New Orleans, LA 5/2/2008
BARN51 - Funky Meters, Bonnaroo, Manchester, TN 6/13/2003 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN52 - George Porter And The Runnin' Pardners, Village Underground, NYC, 5/19/2001
BARN53 - Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Tramps, NYC 10/29/1993 late show
BARN54 - The Meters, Tramps, NYC 5/15/93 late show (on dimeadozen)
BARN55 - The Meters, Tramps, NYC 10/29/93 late show (on dimeadozen)
BARN56 - Wild Magnolias, Wetlands, NYC 2/10/2000 (on bt.etree.org)
*** end of New Orleans Jazzfest Appreciation mini-series ***
BARN57 - Blues Traveler, Livingston Gym @ Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 4/17/1993
BARN58 - Phish, Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 10/29/1998 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN59 - Jazz Is Dead, Bottom Line, NYC 2/7/1998 (late show only) (on bt.etree.org)
BARN60 - Grateful Dead, Cal Expo Amphitheatre, Sacramento, CA 5/27/1993
BARN61 - The Dude Of Life (w/Trey Anastasio and Jon Fishman for entire show, plus Page McConnell for a bunch), Wetlands, NYC 2/5/1994 - on bt.etree.org
BARN62 - ALO, High Sierra Music Festival Main Stage, Quincy, CA 7/3/2005
BARN63 - Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon, High Sierra Music Festival Main Stage, Quincy, CA 7/3/2005 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN64 - Dan Bern, The Bottom Line, NYC 11/11/1998
BARN65 - Galactic, Knitting Factory, NYC 10/18/1997 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN66 - Bruce Hornsby, Paramount Theater, NYC 12/7/1993 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN67 - God Street Wine, Irving Plaza, NYC 8/26/1993
BARN68 - Warren Haynes Midnight Southern Jam - Wetlands, NYC 8/5/1993 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN69 - Dave Matthews And Friends (Trey Anastasio, Tim Reynolds, Tony Hall, Brady Blade, Ray Paczkowski) Bonnaroo 6/11/2004 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN70 - Rana at Bret & Joyce's wedding, Whitehall, NY 9/17/2005
BARN71 - Soulive - Baby Jupiter, NYC 6/11/1999
BARN72 - Chris Barron, Nightingale Bar, NYC 7/14/1997
BARN73 - Chris Barron, Nightingale Bar, NYC 11/17/1997
BARN74 - George Porter's 60th Birthday w/PBS and friends, Blender Theater, NYC 12/29/2007
BARN75 - Jennifer Hartswick Band with special guest Trey Anastasio, Lion's Den, NYC 11/7/2003 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN76 - moe., Gathering Of The Vibes, Seaside Park, Bridgeport, CT 6/20/1999
BARN77 - Project Logic, Gathering Of The Vibes, Seaside Park, Bridgeport, CT 6/20/1999
BARN78 - Phish - Beacon Theater, NYC 4/13/1994 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN79 - Phish - Beacon Theater, NYC 4/14/1994 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN80 - Phish - Beacon Theater, NYC 4/15/1994 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN81 - The Recipe, Wetlands, NYC 11/12/1999
BARN82 - Ominous Seapods, Wetlands, NYC 6/4/1999
BARN83 - Coby Brown Group, Wetlands, NYC 11/12/1999 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN84 - The Big Wu, Wetlands, NYC 11/12/1999
BARN85 - Moon Boot Lover, Wetlands, NYC 6/5/1999
BARN86 - Percy Hill, Wetlands, NYC 6/5/1999
BARN87 - Miracle Orchestra, Wetlands Lounge, NYC 6/5/1999
BARN88 - Jiggle The Handle, Wetlands, NYC 6/5/1999
BARN89 - Jiggle The Handle, Wetlands, NYC 10/2/1998
BARN90 - Lake Trout, Wetlands Lounge, NYC 6/5/1999
BARN91 - Olu Dara, Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival, South Street Seaport Atrium, NYC 6/6/1999 (on bt.etree.org / www.dimeadozen.org)
BARN92 - Donna The Buffalo, Wetlands, NYC 11/12/1999
BARN93 - Radiators (w/Merl Saunders sit-in), Irving Plaza 10/8/1998
BARN94 - Tiny Lights, Wetlands, NYC 8/18/1993
BARN95 - Tiny Lights, Wetlands, NYC 1/5/1994
BARN96 - Radiators, Irving Plaza, NYC 11/14/1997
BARN97 - Radiators, Manny's Carwash, NYC 5/30/1998
BARN98 - The Wood Brothers (w/Medeski, Wolleson, and special guest Amos Lee), Bowery Ballroom, NYC 5/17/2008 - on bt.etree.org
BARN99 - Pieta Brown, Bowery Ballroom, NYC 5/17/2008 - on bt.etree.org
BARN100 - Jeff Buckley, CBGB's 313 Gallery, NYC 12/18/1993 - on dimeadozen
BARN101 - Tiny Lights, CBGB's 313 Gallery, NYC 12/18/1993
BARN102 - Tiny Lights, The Lion's Den, NYC 2/18/1994
BARN103 - Tiny Lights, Club Sine', NYC 2/3/1994
BARN104 - Ha Ha The Moose (moe. side project), BB Kings, NYC 11/23/2001
BARN105 - Medeski Martin & Wood, Hilton Hotel Ballroom, NYC, 4/29/2005 - on bt.etree.org
BARN106 - Tiny Lights, The Court Tavern, New Brunswick, NJ 11/24/1993
BARN107 - Tiny Lights, Knitting Factory, NYC 10/26/1994
BARN108 - Tiny Lights, Mercury Lounge, NYC 7/13/1994
BARN109 - All God's Children, The Lion's Den, NYC 2/18/1994
BARN110 - Dan Bern, Bottom Line, NYC 1/2/1999 (w/Moxy Fruvous guesting in the late show)
BARN111 - Moxy Fruvous, Bottom Line, NYC 1/2/1999 (w/Dan Bern guesting in encore)
BARN112 - Peter Rownan's Reggaebilly!, High Sierra Music Festival, Quincy, CA 7/6/2002 (on The Trader's Den)
BARN113 - Conehead Buddha, Wetlands, NYC 10/2/1998
BARN114 - Conehead Buddha, Tramps, NYC, 2/12/1998
BARN115 - Conehead Buddha, The Lion's Den, NYC 7/2/1998
BARN116 - Frogwings (w/special guest Warren Haynes), Wetlands, NYC, 2/9/1999 on bt.etree.org
BARN117 - All God's Children, Jack's House Party, Long Valley, NJ 9/4/1994
BARN118 - God Street Wine, Irving Plaza, NYC 10/9/1993
BARN119 - David Bromberg, Tarrytown Music Hall, 10/15/1999 (on bt.etree.org / www.dimeadozen.org)
BARN120 - The Concept w/George Porter, ?uestlove, Ivan Neville, Eric Krasno, Bill Summers, Casey Benjamin, BB King's, NYC 9/26/02 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN121 - Percy Hill, The Lion's Den, NYC 7/13/1996
BARN122 - Spin Doctors, The Wetlands, 9/27/1995
BARN123 - Aquarium Rescue Unit, The Wetlands, NYC, 3/4/1994
BARN124 - Allman Brothers Band, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO 8/3/1996 (not publicly posted due to ABB trading policy)
BARN125 - Spin Doctors, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO 8/3/1996
BARN126 - Col. Bruce Hampton and the Fiji mariners, Wetlands, NYC 9/2/1994
BARN127 - Phil Lesh and Friends, Irving Plaza, New York, NY 5/21/2002
BARN128 - Merl Saunders and Friends, The Wetlands, New York, NY 5/10/1990 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN129 - God Street Wine, Wetlands, NYC 12/31/1993
BARN130 - Bernie Worrell And The Woo Warriors, Wetlands, NYC 12/28/2000
BARN131 - Bernie Worrell And The Woo Warriors, Knitting Factory, NYC 2/16/2002
BARN132 - Spin Doctors, Wetlands, NYC 2/2/1991
BARN133 - Bela Fleck And The Flecktones, Wetlands, NYC 11/10/1992
BARN134 - Indigo Girls, Central Park Summerstage, NYC 10/10/2003 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN135 - John Popper & Chan Kinchela acoustic, Irving Plaza, NYC 5/27/2008
BARN136 - Moonalice, Irving Plaza, NYC 5/27/2008
BARN137 - Spin Doctors, Irving Plaza, NYC 5/27/2008
BARN138 - Cowboy Junkies, Supper Club, NYC 3/2/1994 (early show only)
BARN139 - Wayne Horvitz & Zony Mash, High Sierra Music Hall, High Sierra Music Fest, Quincy, CA 7/5/2002
BARN140 - Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers, High Sierra Music Festival, Quincy, CA 7/5/2002 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN141 - Rickie Lee Jones, Town Hall, NYC 3/29/1994 (on dimeadozen)
BARN142 - Minor Swing (John Patton / John Zorn / Ed Cherry / Kenny Wollesen), CBGB 313 Gallery, NYC 11/22/1995 - "pure jazz" series
BARN143 - Minor Swing (John Patton / John Zorn / Ed Cherry / Kenny Wollesen), CBGB 313 Gallery, NYC 11/23/1995 - "pure jazz" series
BARN144 - Merl Saunders and the Rainforest Band with special guests Buddy Miles, Odetta, Oteil Burbridge, and Larry Hunter, Manny's Carwash, 10/22/1996 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN145 - Melvin Sparks, The Lion's Den, NYC 11/15/1997
BARN146 - Melvin Sparks, Wetlands Preserve, NYC 6/14/1998
BARN147 - Melvin Sparks, Wetlands Preserve, NYC 10/17/1998
BARN148 - Railroad Earth, High Sierra Music Hall late night, 7/6/2002
BARN149 - Joan Osborne, Roseland, NYC 9/14/1995 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN150 - Joan Osborne, The Beacon Theatre, NYC 10/20/1995 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN151 - (Done but not yet released)
BARN152 - Phish, Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ 7/19/1992 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN153 - The Replacements, LATE SHOW, Rutgers University, Cook Campus Center, New Brunswick, NJ 4/8/1989
BARN154 - God Street Wine, Irving Plaza, NYC, 4/30/1994
BARN155 - God Street Wine, City Gardens, Trenton, NJ 6/11/1994
BARN156 - Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Wetlands, NYC 6/14/1998
BARN157 - Dan Bern, High Sierra Music Fest solo tent show 7/6/2002
BARN158 - Dirty Dozen Brass Band (w/guest Chris Robinson), Irving Plaza, New York, NY 8/24/1996
BARN159 - TJ Kirk (Charlie Hunter/Will Bernard/John Schott/Scott Amendola), Knitting Factory, NYC 11/6/1996 - "pure jazz" series
BARN160 - Ryan Adams And The Pinkhearts - Battery Park, NYC 7/4/2003
BARN161 - The Headhunters w/George Porter - Knitting Factory, NYC 1/24/2006
BARN162 - Neil Young, Bonnaroo, Manchester, TN 6/13/2003 - on bt.etree.org
BARN163 - Tom Waits, The Beacon Theatre, NYC 9/25/1999 - on dimeadozen
BARN164 - Branford Marsalis Trio, Knitting Factory, NYC 3/22/1997 - on dimeadozen - "pure jazz" series
BARN165 - David Murray Octet, Knitting Factory, NYC 2/16/1997 - on bt.etree.org - "pure jazz" series
BARN166 - Van Morrison, Parc De L'Ile St. Germain, Paris, France 7/3/1991 on dimeadozen
BARN167 - Marco Benevento / Joe Russo / Skerik / Mike Dillon AKA "Duo Buggin'", Rocks Off Boat Cruise, NYC 7/22/2004
BARN168 - Southside Johnny And The Jukes, Paramount Theater, Asbury Park, NY 12/30/1988 on dimeadozen
BARN169 - Umphreys McGee (w/moe. setbreak takeover), The Other Tent, Bonnaroo Music Festival, Manchester, TN 6/11/2004

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