6/23/02 Bonnaroo Music Festival

Manchester, TN June 23, 2002 09:00 PM

Set One:

Push On 'Til the Day
Money, Love and Change
Cayman Review
Mozambique
Sand
Drifting
Last Tube

Set Two:

Night Speaks to a Woman
At the Gazebo
Mr. Completely

Encore:

Wilson*
Bathtub Gin*
Alive Again

Show Notes:

*Trey solo acoustic

6/22/02 Merriweather Post Pavilion

Columbia, MD June 22, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Burlap Sack and Pumps
Mozambique
Night Speaks to a Woman
Small Axe
Acting the Devil
Cayman Review
Last Tube

Set Two:

Money, Love and Change
Olivia
Ether Sunday
Ray Dawn Balloon
Thunderhead
Simple Twist up Dave

Encore:

Push On 'Til the Day

6/21/02 Tweeter Center

Camden, NJ June 21, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Simple Twist Up Dave >
Plasma >
Simple Twist Up Dave
Sweet Dreams Melinda
Alive Again
Come on Baby Lets Go Downtown
Mozambique
Money, Love and Change

Set Two:

Olivia
Mr. Completely
Flock of Words
Push On 'Til the Day

Encore:

Sultans of Swing
At the Gazebo
First Tube

6/20/02 PNC Bank Arts Center

Holmdel, NJ June 20, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Acting the Devil
Push On 'Til the Day
Tube Top Flop
Night Speaks to a Woman
I Done Done It
Last Tube
Ray Dawn Balloon
Drifting

Set Two:

Cayman Review
Burlap Sack and Pumps
Money, Love and Change
Pebbles and Marbles
Sand

Encore:

Mozambique
Bathtub Gin*
Chalk Dust Torture*

Show Notes:

*Trey solo acoustic*

6/18/02 Radio City Music Hall

New York, NY June 18, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Push On Til the Day
Money Love and Change
Mozambique
Cayman Review
Last Tube

Set Two:

Simple Twist Up Dave >
Plasma
At the Barbeque
Mr. Completely
Night Speaks To A Woman
Ether Sunday
At the Gazebo1

Encore:

Alive Again**

Show Notes:
*with Vermont Youth Orchestra string quartet featuring Adriane Post on violin, Jane Kittredge on violin, Anja Jokela on viola and Indigo-Ruth Davis on cello.
**with large group of Brazilian acrobats, dancers and percussionists plus additional horn players joined the band onstage to dance and jam before they all paraded through the audience and lobby and out into the street. Audience members also partipated, playing tambourines and maracas passed out to them before the encore.

6/16/02 Darien Lake Performing Arts Center

Darien Center, NY June 16, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Simple Twist Up Dave
Acting the Devil
Sidewalks of San Francisco
Push On 'Til the Day
Small Axe
Money, Love and Change
At the BBQ
Noodle Rave
Cayman Review
First Tube

Set Two:

Quantegy
Last Tube
The Way I Feel
Mr. Completely
Sand

Encore:

Moesha

Show Notes:

Jon Fishman joined the band for the entire show on a second drum kit

6/15/02 Champlain Valley Fairgrounds

Essex, VT June 15, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Push On 'Til the Day
Tube Top Flop
Alive Again
Burlap Sack and Pumps
Cayman Review
Inlaw Josie Wales*
Flock of Words*
Mozmbique**

Set Two:

Money, Love and Change
Mr. Completely
Ray Dawn Balloon
Simple Twist Up Dave
Ether Sunday
Last Tube

Encore:

Sultans of Swing
At the Gazebo*

Show Notes:

*with the Vermont Youth Orchestra String Quartet (Adriane Post, Jane Kittredge, Anja Jokela, and Indigo Ruth-Davis)
**with James Harvey on trombone

6/14/02 Tweeter Center

Mansfield, MA June 14, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Simple Twist up Dave
Acting the Devil
Cayman Review
Will It Go Round in Circles
Burlap Sack and Pumps
At the Gazebo
Mozambique
Money, Love and Change

Set Two:

Last Tube
Flock of Words
Mr. Completely>
The Way I Feel
Night Speaks to a Woman

Encore:

Mikes Song* >
Weekapaug Groove*

Show Notes:

*with Mike Gordon on bass

6/13/02 Palace Theatre

Albany, NY June 13, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Money, Love and Change
Cayman Review
Sidewalks of San Francisco
Discern
In the Wee Wee Hours
Push On 'Til the Day>
Lively Up Yourself>
Windora Bug>
Push On 'Til the Day

Set Two:

Night Speaks to a Woman
Sweet Dreams Melinda
Every Story Ends In Stone
Last Tube

Encore:

Sultans of Swing

6/11/02 Amphitheatre At Station Square

Pittsburgh, PA June 11, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Burlap Sack and Pumps
Alive Again
Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown
Mozambique
Moesha
In the Wee Wee Hours
Last Tube

Set Two:

Mr. Completely
Flock of Words
Noodle Rave
Cayman Review
Simple Twist Up Dave

Encore:

First Tube

6/9/02 Tower City Amphitheatre

Cleveland, OH June 9, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Last Tube
Acting the Devil
Sidewalks of San Francisco
Flock of Words
Money, Love and Change
Ray Dawn Balloon
Drifting

Set Two

Night Speaks to a Woman>
Plasma
Simple Twist Up Dave
The Way I Feel
Pebbles and Marbles
At the Gazebo

Encore:

Push On 'Til the Day

6/8/02 Deer Creek

Noblesville, IN June 8, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Cayman Review
Burlap Sack and Pumps
Small Axe
Push On 'Til the Day
Money, Love and Change

Set II

Simple Twist Up Dave
Gotta Jibboo
Plasma
Mr. Completely
At the BBQ
Ether Sunday

Encore:

Will It go Round in Circles

6/7/02 Fox Theatre

Detroit, MI June 7, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Night Speaks to a Woman
Mozambique
Money, Love and Change
Alive Again

Set Two:

Tube Top Tony
Last Tube
Ray Dawn Balloon
Discern
Noodle Rave
Sand

Encore:

At the Gazebo
Sultans of Swing

6/6/02 Chicago Theatre

Chicago, IL June 6, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Push on 'Til the Day
Cayman Review
Burlap Sack and Pumps
Flock of Words
Money, Love and Change

Set Two:

Last Tube
Every Story Ends In Stone
Ray Dawn Balloon
Mr. Completely

Encore:

Chalkdust Torture*>
Wilson*>
Chalkdust Torture*
Alive Again**

Show Notes:
*Trey performed Chalkdust>Wilson>Chalkdust solo acoustic.
**Stash teases in the middle of Alive Again

Red Rocks

by Ray Paczkowski

Morrison, CO June 5, 2002 03:00 PM

Lost a crew bus on the way to Denver-- two flat tires and a dead transmission. Had it towed to Salt Lake and we won't meet up with it until Chicago. So all of the crew is on one bus, a music industry version of Survivor, limping out of Vegas. Imagine, Carini kills and eats Jimi Stout, but alas, is ground up and brewed by Brian after the coffee runs out. So it goes. Watching a day off evaporate, stranded on the side of the road.

Where we all got to, finally, is an astounding place. Red Rocks. Someone had the idea sixty or seventy years ago to carve some seats into the natural amphitheatre here. It was a WPA project during the depression, and went through a couple renovations over the ensuing years. The geologic formation has been here for millenia, it'll be here long after Vegas crumbles into the desert (no hard feelings.)

Walk up to the rim of the seating area and you will feel the power of the place set your arms ande legs to tingling. Well, actually it's your body starving for oxygen. Over a mile above sea level, you can look out over Denver and the foothills of the Rockies. Not monday night, though. Hail, rain, and tornadoes were forecast, and the wind picked up steadily all night. By the end of the second set the house was soaked, and the horn section looked like lapsed bedouins, towels over heads, not a camel in sight. Hard not to think of the wonderfully conductive qualities of water getting together with our hard working friend 220 volt 3 phase AC. Light show.

The second night was a Colorado big sky evening. These rocks feel grounded to the center of the earth, and looking out at the stars, it's apparent we are a-spinnin' on a tiny stone. All okay for a moment.

6/4/02 Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Morrison, CO June 4, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One

At the BBQ
Alive Again
Tube Top Flop
Money, Love and Change
The Way I Feel
First Tube

Set Two

Windora Bug
Mr. Completely
Burlap Sack and Pumps
Ether Sunday
Sand

Encore:

At the Gazebo
Mozambique
Push On 'Til the Day

6/3/02 Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Morrison, CO June 3, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Last Tube
Acting The Devil
Push on 'Til the Day
Discern
Cayman Review
Burlap, Sack and Pumps

Set Two

Simple Twist Up Dave
Flock Of Words
Noodle Rave Daddio
Money, Love and Change
Night Speaks to a Woman

Encore:

Sultans of Swing

6/1/02 Thomas & Mack Center

Las Vegas, NV June 1, 2002 09:00 PM

Set One:

Cayman Review
Mozambique
Money, Love and Change
Thunderhead
Alive Again

Set Two:

Sidewalks of San Francisco
Mr. Completely
Ether Sunday

Encore:

Gotta Jibboo

5/31/02 Thomas & Mack Center

Las Vegas, NV May 31, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Simple Twist Up Dave
Tube Top Tony
Push On 'Til the Day
Night Speaks to a Woman
Small Axe*
I Want to Take You Higher**

Set Two:

Last Tube
Flock of Words
Burlap Sack and Pumps
At the Gazebo
Pebbles and Marbles
First Tube^
Bug^

Encore:

Sultans of Swing

Show Notes:
Los Lobos and Spearhead opened.
*with Michael Franti
**with Michael Franti and Radioactive from Spearhead and David Hidalgo, Steve Berlin and Conrad Lozano from Los Lobos.
^with Page McConnell on keys (without Ray)

Happy Trails To You

by Ray Paczkowski

Las Vegas, NV May 31, 2002 03:57 PM

Coming into Las Vegas from LA, five am and the dawn light cannot compete with these thousand acres of neon flourescence. When Roy Rodgers was born, not far from here in Victorville, most of the country was lit with kerosene or gas. Big shout out to Thomas Edison, but an older invention has more claim to building this place: the con. The casinos here pump oxygen into the air, nature's little pick-me-up in a most unnatural setting. And if that doesn't do it, well, name your poison. The unabashed spectacle of Vegas, highroller fantasies while the dollar coins clink through slots; bar bar bar. This is the town where Rick Springfield will make his comeback, and where the world champion of darts will be crowned. And at no extra expense you can watch a pirate ship blow up and burn at Treasure Island. Four times a day. All this in a desert where there used to be...nothing.

It's been a good roll since Angels Camp. San Diego at the Open Air Theatre and LA at the Greek. The band is confident with the material and itching to take it somewhere new. Looking forward to the cooperative scratch. Pardon the metaphor.

A great lineup both nights in Vegas. Antibalas, Spearhead, Los Lobos, the Roots. All doing they're thing in air conditioned comfort. Strange to step outside into a dry hot desert wind, given enough time, it will blow this all away. Viva Las Vegas.

5/29/02 Greek Theatre

Los Angeles, CA May 29, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Simple Twist Up Dave
Tube Top Flop
Push On 'Til the Day
Sweet Dreams Melinda
Sidewalks of San Francisco
Money, Love and Change
Mozambique
Flock of Words
Alive Again

Set Two:

Sand
Mr. Completely
Noodle Rave Daddio
Cayman Review
Last Tube
Moesha

Encore:

Pebbles and Marbles

5/28/02 Open Air Theatre

San Diego, CA May 28, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Cayman Review
Burlap Sack and Pumps
Small Axe
Money, Love and Change
Alive Again

Set Two:

Last Tube
Flock of Words
Noodle Rave Daddio
Acting The Devil
Mr. Completely
The Way I Feel
At the Gazebo
First Tube
Thunderhead
Push On 'Til the Day

Encore:

Sultans of Swing

5/26/02 Mountain Aire Festival

Angels Camp, CA May 26, 2002 08:00 PM

One Set:

Mozambique
Mr. Completely
Pebbles And Marbles
Ether Sunday
Last Tube*
Andre The Giant
Drifting
Push On 'Til The Day

Encore:

Discern
Burlap Sack and Pumps

Show Notes:
*with Will Bernard on guitar from Motherbug

5/25/02 Mountain Aire Festival

Angels Camp, CA May 25, 2002 08:00 PM

One Set:

Alive Again
Noodle Rave Daddio
Money, Love and Change
At the Barbecue
Cayman Review*
Night Speaks to A Woman*^
Sand
Gazebo
Plasma
Simple Twist Up Dave

Encore:

In the Wee Wee Hours***

Show Notes:
+*with Derek Trucks on guitar
^with Les Claypool on bass
**with the Extra Action Marching Band

Still Got The Moon

by Ray Paczkowski

Angels Camp, CA May 25, 2002 03:46 PM

A full yellow moon rose over the Sierras tonight. The same moon clocked our gig in San Francisco. What's 300 miles to the moon? San Fran to Angels Camp, CA. From blacktop, glass and steel to mesquite and beef on the hoof.

Pulling into the Mountain Aire Festival first day, Cyro put it pretty succinctly -- "you don't have this in New York City." An old International bus squatting like the vanguard to tent city, the clean dry air of Calaveras County and the rumor of...something. This place burns every decade or so. Dry grass and scrub pines, landscape wide open to the wind. Easy to imagine a wildfire racing through, crazed cattle stampeding. Mayhem. Not today.

The stage here sits in the middle of a corral, eight foot green rail fence, the kind you can step up on, lean over and watch a pissed off bull throw his rider. Good day for a rodeo.

The band has been working on a kind of controlled mayhem lately. Groove is still king, but how far can we go away and still be there? Playing to our own rodeo, and the sawdust kicked up by stomping feet comes and goes in a cloud as the music waxes and wanes.

So different from San Francisco, in a closed room the sound has nowhere to go but into itself. Outdoors, the air and the people and the hillside soak it up, like we could never get enough. And all day and night the music comes off that stage. Git along little doggies.

The night before was a walk along the old Sonora rail in horse country. Not many trains anymore; or horses, really. Still got the moon, though.

5/24/02 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

San Francisco, CA May 24, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Money, Love and Change
Burlap Sack and Pumps
Cayman Review
Mozambique
Flock of Words
Last Tube

Set Two:

Small Axe (with Michael Franti)
Noodle Rave Daddio
Mr. Completely
At the Barbecue
Discern
Tube Top Flop
Push On 'Til the Day
At the Gazebo

Encore:

First Tube

Show Notes:
Michael Franti and Spearhead opened.

SMACK!

by Ray Paczkowski

San Francisco, CA May 24, 2002 01:47 PM

Salem. The Armory. The band played music like "The Who" meets "Cubanisimo." Cubanisimo who? Jam rock blues non-standard electric rave jazz. But not.

Strange how we build a little world from night to night that exists for as long as the sound lasts, then poof. Someone once told me that music is a singular phenomenon in that it is created from thin air, and disappears completely. Magic. And when the sound is really smoking along, it's impossible to predict where it might go. Feels like we're heading to somewhere and WHAM. Left turn, up turn, no turn. When it works, it works, when it doesn't, well...

Like the salmon races upstream, go, go, go, because he knows at the end of the swim is a fine lady fish with an eye for him; faster, faster, not thinking, over the rocks and through the pools, gotta get there first, and now the last stretch, clear water, full speed, when SMACK, he meets the immoveable object. Last thought as the river takes him back down to the sea,

"damn."

Day off in San Francisco today, birthplace of the burrito. Not its only claim to fame; kind of depends on your priorities.

5/22/02 Salem Armory Auditorium

Salem, OR May 22, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Cayman Review
Mozambique
Night Speaks To A Woman
Noodle Rave Daddio
Money, Love & Change
At the Gazebo
Last Tube

Set Two:

Mr. Completely
The Way I Feel
Drifting
At the Barbecue
Ray Dawn Balloon
Sand

Encore:

Alive Again

The Train Has Left The Station

by Ray Paczkowski

Salem, OR May 22, 2002 12:00 AM

Seattle at the rocket sign Paramount. New music. Toasted Aaron to rock and roll tour in Kenniwick, hotel bar and Irish Mist while the karaoke regulars sobbed out "I did it my way" and "Fools rush in." That was new music too.

Now it's driving to Salem, Dom rolling it steady to the mellow strains of Sun Ra's melotron. Ta dee ta da...ta dee ta da...ta de ta deeda deeda deeda deeda, da.

The Waterwheelers are wheeling it in the Mitsubishi and already thinking about how damn big Kansas really is.

And now here's Union Station just over the bridge, Portland and the Wendy's says "have it your way."

It occurs to me the band is like a child learning to speak; we'll try out everything once, and keep saying the words we come to find are the ones we really mean. From last night's psycho-train juggernout of "Twist up Dave," all the way down to the sound of Jen's soul-ful horn meandering through the Paramount. The possibilities are endless. And Cyro bopping around the stage; I can't tell where he'll pop up from one tune to the next, or what odd instrument he may be ripping through the groove with.

The Seattle show was about trying on our music for the first time in a room full of folks ready to move and be moved. You all show us where you want to go, and on the way, we'll show you some places maybe you haven't been before. The train has left the station.

til then,

ray

5/21/02 Paramount Theatre

Seattle, WA May 21, 2002 08:00 PM

Set One:

Money, Love and Change
Alive Again
Noodle Rave Daddio
Thunderhead
Pebbles & Marbles
Burlap Sack and Pumps
Push On 'Til The Day

Set Two:

Tube Top
Last Tube
Night Speaks to a Woman
Ray Dawn Balloon
Simple Twist Up Dave
Ether Sunday
First Tube

Encore:

At The Gazebo