On Friday night, moe. kicked off a two-night stand at Utica, New York’s Saranac Brewery, marking the band’s first performances since The Peach Music Festival in mid-July and only shows before the group reconvenes for a brief West Coast tour in October. Supported by Aqueous on Friday, September 7th, and Moon Hooch and Darryl Rahn on Saturday, September 8th, the shows were high-energy throughout, amping up fans and tiding them over during the multi-month break.
With Aqueous opening the show on Friday night, moe. invited out Aqueous guitarist Mike Gantzer to join them during Friday’s second set during a rendition of “Mexico”. The collaboration was not necessarily surprising, given the frequent collaborations between the two bands and their similar backgrounds having come up in the Upstate New York jam scenes. However, all of the night’s second frame has earned buzz, with fan favorite “Buster” opening the set and the band working in graceful teases of the Grateful Dead‘s “Dark Star” during “Captain America” ahead of the fiery set-closing combination of “Four” into “Meat”.
Setlist: moe. | Saranac Brewery | Utica, NY | 9/7/2018
Set One: Timmy Tucker, Mar-DeMa, Bring It Back Home > Water, Hi & Lo > LL3 > Big World
Set Two: Buster, Prestige Worldwide, Mexico (with Mike Gantzer), Captain America > Four > Meat
Encore: Seat Of My Pants
[Audio: Brian V.]
As for the second night, moe. again held nothing back, opening with a high-octane “Spine Of A Dog” to get things started on the right foot. With many classic, older tunes composing the setlist, a highlight of set one was the frame-closing run through “Silver Sun”, “Puebla”, and “Moth”. As for the second set, the band offered up a truly stellar rendition of “Bearsong” coming out of “Kyle’s Song”. However, the big winner of the evening was the second frame’s ending “Rebubula” sandwich, which housed a 22-minute “Yodelittle”.
“Lazarus” (intro)
Setlist: moe. | Saranac Brewery | Utica, NY | 9/8/2018
Set One: Spine Of A Dog > Plane Crash, Who You Calling Scared?, Lazarus, Silver Sun > Puebla > Moth
Set Two: New Hope For The New Year >(nh) Kyle’s Song > Bearsong, What Can I Say?, Rebubula > Yodelittle > Rebubula
Encore: Don’t Wanna Be, Okayalright
[Audio: Rob Clarke]
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