Lettuce and Ghost-Note have spent the last few weeks shredding through the east coast alongside one another with their incomparable funk squads. With both bands sharing collaborations throughout their sets, the tour came to its peak on Friday night at Infinity Hall in Hartford, CT, when all of Ghost-Note joined Lettuce on stage to help close out the latter’s headlining set.
Ghost-Note drummer Robert “Sput” Searight, percussionist Nate Werth, bassist Dywane “MonoNeon” Thomas Jr., keyboardist Xavier Taplin, keyboardist Vaughn “V-Keys” Henry, guitarist Peter Knudsen, and saxophonist/flutist Jonathan Mones all joined the future funk heroes of Lettuce for their set-closing, 14+ minute “Royal Highness”. The two bands returned to the stage again for a raging “Sounds Like A Party” encore, displaying each individual’s talents to the utmost degree.
The collaborations came after an extended set from Lettuce that featured a delightful mix of original fan-favorites “Blast Off”, “Yakatori”, “Madison Square”, “The Flu”, and “Blaze”, and unreleased material, including “N’Dugu”, “Ready To Live”, “Gang Ten”, and “Silence Is Golden”.
Lettuce – 1/18/19 – Full Show Audio
[Audio: Keith Antaya]
. . . We’ll be streaming the last show of the Lettuce & Ghost-Note tour at @brooklynsteel in Virtual Reality on our Facebook Page thanks to @oculus & @nugsnet!Lettuce will conclude their portion of the Vibe Up Tour with Ghost-Note at Brooklyn, New York’s Brooklyn Steel tonight, Saturday, January 19th. The funk bands have teamed up for a very special FREE Live Virtual Reality webcast for the show, starting around 9 pm ET.
Lettuce will continue on from Brooklyn throughout the early months of 2019 with a run of supportless “evening with” shows, followed by a number of performances with The Greyhounds. Fans and interested ticket buyers can visit the band’s website for a full list of upcoming tour dates.
After their stint with Lettuce, Ghost-Note will head out for a number of headlining shows on their Smack ‘Em Tour featuring support from Electric Kiff, in addition to a number of March dates opening for Umphrey’s McGee. For a full list of Ghost-Note’s upcoming tour dates, head here.
Setlist: Lettuce | Infinity Music Hall | Hartford, CT | 1/18/19
Blast Off, N’Dugu, Yakatori, Madison Square, Ready To Live, Gang Ten, The Flu, Silence Is Golden, Blaze, Royal Highness*
E: Sounds Like A Party*
*w/ all of Ghost-Note
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