Extra points to anyone who can find a recording from the millennium NYE @ Bethel Farm:
12/31/1999: Bethel Farm (NYE): Hillsborough, NH
Set I: free jam (20 minutes)> A Logical Path, Munf, Moral Decay, Yellow Medicine, Kid Nikki
Set II: Marc & Brad jam, Brad's 2 cents, M+B jam some more then Andrew joins in > Stanley waxes poetic (the jam goes on), a (too short
Dragonfly tease Jimmy raps (as they continue to jam), Joe Higley (comes out of the jam better than an hour after it began), The Weight of Solomon > Dr Didg jam > The Lucky Dragon > Air is the Body, Erin Needell's guide to the galaxy, Alsoa, Dogs on Bikes
Set III: Julia's Kitchen, Nellie Jean (as she slept serenely left of the band onstage), 1999: (instrumental), Camp Shuie > When the Saints Come Marching In (tease), Auld Lang Syne (quotes), Lion On A Rock [and a few barnyard animals as well
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Double extra points, and pie, for anyone who can dig up a recording (if it even exists) from the loft party NYE: 12/31/1997:
Zor's Luminum Particles: Planet of Gorktie Forktoe-District 216, MA
Set I: Cool #9, Cumulus > The Social > Southbound > The Social > Bell Jam > The Social > Dedication > Yellow Medicine, Fungi Mama
Set II: Chanting > ?? (new years jam), Alsoa > jam (1:30) > Band Introductions > 54-46 Was My Number (Assumed: Listen to the party next door> Lion on a Rock > The Clap > ) Hug Jam > The Clap > Hug Jam > Munf > Pie Jam > Fake ending of the show. And then: "We're all going to stay in this place until the sun rises, no one is allowed to leave, those doors back there..locked from the outside..", Good Bait, The Big Hug > By the Rivers of Babylon > Bluegrass Jam (w/ Andy Hall), Sweet Chariot (to the melody of When the Saints come marching home) > Hug Jam > Sweet Chariot > Fly away Home (w/ Dan Rockett) Ceremony of the Gecko, Fine Day (Dan and Andy), Hell's Kitchen (Dan and Andy), rolling down the hills, Rebecca Crow (solo), Isaac Taylor (solo), Antiquity, ??, Rhythm and Gold
I'm not holding my breath for either of these, and I'm not even sure if they were good shows. They were definitely good times, and good memories. It would be good to job the brain a bit...