08/02/2003: Northeast Kingdom Music Festival: Albany, VT
Set I: ???, ???> Mr. Meowskers, ?country blues (acoustic) eastern-sounding?, Children of December, If One of Us Should Fall, (Andrew on PVC pipes [guest on shakers]), Dogs on Bikes> MC (into Soulive Set)
Notes: They played a song that Brad said they had only played two previous times...the lyrics talked about the rain alot of the time. They then played a "country blues" song that was dripping of Delta Blues and New Orleans. Both of these songs were done on an acoustic six-string guitar...with Brad ripping some eastern sounding riffs. I believe they played the song Children of December...great song with Brad getting some nice sounds out of the sunburst. If One Of Us Should Fall was played with Andrew playing some off-kilter beats that somehow blended perfectly with Brad and Marc. The following song had Andrew playing some sort of hand percussion with what looked like flip-flops (my eyes are horrible) and with someone sitting in with two shakers. Whoever was playing the shakers did a fantastic job of playing off Andrew's beats....best song of the night IMO. The band ended the set with a quick warped version of Dogs on Bikes with someone MC'ing to give a nice segue into the Soulive set. [Cecil Thomas - Sunday, August 03, 2003; Greg - 12/14/2003]
08/03/2003: Bethel Fest: Hillsboro, NH
Set I: Built for Zeal, Lemonade, Let the Morning In, Driving Backwards with You, Love and Tears*, Something Learned> Tenfold> Planet of Inexperience> Joe Higley, The Lucky Dragon, Children of December> Soft Warm Simple Wonder, Get Me with Fuji> (Stanley Gemmel Poem)> If One of Us Should Fall^> Whats So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding?
Encore: "Drill Sargent Meowskers"> (instrumental improv)!, Angels Come on Time#, Alsoa^
Notes: *included a debut of "12 string slide loop" song. ^ with Sara Azriel on vocals. ! with Marc on guitar, Brad on Drums and Andrew on Bass. # Kram Dangle!! (Matt Rudnicki on vocals, Chris Montecablo on drums, Brad on guitar, Marc on bass) [ Cleantone - Monday, August 04, 2003; also Cecil Thomas Sun Aug 3, 2003; Jeff Dylyn ]
08/06/2003: Club Passim: Cambridge, MA
Set I: 74, Still Shiver, Disposessed, Before You Were Born, Ambrosia Drunk, Soft Warm Simple Wonder, Come Over, Rabbits, Sound Escapes, Poorboy
Notes: Brad Barr opened for Leslie Helpert, and Andrew sat in on percussion on one tune. Posted by: cleantone [cleantone at hotmail.com] - Friday, August 08, 2003 at 12:47:51 (CDT)
