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May 8, 1993 Thirsty's - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Have You Ever Had One of Those Days?, Bluebird, Comin' Back to Me, Under Full Sail, Harmonic Convergence, Hookahville, Mountain Home, Music, Bad Platypus, Bats in the Belfry, Backwoods Rose
Set 2: The Viper's Drag, Utopia, Octofrye, Freedom Flying-> Rhythm Session-> Reciprocity, Somewhere Down the Line

March 15, 1996 Metropol - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Utopia, Walk Real Fast, Shadane, Mississippi Steamboat, Hookahville, Indica and Sativa, Emma, Have You Ever Had One of Those Days?, Ridgway Sky
Set 2: Ballad of Sam McCully, Schwa, Heavens to Mergatroid, Find Out, The Viper's Drag, Black Water, Loner, Carousel
Encore: Love the One You're With

November 3, 1996 Graffitti's - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Float, Schwa-> Jam-> Through Hiker, Ol' Montana Red Dog, Keepin' Time-> Grass-> Keepin' Time, Surround, Capt. Krinklebein III, Loner

November 30, 1996 Graffitti's - Pittsburgh, PA

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February 6, 1997 Graffitti's - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Hookahville, Music, Through Hiker, Daffodils in Detroit, Backwoods Rose, So They Say, Lady Vanilla, Ridgway Sky
Set 2: Springtime Again, The Viper's Drag, Surround, Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms, Red Light Boogie, Ol' Montana Red Dog, Grass, Loner, Float
Encore: Deep River Blues

May 3, 1997 Graffitti's - Pittsburgh, PA

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June 26, 1997 Graffitti's - Pittsburgh, PA

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September 4, 1997 Graffitti's - Pittsburgh, PA

April 28, 1999 Beehive Theater - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Springtime Again, Walk Real Fast, Utopia, The Masquerade, Silver Train, Keepin' Time, To Good Friends Past, Through Hiker-> Within You Without You, Through Hiker, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Schwa, Bone, Music
Encore: Mama Told Me Not to Come

September 23, 1999 Beehive Theater - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Comin' Back to Me, Day By Day, Through Hiker, I Been Down That Road, Tree House, Springtime Again, So They Say, Burial, Loner
Set 2: Spiders, Find Out, Slipjig Through the Poppy Fields, Lady Vanilla, Bad Moon Rising, Silver Train, Music, Walk Real Fast,
Encore: Hey Hey...My My, Somewhere Down the Line,

January 21, 2000 Beehive Theater - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Silver Train-> Rhythm Session-> Chicago, The Masquerade, Moonshiner, Day By Day, The Giant, Under Full Sail, Good Time (Merry-Go-Round)
Set 2: The Viper's Drag-> The Streetbeater (Theme to Sanford and Son)-> The Viper's Drag, Spiders, Indica and Sativa-> Red House-> Indica and Sativa, Keepin' Time
Encore: Backwoods Rose-> I Am the Walrus

Comments: Pied Piper opened

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April 21, 2000 Beehive Theater - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Springtime Again, Utopia, Roller Coaster, Surround, So They Say, Blow'em Away, Lady Vanilla, Sure Cure for the Blues, Music
Set 2: John Henry, Schwa-> Daffodils in Detroit-> Hush, Pass the Cider...Pass the Rum-> Lax, Silver Train-> Keepin' Time, Alexander-> Alexander II
Encore: Mama Told Me Not to Come

Show Nuggets:
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Beehive
I went north a day early and chilled in Kent for a day, before heading up the Pittsburgh way. Danni and I left on I-76 east towards Youngstown about 4pm or so on Friday, and with the helpfully detailed directions via Smitty, we arrived at the beehive around sound check time where i sat and talked shop with Chopp for a while. on to Mr. Bill to see what was all entailing in his world. he was lax as usual, aside the fact he was dealing with a sound system that looked like something straight from the early 50's or so. it created more hiss than a 20th generation analog cassette that had been taped on something that hadn't been cleaned or demagged in over 100 uses. i thought to myself that this might be an interesting evening. we had a couple of hours to burn before show time so we sat around and played backgammon and euchre with Dave and Eric until it approached the supposed 9:30 start time. the venue itself was a little odd for me, as the soundboard was on the under 21 side and the only thing between me and a view of the stage was a 10 foot high diagonal metal fence. the atmosphere and energy in the room was something i thought was pretty intense. as for the structural lay-out of the place, everything was awesome except that fence. it's an old movie theater and has, what i thought, were very good acoustics. the lights dropped and the the place got dark. thanks to the Wobblee himself, we had a somewhat synchronized light display. he did the best with what we had to work with. amazingly enough, although the hiss was pretty bad when it was dead quiet, Ol' Bill must have twirled his magic fingers, because it sounded good. from minute one I thought the mix was perfect. They opened the show with one of my all-time favorite ed tunes, springtime again. the energy started out intense and just escalated. i kept looking at the time and the songs they had played and through the first five tunes, they had been playing almost an hour. from the opener, Dave took the mic and laid down a really thick utopia, followed by Roller Coaster. i now have a new appreciation for that song. the crossfire of instruments in the heat of the rhythm unloaded the most cocky version of surround i have ever heard. at one point all instruments were in complete synchronized jam so intensely that they almost became one. as soon as they did, they brought it back down with the bow we wow woump. hands down boys. Dave lightened the load for a little bit, while the mellowness of the beginning stages of so they say took place. as for the second half of this tune, just like jack the ripper. i love hearing ed sing the fi fi and her red knitted sweater song. one of my favorite cover tunes. lady vanilla followed up before Dave took on the acoustic guitar to finish up the set. it had been 45 shows since Dave last played sure cure for the blues. he had chopper all freaked out, cuz the last time before that that Dave had played it, was also 45 shows apart. just coincidence? i think so. music closed the set and the boys paused for a 25 minute intermission. The lights dropped once more and the boys goofily twanged their instruments before Clifford teed off with John Henry. from there, the insanity intensified with a crazily mind-blowing schwa. every time they play this song, it makes me want to jump onstage and start screaming SCHWA!!! the urge hasn't yet overcome the cognitive, so my insanity stops there. i really dug the daffodils. absolutely one of my favorite songs. that beginning guitar riff does something to set my groove right. this blended really well into Hush, a tune I hadn't heard in a long while. ed mellowed the rage with a splendid version of pass the cider. he has a way of making even the mellowest of songs intense. then he made the intensist of tunes more intense, when they busted into lax. that reggae-ish type jam in the middle of the tune is pretty wild. Dave got on acoustic guitar and they kicked down an awesome rendition of silver train that segued into the ever so foot stopping hodown song, Keepin' Time. Ed polished off the close of the set with the back to back Alexander jams. man was Sweney on fire. hanging out with Eric earlier, he was remembering the specifics of the encore, so i pretty much guessed it was coming. this tune too, i hadn't heard in a while either, so it was nice. they jammed for about three total hours, and worth every second of it. off for Kent that night, and with a few things left undetailed in our directions, we were lost from the get go. Pittsburgh is a tricky city to get around in and if you're not familiar, you end up, you guessed it, lost. somehow we ended up on I-279 southbound, needing it northbound. after crossing the river, we decided to get out the map. it turned out that if we went a little further, we'd hit I-79 northbound. so off we went, not being able to keep going on I-279 southbound towards I-79. instead, we were on I-279 northbound going back into the city. oh well, that we did and eventually pulled into kent around 4:30AM. it was a rainy night and her windshield wipers were blurry in the rain. talk about hypnotizing. it made it for a long drive back that night.

October 14, 2000 Beehive Theater - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Utopia, The Risk, Day By Day*, Lazy River*, Moonstone, Sugar Jam-> Sister Sugar-> Give Up the Funk-> Sister Sugar, To Good Friends Past, Moonshiner, Hookahville, Ecstasy
Set 2: Alexander II, Change, Hey Joe-> The Viper's Drag-> Walking in Your Footsteps^#-> The Viper's Drag, Ohio Grown, Bone-> The Streetbeater (Theme to Sanford and Son)
Encore: Caribou, Crossroads

Comments: *w/ Sharon Katz on vocals, ^ denotes 1st time played

January 27, 2001 Beehive Theater - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Surround, Good Time (Merry-Go-Round), Walk Real Fast, Treasures That I Travel For, Raging River, Ohio Grown, Ol' Montana Red Dog, Springtime Again, Bone
Set 2: Dumpster, Schwa, Godspeed, You Ain't Goin' Nowhere, Caribou, Change, Float-> 2001 Space Odyssey-> Float
Encore: Reelin' In the Years

October 12, 2001 Rosebud Theater - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Tree House, Backwoods Rose, The Masquerade, Day By Day, The Giant, Goin' Up the Country, Walk Real Fast, Moonstone, Chicago-> Hookahville-> Chicago
Set 2: Bone, My Own Way, Teacher, Life Is Good, Pass the Cider...Pass the Rum-> Slipjig Through the Poppy Fields, Caribou, Capt. Krinklebein III, Beer Barrel Polka-> Grass
Encore: Echoes,

January 25, 2002 M - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Utopia, Godspeed, Walk Real Fast, The Risk, Anthony's Song, Keepin' Time, Spiders
Set 2: Life Is Good, Only Falling, Voodoo Stew, Dragonfly, John Henry, Hookahville
Encore: Reelin' In the Years

March 22, 2002 M - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band-> Old Brown Shoe, Two of Us, Help!, Things We Said Today, Bungalow Bill, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away*, Everybody's Got Something to Hide, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Comments: *w/ cliff playing the flute, also billed: Blue Floyd, Vince Welnick Band
Show Nuggets:
Giant Squid Audio Lab Omnis (Download | Stream)

October 4, 2002 Club Laga - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Godspeed, Backwoods Rose, Thief-> Back Seat, Moonstone, Sheepdog, Loner*, Lax
Set 2: Bone, Devil Went Down to Georgia^, Brokedown Engine, Through Hiker-> Through Hiker, Highway Home-> Keepin' Time#, Spiders
Encore: Hot 'Lanta

March 13, 2010 Rex Theater - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Brighter Day, Gina, A Better Man, All Fall In Dreams, Hot Desert Sun, Whiskey Woman, Intrepid Traveler, When the Sun Goes Down, Seagull, Tumblin'
Set 2: Serpentine, Stuck in the Snow, Come and See Me, Big Ol' Freight Train*, Sure Cure for the Blues*, All That's Left, Breathe, Carousel, Loner-> Grass-> Loner
Encore: Steeped in Tears

Comments: *w/Taylor Hicks on harp

May 13, 2010 Rex Theater - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Deal With It, Loner-> Silver Train-> Loner, Breathe, In the Clouds, How Mountain Girls Can Love, Highway Home, Back Seat, Whiskey Woman, Ol' Montana Red Dog, Ohio Grown, Don't Change Horses (In the Middle Of A Stream), Schwa
Encore: Roller Coaster

Comments: also billed: Yarn

October 23, 2010 Rex Theater - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Green, Comin' Back to Me, My Sweet Own, Backwoods Rose, Verandah, Deal With It, Chicago, Mountain Home, And When I Die
Set 2: Deep River Blues-> Ridgway Sky, Ethereal Passage, You'll Never Find, Look Out Below, Come and See Me, Sweet Virginia, Ol' Montana Red Dog
Encore: Blue Sky

Show Nuggets:
Schoeps MK6 (DIN) > KCY > Schoeps VMS5U > Oade Amb (Download | Stream)

March 11, 2011 Thunderbird Café - Pittsburgh, PA

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September 17, 2011 Thunderbird Café - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Utopia, Good Time (Merry-Go-Round), Slipjig Through the Poppy Fields, Find Out, Hidden Away, Timber, Son Of Mine, Restless Mind, Hookah, Cassie-o-peia
Set 2: Song And Dance, Black Mamba, Breathe, Right Place, Wrong Time, One More Trip Around the Sun, It's Too Late, Somewhere Down the Line, Me?
Encore: Walkin' Down the Road

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March 10, 2012 Thunderbird Café - Pittsburgh, PA

Show Nuggets:
AUD>Ic (Download | Stream)

October 12, 2012 Jergels - Pittsburgh, PA

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January 18, 2013 Thunderbird Café - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Utopia, Schwa, El Bandito, Whiskey Woman, Ethereal Passage, How Mountain Girls Can Love, Ol' Montana Red Dog, Deal With It, Rest, Walkin' Down the Road, Hush
Set 2: Look Out Below, Under Full Sail, Voodoo Stew, Come and See Me My Old School, Hookahville, Chicago, Timber, Hidden Away
Encore: Backwoods Rose

Show Nuggets:
Schoeps MK4 (DIN) > m221b > EAA PSP-2 > Benchmark (Download | Stream)

July 12, 2013 Thunderbird Café - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Music-> Good Time (Merry-Go-Round), Roll the Dice, D'Artagnon, The Viper's Drag, Caribou, Restless Mind, Arctic Song, Deal With It
Set 2: Roller Coaster, El Bandito, I Been Down That Road, How Mountain Girls Can Love, As I Fade Into My Dreams, Backwoods Rose, Hush
Encore: Loner

January 18, 2014 Thunderbird Café - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Green, Clarity, Walkin' Down the Road, Brighter Day, Backwoods Rose, Asplundh, Change, Look Out Below
Set 2: Deal With It, Chicago, Sheepdog, Hidden Away, Highway Home, Find Out, Start It All Over
Encore: Abdega Gaga

Comments: also billed: KR3
Show Nuggets:
Schoeps MK241F > CMMT30 > Schoeps VMS5U > Sound Devices 744T (Download | Stream)

September 12, 2014 Rex Theater - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: When the Sun Goes Down, Cassie-o-peia, Real People, A Better Man, El Bandito, Everything Woman, How Mountain Girls Can Love, Good Time (Merry-Go-Round), Start It All Over, Ecstasy

Comments: also billed: The Cause

January 29, 2015 Rex Theater - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: You'll Never Find, Breathe, El Bandito, Black Mamba, Rock-n-Roll Band, Caribou, Look Out Below, Cassie-o-peia, Ecstasy

Show Nuggets:
Schoeps m934b > CMMT30 > AETA PSP3 > Roland R44 @ 24/48 (Download | Stream)

September 25, 2015 Rex Theater - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: When the Sun Goes Down, Cassie-o-peia, Look Out Below, Day By Day, Comin' Back to Me, Walking, Start It All Over, A Better Man, Under Full Sail, Movin' Out (Anthony's Song), Walk Real Fast, It's Too Late
Encore: Ecstasy

February 19, 2016 Rex Theater - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Under Full Sail, Chicago-> Deal With It, In the Clouds, Real People, Green, Thumper, Ecstasy, Ohio Grown, Start It All Over, The Streetbeater (Theme to Sanford and Son)

Comments: also billed: Band of Peace; setlist out of order incomplete

November 11, 2016 Rex Theater - Pittsburgh, PA

Set 1: Ecstasy, Everything Woman, Walkin' Down the Road, Change, Breathe, Real People, Highway Home, Schwa, Testify, Thumper, Smile and Sing
Encore: Look Out Below

Comments: also billed: Larry Keel Experience

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