Night 2 Seattle
The rain is coming down and people were all
ready to get inside the venue. After the
first night the vibe was high (in many senses). The crowd and the band knew after the first night the anticipation was build for night two at The Paramount Theater.
The String Cheese Incident came out with a great improv intro
that led into the heavy hitting fan favorite Shine. You could hear the
energy flow through Kang’s voice in the lyrics. The crowd raised its hands to the air and sang along with Michael. The Shine was left unfinished and the jam
flowed right into Weather Report’s Birdland. The band was dancing on stage while playing
this one and the energy was all over the stage. All
of the songs so far were extended and they were letting loose. This was exceptional version of Birdland, Keith was killing it on the
bass. They played the whole version similar to the Live Weather Report Album 9:30. Sounded way different but played all of the parts. It The Sweet
Spot was played next and fit so well into the set. Keith was already
feeling it and Sweet Spot is a great new Kieth tune. It continued with a huge jam and the fans
were excited that they were starting to jam out the song. The highlight of first set and the best part
of the show in my opinion was the Little Hands.
The Little Hands
was the jam. It flowed from the lyrics into
a nice funky jam that eventually led into the intro and the lead of Greatful
Dead’s Darkstar! They carried that on for a while about 3 to 4
minutes and the Little Hands kept going after that into String Cheese jam and
then worked their way to back to the finish of the song. It had to be more than 20 minute Little Hands. It kept continuing with a huge segue until
the slow starting Ms. Browns Teahouse to end the set. The set was so long and only consisted of 5
songs. I remember last year at Phish Dicks last year and all of the Phish fans lost it
over a 6 song set. String Cheese just played 5 songs over an hour
for the first set. Very extended jams, can’t wait
to see how long those songs actually were.
Far From Home opener which I chilled for but it got the
crowd clapping and dancing. Seattle was
getting into it. The Seahawk
spirit was flowing through the venue. It
was nice the 2nd night too because String Cheese has such a strong Wisco following
and they are named String Cheese so Cheese heads were present as
well it made for an awesome vibe despite the shit talking. The new song Beautiful was next and they added a great Kang filled jam. The crowd was loving the new songs. Both Sweet
Spot and Beautiful got a great response.
They are really developing the jams in both of these. Beautiful segued into a nice extended Drums.
This was a clean drums with both drummer smiling from ear to ear and no beats. From there they worked their way back into Way Back Home. This was the first time that Kyle got to
shine during the show. The Way Back Home was huge and went straight
the Billy favorite Hotel Window. This song was fitting for Seattle and the
rain coming down realizing that we would all be partying in hotel rooms
later. Hotel Window had a great soulful electric guitar jam and teased Coming Back to
Life by Pink Floyd during it. They
finished it and then slowly jammed into Restless Wind that flowed into the nod to
Jimi’s hometown with the first Voodoo Chile since I can remember. The crowd was loving it. The band knew how to finish it and brought
the Voodoo Child>Rosie. Everyone was dancing, spinning, and crushing
it.
The set finished and the crowd went nuts. When the crowd settled, the band came back out for
encore and thanked the city of Seattle.
They liked the venue and enjoyed Seattle's energy that they played The Talking Heads Naive Melody. This couldn’t be the end though the needed to
finish Shine with the best part of the song. Shine On The crowd left with smiles of
their own from ear to ear. First two
nights were a huge success.
Nathan Eggebrecht - "Shoulda known they were gonna play Voodoo Chile. Loved it."
Christopher Berry - "How many songs did they play in that first set again."
01/17/2015 Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA
SETLIST
Set One
Shine, Birdland, Sweet Spot, Little Hands, Miss Brown's Teahouse
Set Two
So Far From Home, Beautiful, Way Back Home, Hotel Window, Restless Wind, Voodoo Child, Rosie
Encore
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody), Shine
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