HT Giveaway: Win Umphrey’s McGee Hall Of Fame Class of 2011 on Vinyl and Brendan’s Hand-Written Rush Cover Lyrics
Each day this week we’ve been dedicating a post a day to Umphrey’s McGee’s fantastic new Hall Of Fame Class of ’11 release which came out on Tuesday. On Monday, we shared details of the fan-voted compilation including word of auctions for vinyl test pressings hand-designed by the band members. On Tuesday, we posted a stream of the thrilling “Soaring Uplifting Jam” from the release and yesterday we published our chat with the man responsible for much of the production work on HoFCo’11 – Kevin Browning. Today, we’ve got a copy of the split-color vinyl AND a one-of-a-kind piece of memorabilia to give away to one of our lucky readers.
As we’ve been mentioning Hall Of Fame: Class Of 2011 is available as a limited-edition, double split-color vinyl package. Our legendary Everybody Wins When We Plug Something And In Return They Offer Us Free Shit To Give Away program continues today as we give away a copy of the vinyl release and a sheet containing Brendan Bayliss’s hand-written lyrics for Rush’s Tom Sawyer that he used as a guide for UM’s cover of the song at the Summer Camp Music Festival. To enter, simply leave a comment below telling us about your favorite UM show of all-time. You can enter a second time by following us on Twitter and then tweeting your favorite UM show at us. Make sure your tweet includes both “@hidden_track” AND “#htumhof11″ so we can keep track. Furthermore, we’ll give you a third chance to snag one of the sets by leaving your response to our favorite Umphrey’s show query on our Facebook wall. Once the contest entry period closes, we’ll select one entry to receive both the vinyl AND the lyrics using random.org to keep it fair.
Here’s the fine print…
- To enter, leave a comment below telling us your favorite UM show of all-time
- Enter a second time by leaving a similar comment on the Hidden Track Facebook Page
- You can enter a third time by following @hidden_track and tweeting your favorite UM show of all-time at us. You must include both @hidden_track AND #htumhof11 in your tweet
- Your comment(s) must be left by 11:59 PM EDT on September 4
- Anybody entering more than once a piece on Facebook, Twitter and at the bottom of this post will be disqualified, tarred and feathered
- The winner will receive Umphrey’s McGee Hall Of Fame Class of 2011 on vinyl and Brendan Bayliss’s hand-written lyric sheet for Tom Sawyer
- HT staff members are not eligible to win
Good luck! And feel free to tell us why you chose the show you did.

12/31/2004
7/4/2009
My favorite Umph show is January 20th 2012. The Ringo Jam (as was documented on this site) was amazing. It was a brah trip and we all had an amazing time. Great shows but 20th was the best.
Definitely 12-30-2006. The crooked one is unreal.
2/28/10
10/29/2011 (Hauntlanta… a.k.a. half of the tracks on the HOF album)
10/24/2003 – Newport Music Hall, Columbus, Ohio.
My band was fired up to open for them at the venerable Newport. We played like crap yet the boys from UM provided extremely supportive backslaps for us as we passed each other backstage. Solid fellas those UMers are.
4-28-2012 Martyr’s. Best night of music in my life.
July, Saturday 4th, 2009
My favorite show attened was the Wakarusa late night 06/05/10. The shit was bananas.
*attended
best show 7/15/10 Buffalo. my first UM show
02-09-2011 in Aspen CO, This is was the first time I ever went to a show on my birthday. Joel hooked me up with tickets a few days before the show and I made my way from Chicago. It was the first time I had ever got a rail spot and it had the sickest wife soup and kabump ive heard! Such a wonderful experience.
12-30-2006. The Crooked One was unreal.
1/20/12 Best Buy Theater NY. Such a chill/dancey show. Raged both nights but that was definitely my favorite
Quite coincidentally, my favorite Umphrey’s Mcgee show of all time (25 shows and counting) has to be All Good 2010 late-night set. Set was an absolute rager that featured some of my favorite UM original tunes including Hurt Bird Bath, Push the Pig, and 2×2, as well as a huge Michael Jackson cover and said Tom Sawywer cover.
woops, it was All Good 2011.
My favorite Umphrey’s show is 6/11/04 at Bonnaroo. The entire show is solid, and the moe. handoff was EPIC! Seeing Vince Vince Iwinski sing “Enter Sandman” was classic, and the second half of the show is BLISTERING HOT!
http://www.livedownloads.com/live-music/0,2618/Umphreys-McGee-mp3-flac-download-6-11-2004-Other-Tent-Bonnaroo-TN.html
Bonnaroo ’12 late night. Officially melted.
Of the shows I’ve seen for some reason my favorite is the 6/4/11 late night set at Mtn Jam. Oates, Zach Deputy and Warren Haynes all sat in and there was such a great vibe. Only one set, but it was it was pretty darn good one.
12.30.2006, just an all around great show
6/4/05 last bells brewery show! I was in school at WMU and all my friends came up from Chicago! We raged that summer night so hard!
Honorable Mention 11/3/03 my first indoor UM show! Face = melted
4/21/07 The Vic, Chicago
Green Apple Music Festival
3/22/07 – Madison, WI
That 2nd set…Holy cripes was that good. If you can only check out one track from this show, make it the Crooked One.
2/06/2010! The Jajunk > Sociable Jimmy is one of the silkiest transitions ever! “Words won’t carry that much weight on the shelf so who ya gonna blame for representing yourself ATLANNTAAAA!” The crowd erupted and I vividly remember sheer excitement when the first chords of Sociable Jimmy hit. I had been jamming the fuck out to Sociable Jimmy the whole week prior.The Much Obliged was another major highlight! The MO has some of the best improv of the whole night. Early in the jam has a very spacey aesthetic but then it evolves in to this cosmic journey. BB and Jake’s teamwork on the latter part of the jam is exceptional and shows how badass the dual guitars truly are. Pone-Loc is chillin’ in the pocket like some lint and is what sends the jam over the top! The Morning Song > Wife Soup was another great treat! At the time I did not realize how rare those songs were and it took me over 2 years to see either again. By the time the “Layla” rolled around my mind and balls were already blown! Bridgeless was bad to the bone and is one of the best versions i’ve ever seen. The Wappy was the biggest dance party of the night and had the whole place shaking their booties. The Example 1 placement was legendary and provided a great funky come down after the scorching completion of Bridgeless. CW II was really fun and was another dance party. After the CW II the band asked us to take it up one more notch. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You’re on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where? ELEVEN!. The Tabernacle did exactly what Nigel Tufnel was talking about and by God we turned up to ELEVEN! The Eminence Front was high energy and really appropriate because The Who had played the Superbowl a week before. The Floor encore left everyone with “13 Days” lyrics in their heads…”The moment you leave you’ll be asking for more.” I will never forget 2/06/2010!
04/13/07. My first show. Was blown away by JaJunk and have never looked back since…
Tough call, so many great UM shows over the years. Gonna have to go with my first, the one that hooked me – Iowa City 4.3.07. The Nemo jam is pure bliss.
Set One
Jazz Odyssey > The Crooked One -> Alex’s House > The Fussy Dutchman, Nemo, Example 1 > The Crooked One
Set Two
Resolution > The Triple Wide* > Slacker, Eat > 13 Days > Eat, Kinky Reggae, 40′s Theme**
Encore
#The Bottom Half > Born Under a Bad Sign > The Bottom Half
Notes
* with White Man’s Moccasins tease
** with Hill Street Blues theme tease
# with Safety Dance tease
last Born Under a Bad Sign 04.19.01