After months of anticipation French dance titans Daft Punk finally released their new single, Get Lucky, on Friday. It didn’t take long for the song to make an impression as it set a Spotify record for streams within 24 hours and just one day after its release, Umphrey’s McGee took a stab at the song.

[Photo via Jefferson Waful]

UM delivered their version of Get Lucky in the second set of last night’s show at Stubb’s BBQ in Austin, Texas. Drummer Kris Myers handled vocals on the Daft Punk cover. The Chicago-based sextet worked through two long song sandwiches in Austin as they fit four tunes in the middle of Utopian Fir during the first set and started and ended the second set with JaJunk.

Here’s Umphrey’s setlist from Austin…

Set 1: Utopian Fir > In The Kitchen, Hurt Bird Bath, Loose Ends > Deeper > Utopian Fir > Jessica, Puppet String

Set 2: JaJunk, Get Lucky^[1] > Push the Pig, Liberty Echo > Life During Exodus, Booth Love^[2] > The Linear > JaJunk

Encore: FF > Divisions

[1] debut, Daft Punk
[2] with Stayin’ Alive (Bee Gees) teases

[Setlist via All Things Umphreys]

A few short fan-shot videos of UM covering Get Lucky have popped up thus far…

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It’s hard to believe YouTube is only seven-and-a-half years old as the video portal has become a ubiquitous part of life on the internet. In that time music fans have filled YouTube servers with video from the past which brings us to today’s B List topic. We’ve compiled a list of the oldest video on YouTube for 10 of the most successful bands to develop out of the jam scene.

These classic clips bring us back to a time when Al Schnier, John Medeski and Page McConnell had full heads of hair and gives us a look at the days when the members of these bands stood nearly on top of each at small gigs before they achieved success. Now, keep in mind that the footage needed to be worth watching to make our list, so even though there might be older videos out there for a few of these groups, but if you can’t see the band it defeats the purpose.

1. Medeski Martin and Wood – September 12, 1993

In searching for the oldest MMW video(s) on YouTube we hit paydirt with this one-hour, professionally-shot episode of Live at Lucille’s which was recorded at the Knoxville jazz club on September 12, 1993. John, Chris and Billy talk about their signature sound and roll through such classics as Syeeda’s Song Flute, Chubb Sub, Hermentos Daydream and Wiggly’s Way.

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Umphrey’s McGee members Brendan Bayliss, Joel Cummins, Jake Cinninger and Ryan Stasik lived out a dream last night when they led the Cubs faithful in a rousing version of Take Me Out To The Ball Game during the 7th Inning Stretch at Wrigley Field in their hometown of Chicago.

Umphrey’s McGee – Take Me Out To The Ball Game

Later, Cummins joined the Cubs broadcasters in the booth.

Joel Cummins on Cubs Broadcast

The groups plays the North Coast Music Festival on Saturday and then make their Congress Theatre debut on Sunday night which will be webcast.

As we did yesterday, we’ve rounded up setlists from a number of HT faves who were in action last night ranging from the Allman Brothers Band and moe.’s performances at their own festivals to the final night of God Street Wine’s West Coast run and Umphrey’s McGee’s return to Connecticut.

Umphrey’s McGee @ Klein Memorial Aud – Bridgeport, Conn.

[Photo via @bizarchive]

Umphrey’s celebrated Brendan Bayliss’s birthday throughout last night’s show in Bridgeport. A cake was brought out for the guitarist at the end of the first set which was accompanied by the signing of the traditional Happy Birthday song. For the encore, UM debuted Bennie and the Jets by Elton John to fulfill the request of the birthday boy before concluding the Nothing Too Fancy they started in the second set. Next up for the Chicago based sextet is a return to moe.down, where they will be joined by guitarist Stanley Jordan during this afternoon’s set in Turin, New York.

[Audio by Teefs at bt.etree.org]

Set One: Nipple Trix > 2nd Self, Miami Virtue > Words, KaBump > Passing, 2×2, Happy Birthday

Set Two: Gurgle > 1348 > Plunger > Regulate* > Plunger, Nothing Too Fancy > Ocean Billy, Partyin’ Peeps, Wappy Sprayberry > Jimmy Stewart** > Wappy Sprayberry > 1348

Encore: Bennie and the Jets*** > Nothing Too Fancy

* – w/ Andy Farag on vocals
** – w/ lyrics
*** – First Time Played, Elton John; Bayliss’ birthday request; Echoes (Pink Floyd) teases

[via The Bort]

God Street Wine @ Sweetwater Music Hall – Mill Valley, Calif.

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Bonnaroo organizers continue to add many performances from this month’s event and the resulting webcast to their YouTube Channel. Today’s addition to the channel include a batch of five videos from Umphrey’s McGee’s instant classic Sunrise Show from Friday night/Saturday morning.

[Photo by Michael Stein]

We’ve created a playlist of the five clips for your viewing pleasure. It starts off with a frenetic version of The Triple Wide and continues with one of the best new originals the band has written in the past few years – Puppet String. From there we’ve got a bit of 1348 followed by the gorgeous Hajimemashite that took place just as the sun was saying hello. Booth Love closes out the playlist. Take a look…

Umphrey’s McGee @ Bonnaroo 2012 – The Triple Wide, Puppet String, 1348 > Hajimemashite, Booth Love

Umphrey’s McGee @ Bonnaroo, June 9

Photos: Michael Stein

We haven’t come across many photos from Umphrey’s McGee’s instant classic “sunrise” set at Bonnaroo on Saturday morning, so when our pal Mike Stein offered up his shots we jumped at the opportunity. Michael’s snaps focus on the tremendous light show UM LD Jefferson Waful presented to the crowd at This Tent and even gives context by showing the scene around the tent.

[All Photos by Michael Stein]

Here’s the setlist from the marathon set…

Set: Gurgle > 40′s Theme*, Plunger > The Floor, Pay the Snucka** > The Triple Wide > Pay the Snucka$, Puppet String, JaJunk > Breathe$$ > Plunger, Ringo& > All In Time&&, Bright Lights Big City, 1348 > Hajimemashite, Miss Tinkle’s Overture > Thunderstruck > Miss Tinkle’s Overture, Booth Love, Wizard Burial Ground

Encore: In the Kitchen% > JaJunk

late night in This Tent
* with One Nation Under a Groove (Funkadelic) tease
** with Stranglehold (Ted Nugent) jam
$ with Bulls On Parade (Rage Against the Machine)
$$ dub
& full band switch with Big Gigantic
&& with Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ (Michael Jackson) jam
% unfinished

[via Jeremy Welsh - Umphreys.com]

UM guitarist Brendan Bayliss explained the thinking behind the set’s full-band segue with Big Gigantic to Rolling Stone, “We figured that, playing from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m., if we didn’t stop, there would’ve been a weird moment where we’d have to do a drum solo piss break.”

• UMLive.Net: Official Download of Umphrey’s @ Bonnaroo 2012

Check out a full gallery of Michael Stein’s photos from Umphrey’s at Bonnaroo…

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The 12th installment of the Summer Camp Music Festival has just begun at Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, Illinois. Running throughout the weekend, iClips will bring the action to those at home starting tomorrow. iClips has announced the schedule for this weekend’s webcast and as expected it’s heavy on sets from the event’s headliners.

You can currently purchase the iClips Summer Camp webcast for $4.99 per day or $14.99 for all three days. In addition to multiple sets from Umphrey’s McGee and moe., performances by HT faves Jane’s Addiction, Primus, ALO, Gov’t Mule and Greensky Bluegrass will be among those broadcast from Chillicothe. The webcast will feature a mix of live and pre-recorded broadcasts.

Here’s a look at the schedule…

Friday MAY 25

3:30 – Leftover Salmon
4:30 – The Infamous String Dusters*
5:00 – Gaelic Storm*
5:45 – moe.*
7:15 – Umphrey’s McGee
8:45 – Keller Williams*
9:15 – Umphrey’s McGee
10:45 – Gogol Bordello*
11:45 – Lotus
1:00 – Primus*

Saturday MAY 26

2:30 – Rebelution
3:30 – Sierra Leone Refugee Allstars*
4:15 – TBA
5:15 – Family Groove Company*
6:00 – G. Love & Special Sauce
7:15 – ALO
8:00 – Umphrey’s McGee
9:15 – Gigantic Underground Conspiracy*
8:00 – Umphrey’s McGee
11:30 – Gov’t Mule*
1:00 – moe.*

Sunday MAY 27

1:00 – Umphrey’s McGee
3:00 – TBA
3:45 – TBA
4:45 – Greensky Bluegrass*
5:30 – Michael Franti & Spearhead
7:00 – Yonder Mountain String Band*
8:00 – Shpongle
9:00 – Tedeschi Trucks Band*
10:00 – Jane’s Addiction
11:30 – Cornmeal*
1:30 – moe.*

* Denotes delayed broadcast

The webcast schedule is allowed to change at any time without notice. The couch said so.

While the iClips’ website doesn’t mention a timezone for the above schedule, we’d think the times listed are local time which is CDT.

After a series of “leaks,” the full initial moe.down 13 lineup has been released and features a slew of HT faves, such as Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Galactic, The Wood Brothers, Marco Benevento, Kyle Hollingsworth, Leroy Justice and Umphrey’s McGee, joining headliners moe. In addition, the North Mississippi Allstars Duo and SOJA are also on the bill as well as up-and-coming acts Bright Light Social Hour, JC Brooks and The Uptown Sound, Infantree, Aqueos and Timbre Coup.

Matt Butler will be on hand to lead an Everyone Orchestra performance that will feature guitarist Steve Kimock, bassist Andy Hess, drummer Jeff Sipe, and more. 2012 marks the return of moe.down to Snow Ridge Ski Area in Turin, New York. Unlike previous moe.downs, which took place on Labor Day Weekend, this year’s fest will go down on August 10 – 12. Tickets are currently available for $120.

The first round of artists set to perform at moe.down 13 at Snow Ridge Ski Area in Turin, New York on August 10 – 12 have been announced and there’s a familiar name involved as Umphrey’s McGee will make their fourth appearance at moe.’s annual festival. Ever since the first one in 2000, moe. has done a good job of varying the moe.down lineup each year. It’s rare that bands get asked a second time, let alone a third but Umphrey’s McGee is a special circumstance.

Rebubula, a classic moe. song, was one of the first covers Umphrey’s ever played back in 1998. In 2002, UM guitarist Brendan Bayliss lived out a dream when he performed Rebubula with moe. at the first Bonnaroo. Since then, the two jam scene staple, have gone on to co-headline the Summer Camp Music Festival each Memorial Day weekend. Bayliss had high praise when asked about the moe. for a Relix Magazine feature, “I really can’t stress enough how instrumental moe. has been in my career. I’ve met a lot of musicians and there’s nobody like those guys when it comes to being down-to-earth people not caught up in the rock star bullshit. They’re content with what they’ve created and how they’ve done it, and they should be.”

Umphrey’s last appeared at moe.down in 2009, which followed previous sets at moe.down 7 in 2006 and moe.down 4 in 2003. Buffalo prog-rockers Aqueous, who cite both moe. and Umphrey’s as influences, fellow Upstaters Timbre Coup and reggae act SOJA round out the short list of acts that made up the first round of moe.down 13 artists. Tickets are on sale now for $120.

Bear Creek is one of those festivals where everyone who attends comes back raving about what a great time they had and what a spiritual experience they had musically. Not only do attendees come back, but each November more bands enter the “Bear Creek Family” and win invites year after year. The 2012 edition of the Bear Creek Music & Arts Festival will take place on November 8 – 11 at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida and this afternoon the initial lineup has been revealed.

All in all, 28 acts have been announced today and eight of those acts will play two sets – Umphrey’s McGee, Lettuce, Perpetual Groove, MarchForth Marching Band, The Heavy Pets, Headtronics, Bright Lights Social Hour, Moon Taxi and Jonathan Scales & Fourthestra. While Bear Creek is a festival known for bring back core artists year after year, surprisingly only ten of the acts confirmed today are repeat performers. Considering event promoters add bands throughout the year, you can expect plenty of Bear Creek Family bands at Live Oak once the lineup is finalized.

Here’s the list of confirmed acts…

Umphrey’s McGee (x2), Soulive, Lotus, Budos Band, Lettuce (x2), Perpetual Groove (x2), Bobby Rush, MarchFourth Marching Band (x2), Break Science, Digital Tape Machine, The Heavy Pets (x2), Zoogma, Headtronics (DJ Logic, Steve Molitz, Freekbass) (x2), Bright Lights Social Hour (x2), Charles Walker & The Dynamites, Ike Stubblefield & Friends, Grant Green Jr. & Friends, Khris Royal & Dark Matter, Moon Taxi (x2), Jonathan Scales & Fourthestra (x2), The Mantras, The Werks, String Arrangement, Flannel Church, Beeb’s & Her Moneymakers, Thomas Wynn & The Believers, Scholar’s Word, Kaleigh Baker

Early-bird tickets are currently on sale through the festival’s website.

HT faves Umphrey’s McGee and Railroad Earth will team up to play the gorgeous Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado on September 14. The show was announced from stage by keyboardist Joel Cummins during Umphrey’s sold-out performance at Denver’s Fillmore Auditorium this past Friday night. Cummins also mentioned that Umphrey’s will play two sets at Red Rocks.

[via NickMo]

Umphrey’s history with Red Rocks goes back to 2005, when they played the venue twice as part of The Big Summer Classic. The sextet returned the next summer for a co-bill with moe. on June 3, 2006 and again on August 31, 2008 for a lengthy set in support of Gov’t Mule. For the past two summers Umphrey’s has headlined Red Rocks during the Fourth of July Weekend for concerts billed as Red Rocks and Blue. On July 3, 2010 The Wailers and Galactic opened for UM, while The New Mastersounds and Easy Star All-Stars were on as support for the Chicago-based band’s only two-set performance at Red Rocks to date. Railroad Earth made their Red Rocks debut on September 5, 2009 as openers for the Allman Brothers Band and returned on August 20, 2011 with Infamous Stringdusters and Yonder Mountain String Band. Ticketing information has not been revealed as of press time.

Prog-jammers Umphrey’s McGee’s first tour of 2012 reached the Midwest this weekend for performances at the LC Pavilion in Columbus, Ohio on Friday and at The Fillmore in Detroit last night. At each show the band unveiled a new classic rock cover that they had never played before – the Blue Oyster Cult 1981 hit Burnin’ For You in Columbus and the fitting Detroit Rock City by KISS in Motown.

[via Justin Wendt of Oh Kee Pah Blog]

Friday night’s performance also featured the first UM version of Red by King Crimson since October 8, 2009. Umphrey’s first started playing the Robert Fripp-penned instrumental at a Vegoose Late Night show in Las Vegas in 2005 and Red was performed along with King Crimson guitarist Adrian Belew at three out of the four gigs at which he guested in March 2007. Red was inserted in the middle of Nemo to form Friday’s encore.

Last night at The Fillmore, Umphrey’s welcomed Nicholas Gerlach of opening band Twin Cats on sax for their second-ever cover of Maneater by Hall & Oates. UM first performed Maneater on Dec. 30, 2011 with Jeff Coffin. Earlier this year, guitarist Brendan Bayliss and bassist Ryan Stasik tackled a more swampy version of Maneater with John Oates as part of The Omega Moos’ set on Jam Cruise 10. Detroit Rock City (crappy video here) was debuted to start the encore and led into the finish of a Nothing Too Fancy that was started during the first set. The Midwest Run and the first full tour of 2012 ends tonight for Umphrey’s at The Canopy Club in Urbana, Ill. While the show is sold out, you can watch a webcast live (or the archived version any time for the next six month) for $9.99 through iClips.

Jake Cinninger and Brendan Bayliss @ Park West, December 10

Words and Images: Charles Izenstark

In the season of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, one day that many Chicago music fans always look forward to is the day of Brendan Bayliss and Jake Cinninger’s annual acoustic holiday show. Year after year, the Umphrey’s McGee guitarists always manage to assemble a number of special guests to help them celebrate the holiday season and raise money for a charitable cause. This year’s effort (as well as the pre-show Umphrey’s McGee “garage sale”) benefited the People’s Music School, a Chicago institution that provides music education to Chicago area children.Fittingly, the evening began with their children’s chorus singing the Beatles’ chestnut Octopus’s Garden and the holiday classic Christmas Time is Here before the stage was surrendered to Jake and Brendan.

Seated on a couch in front of a Christmas tree (and a menorah), Brendan set the tone for the evening by announcing that this was his second favorite night of the year, second only to the night before when he and Jake get to commune and figure out what songs to work up. The duo then quickly launched into a trio of original tunes (Sweetness, Water and August) that served to loosen them up before they were joined on stage by Steve Krojniewski (drummer from Umphrey’s precursor/Cinninger side project Ali Baba’s Tahini) and Mike Rackey (pedal steel player from Chicago based band Davenport Ed), for three tunes including the Bob Seger classic Travelin’ Man.

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One of the first initial artist announcements for the 2012 Summer Music Festival Season came out today from the Summer Camp Music Festival organizers. Over the past few days they’ve given their Facebook and Twitter followers a sneak peek at what to expect courtesy of a series of “leaks.” The Summer Camp Music Festival is set to return to Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, Illinois on May 25 – 27.

As always, Umphrey’s McGee and moe. will co-headline the festivities, with each band set to perform each of the event’s three days. Les Claypool will return to Summer Camp in 2012, this time with Primus in tow. Last August saw the debut of a new trio from Grateful Dead/Furthur’s Bob Weir, Jackie Greene and Black Crowes lead singer Chris Robinson. The trio has yet to play a second gig, but unless they play before May that second show for the trio will take place at Summer Camp according to a post on Robinson’s Facebook page.

World music greats Ozomatli, Summer Camp vets Family Groove Company, local faves Brainchild, dubsteppers Positive Vibr8ions, bluegrass-rockers Cornmeal, Irish descendant band Flogging Molly, gypsy punk act Gogol Bordello, bass player extraordinaire Victor Wooten, HT faves Greensky Bluegrass, Americana/bluegrass group Infamous Stringdusters, roots act Hot Buttered Rum, DJ Solo, Spankalicious, The Giving Tree Band and singer-songwriter Chicago Farmer are also set to perform in Chillicothe over Memorial Day Weekend. “Not So Early Bird” tickets are on sale now for $160.

Originally published in July of 2009, we revisit the You Can’t Always Get What You Want Cover Wars with recent renditions from Umphrey’s McGee and the cast of Glee.

You Can’t Always Get What You Want is the closing track on the 1969 Rolling Stones album Let It Bleed. There are some very interesting quotes regarding the drumming on this track included in the book According to the Rolling Stones, you can see the page in question over at Google Books.

The Contestants:

Artist: Aretha Franklin
Album: Love All The Hurt Away
The Skinny:

This cover comes off a 1981 Aretha Franklin album that universally gets bad to lukewarm reviews. The arrangement is very 80′s. Still, it’s worth a couple minutes to hear the Queen Of Soul sing lead on this tune.

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