Umphrey's McGee
2014-05-03
Capitol Theater
Port Chester, NY

"UM BOWL V"

Brendan Bayliss - guitar, vocals
Jake Cinninger - guitar, vocals, bass on **
Ryan Stasik - bass, vocals on **
Joel Cummings - keyboards, vocals
Kris Myers - drums, vocals
Andy Farag - percussion
Bill Evans - saxophone on *


A Kitty Lickin' Discs Production

Disc One
Q1: Raw Stewage
 1. Around The Horn Intro (video)
 2. Gents
 3. Skin The Cat
 4. Onward And Upward
 5. Mad Love

Disc Two
Q2: All Request
 1. Rebubula
 2. All Things Ninja
 3. Crazy Fingers
 4. #5
 5. Brain Damage >
 6. Eclipse
 
Disc Three
Q3: Stew Art Event
 1. Around The Horn On S2 (video)
 2. A Song Of Fire And Ice >
 3. Opium Sunrise >
 4. James Brown Revival >
 5. Chase Theme >
 6. Emergency Dance Party >
 7. Patriotic UM* >
 8. Fire On The Bayou* >
 9. Daft Funk * >
10. Barry White Love Letter* >
11. Rockabilly Throwdown * >
12. Baby Makin' Music* >
13. Frank Zappa-esque Jam*

Q4: Choose Your Own Adventure
14. The Haunt >
15. The Triple Wide >
16. Wife Soup

Disc Four
 1. Flame Thrower >
 2. FF >
 3. Space Funk Booty >
 4. Mulche's Odyssey (ending)
 5. Encore Break
 
Overtime
 6. So You Think I'm Funky (video)
 7. Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang**
 8. Much Obliged >
 9. Glory
 
Lineage: Lineage: SP-CMC-2 > SP-SPSB-8 > Sony PCM-M10 > USB > Wavelab 6.1 > CDWAV > dbPowerAmp > FLAC 

Recorded by: Relayer35


Comments: I couldn't pass up an opportunity to see UMBowl in person. The venue was an hour and a half away, and Umphrey's proceeded to rock with four hours of music. This was a very enjoyable and unique experience. I think the highlight for me was actually the first set. "Onward and Upward" rocks, and I hope it's something Umphrey's will revisit in the future.

As far as the recording goes, I think the sound quality is very good. I did have some technical problems for the first time in 60+ concert recordings. I only have stealth gear, and while it's not necessary to stealth an Umphrey's show (unless they play Northampton), my gear is what I've got. I had some issues with the left channel, mostly during the first set. I don't really know what caused the problem, but it affected the first four songs. As such, I spent an entire day trying to recover what I can, and wound up mixing the right channel into the left and adding some simulated stereo effects using Wavelab so it wouldn't sound so flat. It sucks that this happened on this once in a lifetime show, but the end result came out very nice so it could have been a lot worse. I also had to do this with the first minute and a half of the second set, and again on tracks 3, 4 & 7 of set 3. There are also some small spots here and there during set 3, where there is some small issues in the left channel that I left alone as they sounded better than my patch would have. Set 4 was completely was unaffected, so I'm a bit puzzled and will be testing my rig out thoroughly before my next show.

-- MP May 2014