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Dug all the tricks Ben Factor deployed to the extra-patient Wappy re-entry. A+ tension build #umphreys #livemusic #Ravinia
Terrific night, incredible Rebubula > Call Me Al > drums > Rebubula sequence to end moe.mentUM tour. The genuine respect & affection the bands have for each other is a beautiful thing #umphreys #livemusic
3 song set last night?!?! 🤯 A traditional DBK Club Sandwich #umphreys #livemusic
7.10.26 Pure Saturation enters Mulches mayhem territory ~10:20 mark — can we get a ruling on if a tease happened here? Fantastic furious finish either way cc: @jwelsh8.bsky.social @bizarchive.bsky.social @allthings.umphreys.com
Been marinating on official 1st show sans Jake, seen some angry posts about UM not saying anything about it during show, feels a bit misguided & wrong. Without speaking directly about Jake’s decision & formal return to a 5-piece, Bayliss seemingly spoke about his band brother all night #umphreys /
A 38-song tribute playlist to Jacob Alan Cinninger, curated to highlight his enduring legacy w/ @umphreys.com 2nu.gs/3TsUSZx Leads off w/poignant Amazing Grace -> Glory medley w/Chicago Mass Choir #allthefeels Ends where it all began, N2F Reprise in South Bend #umphreys #jake #livemusic #umphlove
Processing the official word that Jaco’s no longer a current member of Umphreys McGee will take time. Today, gonna celebrate (somberly) an incredible indelible creative collaboration spanning thousands of shows & innumerable spine-tingling moments of Jake being Jake 🤘🏽💜💔🤘🏽 #umphreys #livemusic
Happy Fourth of July! Inspired by the holiday’s animating force of *freedom* enjoy this acrostic playlist that celebrates the magic of improv, music’s innate spirit of freedom 2nu.gs/4glCR9d THE FREEDOM TO IMPROVISE 21 tracks, 15 bands, all exploring the unknown with reckless abandon #livemusic
N2F’s been played at 510 UM shows (and many Ali Baba’s Tahini shows pre-Sept ‘00), though The Caverns Fancy is the very 1st time played without Jake Refreshing arrangement w/enthralling Joel solo in the spot normally reserved for Bayliss liftoff. Ended a 30 show gap, N2F’s longest (19 previously)
Didn’t have KIMBLE(!) morphing into a jam vehicle on my Summer ‘26 bingo card 🤘🏽 A cathartic comp co-written by Mirro & @goldlikejoel.bsky.social, Kimble debuted at UM Show #1 & has been played 295x, though rarely (basically never) spread its improv wings UNTIL NOW 🤯 Thanks Team UM 💗 #umphreys
21 years ago, 1st of 9 (and counting) Robot Worlds that go so hard, so deep, Bayliss can’t help but freestyle 21 years ago also means The Rave 40s can legally imbibe #umphreys #LyricalStew #livemusic #improv
17 yrs ago, less than 3 months after releasing an album of brand new material, UM played Mantis front to back in its entirety for set 2 Since then, three more complete albums have been played: Anchor Drops (5.24.19) Local Band Does OK (1.21.22) Songs For Older Women (11.11.22) #umphreys #livemusic
Pony dousing us with the top shelf 18-yr reserve hot sauce 🔥 #umphreys #livemusic #bass
More badazz bassery in the encore, a rollicking 2-minute solo before Cherub Rock sent the peeps off into the Spokane night
Most Playlists Spell Something, Vol. 5: APRIL FOOLS Aretha Neighbor (Beatles) Dogs in a Pile (Lorde) Umphreys (Hall & Oates) Octave Cat (Nirvana) Billy Strings (James Gang) Holly Bowling (Grateful Dead) Stuff (Edwin Hawkins Singers) T. Petty (R. Berry) 💀⚡️(secret Scarlet>Fire) 2nu.gs/48mkf3Q #music
UM’s Jakeless week kicked off with a St Paddy’s party in Portland, feat. 8th show-opening Triple Wide 🕺🏾💃🏽 Cool spotlight for Umphreys most frequently played instrumental, appearing in 521 shows since January 2002 — only quartet of All in Time, Hurt Bird Bath, 40s Theme & 2x2 have dazzled more stages
Patient build —> brilliant peak, spearheaded by a spirited Bayliss/Stasik dialogue, squeezing more and more juice out of the jam #umphreys #BellyUp #livemusic
Finally getting around to Boston > Philly > DC Valentines Run This Unevolved jam is the best kind of filthy ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Umphreys HOF 25 Ballot submitted ✅ Shout out to 3 songs looking to make their 1st HOF album: Uncommon, Yoga Pants & Believe the Lie (special shout to 4/5 UMBowl BtL feat. bday boy Myers takin us to church) Somehow last few years of BtL bangers didn’t get enough love, pretty please vote this one🤘🏽
Feel good with 60% of my Umphreys HOF25 ballot 🏆 4/5 Believe the Lie 🏆 Church w/Kris one last time 🕺🏾Bayliss earworm treats💃🏽 5/22 Uncommon 6/1 Yoga Pants 11/7 In the Kitchen 👾 Beam Us Up Scotty 👽 5/23 Bridgeless, 25-min tour de force in Zwang’s 2nd show 😃 4-Min Happy Place😃 10/25 Escape Goat
What do Erma, Stevie, Sharon, Prince, Krasno, Anders, Al Green, Sam Cooke, Mary J Blige, Jimmy Cliff, Beatles, Blues Bros, Grateful Dead, De La Soul & other artists/bands all have in common? They performed love songs, collected & arranged on this Spotify playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/1il...
What do Aretha, Dylan, The Boss, Marley & son, Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac, Little Feat, Bad Company, The Ramones, Phish, Umphreys McGee, CSNY, JGB, MMJ, UB40, SCI & other artists/bands all have in common? They performed love songs, collected and arranged on this Nugs playlist: 2nu.gs/4kIbgzc
Riding the momentum of its inclusion on “Blueprints,” Unevolved’s been played 3x since Scotty took over the kit: 12.31.25, 1.16.26, 1.30.26 Each performance adds something unique & invigorating, a good barometer of the Zwang Effect to hear this exhilarating song, ironically, evolving #umphreys
Hey @goldlikejoel.bsky.social, what toy were you using to generate the crazy effects ~8-min mark of Unevolved?
Came across the Knoxville Fuzz from last March — hands down the best segue of 2025, a funkdafied Glory transition that’s worth a spin Also hearing teases ~7:30 from Donny Hathaway’s Voices Inside (Everything is Everything), ie Willie Weeks solo cc: @bizarchive.bsky.social @jwelsh8.bsky.social