Relisten

View NotesThe Jed Luckless Band continues their outdoor run on the Jedstead patio with a Thursday night show at Commune Utopia in Secondlife. It'a favorite venue and always draws a nice crowd on the Commune beach, especially when Moondance is on the lights!
The show opens with the fan favorite "Brother Love," which always sets things off on a fun path from the start. The nostalgic Mark Gutenplan tune "Remember This Night" is up next and it spawns the first jam of the evening, a gritty vamp which winds its way into the first of the night's many JLB debuts, a folksy Jed tune called "It Ain't Living." Things pick up again with a pair of covers, the J.J. Cole song "After Midnight," paired with moe.'s "Happy Hour Hero," and one of the hot jams of the night, which features some great interplay between the guitar and piano. Another newer song is up next, a heartfelt song about caring for your fellow humans called "I Love You" that's only been played once or twice by the band. The set closes with a brief and bouncy "Queen Lucille."
Second set opens with another debut, a Gutenplan penned instrumental called "Widget" featuring Mark, Jed and Ken on guitar. It's followed by another newer tune, the Luckless pop-rocker "Nothing's Ever Free," which gives way to one of the longest jams of the night, filled with dramatic trancey rhythms and some great drumming from Pete Martine . The jam transitions into a beautiful version of "Celebrate Instead" that gets derailed a bit by a broken string. But with a back up guitar ready and waiting, Jed bounces back and leads the band through a hot new debut of "Latest Craze," a driving rock tune that provides the perfect launching point for the longest improv of the night. It's a fast paced jam, almost twenty minutes long, featuring "Caution" teases from Kenny Kaufman, rockin guitar riffs from Jed and an awesome ambient break down with a fantastically sublime segue into the David Bowie tune "Space Oddity." The one and only Phish song of the evening follows with Ken leading "Character Zero," and the band puts an upbeat exclamation point on the end of the set with the calypso rocker "By And Bye." An excellent rendition of Prince's "Purple Rain" is added on as an encore.
This is a great all-around JLB show, with a cool vibe, lots of debuts and newer songs, a few choice covers and some wicked extended jams. It's great to have the band back and firing on all cylinders, and let's hope the warm weather allows for a few more of these patio shows before winter. Enjoy!