With Chuck and Derek
With Chuck, Derek, and Bernie
In all their glory!
Chuck and Warren
Marc and Allen
DTB with Jimmy
Pictures from the Most Intense New Year's Eve Ever!
On December 31, 1998, I spent the night and much of the morning in Atlanta, GA at the Roxy Theatre to see a double bill of the Derek Trucks Band and Gov't Mule. Derek and his band took the stage right around 10:00 P.M. and were joined by special guests Col. Bruce Hampton and Jimmy Herring. The Mule took the stage around 11:30 P.M. and rung in the New Year with an incredible version of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs." Throughout the night they were joined by special guests that included:
Apparently many people did not heed Warren Haynes' 1:30 A.M. advice to "pace yourselves, we got a long way to go" as there were countless people passed out around the place by 2 A.M. Gov't Mule launched into their encore of Mongo Santamaria's "Afro-Blue" at 3:45 A.M. and said goodnight at 4:20 A.M. Words fail to describe this performance.
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A good portion of the show was released on a 2 CD set entitled Live . . . With A Little Help From Our Friends! Go out and buy it as soon as possible!
The setlist looked like this:
Derek Trucks Band: Younk Funk, Yield Not To Temptation* -> Turn on Your Lovelight* (one verse) -> Yield Not, Look-Ka-Py-Py, Pleasant Gardens, 555 Lake**, Kickin' Bach**, Forty-Four**, Preachin' Blues**, Amazing Grace** -> Egg 15** -> Bass -> Drums -> Egg 15**
*w/Col. Bruce Hampton; **w/Jimmy Herring
Gov't Mule:
Set I: Wandering Child, Thorazine Shuffle, Suffer, New Year's Eve countdown, War Pigs*
Set II: 30 Days in the Hole (M ), Mr Big (M ), The Hunter (M, C ), Gambler's Roll (C ),
Yonder Wall (C), 32-20 Blues (C, D),
I Shall Return (C, D),
Keyboard Duet (B on Hammond organ/C on Rhodes piano) -> Soulshine (B, C, D),
Mule ->
I've Been Workin' -> Mule (B), Spanish Moon (B, C, R, Y), Sad and Deep As You (C, R),
Third Stone From the Sun (B, J, R), Devil Likes It Slow -> Schoolgirl tease ->
Devil Likes it Slow (B, J), Cortez the Killer (M, B) E: Afro-Blue (D, J, R, Y, B)
*First time played; M - w/Marc Ford on guitar and vocals, C - Chuck Leavell on keyboards,
D - Derek Trucks on guitar, B - Bernie Worrell on keyboards, R - Randall Bramlett on sax,
Y - Yonrico Scott on percussion, J - Jimmy Herring on guitar
I met some great folks as well that included Emulers Sista Leah, Donna, Rob, Kenny, Jim B. and several others whose names escape me. An incredible night that will stick in my memory forever!
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