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| 1/1/2002 | MMW | Umbria Jazz Festival, Sala Expo, Orvieto, Italy | Partial show: Moti Mo | 11:56 | s |
| 2/19/2002 | MMW | Turntable Sessions, Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO | No Setlist Available; The Turntable Sessions #1 - Winter 2002 (Boulder Theater - Boulder, CO) featuring: Billy Martin - curator, percussion, gadgets; DJ Olive (turntables); Scotty Hard (turntables); John Medeski (keyboards); Chris Wood (bass); Mike Ill (guitar, vocals); Min Xiao Fen (Pipa); Charlie Burnham (violin); The show originated in collaboration with NYC's EXITART LP Show last July. Each DJ improvises in a duet setting with the other instrumentalists and a final encore of the entire ensemble concludes. This is the first of a series of tours throughout the US and beyond this year. | 106:08 | 9518 s |
| 2/20/2002 | MMW | Turntable Sessions, Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO | Set 1: Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv; Set 2: Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv > Improv; Encore: Improv; The Turntable Sessions #2 - Winter 2002 (Boulder Theater - Boulder, CO) featuring: DJ Olive (turntables); Scotty Hard (turntables); Charlie Burnham (violin); Min Xiao Fen (Pipa); Mike iLL - vocals/guitar (Set 2 ONLY); Chris Wood - bass (Set 2 ONLY); Billy Martin - the host & percussionist; John Medeski - keyboards | 125:20 127:37 | 9519 t s |
| 3/19/2002 | MMW | Turntable Sessions, Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO | | | |
| 4/6/2002 | MMW | Birmingham Southern College, Birmingham, AL | Set 1: Improv > Pappy Check > Macha > Improv > Uninvisible > Drum Solo > The Lover > Big Time; Set 2: Ten Dollar High > Lifeblood > Shacklyn Knights > Fire > Smoke > I Wanna Ride You; Encore: Night Marchers | 127:39 127:39 | 9025 28924 t t t s |
| 4/7/2002 | MMW | Three Rivers Music Festival, Columbia, SC | One Set Only: Improv, Uninvisible, Pappy Check, Drum Solo, No Ke Ano Ahiahi, Bass Solo, Fire > Smoke; not verified | | |
| 4/9/2002 | MMW | Tower Records - SOHO (In-Store Performance), New York, NY | One Set Only: Pappy Check > Ten Dollar High, Uninvisible > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke, I Wanna Ride You; 6 song performance for release of Uninvisible | 35:15 | 8839 t s |
| 4/12/2002 | MMW | Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, CO | Set 1: Open Improv > Improv > Pappy Check, Ten Dollar High > Lifeblood > Felic > Bass Solo > Shacklyn Knights, Que Sera Sera#; Set 2: Fire > Smoke, Uninvisible+ > Nocturnal Transmission+, The Saint+, Wiggly's Way+ > Moti Mo+; Encore: I Wanna Ride You+; with DJ P Love for the entire show; # with Norah Jones on vocals; + with Uninvisible Horns of Denver led by Steven Bernstein (Sex Mob) | 135:34 135:35 | 9023 t s |
| 4/13/2002 | MMW | Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, NM | Set 1: Improv > Lifeblood > Open Improv > Percussion'n'Bass > Ten Dollar High, Where Have You Been? > Big Time, Acht O'Clock Rock; Set 2: Pappy Check, Coconut Boogaloo > Uninvisible > Improv, Bass Solo > Shacklyn Knights > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke; Encore: I Wanna Ride You; # with DJ P Love for most of the show | 131:11 131:12 | 9268 t t s |
| 4/15/2002 | MMW | Web Theater, Phoenix, AZ | Set 1: Improv > Henduck > Lifeblood, Pappy Check > Partido Alto; Set 2: I Wanna Ride You, Uninvisible > Big Time > Seven Deadlies, Fire > Smoke > Improv > Ten Dollar High, Shacklyn Knights > Moti Mo; Encore: Wiggly's Way; # with DJ P Love on turntables & Brahim Fribgane of Club d'Elf on percussion | 138:28 136:11 | 9274 t 84627 t -26133- s |
| 4/16/2002 | MMW | Spreckels Theatre, San Diego, CA | Set 1: Improv OR Take Me Nowhere > Open Improv > Improv > Ten Dollar High, Pappy Check, Uninvisible > Open Improv > Where Have You Been?; Set 2: Big Time > Wiggly's Way > Toy Dancing > Lifeblood > Bass Solo > Swamp Road > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke; Encore: I Wanna Ride You; # with DJ P Love for the entire show | 144:30 | 12244 -12423- s |
| 4/17/2002 | MMW | House Of Blues, North Myrtle Beach, SC | Set 1: First Time Long Time, Pappy Check > Last Chance To Dance Trance (Perhaps) > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, Where Have You Been? > Felic > Improv > C-Jam Blues; Set 2: I Wanna Ride You*, Lifeblood > Macha > Uninvisible > Drums'n'DJ > Drum Solo > Blue Pepper > Fire > Smoke, Night Marchers; Encore: Think; # with DJ P Love for the entire show; * with acoustic outro | 120:44 | 11867 t s |
| 4/19/2002 | MMW | Wiltern Theater, Los Angeles, CA | Set 1: Pappy Check > Where Have You Been? > Bass Solo > Coconut Boogaloo > Lifeblood > Bass Solo > Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself*; Set 2: Open Improv* > Nocturnal Transmission*, The Saint*, Creole Love Call (with Snake Anthony bass line)*, Uninvisible*, Wiggly's Way* > Blue Pepper*; Encore: I Wanna Ride You*; # with DJ P Love for the entire show; * with Uninvisible Horns of LA: Steven Bernstein (trumpet, slide trumpet, director), Pablo Calogero (baritone sax, bass clarinet), Bruce Fowler (trombone) & Jerry Pinter (tenor sax, flute) | 127:47 | 9256 t t t s |
| 4/20/2002 | MMW | The Warfield, San Francisco, CA | Set 1: Improv Intro > Ten Dollar High > Take Me Nowhere > Lifeblood* > Bass Solo, Creole Love Call (with Snake Anthony bass line)# > Felic# > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke; Set 2: Pappy Check, The Saint#, Open Improv# > Uninvisible#, Nocturnal Transmission# > Open Improv# > Where's Sly?# > Blue Pepper#, Moti Mo#; Encore: I Wanna Ride You#; Most of the show with Dan the Automator (turntables); * with extended outro; # with the Uninvisible Horns of San Francisco: Steven Bernstein - trumpet, slide trumpet, director; Ralph Carney - bari sax, flute, homemade thing; Paul Hanson - bassoon + effects; Kenny Brooks - tenor sax, oboe | 148:30 148:58 | 9562 t 9521 t s |
| 4/22/2002 | MMW
 | Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR | Set 1: First Time Long Time > Drums'n'DJ > Think > Toy Dancing > Pappy Check > Fire > Smoke, Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High > Open Improv* > Nocturnal Transmission*; Set 2: Organ Intro > I Wanna Ride You* > Wiggly's Way* > Uninvisible*, Bass Solo > Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself*, Tubby* > Moti Mo*; Encore: Blue Pepper*; # with DJ P Love for the entire show; * with Uninvisible Horns of Portland: Steven Bernstein (Trumpet), Robert Crowell (Baritone Sax), Peter Epstein (Tenor Sax) & Michael Blagovich (Trombone) | 139:45 134:09 | 9522 118935 t s |
| 4/23/2002 | MMW
 | Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR | Set 1: Ten Dollar High, Lifeblood, Pappy Check, Bass Solo > Shacklyn Knights > Drum Solo > Fire, Smoke, Your Name Is Snake Anthony; Set 2: The Saint, Nocturnal Transmission > Felic, Where's Sly?, Uninvisible, Blue Pepper, I Wanna Ride You; not verified | | s |
| 4/24/2002 | MMW
 | Paramount Theater, Seattle, WA | | | s |
| 4/25/2002 | MMW
 | McDonald Theater, Eugene, OR | Set 1: Improv > Improv > Open Improv > Shacklyn Knights > Drum Solo > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, Lifeblood > Pappy Check; Set 2: Big Time > Uninvisible > Fire > Smoke, Coconut Boogaloo, Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus, Blue Pepper > I Wanna Ride You; Encore: Night Marchers; # with DJ P Love for the entire show | 127:44 | 12038 t t s |
| 4/26/2002 | MMW | Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | Set 1: Pappy Check > Improv > Lifeblood, Ten Dollar High, Big Time > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke; Set 2: Blue Pepper, Piano Intro > Tubby > Open Improv > Uninvisible > Think > Bass'n'Drums Outro > Partido Alto > First Time Long Time > Shacklyn Knights > Drums'n'DJ* > Bass Solo > Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself, I Wanna Ride You; Encore: Moti Mo; # with DJ P Love for the entire show; * Chris joins in after Billy drops out, and then P Love drops out | 135:19 | 10989 t t s |
| 5/3/2002 | MMW | Saenger Theater, New Orleans, LA | Set 1: Open Improv > Improv > Ten Dollar High, Lifeblood > Syeeda's Song Flute > Pappy Check > Open Improv > Seven Deadlies, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho; Set 2: Acoustic Intro > I Wanna Ride You > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke, Death Letter Blues#, Keep Your Lamp Trimmed & Burning#, Uninvisible > Wiggly's Way > Bass Solo > Shacklyn Knights > Night Marchers > Toy Dancing; Encore: Tubby; # with Corey Harris (both are Rev. Gary Davis tunes) | 147:14 | 10190 t s |
| 5/8/2002 | MMW | Pavilion @ W. Texas Canyon Amphitheater, Lubbock, TX | | | |
| 5/9/2002 | MMW
 | Deep Elum Live, Dallas, TX | Set 1: Improv > First Time Long Time > Nocturnal Transmission > Drum Solo > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, Pappy Check > Henduck, Crosstown Traffic; Set 2: Tubby, Lifeblood, Bass Solo > Shacklyn Knights > Drum Solo > Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself, Uninvisible > Fire > Smoke > I Wanna Ride You; Encore: Lonely Avenue | 124:55 124:43 | 10265 t 28935 t t s |
| 5/10/2002 | MMW
 | Verizon Wireless Theater, Houston, TX | Set 1: Pappy Check, "Houston Bb7" > The Dropper > Lifeblood > Bass'n'Drums Intro > Ten Dollar High, Think; Set 2: Uninvisible, Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus, Toy Dancing, Drum Solo, Fire > Smoke > Big Time > Drum Solo > Blue Pepper; Encore: I Wanna Ride You | 123:17 | 26840 t -12172- s |
| 5/11/2002 | MMW | Stubb's Bar-B-Q, Austin, TX | Set 1: Ten Dollar High > Open Improv > First Time Long Time > Open Improv > Creole Love Call (with Snake Anthony bass line) > Big Time > Drum Solo > Lifeblood > Bass Solo > Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself; Set 2: Blue Pepper, Wiggly's Way, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Drum Outro, The Dropper > Fire > Smoke, Uninvisible, Pappy Check > Think, Bass Solo > Shacklyn Knights; Encore: I Wanna Ride You | 138:20 138:06 | 11689 t 28951 t s |
| 5/14/2002 | MMW | Liberty Hall, Lawrence, KS | Set 1: Improv > Open Improv > Felic > Improv > Drum outro > Tubby > Drum outro > Lifeblood > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself; Set 2: Uninvisible > Drum Solo > Pappy Check > Partido Alto > Piano Solo > Rise Up > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke, Crosstown Traffic > Blue Pepper; Encore: I Wanna Ride You | 128:49 | 26440 t t -9968- s |
| 5/15/2002 | MMW | The Pageant, St. Louis, MO | Set 1: Improv > Coconut Boogaloo > The Dropper > Blue Pepper > Lifeblood > Bass'n'Percussion outro > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High; Set 2: Seven Deadlies (Bridge) > Pappy Check > Just Like I Pictured It, Uninvisible > Fire > Smoke, Acht O'Clock Rock > Drum Solo > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho, Macha > Drum Outro > Wiggly's Way > I Wanna Ride You; Encore: The Lover*; * by request | 152:25 | 28537 t t t s |
| 5/16/2002 | MMW | Blue Note, Columbia, MO | Set 1: Open Improv/Intro > Ten Dollar High, Lifeblood > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Think > Bass Solo > The Dropper, Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus; Set 2: Pappy Check > Macha, Uninvisible, Felic > Fire > Smoke, Big Time > Drum Solo > Drums'n'Bass/Bass Solo > Shacklyn Knights > Last Chance To Dance Trance (Perhaps) > Blue Pepper; Encore: I Wanna Ride You | 149:57 | 10052 t s |
| 5/17/2002 | MMW | The Eagles Club (The Rave), Milwaukee, WI | Set 1: I Wanna Ride You > Wiggly's Way > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High > Lifeblood > Pappy Check > Just Like I Pictured It, Drum Intro > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho, Blue Pepper; Set 2: Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus > Uninvisible* > Think, Big Time > Dracula > Fire > Smoke, Coconut Boogaloo > Toy Dancing > Crosstown Traffic; Encore: Bass Solo > Chubb Sub; * with slightly extended intro | 142:10 143:01 | 10007 t 98922 t t s |
| 5/18/2002 | MMW | Riviera Theater, Chicago, IL | Set 1: Improv Intro > The Dropper, Pappy Check > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, Lifeblood > Think, Blue Pepper#; Set 2: Fire > Smoke#, The Saint# > Nocturnal Transmission#, Creole Love Call (with Snake Anthony bassline)#, Uninvisible#, Wiggly's Way# > Bass Solo > Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself#; Encore: I Wanna Ride You#; # with the Uninvisible Horns of Chicago: Steven Bernstein (trumpet), Gerald Powell (tuba), Aram Shelton (Alto Sax) & Ryan Schultz (bass trumpet) -- Bernstein announced these guys were from 8 Bold Souls (or, some of them!); with DJ Olive for the entire show | 145:57 146:50 146:19 | 9620 t 86305 t t t 98923 t t s |
| 5/19/2002 | MMW | Barrymore Theater, Madison, WI | Set 1: Drum Intro > Improv > Start/Stop > Open Improv/Intro to > Ten Dollar High, Big Time, Jelly Belly > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke; Set 2: Chanting# > Nocturnal Transmission > Pappy Check > Macha > Uninvisible, Lifeblood > Lifeblood cont'd > Bass Solo > Shacklyn Knights > Drums'n'DJ Outro > Blue Pepper; Encore: I Wanna Ride You; # with Johnny Thundercloud and Brothers; with DJ Olive popping in throughout show | 158:37 154:54 | 9621 t 83682 t t t s |
| 5/25/2002 | MMW | Hookahville Spring 2002 Festival, Buckeye Lake Mus, Thornville, OH | One Set Only: Big Time > Bass Solo > Shacklyn Knights > Jelly Belly > Drum Solo, Lifeblood > Outro/Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, Uninvisible > Pappy Check > Fire > Smoke | 72:51 72:51 | 122976 t s |
| 6/6/2002 | MMW | Palace Theater, Albany, NY | Set 1: Open > Think, Lifeblood, Crosstown Traffic, Nostalgia In Times Square/Angel Race (I'll Wait For You) > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, Pappy Check, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho; Set 2: The Dropper > Nocturnal Transmission, Uninvisible, Bass Solo > Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself, Drum Solo, Blue Pepper; Encore: I Wanna Ride You | 129:28 | 10005 -10008- s |
| 6/7/2002 | MMW | Rochester International Jazz Festival, Rochester, NY | One Set Only: Uninvisible, Ten Dollar High, Last Chance To Dance Trance (Perhaps), Pappy Check > Partido Alto > Fire > Smoke, I Wanna Ride You; Encore: Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself | 70:23 70:18 72:18 | 11607 29152 127349 t s |
| 6/14/2002 | MMW | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN | One Set Only: I Wanna Ride You, Ten Dollar High, The Dropper#, Pappy Check#, Think > Lifeblood > Drum Solo > The Lover > Uninvisible > Fire > Smoke, Blue Pepper; Encore: Big Time; # with Mark Ribot; Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos opened for MMW | 101:55 | 11608 s |
| 6/15/2002 | MMW | JVC Jazz Festival, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | One Set Only: Ten Dollar High, Pappy Check > Acht O'Clock Rock > The Dropper > Uninvisible > I Wanna Ride You > Macha > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke; Encore: Think | 86:10 | 14570 -11609- s |
| 7/4/2002 | MMW | Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (Montreal Jazz Festival), Métropolis, Montréal, Quebec, Canada | Set 1: Big Time > I Wanna Ride You, Lifeblood# > Think# > Drums/Percussion# > Fire# > Smoke#; Set 2: Uninvisible#* > Open Improv#* > Improv#* > Percussion Improv#* > Jelly Belly#* > Drums/Percussion#*, Nostalgia In Times Square#* > Start/Stop#* > Toy Dancing#*, Pappy Check > The Lover#*; Encore: Bubblehouse#*; # with Brahim Fribgane (dumbek & percussion) -- Billy names another instrument but not sure what he says - "cascadas"?; * with Trilok Gurtu (tablas & percussion); with Charlie Hunter for the entire second set | 148:43 149:45 | 11843 127342 t -10486- s |
| 7/5/2002 | MMW | High Sierra Music Festival, Plumas Sierra Fairground, Quincy, CA | One Set Only: Sequel, Think > Bass Solo, Start/Stop > Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus, Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High > I Wanna Ride You, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho, Uninvisible > Drum Solo > Pappy Check > Bass Solo; Encore: Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself; Zony Mash opened for MMW | 115:31 | 11610 t s |
| 7/6/2002 | MMW | High Sierra Music Festival, Plumas Sierra Fairground, Quincy, CA | One Set Only: Improv, Big Time, Jelly Belly, Hip Chops, Latin Shuffle, Last Chance To Dance Trance (Perhaps), Bone Digger#, Pappy Check#, Pay These Dues Blues*, Your Name Is Snake Anthony*, The Lover, I Wanna Ride You; Encore: Uninvisible+; # with Fareed Haque on guitar; * with Col. Bruce Hampton on guitar & vocals; + with Karl Denson on saxophone | 102:14 102:31 102:03 | 10944 11690 89955 t s |
| 7/6/2002 | MMW | High Sierra Music Festival, Plumas Sierra Fairground, Playshop Stage, Quincy, CA | Unannounced show on the Playshop Stage - billed as "John Medeski's Keyboard Swirlfest" - Improv, Q&A, Hip Chops | 45:00 | 11686 s |
| 8/11/2002 | MMW | Berkshire Music Festival (Berkfest), Main Stage, Butternut Ski Area, Great Barrington, MA | One Set Only: Sequel, Big Time, Acht O'Clock Rock, Think > Bass Solo, I Wanna Ride You, Hottentot#, The Dropper#*, Uninvisible*; Encore: Pappy Check*; # with John Scofield; * with DJ Logic | 107:16 | 12230 -11770- -11829- -17672- s |
| 8/21/2002 | MMW | Tonic, New York, NY | Set 1: Improv; Set 2: Improv > I Wanna Ride You > So Long Eric*; Encore: Improv; * Charles Mingus song written for Eric Dolphy in 1964 after they toured together | 132:19 | 13470 t -11870- s |
| 8/22/2002 | MMW | Tonic, New York, NY | Set 1: Improv, Improv, Improv; Set 2: Improv, Friday The 13th*, Improv > Basso Profondo > Improv; Encore: Hip Chops | 129:25 | 12424 t s |
| 8/23/2002 | MMW | Tonic, New York, NY | Set 1: Improv, Ziphim; Set 2: Improv > Swamp Road; Encore: Ziphim; * Masada song, recorded that night for release on 10th anniversary tribute to Masada. | 73:27 | 11871 t s |
| 8/31/2002 | MMW | moe.down, Snow Ridge Festival, Turin, NY | One Set Only: Improv > Improv > Ten Dollar High, Pappy Check, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho, Felic > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke, Uninvisible, I Wanna Ride You | 83:09 79:54 83:32 82:54 | 12134 91174 t 126923 t -23962- t s |
| 9/5/2002 | MMW | True People's Celebration Welcome Party (with Hermeto Pascoal), JZ Blat, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan | Acoustic Show; Hermeto Pascoal speech, Piano Solo; Hermeto's Daydream, Nostalgia In Times Square/Angel Race (I'll Wait For You), Swamp Road | 56:41 | 25845 s |
| 9/7/2002 | MMW | True People's Celebration, "Day of Uninvisible Sun", Open Theater East, Inaki, Tokyo, Japan | One Set Only: The Dropper, Pappy Check > Ten Dollar High, Think > Fire#, Smoke*; Encore: I Wanna Ride You; # with Skerik; * with Marshall Allen of Sun Ra Arkestra | 74:11 | 12174 t s |
| 9/8/2002 | MMW | True People's Celebration, "Wizards Daydream", Yomiuri Land, Inaki, Tokyo, Japan | Set 1: Sequel, Coconut Boogaloo > Lifeblood > Shacklyn Knights > Blue Pepper; Set 2: Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho, Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself, Uninvisible, Moti Mo; Encore: Wiggly's Way#; # with Skerik, Mike Dillon, Brad Houser of Black Frames and Brad Barr, Andrew Barr, Marc Friedman of The Slip (acoustic version) | 102:22 102:22 | 12173 29163 s |
| 9/13/2002 | MMW | Rochester Institute of Technology, Clark Gym, Rochester, NY | Set 1: Improv > Buster Rides Again > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, Lifeblood; Set 2: Pappy Check > The Dropper > Fire > Smoke, Latin Shuffle > Bass Solo, Think > Uninvisible; Encore: I Wanna Ride You | 165:32 166:30 | 12567 t 86776 t t -12037- s |
| 9/15/2002 | MMW | Verve Jazz and Heritage Festival, Marshall Park, Charlotte, NC | One Set Only: Sequel, Jelly Belly > Drum Solo > Nostalgia In Times Square/Angel Race (I'll Wait For You), Acht O'Clock Rock, Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus, Pappy Check > Open > Partido Alto > Uninvisible; Encore: I Wanna Ride You | 89:22 | 12314 -12628- s |
| 9/21/2002 | MMW | New Orleans Southern Comfort Festival, Riverview, New Orleans, LA | | | |
| 9/22/2002 | MMW | Florida Music Harvest Spirit of the Suwannee Music, Live Oak, FL | One Set Only: Big Time, Ten Dollar High, Think, Uninvisible > The Dropper > Fire > Smoke, Jelly Belly > Drum Solo, Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself, Chubb Sub | 93:12 | 28380 s |
| 9/26/2002 | MMW | Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, RI | Set 1: Improv > Improv > Improv > Open Improv > Lonely Avenue > Uninvisible > Pappy Check > Partido Alto; Set 2: Open Improv > Ten Dollar High > Bass Solo > Shacklyn Knights > Drum Outro > Creole Love Call (with Snake Anthony bass line) > Drum Solo > Fire, Smoke > The Dropper > Felic > Blue Pepper; Encore: Organ Intro > I Wanna Ride You | 152:21 | 12562 t s |
| 9/27/2002 | MMW | Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA | Set 1: Open Improv > Improv > Open Improv > Bass Solo > Shacklyn Knights > Drum Solo > C-Jam Blues > Buster Rides Again, Big Time > Jelly Belly; Set 2: Uninvisible > Open Improv > Lifeblood > Bowed Bass Improv/Solo > Ten Dollar High > Pappy Check > Partido Alto > Drum Solo > Fire, Smoke; Encore: Organ Intro > I Wanna Ride You | 144:15 141:39 | 12563 29153 t s |
| 9/28/2002 | MMW | State Theater, Portland, ME | Set 1: Improv, Philly Cheese Blunt, The Dropper > Sequel, Big Time; Set 2: Ten Dollar High*, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho, Think > Blue Pepper, Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself, Pappy Check, Uninvisible; Encore: I Wanna Ride You; # with DJ RPM on turntables | 143:09 | 12564 t s |
| 9/29/2002 | MMW | SUNY Fredonia, Steele Hall, Fredonia, NY | | | |
| 10/7/2002 | MMW | Astoria, London, England | | | |
| 10/8/2002 | MMW | Vooruit, Gent, Belgium | | | s |
| 10/9/2002 | MMW | Paradisio, Amsterdam, Netherlands | | | s |
| 10/10/2002 | MMW | Chapiteau "Nancy Festival", Nancy, France | One Set Only: Big Time > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High > Lifeblood > Bass Solo, Shacklyn Knights > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke; Encore: Uninvisible; not verified | | s |
| 10/11/2002 | MMW | Trabendo "Factory Festival", Paris, France | | | |
| 10/13/2002 | MMW | Jazz House, Copenhagen, Denmark | | | |
| 10/14/2002 | MMW | Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, Germany | One Set Only: Open Improv > Improv > Ten Dollar High > The Dropper > Uninvisible > Just Like I Pictured It, Acht O'Clock Rock, Pappy Check, I Wanna Ride You; Encore: Chubb Sub; not verified | | s |
| 10/23/2002 | MMW | The Whitaker Center, Harrisburg, PA | Set 1: Improv, Lifeblood > Improv > Nostalgia In Times Square/Angel Race (I'll Wait For You), Bass Solo > Shacklyn Knights > Drum Solo; Set 2: Uninvisible, The Dropper, Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho, Just Like I Pictured It, Pappy Check, Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, I Wanna Ride You*; Encore: Moti Mo; * with Buster Rides Again quote in the melodica jam | 140:44 | 26222 s |
| 10/24/2002 | MMW | Metropol, Pittsburgh, PA | Set 1: Improv > Ten Dollar High, Think > Pappy Check > The Dropper, Blue Pepper; Set 2: Partido Alto > Improv > Coconut Boogaloo > Latin Shuffle > Seven Deadlies > Fire > Smoke, Uninvisible; Encore: I Wanna Ride You; not verified | | s |
| 10/25/2002 | MMW | Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA | Set 1: Improv > Ten Dollar High, The Dropper > Felic > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke; Set 2: Pappy Check > Partido Alto, Lifeblood > Think > Jelly Belly > Drum Solo# > Toy Dancing# > Uninvisible > I Wanna Ride You; Encore: Blue Pepper; # with Calvin Weston on drums & Billy Martin on talking drum | 138:37 | 26671 s |
| 10/26/2002 | MMW | Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie, NY | Set 1: Improv > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Partido Alto > Shacklyn Knights > Pappy Check; Set 2: Big Time > The Dropper > Fire > Smoke, Ten Dollar High, Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself, Uninvisible > Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus; Encore: I Wanna Ride You | 139:49 | 12779 -16884- s |
| 10/27/2002 | MMW | 9:30 Club, Washington, DC | Set 1: Improv > Ten Dollar High, Acht O'Clock Rock, Coconut Boogaloo > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho; Set 2: Macha > The Dropper, Pappy Check > Partido Alto, Jelly Belly > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke, Uninvisible; Encore: I Wanna Ride You | 139:30 | 13094 s |
| 10/30/2002 | MMW | State Theater, Ithaca, NY | Set 1: Improv, Shacklyn Knights, Drum Solo, Partido Alto; Set 2: Jelly Belly, The Dropper, Bass Solo, Ten Dollar High, Uninvisible, Big Time, Just Like I Pictured It, Blue Pepper; Encore: I Wanna Ride You; not verified | | -14107- s |
| 10/31/2002 | MMW | Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY | Set 1: Open/Improv > Improv > The Dropper > Bass Solo/Improv Intro > Ten Dollar High, Macha > Drum/Percussion Solo > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho; Set 2: Stridulation# > Monkey#, Dracula*+ > Partido Alto*+^, Pappy Check^, Creole Love Call (with Snake Anthony bass line)%, Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke, The Saint%, Uninvisible%; Encore: I Wanna Ride You%; # "Stridulations" are a series of independent percussion compositions written by illy B (aka Billy Martin), of which two were performed on this date, one leading right into the other. The five performers were: MMW, Steven Bernstein, and percussionist Carl Nilsen; * with DJ Spooky; + with Mauro Refosco on percussion for Dracula and Partido; ^ with Smokey Hormel on guitar for Partido and Pappy; % with Uninvisible Horns of NYC: Steven Bernstein - trumpet, slide trumpet, director; Briggan Krauss - alto sax; Howard Johnson - tuba; Curtis Hasselbring - trombone | 140:28 143:45 141:45 142:29 | 13050 t t t 13067 t 86011 t t t 112715 t t t -12944- s |
| 11/1/2002 | MMW | Recher Theater, Towson, MD | Set 1: Improv > Syeeda's Song Flute > Think > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho, Big Time; Set 2: Uninvisible > Coconut Boogaloo > Toy Dancing > The Dropper > Ten Dollar High > The Lover > Partido Alto, Pappy Check; Encore: I Wanna Ride You; not verified | | s |
| 11/2/2002 | MMW | Palace Theater, New Haven, CT | Set 1: Improv, Lifeblood, Partido Alto, Big Time, Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High; Set 2: The Lover > Hey Joe > Jelly Belly > Drum Solo > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho, Pappy Check, Just Like I Pictured It, Uninvisible, Fire > Smoke; Encore: I Wanna Ride You; not verified | | s |
| 11/13/2002 | MMW | Southern Illinois University, Shyrock Auditorium, Carbondale, IL | | | |
| 11/14/2002 | MMW | The Norva Theater, Norfolk, VA | Set 1: Improv, The Dropper, Ten Dollar High, Macha, Note Bleu, Blue Pepper; Set 2: Pappy Check, Partido Alto, Latin Shuffle, Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself, Big Time, Uninvisible; Encore: I Wanna Ride You | 133:13 | 17670 s |
| 11/15/2002 | MMW | Ziggy's, Winston-Salem, NC | Set 1: Improv > Lonely Avenue, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Open > Dracula > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High; Set 2: Open, The Lover > Think > The Dropper > Fire > Smoke, Uninvisible > Moti Mo; Encore: Pappy Check > Partido Alto | 134:19 | 26698 -14033- s |
| 11/16/2002 | MMW | House Of Blues, North Myrtle Beach, SC | One Set Only: Improv > Coconut Boogaloo > The Dropper, Think > Shacklyn Knights > Partido Alto, Pappy Check > Ten Dollar High; Encore: I Wanna Ride You | 118:21 | 26672 s |
| 11/17/2002 | MMW | Lincoln Theater, Raleigh, NC | Set 1: Improv > Africa > Open > The Lover > Open > Ten Dollar High Big Time; Set 2: Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus Jelly Belly > Drum Solo > Felic > Partido Alto, Just Like I Pictured It, Pappy Check > Uninvisible; Encore: Crosstown Traffic | 130:54 130:54 | 15385 t 13949 s |
| 11/20/2002 | MMW | The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC | Set 1: Unknown > Lonely Avenue, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Partido Alto, Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus > Blue Pepper; Set 2: Think > Dracula > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High > The Dropper > Pappy Check > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke > Uninvisible; Encore: I Wanna Ride You; not verified | | s |
| 11/21/2002 | MMW | The Music Farm, Charleston, SC | Set 1: Shack, Coconut Boogaloo > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > The Dropper, Ten Dollar High; Set 2: Big Time > Jelly Belly, Think > Partido Alto, Tubby > Fire, Pappy Check# > Uninvisible#; Encore: Moti Mo#; # with Luthur Dickenson on guitar | 119:41 | 16056 s |
| 11/22/2002 | MMW | Tennessee Theatre, Knoxville, TN | One Set Only: Unknown > Acoustic Bass / Drum Duet > Lonely Avenue > Partido Alto > The Dropper > Pappy Check > Lifeblood > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke > Think > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High > Big Time > Uninvisible; Encore: I Wanna Ride You | 121:26 | 26120 s |
| 11/23/2002 | MMW | Roxy Theater, Atlanta, GA | Set 1: Improv > Nocturnal Transmission* > Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus, Jelly Belly, Drum Solo, Felic, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho, Bass Solo, Ten Dollar High; Set 2: The Lover, Think, Pappy Check#, Partido Alto#, Hey Joe#, Uninvisible; Encore: I Wanna Ride You; * Nocturnal Transmission 1-2 minute teaser only; # with Oliver Wood on guitar | 134:57 132:20 | 13431 17668 t s |
| 12/5/2002 | MMW | Bogart's, Cincinnati, OH | Set 1: Improv*, The Lover > Think > Partido Alto; Set 2: The Dropper > Ten Dollar High, Big Time > Toy Dancing, Just Like I Pictured It, Pappy Check, Uninvisible; Encore: Crosstown Traffic | 137:25 | 93952 t s |
| 12/6/2002 | MMW | Brown Theater, Louisville, KY | Set 1: Syeeda's Song Flute > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Partido Alto, Ten Dollar High; Set 2: Acht O'Clock Rock, Big Time > Jelly Belly > Fire, Smoke, Chubb Sub; Encore: I Wanna Ride You | 116:08 | 31827 t t -21204- s |
| 12/7/2002 | MMW | New Daisy Theater, Memphis, TN | Set 1: Improv > Pappy Check > Just Like I Pictured It, The Dropper > The Lover > Drum Solo, Ten Dollar High; Set 2: Chanting# > Sequel > Partido Alto, Bone Digger > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Uninvisible > Hey Joe > Big Time > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke; Encore: Mercy Mercy Mercy > Jelly Belly; # with Johnny Thundercloud | 151:42 148:31 | 21205 143362 t s |
| 12/8/2002 | MMW | Tipitina's, New Orleans, LA | | | |
| 12/11/2002 | MMW | The Palace, Gainsville, FL | Set 1: Improv > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Partido Alto > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, The Dropper > Crosstown Traffic; Set 2: Open Improv > Jelly Belly, Fire > Smoke, Think > Bass Solo > Shacklyn Knights > Seven Deadlies, Pappy Check > Toy Dancing > Uninvisible; Encore: I Wanna Ride You; not verified | | s |
| 12/12/2002 | MMW | The Moon, Tallahassee, FL | Set 1: Improv > Where's Sly? > The Lover > Open Improv > Think > Ten Dollar High; Set 2: Start/Stop > Jelly Belly > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > The Dropper > Blue Pepper, Pappy Check > Uninvisible; Encore: Crosstown Traffic; not verified | | |
| 12/13/2002 | MMW | House Of Blues, Orlando, FL | Set 1: Improv > Africa, Wiggly's Way > Ten Dollar High, Big Time > Partido Alto; Set 2: Think > Dracula > The Lover > Uninvisible, Lonely Avenue, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho, Just Like I Pictured It, Pappy Check > Fire, Moti Mo; Encore: I Wanna Ride You | 164:24 | 21206 s |
| 12/14/2002 | MMW | Jannus Landing, St. Petersburg, FL | Set 1: Improv > Coconut Boogaloo > Blue Pepper, The Dropper, Big Time > Jelly Belly; Set 2: Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho, Seven Deadlies > Bass Solo, Ten Dollar High, Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself, The Lover > Dracula, Uninvisible; Encore: Crosstown Traffic | 149:24 147:16 | 21207 t 21203 t s |
| 12/31/2002 | MMW | Oakland Arena, Oakland, CA | One Set Only: The Saint#, Pappy Check > The Dropper, Jelly Belly, Drum Solo > Fire, Smoke, Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself#, Blue Pepper#, Uninvisible#; # with Uninvisible Horns; Opened for The Other Ones | 70:33 69:51 | 21202 106487 t s |
MMW Performance History (MMW shows only)