Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:44:41 PDT
From: "Bob Troutman" 
To: leftover@lists.Colorado.EDU
Subject: LoS/Furtado/Keel/Yonder Mtn clusterpluck in Missoula last night

It was a good old fashioned clusterpluck at LoS' first ever show in Missoula 
Montana last night.  The scene was outdoors at Marshall Mountain, a local 
ski area just outside of town, at a festival put on by a couple of local 
crazies, and on a Tuesday no less.  Five bands played, starting with Cold 
Mountain Rythym Band (local) followed by Larry Keel and his wife (who were 
flown out from Virginia for the show), the Yonder Mountain String Band (on 
tour with LoS), the Tony Furtado Band (who ripped it up before a packed and 
bouncing crowd at a local bar the night before) and then Salmon.  Due to a 
late start, the Yonder Mountain boys were limited to about 40 minutes but 
Drew and Vince came out to help on a spirited Polka on the Banjo!  By the 
time that Tony was half way through his set, the sun had gone down, and it 
was getting mighty cold.  The best way to stay warm was to dance and 
EVERYBODY did.

        A bundled up Leftover Salmon came on around 8:50 and promptly proceeded to 
tear it up, opening with Neil Young's Are You Ready for the Country (have 
they ever played that one before?).  Here's the setlist with comments and 
guests in parentheses:

Are You Ready for the Country (big time smiles from the band and           
crowd)
Breakin' Through (we called bullshit on Vince trying to convince us        
that it was Mark's Birthday)
Dance on Your Head
Highway Song
Troubled Times (with Tony Furtado and Ross Martin from Tony's band on      
guitar)
I Can't Dance (Steve Goodman song with Tony and Ross)
Five Alive (with Larry Keel)
Midnight Blues (with Larry Keel)
Instrumental with just Drew, Larry, and Mark
Mama Boulet (featuring seamless rotation of the Apt Q258 and Tony          
Furtado's drummer on the drum solo - they were having a lot of        fun 
with that!)
Rankin Full Stop (big time dancing rage)
Can't You Hear Me Calling>High on a Mountaintop>Can't You Hear Me          
Calling (with Jeff Austin of the Yonder Mountain String Band for      the 
rest of the show)
Y'all Come
Blister in the Sun! (with Vince's Get a Job rap - "is that all your        
gonna do, get stoned and watch Andy Griffith reruns?....uh           
yeah!....Get a Job!")
Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow
Walkin Cane
9 lb Hammer (with Tony, Ross, Jeff, Larry, and Tony's drummer sittin       
in on Jeff' kit)
Encore 1: Pasta on the Mountain!
Encore 2: Up on the Hill Boogie

No set break, no wake 'n bake, just two and a half hours of slamgrass on a 
very chilly evening.  I don't know how they picked, it was so cold.  Drew 
was taking shots of Crown Royal throughout the evening, I'm sure that 
helped.  The stuffed chicken on the front of the stage got lots of comments 
from the bands, especially Jeff Austin and Vince - this may someday be known 
as the "Chicken show".  I was pissed that the chicken never got a solo 
though.

A sidenote: a couple of the local promoters in attendance were real 
impressed with the Yonder Mountain String Band.  I'm going to try to get a 
little competition going between promoters for their return trip through 
Montana later in the year.