Spinoff: Best 5 Song Run You've Seen

[KevinTH]

June 24, 2003
Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH

The Song That Jane Likes
Seek Up
The Last Stop
The Dreaming Tree
#41


August 6, 2002
Polaris Amphitheatre, Columbus, OH
The energy was through the roof for this run

So Much to Say »
Anyone Seen the Bridge »
Too Much
Lie in Our Graves
The Stone
Grey Street

September 18, 2000
Riverport Amphitheatre, Maryland Heights, MO

Grey Street (with Bela Flack)
JTR
What Would You Say
Grace Is Gone
Lie in Our Graves (with Bela Flack)

[crb60]

June 20, 2009
Starlake

The Stone
AYSTB>>Too Much (Tease)
Ants Marching
#40 (Partial)
Dreaming Tree

[kelchlsm]

Darien, 2003

Cry Freedom
The Last Stop
Lover Lay Down »
The Stone
Jimi Thing
The Dreaming Tree

[Bjkennedy24]

Besides Chicago Caravan N3 and Citi Field N2 that were already mentioned:

7.9.03 - Target Center - Minneapolis (opening run)
The Stone
You Never Know
Grey Street
Pig
Pay For What You Get

[Colin]

12/21/02 to end the show:

So Much To Say-->Anyone Seen The Bridge?-->
Too Much
Sex Machine (with James Brown)
-----
Halloween-->
Ants Marching

9/9/03 to start the show:

Ants Marching
Grey Street
#41-->
Everyday
Warehouse

6/7/14 to start the electric set:

Granny-->
Seek Up
So Right
Funny the Way It Is
Don't Drink the Water

[chadizzy1]

Some of my favorites:

7/13/03 - Little Rock, AR
Ants Marching
Help Myself
Rhyme & Reason
Too Much
Seek Up

7/13/03 - Little Rock, AR
Dancing Nancies>
Warehouse
Digging A Ditch
So Much To Say
The Stone

7/10/11 - Chicago Caravan N3
This one is more than a 5 song run but it's too damn good to leave at just 5 songs
One Sweet World
Bartender
Say Goodbye
Best of What’s Around
Captain
Shotgun
Warehouse

5/22/13 - Austin, TX
Say Goodbye
Don’t Drink The Water
Rooftop
Cry Freedom
Rhyme & Reason

5/24/14 - Atlanta, GA
Two Step
Pay For What You Get
I’ll Back You Up
What Would You Say
Tripping Billies

5/15/15 - Dallas, TX
Ants Marching
One Sweet World
I’ll Back You Up
Typical Situation
SMTS>ATSB>Too Much

5/16/15 - Woodlands, TX
Recently
Crash Into Me
Rhyme & Reason
Jane
WWYS

[jamwo212]

7/25/2000

PNP> Rapunzel
Ants Marching
Granny
Best of What's Around
Grey Street
Rhyme and Reason

[gia_rootdivine]

Originally Posted by chadizzy1

Some of my favorites:
5/24/14 - Atlanta, GA
Two Step
Pay For What You Get
I’ll Back You Up
What Would You Say
Tripping Billies

5/15/15 - Dallas, TX
Ants Marching
One Sweet World
I’ll Back You Up
Typical Situation
SMTS>ATSB>Too Much

5/16/15 - Woodlands, TX
Recently
Crash Into Me
Rhyme & Reason
Jane
WWYS

Yes!
It is encouraging that the acoustic sets have brought back the potential of great song sequences along with that they also have the sound mixed quite clearly.. by the end of this tour including Europe if they do 2 sets there as well there will really be a huge library of amazing partially acoustic medium length concerts on tape! this will be a good companion library for all of the tapes of earlier electric concerts with amazing flow.

[chadizzy1]

Originally Posted by gia_rootdivine

Yes!
It is encouraging that the acoustic sets have brought back the potential of great song sequences along with that they also have the sound mixed quite clearly.. by the end of this tour including Europe if they do 2 sets there as well there will really be a huge library of amazing partially acoustic medium length concerts on tape! this will be a good companion library for all of the tapes of earlier electric concerts with amazing flow.

Definitely some of the best runs I've seen the past few years have been in the acoustic sets.

It's hard to get a good run in the 2014-2015 electric sets that isn't broken up by dropping in Seven, Shake Me, You & Me, Spaceman or Jimi Thing.

[gia_rootdivine]

Originally Posted by chadizzy1

It's hard to get a good run in the 2014-2015 electric sets that isn't broken up by dropping in Seven, Shake Me, etc

It is reaching the point of being weird isn't it!

Your method of basically switching as few as two songs in place of them and the past two years' concerts look perfect. it does make sense where they know some concertgoers like those songs, but, they could open with them.

even this as a main set, brace yourself ...

Shake Me
Seven
Angel
You and Me
I Did It
Lie in our Graves
Rhyme and Reason
Crash
Captain
Drunken Soldier -->
Bartender -->
Drive in Drive out

would be ok, even with those songs opening all in row!

It is that as people in the setlist thread say, it dives in the opposite direction inexplicably.

[zaj128]

They have potential and usually just end up screwing up these electric sets. NI N2 last year started Minarets, Idea Of You, Crush, Warehouse, Song That Jane Likes. That's a fantastic start. But the ending run with the ladies on Can't Stop and You And Me leaves that shitty taste in your mouth.

[Dannyyankou]

Originally Posted by chadizzy1

It's hard to get a good run in the 2014-2015 electric sets that isn't broken up by dropping in Seven, Shake Me, You & Me, Spaceman or Jimi Thing.

Yep, a good example is from Hartford N1 2014-

Minarets
#41
Belly Belly Nice
If Only
Warehouse
Lover Lay Down
The Song That Jane Likes

Replace If Only Dancing Nancies and that's a great run.

Another example from N2-

Dancing Nancies
Rooftop
One Sweet World
Seven
You Never Know
Crush

Replace Seven with something like Pig or Raven, and it would probably be my favorite run I've seen.

[Useliteski]

Originally Posted by Dannyyankou

You might as well throw the next two songs in there.

i had such a hard time deciding which 5 songs to group together in that run.

[Dannyyankou]

Originally Posted by Useliteski

i had such a hard time deciding which 5 songs to group together in that run.

I forgot to add the Maker also, lol.

Also, the encore looks bland on paper but it's probably one of the most fun endings I've seen. The crowd interaction was great.

[Useliteski]

Originally Posted by Dannyyankou

I forgot to add the Maker also, lol.

Also, the encore looks bland on paper but it's probably one of the most fun endings I've seen. The crowd interaction was great.

From the second they burst into Bartender, i had the biggest shit eating grin on my face that didn't go away until the next morning. i liked DMB before then, but that just sealed the deal, man.

i'd kill for a better tape or a release of this entire show

[stlbluespower]

you could probably take almost any pre-Everyday concert and slice each one two or three ways and come up with a great 5 or 6 song run. Some of these post Stand Up runs are really great (and surprising).

I was lucky enough to be at both Alpine 12 and Cville 10 and there were some very good runs as already noted. My favorite in-person run, though, was Lakeside N3. For some reason, that one seemed the most fun. A few have already mentioned the seven-song opening run, but then you had Spaceman and Seek Up as eight and nine (love me some Spaceman).

minor quibble - not sure how a run can include a 10-minute encore break (picky picky)

[crashintonickdm]

7/10/04

Warehouse
OSW
TSTJL
Sugar Will
The Stone

really wis this show would just get released. idc if we already have that GGT.

[Colin]

Originally Posted by chadizzy1

Definitely some of the best runs I've seen the past few years have been in the acoustic sets.

I agree. It wasn't a consecutive run, but Mansfield last year had Two Step, Billies, IBYU, WWYS and Ants Marching in the span of less than an hour. You almost never get that many classics so close together these days.

[space_raven]

Originally Posted by crashintonickdm

7/10/04

Warehouse
OSW
TSTJL
Sugar Will
The Stone

really wis this show would just get released. idc if we already have that GGT.

great show!

[chadizzy1]

Tonight in Georgia, that 5 song opening run was money

Warehouse
BOWA
Grace Is Gone
One Sweet World
The Stone

[OutofDarkness]

Bristow 7/27/13

You & Me
Two Step
Some Devil
Spoon
PNP > Rapunzel

(ignore the Y&M, had to include it to make it 5 songs )

Bristow 7/26/14

BOWA
Seven
Jane
Crush
You Never Know

[DMBlunts]

Originally Posted by crb60

June 20, 2009
Starlake

The Stone
AYSTB>>Too Much (Tease)
Ants Marching
#40 (Partial)
Dreaming Tree

This was the first run that came to mind for me too!

[prdstmnky36]

Hershey 2000

Bartender
Grace Is Gone
JTR
Two Step
E: The Stone
E: DIDO

[mthawk07]

I guess 9.2.16 at the Gorge.

STJL
Warehouse>
Seek Up
WWYS with Carlos Malta
Lover Lay Down

And that’s only five songs, but it was followed by DDTW and Nancies. Great run.

[ISawTheBridge10]

Originally Posted by chadizzy1

Definitely some of the best runs I've seen the past few years have been in the acoustic sets.

It's hard to get a good run in the 2014-2015 electric sets that isn't broken up by dropping in Seven, Shake Me, You & Me, Spaceman or Jimi Thing.

The best show I’ve seen is N2 Deer Creek in 2014. Great acoustic and electric set.

While divided by the encore break, it ended with:

Everyday
Ants Fake>Halloween

Some Devil
Granny
Grey Street

While it doesn’t jump off the page on paper, the place was rockin and it was a perfect encore to cap off a 2 night run.

[chadizzy1]

Originally Posted by ISawTheBridge10

The best show I’ve seen is N2 Deer Creek in 2014. Great acoustic and electric set.

While divided by the encore break, it ended with:

Everyday
Ants Fake>Halloween

Some Devil
Granny
Grey Street

While it doesn’t jump off the page on paper, the place was rockin and it was a perfect encore to cap off a 2 night run.

That was one of the things about the acoustic sets, they definitely had some nice songs in them. I liked them.

[snow1868]

This start to the Dallas '06 show was straight fire and completely unexpected being near the end of the tour. It does fall off the cliff a bit after that.

BOWA
STJL
Say Bye
Pig
LIOG

[snow1868]

Originally Posted by jamwo212

7/25/2000

PNP> Rapunzel
Ants Marching
Granny
Best of What's Around
Grey Street
Rhyme and Reason

This whole show is gold, but you forgot the opening Seek Up>Heartbeat that went into PNP>Rapunzel.

[jenhen27]

4/18/98 - Victory Stadium - https://www.antsmarching.org/tour/Vi...hp?ShowID=2075

Lie In Our Graves
The Stone
The Last Stop
Typical Situation
Pig

[snow1868]

Dallas '98 was also a great start with this opening run

Warehouse
Roi solo>
PNP>
Rapunzel
DDTW
Rhyme
Say Bye