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MOORE
AND MORE ROAD REPORT
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Key Largo
Portland, OR
September 10, 1998
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Thursday night in Portland was a mellow one.
Key Largo in downtown Portland has about a 200
person capacity, so the setting was intimate,
and Moore and More seemed happy to experiment
on this night. Starting off the first set was
Common Ground" which was followed by "Magnolia
Triangle" (which seems to be getting better
with every show.) Next came a tune that sounded
like some sort of South African standard (a
member of the audience sitting next to me recognized
the tune as one that the band Zero plays--he
thought it was called "Favela".) Next
came an upbeat "Witch Doctor" followed
by a jam that Skerik started off by looping
some sax lines together, but by the end of the
song, it was sounding like "Nalgas".
Next, Stanton invited his friend Joe Cunningham
who lives in Portland and who is the saxophonist
in a band called Jive Talkin' Robots, for "Tchfunkta"
and "Blues for Ben" to end the set.
After a short set break, Moore and More
started the set with a spacey improv jam that
turned into "Boogaloo Boogie". The
band was having fun at this point and Charlie
started playing one of his favorite covers,
a tune by Johnny 'Guitar' Watson called "It's
a Real Mutha for 'Ya" with Charlie singing
a verse or two. Next came an extended "Angel
Nemali" followed by an adventurous "Farmstead
Antiques". As the band felt like it was
time for more improv, they broke into James
Brown's "Cold Sweat" which had people
movin'. Stanton called his friend Joe Cunningham
out for the last tune of the set "Tchfunkta".
The boys decided to do an encore to the delight
of the audience and they broke out a long,
slow, and funky "Powerhouse" by
Chester Thompson. To close the encore, the
Moore and More played a short clip of what
sounded like a George Gershwin tune. All said
and done, another extremely satisfying show
and it is obvious the band is having fun by
including more and more (no pun intended)
improvisational parts and freshly played songs
to their set.
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set
1
Common Ground
Magnolia Triangle
Favela (?)
Witch Doctor
Nalgas Jam
Green Chimneys *
Blues for Ben *
set
2
Boogaloo Boogie
Its a Real Mutha For 'Ya
Angel Nemali
Farmstead Antiques
Cold Sweat
Tchfunkta *
E: Powerhouse
* w/ Joe Cunningham on tenor sax
Witch
Doctor
Nalgas
Jam (edit)
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