Fruit Bats - Found a Round Stone: Live in Portland '2020

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Tony the Tripper (Live)
02. None of Us (Live)
03. Absolute Loser (Live)
04. The Ruminant Band (Live)
05. When U Love Somebody (Live)
06. Flamingo (Live)
07. Beautiful Morning Light (Live)
08. The Bottom of It (Live)
09. Not Saying You Have to Stand Up (Live)
10. Cazadera (Live)
11. Lives of Crime (Live)
12. Born in the 70s (Live)
13. Dolly (Live)
14. A Lingering Love (Live)
15. So Long (Live)
16. Feather Bed (Live)
17. My Sweet Midwest (Live)
18. My Unusual Friend (Live)
19. From a Soon-to-Be Ghost Town (Live)
20. Humbug Mountain Song (Live)
21. Gold Past Life (Live)
22. The Banishment Song (Live)
23. Youre Too Weird (Live)
24. Canyon Girl (Live)


This recording is cut down from a much larger show, a rare “evening with
Fruit Bats”—no opener, two sets—that ran a little over two
hours. Which was really long for me. How does Phish pull it off every night?

Revolution Hall is one of my favorite venues. It’s a nice theater with
comfy seats, which is plush but also leads to people sitting down. I mean, a
seated audience is kinda classy in a lot of ways, but I’m always looking
for that extra rush of energy as the songs ramp up. At one point, you can hear
me (gently) implore folks to stand up (!!). But as it was a long
evening—and it being Portland, the beer selection was dank and
flowing—naturally the audience got rowdier (and on their feet) as the
night progressed, which you can clearly hear in the later points of this
recording.

This was the last night of a short tour of the Pacific Northwest in January
2019, so in it you hear some of the earliest live versions of songs off of Gold
Past Life which didn’t come out until a few months later. It also
includes the only live version of “The Banishment Song” ever, plus a
couple of rarely played cuts off of Spelled in Bones.

The band lineup was really special here, an expanded 7-piece lineup that
included my stellar frequent co-conspirators Josh Mease (guitar), David Dawda
(bass), Josh Adams (drums), and Frank LoCrasto (keys), plus extra special sauce
provided by the members of the great Pure Bathing Culture: Sarah Versprille,
taking the harmony vocals to a heavenly level (and playing Mellotron), and
Daniel Hindman, giving the whole show a delicious gauzy Fender Strat flavor.
I’m really happy that our excellent front-of-house engineer Aly
Carlisle-Steinberg thought to hit record that evening.

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