Picture Show: Umphrey’s Sunrise Set @ Bonnaroo

Umphrey’s McGee @ Bonnaroo, June 9

We haven’t come across many photos from Umphrey’s McGee’s instant classic “sunrise” set at Bonnaroo on Saturday morning, so when our pal Mike Stein offered up his shots we jumped at the opportunity. Michael’s snaps focus on the tremendous light show UM LD Jefferson Waful presented to the crowd at This Tent and even gives context by showing the scene around the tent.

[All Photos by Michael Stein]

Here’s the setlist from the marathon set…

Set: Gurgle > 40′s Theme*, Plunger > The Floor, Pay the Snucka** > The Triple Wide > Pay the Snucka$, Puppet String, JaJunk > Breathe$$ > Plunger, Ringo& > All In Time&&, Bright Lights Big City, 1348 > Hajimemashite, Miss Tinkle’s Overture > Thunderstruck > Miss Tinkle’s Overture, Booth Love, Wizard Burial Ground

Encore: In the Kitchen% > JaJunk

late night in This Tent
* with One Nation Under a Groove (Funkadelic) tease
** with Stranglehold (Ted Nugent) jam
$ with Bulls On Parade (Rage Against the Machine)
$$ dub
& full band switch with Big Gigantic
&& with Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ (Michael Jackson) jam
% unfinished

[via Jeremy Welsh – Umphreys.com]

UM guitarist Brendan Bayliss explained the thinking behind the set’s full-band segue with Big Gigantic to Rolling Stone, “We figured that, playing from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m., if we didn’t stop, there would’ve been a weird moment where we’d have to do a drum solo piss break.”