Photo by Paul Citone

moe. spent its New Year’s Eve in Albany, for the first of two nights at the Palace Theatre. While tonight’s performance will revisit some of the songs from Halloween’s Star Wars themed show, last night’s gig saw the group dip back into the past for some older compositions and also debut some new material.

The evening opened with a bustout as moe. performed “Defrost,” an original from 1995, which the band had last played on 8/30/08 at moe.down, and prior to then, on 1/22/97 (after delivering 48 versions in 1995 and 1996). “Defrost” segued into “Akimbo” and “Y.O.Y,” after which the group delivered the rarity “Canned Pastries,” a 1994 original that the band has performed only seven times, most recently on 9/27/14. From there the band revisited “Po Sadie,” an Al Schnier original from 1993 with only three prior moe. plays, with the preceding version on 12/30/08.

A new Schnier original appeared during the second set where the band debuted the instrumental “Montego” amidst a five songs of extended jams that opened with “Happy Hour Hero” > “Seat of My Pants” and closed with “Four” > “Buster.”

New Year’s Eve arrived early in set three, where the band kicked things off with a pair of Pink Floyd selections, “Time” and “Breathe” before moving into “Auld Lang Syne.” The group’s New Year’s celebration saw percussionist Jim Loughlin take over on vocals for a first-ever version of House of Pain’s “Jump Around.” Expansive takes on “Billy Goat” and “Meat” then followed. The encore was the group’s premiere cover of Talking Heads’ “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody).”

As previously mentioned, moe. will look to Star Wars tonight in Albany.

Here is the setlist, drawn from our Box Scores section:

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moe.
Palace Theatre Albany, NY

Set I: Defrost* > Akimbo > Y.O.Y., Canned Pastries%, Po’ Sadie^, Timmy Tucker > Don’t Fuck With Flo

Set II: Happy Hour Hero > Seat Of My Pants, Montego^^, Four > Buster

Set III: Time > Breathe > Auld Lang Syne > Jump Around^^^ > Auld Lang Syne > Billy Goat > Meat

Enc: This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)^^^^

Notes:
*Last time played 8/30/08
%Last time played 9/27/14
^Last time played 12/30/98
^^Debut, original
^^^Debut (House of Pain) with Jim on vocals
^^^^Debut (Talking Heads)

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