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They were in Raleigh a few weeks ago and put on a tremendous show. My favorite moment came during the second set, when, as they neared the crescendo of a slower jam, the entire Lincoln Theatre lost power. MMW were jamming away, and all of a sudden everything goes dead. Emergency strobe lights start flashing and buzzing while the crowd starts cheering raucously. This goes on for about a minute, then the lights/buzzers stop and there's just darkness and a good vibe mob. From the soundboard area, technicians pulled out flashlights and pointed them onstage. Chris Wood grabbed his big stand up bass, John Medeski pulled out some wierd wind/squeeze box contraption (where he was blowing into a tube connected to some box), and Billy Martin found a hollowed-out-and-polished husk-like thingy (he was rubbing his hand inside to get different tones, playing them rhythmically). The crowd got quiet and thoroughly enjoyed MMW's acoustic jam under the flashlights.
A few minutes into their acoustic jam the house lights came back on, but they finshed up the song unplugged, at one point Medeski and Martin exchanging 'licks' on their respective 'instruments' (all too cool). When done, the crowd showed their appreciation with whistles, yells, and lots of applause, to which Chris Wood grabbed a mic and cooly intoned, "we don't need no stinkin' electricity."
I need these guys at roo. That story about the unplanned acoustic jam is pretty sweet too. I'm gonna see them do an acoustic show in a few weeks, but I don't know if it can match the spontaneity that must have had.
