Ritz Power Jam Band - The Ritz, NYC (1993)

                                                              Ritz Power Jam Band
 On February 5, 1993, Warren Haynes assembled an all-star crew to play The Ritz in New York City. The evening was appropriately billed as The Ritz Power Jam and brought together a truly mind-boggling collection of talented musicians. The line-up included Warren Haynes (The Allman Brothers Band), John Popper (Blues Traveler), Noel Redding (The Jimi Hendrix Experience), Leland Schliefer (Warren Haynes Band), Chuck Leavell (Allman’s/Aquarium Rescue Unit), Bernie Worrell (Parliament Funkadelic), Jaimoe (Allman’s), Jerome Brailey (Parliament Funkadelic), and Marc Quinones (Allmans). The evening also saw Trey Anastasio, Mike Gordon, Dave Tronzo, Dave Matthews, Leroi Moore, and Boyd Tinsley sit-in with the already stacked crew.

To kick off the night, the supergroup started things off with Jimmy Smith’s “Back at the Chicken Shack.” The evening’s setlist contained primarily covers, and the first set saw tunes by Chuck Barry, Taj Mahal, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and Jimi Hendrix. Toward the end of this first set, the band also moved into a John Popper original, “Escaping,” before closing out the set with Billy Roberts’ “Hey Joe.”

Booker T & The MG’s “Hip Hug-Her” started off the second set before the group moved into B.B. King’s “Rock Me Baby.” Toward the beginning of the set, Dave Tronzo appeared for Jimi Hendrix’s “Red House” and threw it down on the slide guitar. After the group moved through tunes by Bob Dylan, Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, and Otis Redding and Warren Haynes’ original “Just Before The Bullets Fly,” Trey Anastasio (who had played the Roseland Ballroom with Phish earlier in the evening)  came out for Little Feat’s “Spanish Moon.”

To end the second set, the Dave Matthews Band featuring Dave Matthews, Leroi Moore, and Boyd Tinsley came out to join Trey and the rest of the band for Jimi Hendrix’s “All Along The Watchtower,” during which Trey, Warren, and Popper switched off on vocals. For the encore, the Dave Matthews Band left, but a new friendly face appeared: Mike Gordon. Together with Trey and the rest of the supergroup, the group finished off the night with Van Morrison’s “Gloria,” with repeated teases of Sly and the Family Stone’s “Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself.”


Tracklist:

01. Back at the Chicken Shack 05:12 
02. Born Under a Bad Sign 05:37
03. Let it Rock 05:13
04. Improv Blues in G
05. She Caught the Katy 06:23 
06. Down the Road 02:53
07. Mess of the Blues 03:18 
08. Little Wing 09:25
09. Day Tripper 04:57
10. Escaping 12:22
11. Hey Joe 07:15
12. Hip Hug-Her 08:51
13. Rock Me Baby 08:48  
14. In the Night 07:42
15. Red House 09:52
16. Yonder Wall 09:19
17. She Belongs to Me 04:05
18. Not Fade Away 02:51 
19. That's Heaven to Me 02:58
20. Just Before the Bullets Fly 05:29 
21. Been Lovin' You too Long 06:04
22. Spanish Moon 13:17  
23. All Along the Watchtower 14:28  
24. Gloria / Thank you for Letting Me Be Myself 24:44