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Traveled out of the Ozarks for this one. I second Tyler's sentiment about seeing the Mule, how you know you're seeing something really special, and Krishna's about how you're grinning a long time after. I used to think of Mule as a guilty pleasure, you know, the slow to medium tempos, heavy heavy early 70's references, but now I've stepped into the light and am owning up: they are an experience not to be missed. It's a smorgasboard of influences too numerous to catalogue, a brain salad sandwich of sound. The Columbia show Thursday was outstanding - almost too loud as is always their bent - but not quite. The sound is indescribeable, the catalogue of tunes deep, the riffs endless. The Mule has become an American institution. Lively Up Yourself was all instrumental and all there. During something, probably Perfect Shelter, in the second set, they played around with Hendrix' "The Power of Soul" or at least that's the way it struck me. Mr Fantasy popping out of a relatively plodding tune in the first set was a blast. Soulshine the perfect ending to a deep evening. 02.17.05 The Blue Note - Columbia, MO SET 1: Bad Little Doggie Bad Man Walking Mother Earth Rocking Horse Banks Of Deep End Trane Hunger Strike > Dear Mr. Fantasy > Hunger Strike > Mule > I've Been Working > Mule SET 2: 32-20 Blues Temporary Saint Slackjaw Jezebel Lively Up Yourself Drums Perfect Shelter Mr. Man Blind Man In The Dark ENCORE: She's Nineteen Years Old Soulshine