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A Halloween Weekend Recap

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On Friday night, Widespread Panic covered Muddy Waters’ “Baby, Please Don’t Go” and then played a “Not Fade Away” jam for the first time since the 80s. on Saturday, Panic delivered Professor Longhair’s arrangement of “Stag O Lee,” Bloodkin’s “Can’t Get High” and the Doors’ “Peace Frog” and “Blue Sunday.”

Widespread Panic paid tribute to Chicago with a Wilco cover, “Outta Mind (Outta Sight),” as well as other Chicago-themed tunes on Monday night at the Aragon Ballroom. The band interpreted Vic Chesnutt’s “Degenerate,” Howlin Wolf’s “Tail Dragger,” Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man,” John Lennon’s “I’m Losing You” and closed with Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London.”

Umphrey’s McGee mashed up Prince’s “Kiss”, Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” and Genesis’ “I Can’t Dance;” MGMT’s “Kids,” Dead or Alive’s “You Spin Me Right Round” and Nirvana “Come As You Are.” The band also mashed up “No Woman No Cry” and “Let It Be” on Friday night.

Real Estate performed a mini-set of covers while at Chicago’s Lincoln Hall, playing Chris Spedding’s “Video of Life,” The Clean’s “Anything Can Happen,” Blur’s “Coffee and TV,” Felt’s Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow” and Weezer’s “Holiday.”

Ween covered David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” while at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC on Monday night.

On Saturday night, Railroad Earth performed Peter Rowan’s “Pulling the Devil by the Tail” and the Jimmy Page/Robert Plant arrangement of “Gallows Pole.”

Particle covered the Kill Bill theme as well as the Beverly Hills Cop theme and the 2001 theme, “Also Sprach Zarathustra.”

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The Flaming Lips played an unscheduled house party in West Virginia alongside the Greens.

Railroad Earth started Halloween early, performing a live score to the classic silent horror film, Nosferatu, while it was being screened, on Thursday.

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The Warren Haynes Band billed their Halloween show as “Stoned! Halloween on the Sly,” offering a tribute to Sly & the Family Stone.

The Motet’s Halloween show at the Boulder Theater, billed as “Funk Is Dead,” featured the band covering the Grateful Dead, playing songs like “Shakedown Street,” “Fire on the Mountain” and “New Speedway Boogie.”

Greensky Bluegrass’ “Totally Bitchin’ ‘80s” Halloween show in Colorado featured not only 80s-themed clothing but many bluegrass renditions of songs from the decade, including: Michael Jacksons’s “Thriller” and “Beat It,” Prince’s “When Doves Cry” and “Little Red Corvette” and Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’.”