Best Spafford show??

In no particular order:

10/30/15 - Phoenix, AZ
8/9/14 - Albuquerque, NM
9/6/15 - Boulder, CO

Call me biased because I was at all of these shows, but it is a known fact that Spafford plays better when I'm in attendance.. so yea.

crappygeorge

8/3/13 is pure fuego

Lopez

not the best shows but two of my personal favorites are 10/28/16 and 10/29/16. Love a lot of what was happening in 2015 as well. Soundboards from 2012-2013 that Jordan did are some of the best sounding shows we have IMO

damian

@Chris-Ogor-Lopez I love the cover of Longview from that 10/29/16 show.

damian

The Spaffnerds Facebook Group turned up some really good responses to "What's the best Spafford Show." I wanted to make sure we had them captured here.

@Andrew-Hilston & @kabumped
- 5/25/13 @ Flagstaff Brewing Company - Flagstaff, AZ
@kabumped
- 7/22/13 @ Quixote's True Blue - Denver, CO
Evan L
- 8/24/13 @ E&E's Wedding - Ruidoso, NM
Andy G
- 5/6/16 @ Orpheum Theater - Flagstaff, AZ
@Zach-Stouse & James S.
- 10/30/15 @ Last Exit Live - Phoenix, AZ
Paige H & @Warren-G-Molden
- 9/6/15 @ Fox Theatre - Boulder, CO
Curry W.
Paul F.

damian

Chris CBS added this show in the Facebook group:

8/8/14 @ Last Exit Live - Phoenix, AZ

RadiantDarkness

I wasn't even there but I'm tossing 9/29/16 @ Cranky Pat's in the mix for discussion. I'm thinking many people haven't heard the whole show. @damian was kind enough to update the setlist page with links to both sets now (albeit only a stream for set 2 but it's WELL worth the listen). Hopefully it officially gets released some day!

damian

@Tim-Reid added this show on fbook:

11/06/2015 @ The Orpheum, Flagstaff AZ

RadiantDarkness

We should probably re-think this a little. For one, none of us have heard everyone Spafford show. Two, there are many shows there aren't recordings for. Three and most importantly, this band is evolving with the best arrows still in the quiver.

Maybe we should start a thread that breaks it down per year and basically will eventually highlight two shows from each year that best define it (there could be honorable mentions too, or specific jams that we also want to highlight). Off the top of my head:

2016 has many defining shows as they broke out of southwest, Cranky Pat's being the pinnacle of that tour imo, played NYC for the first time, played a 3 set show as their April Fool's joke, crushed their Halloween shows, so yeah, that's a whole 'nother discussion

2015 everyone mentions 9/6 and 10/30 (I tend to agree and have attendance bias because i was at them) and then every fan should listen to the cabin jams which aren't a show but the band showing off their improvisational prowess hidden away somewhere in, you guessed it, a cabin.

2014 i don't know anything about but I remember loving NYE

2013 wedding show is 1 of them (maybe NYE the other)

2012 02-25 is a wild ride

damian

@RadiantDarkness definitely a good idea. I'd really love to get a voting system in place on the SpaffBase too.

I'm not sure though that this topic doesn't satisfy our need right now. We could update the title of the topic to be something a bit less definitive, ie: "What's your favorite Spafford show?"