Full Show Video: Rare Jake Cinninger Solo Performance

Umphrey’s McGee guitarist Jake Cinninger played a pair of rare solo performances at Tonic Room in Chicago on Sunday. Cinninger, backed by pre-recorded drum tracks, displayed his multi-instrumental talents over the course of early and late shows featuring covers, solos and a handful of UM originals.

Jake brought plenty of gear from his Michigan studio to Tonic Room on Sunday as he moved between guitar, bass and keyboards all while backed by drum tracks. Cinninger opened with a new original dubbed “Something Inside” and would go on to work UM originals “Nopener,” “Bad Poker” and “Wizard Burial Ground” into his set. On the cover front, Jake treated fans to renditions of “Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac, “Dancing Days” by Led Zeppelin, “Hysteria” by Def Leppard, “Night Moves” by Bob Seger, The Cars’ “Moving In Stereo” and others. The late show had a similar setlist as to what went down at the early show.

Watch video of Sunday’s early show thanks to IzeOfTheWorldPhotos:

Early Show Setlist (compiled by LarrySellers for The Bort)

Set: Something Inside (new Jake song), Dreams (Fleetwood Mac) [1], Dancing Days (Led Zeppelin) [2], Nopener, Metal solo [3], Hysteria (Def Leppard) [4], Jazz solo, Good Ol’ Boys (Waylon Jennings), Mother (Pink Floyd) [2], Night Moves (Bob Seger) [2], unknown song (Jake original?) [2], Bad Poker [2] , Can’t You See (Marshall Tucker Band) [2], Wizard Burial Ground, Moving In Stereo (The Cars), Seek And Destroy (Metallica), Lenny (Stevie Ray Vaughan), Jaco P Ville [5], Plush (Stone Temple Pilots) [2]

• [1] contained musical elements of the Halloween mashup
• [2] acoustic
• [3] Eruption tease
• [4] Pour Some Sugar On Me vocal tease before Hysteria (Step inside, walk this way…)
• [5] Jake on bass; funky bass jam with stop/start keyboard drum triggers
• Fool in the Rain tease before Lenny (Jake explained that the drum beat he used for Seek and Destroy was originally intended for Fool in the Rain, but “Fuck that Led Zeppelin song”)