Listen To moe. ‘Star Wars’ Halloween In Philadelphia

For this year’s Halloween show, moe. treated a capacity crowd at the newly-opened Fillmore Philadelphia to a special Star Wars-themed performance. Not only did the band debut covers of music related to the films, they also alternated lyrics on a handful of originals and unveiled other covers to fit the theme.

moe. kicked off the show with John Williams’ famed Star Wars Overture and ended the night with Meco’s discofied reworking of the same song. In between they changed the lyrics of “St. Augustine” to “Senator Palpatine,” “Shoot First” to “Han Shot First,” “Moth” to “Hoth,” “Buster” to “Luke Can Fly,” “Yodelittle” to “Yoda.Little.Leia” and “Plane Crash” to “CGI Crash.” The band also debuted covers of “Mr. Spaceman” by The Byrds, “Cantina Band” and “Imperial March” from Star Wars, “Cosmik Debris” by Frank Zappa, “Ziggy Stardust” by David Bowie and Weird Al Yankovic’s “Lola” parody “Yoda.”

Listen to an audience recording of last night’s show via Archive.org thanks to Marcus:

Setlist (via moe. Facebook)

Set One: Star Wars Overture1 > Senator Palpatine2, Mr. Spaceman3, Cantina Band1, Cosmik Debris4, Han Shot First5 > Interstellar Overdrive > Hoth6

Set Two: The Imperial March1 >(nh) Ziggy Stardust7, Silver Sun, Jazz Wank > Luke Can Fly8 > Yoda.Little.Leia9

Encore: CGI Crash10, Yoda11, Disco Wars12

• 1 – FTP (cover – John Williams / LSO)
• 2 – St. Aug with altered lyrics
• 3 – FTP (cover – The Byrds)
• 4 – FTP (cover – Frank Zappa) > jim. vox
• 5 – Shoot 1st w/ altered lyrics
• 6 – Moth with altered lyrics
• 7 – FTP (cover – David Bowie)
• 8 – Buster with alternate lyrics
• 9 – Yodelittle with altered lyrics
• 10 – Plane Crash with altered lyrics
• 11 – FTP (cover – Weird Al Yankovic / The Kinks)
• 12 – FTP (cover – Meco)