Spafford Revisits Past Halloween Covers In San Francisco

Spafford brought their 2022 fall tour to The Independent in San Francisco on Saturday. The Arizona jam quartet harkened back to covers from Halloweens past for their final show before the holiday.

Spafford’s Brian Moss, Jordan Fairless, Andrew “Red” Johnson and Nick Tkachyk dressed as skeletons and kicked off the first set with the infinitely eerie theme to the horror film franchise Halloween by John Carpenter. Spafford last played the unsettling theme on October 25, 2019 in Denver, as per Spaffnerds. Up next, “Tainted Love” by Soft Cell, which the band dusted off six years to the day, debuting the song on October 29, 2016. The quartet then offered the original “Double Time,” within which they fit “Mind’s Unchained,” together totaling nearly 40 minutes.

The Presidents Of The United States Of America favorite “Peaches” came next and led into a spooky “Whisper Jam” and then the new tune, “Fake The Fate,” debuted earlier on the band’s 2022 fall tour in Bozeman, Montana. The staple “Leave The Light On” then encompassed a nearly 22-minute “The Postman” to wrap up the single set.

Another new tune, “Left On The Runway,” unveiled in Salt Lake City earlier this month, kicked off the three-song encore, which concluded with two Harry Belafonte-popularized tunes, “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” and “Jump In The Line.” The Belafonte classics have been in Spafford’s repertoire for a decade and are something of a Halloween tradition for the band, they were both most recently performed at their Halloween show in Bloomington, Illinois last year.

Check out photos from the show and the setlist posted by the band below: