Zac Brown Band Honors LeRoi Moore & Busts Out Pearl Jam Cover At The Gorge

The Zac Brown Band brought the Welcome Home Tour to The Gorge in George, Washington on Saturday night. Brown and his mates included a tribute to late Dave Matthews Band multi-instrumentalist LeRoi Moore on the anniversary of his passing and also dusted off a long-lost Pearl Jam cover.

Saturday’s first set featured plenty of originals including “Whiskey’s Gone,” “Colder Weather,” “Free” and “Day For The Dead.” Zac Brown dedicated the set-closing cover of “Ants Marching” to Moore and added “rest in peace, my man” after the song was finished. “Ants Marching” was a ZBB staple for a few years but had gone missing since February 5, 2014.

The Zac Brown Band’s opening stanza on Saturday also featured a cover of “Black” by Pearl Jam. “Black” was last performed by the ZBB on October 17, 2015 according to Setlist.FM. Saturday’s second set began with a cover of “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen followed by a string of originals that included “It’s Not OK” and “Your Majesty.” Brown then led his band through a cover of “Whipping Post” by the Allman Brothers Band and later the ZBB ended the set with “Paradise City” by Guns N’ Roses. For the encore, the Zac Brown Band treated fans to a rendition of John Prine’s “All The Best” ahead of originals “Chicken Friend” and “Homegrown.”

Watch both cover bust outs captured by rent’n:

[Black]

[Ants Marching]