On Friday night, Spafford put on an energetic performance at Teregram Ballroom in Los Angeles, California, signaling a strong finish for the group’s extensive fall tour. With tonight’s show in their hometown of Flagstaff, Arizona, the band let it all out for one final night on the West Coast. The night was jubilant, to say the least, with the band inviting two special guests—guitarist and vocalist Brian Moss’ brother Geoff Moss and Perpetual Groove frontman Brock Butler—to join in on the fun during the show.

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During the band’s six-song first set, the band opened with a number of well-loved and regularly rotated songs, appropriately playing “Hollywood” for the third song of the set given the location of the show. However, the stand-out highlight of set one was its final number, “Legend”, which saw the band invite out Brian Moss’ brother, Geoff Moss, to help close out the energized set proper. As for the second set, after the opening rendition of “Ain’t That Wrong”, Spafford moved into a cover of Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Aeroplane”. Though the cover was debuted on New Year’s Eve last year, this fall tour has seen the band regularly rotating in the song, marking its fifth appearance this tour.

“Aeroplane”

 

After “Leave The Light On” and a cover of Tears For Fears’ “Mad World”, the band invited out yet another guest musician—this time, Perpetual Groove’s Brock Butler on the Spafford original “Salamander Song”. The sit-in had been hinted at previously, as earlier yesterday, Butler took to Facebook explaining the origins of last night’s sit-in: “I met Andrew Red when he graced the stage with us this past Saturday in Denver. Now for Bringing it full circle I’ll see the fellas tonight in the City of Angels!” Spafford then closed out set two with “Beautiful Day”, before returning with a tremendous encore of “Postman”—a particularly awesome show-closer given the extended length of the composition.

“Salamander Song” with Brock Butler

[Video: mb1065]

The soundboards for Friday night’s show will soon be available, as well as most Spafford shows, on nugs.net here. Tonight, the band closes up shop in Flagstaff, Arizona at the Orpheum Theater.

Setlist: Spafford | Teregram Ballroom | Los Angeles, CA | 11/16/17

Set One: Remedy, People, Hollywood, Mind’s Unchained, All In, Legend*

Set Two: Ain’t That Wrong, Aeroplane (RHCP) > Leave The Light On, Mad World, Salamander Song^, Beautiful Day

Encore: Postman

*with special guest Geoff Moss (Brian’s Brother)

^with special guest Brock Butler (Perpetual Groove)

[Photo: Steph Port via Spafford’s Facebook]