moe. at Saranac Brewery — June 7, 2006

Twenty years ago tonight, moe. played the Saranac Brewery in Utica — a hometown show in the truest sense, the Upstate NY jam legends inside the F.X. Matt brewhouse, copper kettles glinting in the back of the room. moe. is what the Dead were to the Bay Area or Phish to Burlington: a regional band that became a genre, built fan-to-fan, tape-to-tape, summer-to-summer. Rob Derhak on bass, Al Schnier and Chuck Garvey on guitars, Vinnie Amico on drums, Jim Loughlin on percussion. They stretched ‘Rebubula’ past twenty minutes that night. They were home.