This past weekend, Taper’s Choice hosted their two-night Taper’s Ball at Gold Diggers in Los Angeles, a venue associated the band’s live gigs. The first night featured mostly familiar material from the group, in addition to samples of The Big Lebowski as a hint to what the next night had in store.

The supergroup’s Friday stint started with a performance of “Above the Timberline” and other original material prior to a debut of “Pinot Botticelli.” Upon their return for the second set the band played two songs, “Mahi Mahi Fish Stew” and “Doner Wrap.” Both of the aforementioned songs included samples from The Big Lebowski, a play off night’s two thematic display. 

Saturday’s concert represented Taper’s Choice’s Halloween show and in spirit the band dressed up as characters from The Big Lebowski, which also inspired the song selection for the majority of their set. Beginning with “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In),” a classic Kenny Rogers song, the band debuted what would be the first of six songs from the movie. Later in the first set, the band added first time takes on “Maude” and later “Lookin’ Out My Back Door,” another tune from The Big Lebowski. 

When the quartet came back out for set two, they debuted “Pictures At An Exhibition,” originally a piano suite by Modest Mussorgsky, which transitioned into “Lick The Toad.” The next tune featured a guest appearance by War on Drugs’ Jon Natchez, who sat in on sax for a debut of “Run Through the Jungle.” Before ending the ball on Taper’s Choice debuted “Dead Flowers,” just after band member Dave Harrington provided vocal lead on a cover of Bob Dylan’s “The Man In Me,” another songs taken from The Big Lebowski’s soundtrack. 

View the band’s setlist below via taperschoice.net.

Taper’s Choice 

Gold Diggers – Los Angeles 

Oct. 27, 2023 

Set I: Above the Timberline, Close Encounters, Running From the Rain, Pinot Botticelli[1], Walking Around

Set II: Mahi Mahi Fish Stew[2], Doner Wrap[2], Lilac Palace, Vegan in the ‘90s

Notes: 

[1] Debut

[2] Big Lebowski samples

Taper’s Choice 

Gold Diggers – Los Angeles 

Oct. 28, 2023 

Set I: Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)[1], Darkness on the Edge of Midtown, Waiting for the Flood, 21 Miles, Maude*[2], The Dave Test[3]-> Lookin’ Out My Back Door

Set II: Pictures at an Exhibition[4]-> Lick the Toad, Run Through the Jungle[1], Every Bubble, Born to Burst, The Man in Me, Dead Flowers[1]

Notes: 

[1] Debut

[2] Set List Name; Debut

[3] Yes

[4] Incomplete; Debut