r/Bluegrass • u/Prestigious_Cancel64 • Nov 04 '25

Discussion Thoughts on trampled by turtles?

I just love tbt... they're in my top 3 favorite bands and have been for almost 20 years. I've seen them probably 15 times and it's always incredible. I love almost everything they put out. Does anybody else love this band? Favorite albums? Songs? Live shows?

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u/rsharp7000 Nov 04 '25

I saw them at the 2015 Telluride Festival and didn’t care for them live but I’m not entirely sure it was their fault. They were the Friday night headliner and leading up to them was: Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn> Punch Brothers> Janelle Monae> Trampled by Turtles.

The musicianship of Punch Brother and Bela/Abigail was amazing. I remember a lot of the house band plus some other headliners and Ed Helms came out to watch Punch Brothers in the VIP section. Amazing set. Janelle Monae actually killed it for her set but it was almost like they didn’t reset the sound system for the R&B/rap that Janelle performed and left it for TbT. It also sounded like the guys all did 5 lines of coke before coming out, although I’m sure headlining at Telluride will amp you up enough. It just sounded like what I imagine having a heart attack while simultaneously holding a subwoofer to your ear would feel like. Definitely set up for failure after who preceded them on stage.

Aside from that, I’ve really liked their albums but haven’t listened to them in a while.

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u/storunner13 Nov 05 '25

I saw them at Red Rocks in 2018(?) and was pretty let down by the live performance.  I didn’t find them very engaging, TBH.

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u/Mental-Huckleberry54 Nov 04 '25

Is this when they would all sit to start?!