Blind Pilot is a duo made up of Israel Nebeker and Ryan Dobrowski, though they have backup musician help.  They started off similar to the last opener, Loch Lomond, being a Portland, Oregon band that took a while to set up, but with all the instruments this was expected.  During sound check there was loud feedback that made half the band wince and lower their heads.  After that, a man next to me pointed out how the monster acoustic bass was juxtaposed nicely with the tiny ukulele on the other side of the stage.  The band told the audience how they used to ride around on bikes looking for a place to play, so now it is good that they are playing at the Casbah.  The first song was about being out in the cold, much unlike the inside of the venue with the full crowd.  The bass played later thanked everyone for coming, but said they made it uncomfortably warm.  The singer replied that it's funny how he could ride up hills with a bass strapped to his back, but when it came to being too warm, he needed to complain.

The first two songs were not bad, but the vibraphone was too quiet.  The next song had a mysterious return of feedback.  They tried looking for the source but it could not be found.  More annoying was the fan in the front who knew every single lyric, but who sang off key.  He tried to get the rest of the crowd into it, to sing along, but in his likely drunken state he did not know that not everyone memorizes so many words, even for their favorite band.  He seemed to be with the band at first until later Nebeker said that he would have loved to have the man, who also was doing a sort of interpretive dance, at a past show they did at a record store.

The next few songs began sounding similar, but on the sixth there was a change of pace with a nice strong drum beat to start.  The next song was a solid one, but had some feedback again and was pretty straight forward and predictable.  The ukulele player sang lead on the ninth song, but it was almost too good and made almost all of the songs, before and after, sound not as great.  Her powerful country twang voice was much more engaging and emotional than Nebeker’s own vocals.

The next song was on level with the last though, being very catchy and was carried by the singing and banjo.  They left briefly to come back for the encore and played two more songs.  On the last song, the banjo girl helped the drummer by playing with him using mallets.  The sound guy tried to have the lights go with the music, but this time it was more of a distraction than anything.  The crowd was still fairly into the upbeat song and it was a good finish to a solid set.