Breakfast Babble => Food For Thought => 2008 => Topic started by: davepeck on April 19, 2008, 12:16:06 pm
Title: Setlist: 2008-04-19 - Mercury Lounge; New York, NY
Post by: davepeck on April 19, 2008, 12:16:06 pm
I: Space City Affair > Slow Merge, May Fly Disarray > Rush* > May Fly Disarray, Synergy > Buquebus** > The World Needs Us^, Space City Affair > jam^^ > Son Of Simpleton
* with \'May Fly Disarray\' teases ** with drum solo ^ with bass solo ^^ Matt and Tim on guitar and keys simultaneously
Title: Setlist: 2008-04-19 - Mercury Lounge; New York, NY
Post by: ChrisPitch on April 20, 2008, 12:18:54 am
I: Space City Affair > Slow Merge, May Fly Disarray > Rush* > May Fly Disarray, Synergy > Buquebus** > The World Needs Us^, Space City Affair > jam^^ > Son Of Simpleton
* with \'May Fly Disarray\' teases ** with drum solo ^ with bass solo ^^ Matt and Tim on guitar and keys simultaneously
Title: Setlist: 2008-04-19 - Mercury Lounge; New York, NY
Post by: peaches626 on April 20, 2008, 12:20:53 am
awwwww shiz!!!
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Post by: jocelyn on April 20, 2008, 12:32:05 am
Wow... they keep pulling out what the people are dying to hear. I have heard hardly anything of the new songs (and nothing live, except for Rust I think, which I remember virtually nothing of) and haven\'t heard so many of the old ones for so long that I feel literally electric thinking about the next time I will see The Breakfast.
Title: Setlist: 2008-04-19 - Mercury Lounge; New York, NY
Post by: peaches626 on April 20, 2008, 12:43:57 am
I was bustin dang elise\'s balls out west and he told me they had a whole slew of songs they were preppin for when they got back home and were able to rehearse proper.
they ain\'t wastin time no more
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Post by: Jim Cobb on April 20, 2008, 01:06:18 am
...Synergy>Buquebus...
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Post by: Jim Cobb on April 20, 2008, 01:31:18 am
...The World Needs Us
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Post by: peaches626 on April 20, 2008, 01:39:40 am
nice, thank you chris pitch or jim cobb or whoever is involved in this live thing
Title: Setlist: 2008-04-19 - Mercury Lounge; New York, NY
Post by: Jim Cobb on April 20, 2008, 01:46:29 am
>space city affair > jam > son of simpleton
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Post by: ChrisPitch on April 20, 2008, 01:47:05 am
You are welcome, Mr. Peaches. I always enjoy doing it.
Title: Setlist: 2008-04-19 - Mercury Lounge; New York, NY
Post by: peaches626 on April 20, 2008, 01:59:41 am
aaaaaa!!!
Title: Setlist: 2008-04-19 - Mercury Lounge; New York, NY
Post by: ds673488 on April 20, 2008, 08:52:48 am
wow thats looks awesome...im so glad to see SOS back on there, i was just saying i really missed that ditty.
is "slow merge" a song unto itself, or does that mean merge was played in slow tempo?
Title: Setlist: 2008-04-19 - Mercury Lounge; New York, NY
Post by: Klout on April 20, 2008, 09:06:48 am
slow tempo
great to see these songs making a come back.
i now have no doubt that sundance will make a reappearance at sterling stage or the boat cruise.
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Post by: Nermel9 on April 20, 2008, 09:47:55 am
I cannot believe I missed Merge...and it had to be slow too. :mad: :(
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Post by: davepeck on April 20, 2008, 11:22:33 am
probably about as much as an OFF night as you can get.
had its moments, but that\'s about it.
this show had enormous potential, and didn\'t even come close to being able to scratch the surface, unfortunately.
HUGE things were planned with the original written setlist.
the mercury lounge employs a bunch of people who hate their jobs and lives.
and i am SO over NYC. *meh*
that said, tonight should be something special.
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Post by: galenas on April 20, 2008, 11:29:44 am
this setlist looks absolutely amazing on paper, but unfortunately was pretty disappointing last night. crowd energy was severely lacking.
BIG shout out to matty o for coming out early and supporting the other bands. much respect and appreciation.
Quote from: davepeck;186879
HUGE things were planned with the original written setlist.
that upsets me immensely.
Title: Setlist: 2008-04-19 - Mercury Lounge; New York, NY
Post by: Klout on April 20, 2008, 11:30:42 am
Quote from: davepeck;186879
probably about as much as an OFF night as you can get.
you were missing the klout factor to kick it into over drive
surprising though with such a tight set list. was there sound/technical issues?
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Post by: galenas on April 20, 2008, 11:33:54 am
Quote from: Klout;186883
was there sound/technical issues?
no, sound at mercury lounge was amazing all night.
i don\'t know what it was, but they just failed to grab people after the mercury landing set.
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Post by: Ren on April 20, 2008, 11:54:31 am
maybe you\'ll get over that team in new york too....;)
slow merge....:(
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Post by: BennyBoomers on April 20, 2008, 12:00:24 pm
I\'m confused, how did they break up Space City Affair the past 2 nights? no segues into either portion. just confusing because without notation (beg, mid, end) one would think they played the beginning each time.
Title: Setlist: 2008-04-19 - Mercury Lounge; New York, NY
Post by: Igziabeher on April 20, 2008, 12:22:25 pm
space city affair is just a spacey jam, it doesn\'t have a specific beggining, middle or ending.
Title: Setlist: 2008-04-19 - Mercury Lounge; New York, NY
Post by: Jim Cobb on April 20, 2008, 12:26:07 pm
yeah the setlist had buquebus > scheme > SOS....
boo.
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Post by: ds673488 on April 20, 2008, 01:09:30 pm
did mercury landing tear the place up?
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Post by: obsession600 on April 20, 2008, 02:43:19 pm
I caught the second half of Mercury Landing. They were pretty good. I thought the lead guitar player was their weak point. His tone was out of place with a lot of the music and I thought his solos were uninspired. The facial contortions and bad dance moves also got tiresome. The band definitely has potential and the hometown crowd dug what they were doing and showed their support.
I was up front for the Breakfast show and enjoyed watching the new dynamics between the band members. There were some high moments when the band really came together and there were also some moments when things fell apart. Given time I think they can take this thing to another level.
Did anybody see the iguana wrestling?
Title: Setlist: 2008-04-19 - Mercury Lounge; New York, NY
Post by: galenas on April 20, 2008, 02:49:57 pm
Quote from: ds673488;186892
did mercury landing tear the place up?
well, the place wasn\'t going completely apeshit, but it was very nicely crowded and people were digging it.
the brew was so tight. heady dance party at times.
wounded buffalo theory always impresses people, and last night was no exception. they rallied a great crowd to open the night. matt said he really like them. and you can\'t go wrong when you throw in some theatrical shenanigans.
Quote from: obsession600;186897
The facial contortions and bad dance moves also got tiresome.
dude, my buddies were dying over this!!!
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Post by: Vassillios on April 20, 2008, 03:39:58 pm
Slow Merge
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Post by: jocelyn on April 20, 2008, 08:41:28 pm
Shame to hear the night wasn\'t what it could have been, especially with that nice all-originals setlist.
Title: Setlist: 2008-04-19 - Mercury Lounge; New York, NY
Post by: peaches626 on April 20, 2008, 09:12:55 pm
Quote from: BennyBoomers;186886
I\'m confused, how did they break up Space City Affair the past 2 nights? no segues into either portion. just confusing because without notation (beg, mid, end) one would think they played the beginning each time.
:sigh: biscuits kids think they wrote the rules to setlist writing/notation....
Title: Setlist: 2008-04-19 - Mercury Lounge; New York, NY
Post by: ulee on April 21, 2008, 08:14:29 am
>>astro note: the moon was "in the void" from 5 pm to 5 am sat night<< which sometimes correlates with this "neither here nor there" energy and things just not getting off the ground ::shrug::
Title: Setlist: 2008-04-19 - Mercury Lounge; New York, NY
Post by: cosmoechuck on April 21, 2008, 09:33:02 am
Quote from: davepeck;186879
probably about as much as an OFF night as you can get.
had its moments, but that\'s about it.
this show had enormous potential, and didn\'t even come close to being able to scratch the surface, unfortunately.
HUGE things were planned with the original written setlist.
the mercury lounge employs a bunch of people who hate their jobs and lives.
and i am SO over NYC. *meh*
that said, tonight should be something special.
was this the same thing that happened the last time they played the mercury lounge dave? back on 12/28/06 i believe they played there with teh brew. suppossed to be a 2 set show but due to the low turnout(prolly 50-60 people) i believe they were told they were done at like 1am so the bar could close since it wasnt packed. or something like that. i attended both this and the mike rocklin/jim loughlin gig down the street. if i rememebr correctly the breakfast even came on earlier than they were supposed to that night as well cuz myself and some friends walked in halfway thru their set expecting to have only missed one song. was very dissapointed when stevie said they were halfway thru and were only playing one set due to the poor turnout.
as much as i hate missing breakfast shows(esp ones with queb) im very content with missing yet another 1-set breakfast show in NYC(i cant help but lol at the folks in the chase thread that thought i was clueless about them only playing one set).
looks like i good show on paper but im very sad to hear it wasnt that good dave. i dont think its NYC persay, maybe just specific venues in nYC. all the knitting factory shows kick ass. just that mercury lounge shows seem to be meh.
Title: Setlist: 2008-04-19 - Mercury Lounge; New York, NY
Post by: booztravlr on April 21, 2008, 10:38:52 am
Damn Mercury Lounge! I was buying 2 scotch/beers at a time to try to keep the booz flowing. I\'m really upset to hear Scheme as well as Cut My Hair Some Slack was dropped too. I had a great time though and didn\'t think the playing was that off. The energy and playing in Northampton was just too high to match.
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Post by: leith on April 21, 2008, 10:58:48 am
This show was just fuckin\' spectacular you are all spoiled and whiny bitches if you think this show was meh. It may have not been the night before but the guys killed it for me and plenty of other folk not on this board!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: jefmcc on April 21, 2008, 11:12:56 am
I had a good time too. It could have gone longer, but I still had a great night, as did the friends I brought.
Did anyone bid on those paintings?
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Post by: leith on April 21, 2008, 11:31:02 am
Yeah my only complaint would have been the time was so short but really I was ready to leave that godforsaken city anyway.
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Post by: booztravlr on April 21, 2008, 11:40:51 am
Yeah, 100 minute/one set/no encore show is fairly short. We ended up bouncing around the bars until 3:40 or so afterwards. I thought this was the city that never sleeps?
On a side note, was Tim informed of their 2am stop time during the Drum solo? He disappeared for a few minutes during that part. If so, that\'s kind of weak to only give them a 20 minute heads up.
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Post by: peaches626 on April 21, 2008, 11:41:44 am
Quote from: ulee;186923
>>astro note: the moon was "in the void" from 5 pm to 5 am sat night<< which sometimes correlates with this "neither here nor there" energy and things just not getting off the ground ::shrug::
Hey, Ulee, why don\'t ya suggest this kind of stuff BEFORE the show is booked, so we can avoid all the awkwardness.
*On a sidenote, i listened to most of this show last night and it sounded pretty good to me... definitely a bit of crowd chatter, but with a few people on the Roll Call list, I would imagine this being a good time!
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Post by: galenas on April 21, 2008, 11:50:30 am
Quote from: cosmoechuck;186930
as much as i hate missing breakfast shows(esp ones with queb) im very content with missing yet another 1-set breakfast show in NYC(i cant help but lol at the folks in the chase thread that thought i was clueless about them only playing one set).
looks like i good show on paper but im very sad to hear it wasnt that good dave. i dont think its NYC persay, maybe just specific venues in nYC. all the knitting factory shows kick ass. just that mercury lounge shows seem to be meh.
the reason they keep getting 1 set shows in nyc is b/c people (aka fans like you...) are "very content" with passing on gigs where the band needs everyone\'s support the most.
sorry cosmoechuck, i don\'t mean to single you out and pick on you in particular, but i\'m just upset that this gig could have been unbelievable (for both the band and the fans) and instead it was kind of a flop.
alexi once said it best when we were on our way out to the plains, pa, show: "i like going to the shows no one else is going to be at, to represent." that\'s a selfless fan right there.
Quote from: ulee;186923
>>astro note: the moon was "in the void" from 5 pm to 5 am sat night<< which sometimes correlates with this "neither here nor there" energy and things just not getting off the ground ::shrug::
hm. interesting.
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Post by: peaches626 on April 21, 2008, 11:52:25 am
^^^^ ya, i don\'t know why that didnt work.
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Post by: fizzlefest on April 21, 2008, 09:06:45 pm
It seems that almost every time (well, recently) they play in NYC, they go on late. 12 or 12:30am. And given a show like this that started hours earlier, people are tired, drunk, need to leave to catch a train, etc. I\'m sure if they started earlier (when it\'s more convenient for the fans) the turnout would be much better.
I happened to enjoy the show. Sure it could have been better. Any show can be better. If you consider it to be just a regular Breakfast show, it\'s good. If you think it was supposed to have been an Epic show, then I can see where you\'d be disappointed. But that\'s just me.
BTW, Dave sorry for talking your ear off after the show. I had one too many drinks. :chug:
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Post by: davepeck on April 21, 2008, 09:21:33 pm
Quote from: fizzlefest;187017
BTW, Dave sorry for talking your ear off after the show. I had one too many drinks. :chug:
:lol: no problem. i\'m always happy to talk to new yorkers about their twisted ideas of what pizza is supposed to be. ;)
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Post by: Penny Redstar on April 22, 2008, 09:06:28 pm
Quote from: davepeck;187019
:lol: no problem. i\'m always happy to talk to new yorkers about their twisted ideas of what pizza is supposed to be. ;)
Long Island pizza is better than NYC pizza...in my opinion. Still need to try some Bar pizza in New Haven. Perhaps the next Toad\'s show.
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Post by: galenas on April 22, 2008, 09:44:39 pm
i ate waaaay too much lombardi\'s before this show. but it was awesome, of course!
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Post by: ds673488 on April 22, 2008, 11:33:35 pm
Quote from: Penny Redstar;187112
Quote from: davepeck;187019
:lol: no problem. i\'m always happy to talk to new yorkers about their twisted ideas of what pizza is supposed to be. ;)
Long Island pizza is better than NYC pizza...in my opinion. Still need to try some Bar pizza in New Haven. Perhaps the next Toad\'s show.
being from albany (not biased towards either), i definitely would put the places ive had at new haven WAY over the places ive had in nyc. However, ive probably only been to .2% of the pizza places in NYC, so theres probably ones that are way better than the ones ive been to.
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Post by: Jim Cobb on April 23, 2008, 08:36:26 am
bar has absolutely amazing pizza. much better than most of the pizza in nyc. however, you cant put a place like bar up against a place like tottono\'s... it\'s apples and oranges. new york and new haven both have phenomenal pizza establishments. cant we just leave it at that?
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Post by: cosmoechuck on April 23, 2008, 08:40:43 am
Quote from: galenas;186951
the reason they keep getting 1 set shows in nyc is b/c people (aka fans like you...) are "very content" with passing on gigs where the band needs everyone\'s support the most.
sorry cosmoechuck, i don\'t mean to single you out and pick on you in particular, but i\'m just upset that this gig could have been unbelievable (for both the band and the fans) and instead it was kind of a flop.
alexi once said it best when we were on our way out to the plains, pa, show: "i like going to the shows no one else is going to be at, to represent." that\'s a selfless fan right there.
hm. interesting.
yeah you sure got me pegged. ive traveled 3+ hours for many many breakfast shows that ive been told are def gonna be 2 sets and turned out to only be one setters due to poor turnout or getting started late. so now i am very careful about what shows i travel more than 45 min to an hour for. i know which shows to pick and choose to go to now. obviously this one wasnt one of them. a 12pm start time in nyc is 95% of the time only gonna be a one set show. esp at mercury lounge(if it was the knitt they might have possibly gone later if there was a decent crowd and i prolly woulda come out since i really like the knit).
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Post by: Jim Cobb on April 23, 2008, 10:15:16 am
conclusion=bring back the knit.
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Post by: ds673488 on April 23, 2008, 10:17:50 am
Quote from: Jim Cobb;187135
conclusion=bring back tobacco road.
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Post by: galenas on April 23, 2008, 10:33:41 am
Quote from: cosmoechuck;187127
yeah you sure got me pegged. ive traveled 3+ hours for many many breakfast shows that ive been told are def gonna be 2 sets and turned out to only be one setters due to poor turnout or getting started late. so now i am very careful about what shows i travel more than 45 min to an hour for. i know which shows to pick and choose to go to now. obviously this one wasnt one of them. a 12pm start time in nyc is 95% of the time only gonna be a one set show. esp at mercury lounge(if it was the knitt they might have possibly gone later if there was a decent crowd and i prolly woulda come out since i really like the knit).
sorry, cosmoechuck. i didn\'t mean to pick on you. sorry for the negativity. uncalled for.
Quote from: ds673488;187137
Quote from: Jim Cobb;187135
conclusion=bring back tobacco road.
oh hells yeah.
or better yet, conclusion = bring back the wetlands.
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Post by: SkyePrizm on April 23, 2008, 10:35:47 am
Quote from: Jim Cobb;187126
bar has absolutely amazing pizza. much better than most of the pizza in nyc. however, you cant put a place like bar up against a place like tottono\'s... it\'s apples and oranges. new york and new haven both have phenomenal pizza establishments. cant we just leave it at that?
I think us New Haven lovers will say....noooooo. We\'re jerks like that.
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Post by: tyzack on April 23, 2008, 10:39:59 am
Having never had new haven pizza, every time i go to new york i try some pizza there and i find it to be more underwhelming each time.
so much so that this last time i was so underwhelmed i threw it out and went to a goodburger.
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Post by: Jim Cobb on April 23, 2008, 10:41:43 am
well don\'t go to rays or something crappy like that. try tottono\'s.
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Post by: ds673488 on April 23, 2008, 11:05:55 am
how did this get into a full blown pizza discussion once again?
and diana, i was going to say wetlands also, dont know why i didnt.
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Post by: Klout on April 23, 2008, 11:17:01 am
my thoughts exactly on the knit jim.
i remember two sets of breakfast at the knit with rezi or sam kininger and bp in the tap room between sets.
those were the days.
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Post by: Jim Cobb on April 23, 2008, 01:17:12 pm
i remember my first bfast show. One 3 1/2 hour long set at the knit.... fucking brilliant.
AND they started at midnight.
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Post by: galenas on April 23, 2008, 01:25:55 pm
Quote from: Jim Cobb;187166
i remember my first bfast show. One 3 1/2 hour long set at the knit.... fucking brilliant.
AND they started at midnight.
i remember meeting you that night through Alex! :)
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Post by: Jim Cobb on April 23, 2008, 01:37:57 pm
fuck yeah! got on the boards the next morning, then at my second show, (UAC 1) i had like fifteen people tell me that freddie was "dying to meet me".
creeptastic. ;)
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Post by: skalnbyc on April 23, 2008, 02:53:13 pm
Quote from: Jim Cobb;187173
fuck yeah! got on the boards the next morning, then at my second show, (UAC 1) i had like fifteen people tell me that freddie was "dying to meet me".
creeptastic. ;)
"where\'s Jim Cobb?" was definitely the theme of the night.
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Post by: leith on April 23, 2008, 05:22:08 pm
I was so hammered at this show it took me about 3-4 minutes of talking to Jim before I realized it was him. Damn haircuts!
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Post by: davepeck on April 23, 2008, 05:23:33 pm
Quote from: leith;187196
I was so hammered at this show it took me about 3-4 minutes of talking to Jim before I realized it was him. Damn haircuts!
you picked a good night. :)
and i picked a bad night to take a break!
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Post by: leith on April 23, 2008, 05:28:37 pm
Yeah last time I was in NYC was like \'92 M.S.G. GD so I figured I may as well tie a few on. I forget how fun it is to be drunk and me yelling at the band during an SCA was a sure sign I was toast!
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Post by: princesscaspian on April 23, 2008, 06:22:12 pm
a brief snippet of the guitar solo-keyboard switch up dealie thingie, from my camera.
special thanks to gencs for showin off his his beers/arms during the video ;)
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Post by: obsession600 on April 24, 2008, 07:20:04 pm
Maybe it was just me but I felt like the band was very split personnel-wise between old and new for most of the show. The video above shows one of the moments that I felt was a very conscious effort on Tim\'s part to bridge that gap. Matt starts out looking terrified to touch Tim\'s guitar but warms to the idea and finally goes with it. I felt like this was a microcosm of what is still occurring within the band right now. Once the band gets more comfortable with the music and each other they will be unstoppable.
Play more shows, blow more minds. This is the directive.