sorry i had to bail saturday. my crohn\'s has been acting up all week and i wasn\'t sure i was gonna be able to make it at all. saturday morning it told me i had had enough. it was great meeting lex and sallieallie and of course great seeing todd, robyn and meester mandler once again!
ok, the opening jam was nice, inner glimpse was rockin\', but a whole new world opened up with psygn. dark, dissonant, and HUGE! someone behind me muttered, \'damn, that won\'t like anyone else so far!!!\' and dude was only barely scratching the sheer badassery that was displayed!! fewer notes than dischordant sound washes set up a deep, mean jam. soooo good!
tricky ways was real nice, but i decided that for that song (which i like) to *really* go over the top, its up to ron. he did some turn-around right at the beginning which i wish he could have kept up. its played as a straight up blue bassline, simple and out of the way. but i think if he funks it up a but it\'ll just take off with a new life all it own. that being said, great version that was almost like a palate cleanser after that dirty, dirty osygn. the crowd was fully into the band by the end.
gbfbits stated off like they all do, but it ended and all i could think was that the jam would fit brilliantly at, say, camp bisco. and while i don\'t usually care for electronica-ish jams, this one really grabbed me! probably because, unlike so many of the bands playing in this style, they don\'t just get a repetitive riff going and exhaust it. the kept the pulsing and throbbing rhthym without being redundant. huge, out-there jam that slyly ended up rolling into the opening of overexposure.
like, me! said, i was simply STUNNED by how good overexposure was!!! truly a whole new level of three piece insanity. frankly, by the end of OE, i was finally totally comforable with the thought of them as a tri for ever. i felt like they had completely figured out how to be huge and hole-less in their playing, just the three of them. afterwards ron said something to the effect of (after telling him my above thoughts) it being the last trio show, they played it as such! i really wish i had better words for OE, though. i said someting to gencs about the fact that he\'s about to get a lot busier if they keep playing like that! a LOT busier! (eat it naysayers!)
at some point in there, timmy announced that it was the last three piece show, said thanks to them and then hugged his keyboards. todd\'s got a great pic of it, too!
spunk>question>spunk was killer, too! it was funny seeing all these people recognizing the question, knowing a line of lyrics, even, but having no idea whatsoever what the hell song it actually was! :lol: i actually forgot that spunk was coming back around, so when it did, i whoo hoo\'ed so hard i blew out my vocal cords. still raspy today, even.
and then the \'rare\' un-interrupted tunage which was, can you guess? awesomely badass. you could hear the cheers coming out of the treeline, not to mention that the entire dancing area was full of folks, all of whom were really into it! i would say that the boys definitely converted a few folks that night! it was easily the best trio show i\'ve seen, and frankly, it\'d put the energy, new approaches and ferocity up there with the best shows ever. not saying that this show was necessarily the best ever, but it certainly had best ever elements!
oh yeah, then there was tim\'s sit in! :lol: :lol: :lol:
first off, watching the whole band stare raptly at garaj was great. they\'re so tight and talented and the breakfast boys were devouring it. but then it was time for tim to join in. oh dear god. he started off gently, seeingwhat he could play and what would be too much. well, with those musicians, nothing was too much and soon enough he was all over the fretboard, bouncing back and forth with Fareed Haque which ended in a guitar duet, trading licks back and forth, just the two of them. the rest of the band finally came back in and the tempo picked up (hell, timmy actually double timed the tempo and got the band going). then he turned around to the keys player who literally didn\'t even bother to try to keep up with him. it was great. and being up on the rail, watching those two guys\' fingers going.... amazing!!!
we gotta keep an eye out for these recordings. they are definitely gonna be worth finding!!
