A Breakfast show in your backyard is about as good as it gets.
Now that I\'ve had a day or two to gather whats left of my brain after fryday night, I realize that I just plain love this band. Music is vibrations and this music resonates within me like no other. This band has so much more substance than so many other bands that regularly pack rooms and theaters that it just confounds me. I want to drop everything and travel across the world to find some seer on a mountaintop in Tibet or something who can tell me the answer as to why the Breakfast are not seen as the kings of jam.
I really like the room at Thumpty. Kind of like a ballroom or something. I stepped outside for some fresh air at one point and came back in to notice how loud it was! Earplugs are so key.
I loved the jam to kick things off. The boys were stretching out and warming up and letting loose and tightening up in measured doses. Its cool to witness these things so close up. Its amazing the boys can concentrate with my ugly grill all up on them!
Shotgun was a great choice to go into. This song has some cool changes that I love and got things rolling in fine style.
I can\'t get enough of Escher\'s 1. The swirly grooves make me feel like my mind and body have separated and I\'m off in another world riding horseback towards the castle. Whoa, all right. Anyways, as they went into Escher\'s 2 and jammed the piss out of it I had visions of getting all 5 parts so the kick into WPOA was totally surprising. I really like how the first few songs deftly switched from rock to ethereal jams and sickness to raw power funk rock.
Arguably the centerpiece though was the Tunage > Pygmy > Metropolis. The Tunage jam, which for some reason I call the Tunage strut after the Live As Is version, got WAAAY out there. I felt like it was the best one I\'ve heard and I can\'t wait to check it out again. Lets go 16-bit!!! Pygmy was excellent and the Metropolis jam brought back a familiar space, me floating high above the earth, no other place I\'d rather be.
I have to echo Bonzo\'s sentiments about the Scarlet. Freaking amazing. Phaddy is always such a treat to hear. The groove was nice and the room swayed in unison. I like what I\'m hearing from the Chase lately. I love this tune. I listened to the last Mill Street show today and I noticed that the jam in that version was a little stretched out. Well, I can see how that version led to the supreme jam in this one. I have always wanted them to work this tune out. Its usually jammed pretty tight but this time they found some unused Alice in Wonderland door and dropped us all into this kaleidoscope. Crazy.
I think it was after this that Tim tried to start Blessing but Dangle wasn\'t having it. I stepped out for a smoke and they kicked into Peace Frog. This jam also went way out, got really thick in texture and room was full of psychedelic spider webs. I also realized today how truly awesome Taboo is. They rocked the house with this one.
Then, one mother of an encore. Oh yeah, thats right. What a great fucking song. A true Breakfast classic if there ever was one.
Bonzo, I love your dedication. Right on brother. It was nice to meet you. Lindsay and Bret, you guys are great. Thanks for making the trip down and being such good sports as we led you guys around trying to find our way to chill by one of the gorges before the show.
Mike, thanks for putting on one hell of a swell time. I thought the kids were going to eat this up like candy! The ones that were there sure seemed to dig it and they will help pass the word along. I wish there was a mailing list or something that we could\'ve roped some folks in with.
And of course, a huge thank you to the Breakfast for pouring your souls out through your instruments. You guys are the greatest. I hope to see y\'all soon!
