One of the serest shows I\'ve ever seen last night. Just look at all those arrows and sandwiches! Superfly is a great old-school opener. I especially liked it as an opener tonight because it is so blatantly anti-formula (no lyrics) that it made it clear to me that they were gonna do whatever the heck they wanted tonight for the home crowd. Puppetry > Doughboy > Puppetry was off the hook as well. Puppetry drove hard from the beginning, and did not dip as far down into the psychedelia as it usually does at the beginning of the jam. I noticed this later in Buquebus as well. I think the room has a lot to do with it...Cafe Nine lends itself much more to throw-a-chicken-bone rowdy rock n roll than it does to meditative trip jams. The segues were tight and it was obvious throughout the show that a lot of thought was put into the setlist. A rare mid first-set Buquebus got everyone real pumped and after two smashing jams there came the classic LDZ > HDX. Damn. Very old-school first set...Superfly, Puppetry, Buquebus, and LDZ > HDX are long-time heavy hitters, and the vibe was right there too.
Second set was downright insane, I mean, look at that setlist! Intersting that Hardluck was the theme of the set, because it is hard luck for anyone at Coventry right now! Could this be a subtle reference to all those stuck in traffic? (Innocent Harry/Broke down on the road/Needed assistance badly/Got out to walk home.) Nice placement of Inner Glimpse, it\'s time to start experimenting with this and Doughboy away from the start of the show, and they did that with both tonight. No Quarter was a huge highlight, can we get a last-time-played check on that? Probably the most rockin\' Uncle Freddie ever, for all you Uncle Freddie enthusiasts. The L.A. Woman closer was through the roof, Tim was screaming his head off and the jam was freakin\' deafening. Wow, what a closer. But wait, they had to finish Hardluck (again)! What a set. What a show. If they top this tonight then they should immediately start pressing the 6-CD box set "Nine Gets Ser".
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P.S. I believe that the mystery song is simply the Olympic Anthem composed by Spiros Samaras.
