got improv? if you were at sully\'s last night, you sure did get your share. the jam during tunage was personally my favorite, treading into to some delightfully demented territory. jordan adds such a darker (in a good way...) tinge to the jams, with his synth swells sending things to a whole different dimension. tim\'s twisted guitar line in this jam sent my head swirling. chris and adrian, meanwhile, are so
**** good at finding the right beats to fill with the right sounds. when tim and jordan are in outer space, chris and adrian are able to keep it grounded. but not in a repetitive way, of course. they still are pushing the music - and the audience - into unexplored directions that literally made me giddy at points. you know how it is. when you connect with them and just laugh at how
**** good it is? yeah, that\'s what keeps us all coming back.
sleeping beauty was GREAT to hear. (i\'m seeing last time played electric was nov. 16, 2007 at stone church, according to .org. then the true last time played was acoustic on dec. 21, 2007 for a radio show.) i was surprised by how the tunage jam was darker/spacier and the sleeping beauty jam was more upbeat. you\'d think it\'d be the opposite... anyways, there was a part in sleeping beauty where i remember thinking "this is what the dreams of a person who plays too much mario brothers probably sounds like."
but that\'s not to say it was all so good...
whenever a band is pushing itself onto new ground there\'s bound to be some bumps. and they\'re bound to trip from time to time. i personally thought the jam during peace frog was such a point. it started off well, but i think it went on too long and then degraded into a disconnected mess.
but then.....
it\'s a bird! it\'s a plane! no! it\'s gladys pimp and her
**** crew of kangaroos here to save the day! i\'m calling gladys the hero of the second set. i felt the crowd at the end of the peace frog jam was just kinda standing there, a bit detached, and then bam! gladys swoops in! the
**** takes no
****, and last night was no exception.
i
think it was during this jam that there was a point where tim, chris and jordan were all playing around with their mixers to get some spacey sounding
****, which was pretty cool. i love when i\'m watching tim make noises and i have no idea how he\'s doing it. not sure if this all started as an accident tho? it kinda looked like tim had started playing around with the sounds and wanted to cut out of it into a straight up guitar jam, but got caught with the mixer looping a track it shouldn\'t have? i don\'t know. and it really doesn\'t matter. it was cool.
then into honey butter?! sexy! loved how all the ladies were front-row ragin it for this one! :lol:
taboo kept up the dance vibe that had built up over gladys pimp and honey butter, and i think it was a smart move for the band to play this song, going out on an upbeat note.
all in all a great night of music and i\'m glad i made the trek. i gotta say, i felt like my energy level was really low last night and i apologize for any mellow vibe i may have been putting out. was a long week and a long day for me...