4.23 marked the debut of three new originals: Two Eyes, Aluminum Boy, and Broken Key Chain. It also marked a shift in songs that got the improvisational treatment.
Camba clocked in a succinct, somewhat tame version, where Food > Squash Anyone proved to be the improvisational highlight of the night.
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Setlist:
1: Alabaster Shavings > Water or Sea, Hoverboard, Chemical Parade. Two Eyes* > Lo and Outside > Crepes and Bananas > Broken Key Chain*
2: Tax Dollars> Down By the River^, Aluminum Boy*, Food > Squash Anyone **> Schizo, Anika's Brew, Camba, Tender Situation^^, Frying Pan, National Anthem^^^, Cornelius
E: Blueberry Pie
Notes: * - Debut, ** - with extended space jam, also a speech by the Benny the Boom Boom Room bar owner, ^ Neil Young Cover, ^^ Ween Cover, ^^^ Radiohead cover
Sick show on Friday, gents! I dug the new songs and the hits were in the pocket. Well played!
ReplyDeleteI want to write a short little review and give my thoughts on the show
ReplyDeleteFirst off, all of the new songs are great - Broken Keychain being my favorite, followed by Aluminum Boy. Two Eyes took a while to grow on me, but overall it is great as well and seems to be growing on me more and more. Has pretty good jam potential as well. Liking the creativity guys, keep it up!
Now onto the show. The show starts off with a ripping Alabaster followed by the genre hopping Water Or Sea, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite CF tunes. The slow-down Hoverboard followed before Chemical Parade, which included a particularly great closing jam with some extra heart from AKelly on the keys.
The debut of Two Eyes came next, which jammed nicely into Lo and Outside. The Crepes that followed, along with the Chemical Parade stand as the two *big* jam highlights of the first set, with Crepes including a dissonant keys/drums section. The powerful debut of Broken Keychain closed the first set.
The second set opened with Tax Dollars, which included an atypical jam out of the peak which reprised and led into "Down By The River" by Neil Young. Jud nailed the vocals on this one perfectly and helped make it into a particularly chaotic rendition. The debut of Aluminum Boy followed, which came before the real improvisational meat of the set: Food->Squash Anyone->Schizo
Food funked along at its normal pace before sliding into an extended clav-filled funk jam with leads by AKelly and Jud. This led into a spacy segment which segued into the slow, spacey groove of Squash Anyone. This Squash included a long jam at the end which got into some deep, Floyd-esque space at the end of its 13min journey before leading into the spiraling swing that is Schizo. Schizo included a big dissonant jam that definitely packed a big punch this night. This three song run definitely qualifies as the main highlight of the second set.
Following a strong 30+ minutes of improvisation, Chance Fisher finished off the night with some songs, which included ripping versions of Camba/Frying Pan, covers of Tender Situation and National Anthem, and of course the fan-favorite Cornelius to close off the night with an encore of Blueberry Pie.
Overall, this was a great show, and has many highlights that keep me coming back (Water Or Sea, Chemical, Tax Dollars->Down By The River, Food->Squash Anyone->Schizo, etc). All I can say is great job, and keep up the good work !
Thanks for the review BK..
ReplyDeleteslight correction though.
Its our very own Play-it-again Sam on the vocals for Down by the River
Oh shit! Sorry about that.
ReplyDeleteWell, props to Sam on those vocals. Sounded great.
Re-listening to Aluminum Boy - Really really like the lyrics/melody. Good good song
ReplyDeleteThanks for getting 4-25 up by the way, looking forward to it!