Morph is who a boy you see, he's changing as we speak
from adavan to aleman in twenty-forms a week
A rock at three to feel still the wind at four to fly
POSTED BY BROWNSTEIN:
At TEN (tomorrow) we'll huff a mighty greer, cause troopers comin by.
ON UNCIVILIZED AREA:
At six he'll be in Texas, when Trooper's comin' by

All social situations, he handles like a dream
a chameleon in space and form, in color too it seems.
The ability to NOT BE SEEN, though you SEE him everywhere
POSTED BY BROWNSTEIN:
And Morph has said tomorrow, that you'll see him over there.
ON UNCIVILIZED AREA:
Morph in here tomorrow, and he'll be right over there.

Morph, Morph from dusseldorf, Changing all the time.
And if you stay the same one day, that night will be sublime
Morph, Morph from dusseldorf, no need to drink that wine,
Cause if you wish to break the date with your savvy concubine.

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Well, everyone's talking 'bout what they know.
When tomorrow's where I want to go.
And everybody's talking 'bout who's their man.
As we're finding our way to the promise land.

But things just aren't as they seem to be,
And one day you're all locked up,
The next day you're free...

And it's dark outside.
All alone and it might slide by,
But now the king is gone,
And here we are Zex Sea,
In Aceetobee.

","

transcribed by Rich Steele

(intro/main riff)

E 8 5 8 5 7
B 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 > 7
G 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 > 7
D 5(sl)7 7 7 7 7 7 7 5 5 > 7
A
E (use palm mutes in between chords)

(play similar riff over the 'well things just aren't as they seemed to
be', but using a D7 chord voicing instead)

E
B 5 7 5 5 7 5 5 5 5 > 7
G 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 > 7
D 5(sl)7 7 7 5 7 7 5 5 5 > 7
A
E

(riff after the Eb > Ebm buildup)
F#
E 2
B 6(sl)4 2
G 3(sl)5 3 3 2 2 2(h)3 3
D 5 3 4
A 5 4 4 4
E 2

E 2
B 2 4
G 3 3
D 4 5 (play 3 times,
A 4 6 then lead into
E 2 this riff over a Abm7 > C#)

E 4
B 4 6
G 4 6
D 4 6
A 6 4
E 4

then......

(the immortal ac2b riff :)

Eb F#
E
B 8~ 8 9 11 9 9(h)11(p)9(p)8 7~ 9 11 9 9(h)11(p)9 8~
G
D
A
E

this riff is played again during the ending jam, where jon does this
ascending type riff that follows that riff that goes something like this:

E
B 12 12 12 12 14 14 14 14(sl)16
G 11 11 11 11 (sl)13 13 13 13
D
A
E

(the end is jammed over a Eb > F# with that B > C# > Eb added at the end
of each phrase)

","actob","4338604b-38e0-432c-855b-bcd9091d4409","Jon Gutwillig","

Supposedly written after Barber told his convenience store boss to fuck off, Aceetobee was one of the earliest originals debuted by the Biscuits, alongside Barfly, Pat & Dex, and Basis. It features an intro, a verse section, a composed bridge, a vamp on the middle section with a descending riff, and a jam section built around a captivating, uplifting riff.

In the early trance-fusion era, the most interesting Aceetobee jams were intro jams segued into from other songs. One of the earliest Biscuits jams of note is 11/18/97 Vassillios > Aceetobee. These two were also paired together on 8/28/98 at the Wetlands to similarly great effect.

Aceetobee began to develop into a more full-fledged jam vehicle in 1999. 3/14/99 was the first Aceetobee to divert from the usual formula. Instead of a triumphant rock jam, the main jam was brooding and atmospheric until turning on a dime back into Aceetobee. 3/27/99 is another lauded version, mainly for the type two intro jam.

Spring 1999 saw some of the first significant developments in Aceetobee, notably the expansion of the hitherto underutilized “first jam” section. 4/10/99 (another contender for greatest) is the first version to be split in the first jam section, sandwiching the underutilized Smoothie King (and featuring another fantastic intro jam and soaring main jam). 4/24/99 is perhaps the first Aceetobee to feature a lengthy first jam, one that is, in fact, nearly as long as the second or “main” jam. After these developments, Aceetobee remained largely stagnant for the remainder of the year, but some standout versions include 9/20/99 and 9/28/99. Beyond these, Aceetobee was mainly of interest for the jams into the song rather than the jams in the song itself. For some excellent segues into Aceetobee, see 5/29/99, 9/15/99 and 10/9/99.

From 2000 to 2002, Aceetobee did not develop much. Despite this, there are plenty of standout versions from this era. Aceetobees in this era were consistent if fairly predictable, and fans of the song have a variety of solid versions to choose from. Some of these are 7/12/00 (played with Jordan Crisman on bass), 8/26/00, 11/10/00, 9/19/01 (a beautiful, spacey 27 minute version), 12/31/01, 8/13/02 (first inverted), 8/18/02 (actually goes type two in the main jam) and 10/5/02 (from the legendary Haymaker festival).

The second show of 03 featured a gorgeous, fleshed out Aceetobee, and it seems like every version played that year was an attempt to top the last. For this reason, just about every Aceetobee played in 03 is spectacular and worth hearing. The highlights are 4/4/03, 4/25/03, 9/29/03, and 11/29/03. Two additional highlights merit further discussion: 7/26/03, spectacular in its own right, is the second inverted version, and is inverted middle > end > beginning unlike the 02 version which is inverted end > beginning > middle. 10/23/03 is the first ever techno Aceetobee; it was played at a Perfume show, but the techno Aceetobee was played a few times at standard Biscuits shows.

In 2003, Aceetobee was played more frequently than any year since 1999. 2004-2005 Aceetobee was relegated to a more secondary role. 11/27/04 stands out as a stellar version for any era, and 8/27/05 sandwiches an inverted Nughuffer in a poignant moment in Sammy’s last show.

When Allen joined the band, Aceetobee became considerably rarer, and was played almost always as a standalone, and frequently as a set closer. It had a brief mini-renaissance beginning in July 2007. 7/8/07 features Aceetobee inside a Bazaar Escape sandwich (rare in itself), and 7/13/07 is an excellent version, with an Aceetobee > Pilin’ it Higher > Aceetobee sandwich stuck in the middle of a Crystal Ball palindrome. 10/16/07 features an excellent type two jam in the main section, and 11/4/07 Aceetobee > Great Abyss > Aceetobee is maybe the best version of the year.

After a strong 2007, Aceetobee was only played twice in 2008, 4/18/08 and 6/6/08. Both of these versions are very solid. It may have ran out of steam from being played so infrequently, as the 09 versions were generally not as strong as the ones from 07-08. 7/1/09 is probably the only standout version from this year, and there are many versions that are the weakest part of significant segments (4/23/09, 6/25/09, 10/4/09).

Aceetobee continued to play second fiddle to the major heavy hitters throughout the rest of 2.0 and the setbreak era. On 11/22/09, the song Catalyst developed out of an Aceetobee first jam. The Aceetobee > Catalyst > Aceetobee pairing further limited Aceetobee’s jam potential, and was played a total of five times besides the debut.

Besides the revisiting of the techno Aceetobee on 6/8/10, there were very few significant versions of the song between 2009 and 2017. In 2017 the song had another mini renaissance; it was played on average once every six shows, more frequently than any year since 2011. Each of these versions is worth hearing. 4/29/17 at the Capitol Theatre features a fantastic split Aceetobee with a drawn out intro jam segued from Papercut. Aceetobee was inverted for the third time ever on 5/28/17, and the middle was played at the Ogden on 6/1/17, completing this first and only split inversion of the song. The Aceetobee > Abyss > Aceetobee pairing was dusted off, to great success, on 9/21/17 at Irving Plaza, and Aceetobee was segued into from the Mario theme, and used to sandwich an excellent set of video game music, on 12/31/17 at the Playstation Theatre. Easily the best version of the year, and possibly the best version with Allen, was the techno Aceetobee played 11/17/17 at the Fillmore in Denver.

After this mini-renaissance, Aceetobee remained a once-or-twice-per-year rarity. The song rarely delivers show-defining highlights, but there are still occasional versions worth checking out: 9/16/23 is the strongest since 11/17/17, and 12/1/23 the first techno version since that date.

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Shem-Rah Boo was on the run
But he didn't know how to get things done
But he always knew what he was longing to be
The star of his own biography

Klimpsch, why you always talkin' 'bout your life?
Klimpsch, why did you emancipate your wife?
Klimpsch, why you always talkin' 'bout your life?

In Hollywood, his mind was keen
When he married the very first girl he'd seen
But he dropped his mind, he stroked his wood
But klimpsch did do the best he could.

Klimpsch, why you always talkin' 'bout your life?
Klimpsch, why did you emancipate your wife?
Klimpsch, why you always talkin' 'bout your...
Klimpsch, why you always talkin' 'bout your...
Klimpsch, why you always talkin' 'bout your life?

====================
Jon:
Klimpsch, you're the man of the hour,
Klimpsch, you're the man of the year,
Why don't you trust the woman that took you there?
Brownie:
The man of the hour,
The man of the year,
Why don't you trust the woman that took you there?
Magner:
The man of the hour
The man of the year
Why don't you trust the woman that took you there?
====================

Klimpsch, why you always talkin' 'bout your life?
Klimpsch, why did you emancipate your wife?
Klimpsch, why you always talkin' 'bout your...
Klimpsch, why'd you have to cut it with the....
Klimpsch, why did you emancipate your...
Klimpsch, why you always talkin' 'bout your...
Klimpsch, why you always talkin' 'bout your life?

","(main riff)

E
B
G 12 12 12 12 12(sl)11(sl)12(sl)11(sl)12
D X X X X X
A 10 10 10 10 10(sl) 9(sl)10(sl) 9(sl)10
E

E
B
G 12 12 12(sl)11 16 16 16 16 16
D X X X X X X X X
A 10 10 10(sl)9 14 14 14 14 14
E
E

(the 'Man of the hour' part)
(thanks to Pete Caffrey for this part)

Am C G F E
E 5 3 1 0
B 5 5 3 1 0
G 5 5 4 2 1
D 7 5 5 3 2
A 7 3 5 3 2
E 5 3 1 0

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Well, I've been kicked and beaten,
It don't bother me no more.
Don't offer me no pillows,
When I'm just fine here on the floor

I've so many wounds
That I hope they'll never mend
But I can raise my glass up
For a beer with all my friends

'Cause I'm the Barfly, I like to drink, that's what I do

All these women in the world...
Why did I leave mine when times were so rough
All these women in the world...
Why did I leave mine when times were so rough
But when you left me baby, you left me needing more than enough

(Alternate Second Verse:
There's a curly girl from Jersey
she's sittin' on my right
Showin me her cleavage
Which she so sweetly wraps up tight
I snatch another whiskey
Just to improve the view
don't listen to the truth I'm tellin her, none of its directed at you,
'Cause I'm the Barfly, I like to drink, that's what I do)

Well the ocean's my home
I'm living on the liferaft alone

Well the ocean's my home
I'm living on the liferaft alone

Now they call me flat stir crazy
But I'm just sittin here at the bar flat on my throne

Well I've been kicked and beaten
It don't bother me no more.
Don't offer me no pillows,
When I'm just fine here on the floor

I've so many wounds
That I hope they'll never mend
But I can raise my glass up
For a beer with all my friends

'Cause I'm the Barfly, I like to drink, that's what I do

","Braff, Gutwillig","

A sure-to-please rowdy blues song about drinkin’, Barfly was a staple of the band’s frat party days and earliest tours. It made its way into the stylistic hodgepodge that was the band’s first studio album, Encephalous Crime, where it is the final studio track. Barfly follows a very predictable format from which it rarely deviates: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, keyboard solo, bridge, guitar solo, verse, chorus.

Barfly was played 40 times in 1998, more than any other year. It was in 1998 that Barfly was jammed out for the first (and only) time. On 6/4/98 an unfinished Barfly segued into a drum solo ended the show, and 6/5/98 opened with a long intro jam into Barfly (supposedly intended to complete the night prior, although it, too, is unfinished) jammed into the ending of Run Like Hell. Besides being the only jammed out Barfly, it also marked the first time the Biscuits finished a song from an earlier show.

Barfly became steadily more rare beginning in 1999. After appearing semi-regularly in the winter and spring tours, it was played only twice in the fall before being shelved for nearly a year between October 1999 and 2000 for a gap of 32 shows (what was then a significant absence). It was played four times in 2000 and then eight each in 2001 and 2002 (although this represented a decline in frequency). From 2003 to the end of Sammy’s tenure in 2005, Barfly was even more scarce.

Allen’s arrival brought with it a brief resurrection of Barfly, which was played four times in three months in the earlier part of the year. However, it was only played once in the fall, after which it went from rarity to holographic status. It was played only once in 2007, after a gap of 75 shows, after which it sat on the shelf for two and a half years or 197 shows (its longest absence) when it was played at the Bisco Power Mission on 3/21/10 with Sammy on guitar.

It was played only a handful of times in the setbreak era: twice in 2013, once in 2014, once in 2018 and once in 2019. It’s performance on 4/27/19 is perhaps the most interesting part of a sub-par show; it provides the landing pad to the second set segment, making it the first Barfly to be jammed into (in fact, played in any way besides standalone) since 4/3/02.

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Vassillios, neck beard
straight from the gutter
shaped like a cow
and milked like an udder

you know he's a freak 'cause he looks with his mother
Vassillios deadweight fish motherfucker

Vassillios, straight from the gutter
Vassillios, we love you like a brother
Vassillios, straight from the gutter
Vassillios, we love you like a ...

Vassillios, sweet cheeks
we love you like a brother
jolly old friend spreading mirth like no other.
A kind and simple beast, Vassillios, when I shudder..
To think it was you who left Candy in the gutter.

Swiftly sneaking
Vassillios is sleeping like a baby
Overzealous the bees are getting jealous
Vassillios, maybe

on the down low
underneath your hedgerow
something is startling

for farthing, darling
nothing more is marveling
Vassillios, maybe

","transcribed by Rich Steele

(intro)
E
B
G
D 5(h)7
A 9(p)7 7 5 7 7
E 5(h)7 7~

E
B
G
D 5(h)7
A 9(p)7 7 5 7
E 5(h)7

twice, then...

Bm A
E 7 5
B 7 5
G 7 6
D 9 7
A 9 7

then ride on a open E major, while hitting those Bm > A chords at the end
of each measure.

verse chords are Am > D > E > F#

(jon plays this quick fills in between chord changes that i haven't quite
figured out yet)

next, during what i guess is considered the chorus, jon plays something
like this.

E 0
B 3 5 3 5 3 5 0
G 4 5 4 5 4 5 1
D 5 7 5 7 5 7 2
A 2
E 0
(play twice, then end with a Bm > A, before going into the next verse)

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