March 09, 2006

Wet is standard. Memphis first jam is the usual type one 90 BPM jam that features Rock God Barber near the end of it. Second Memphis jam is a spaced-out, long transition into the beginning of Spacebird. Allen is basically just using hi-hat, cymbals, and e-drums here, and the jam is almost ambient (almost). I like this a lot, even if it’s clearly just a jam to get them into the beginning of Spacebird. The Spacebird jam gets caught on the 6/4 section, and this is honestly just boring. It’s somewhat notable that the band is basically playing a variation of SITA, as they literally play the same progression, but other than that, I couldn’t wait for this to be over. Plan B has a type 1 jam in it that you’ve heard before. The Humu jam gets dissonant and weird for a few minutes, and Magner messes around on his xylophone patch for a bit. This is neat.

Amen is standard. The Shem-Rah jam is literally like a minute long. Why? SJSS is a jamless dub version. First TVM jam never really gets out of its type 1 structure. TVM 2 is way, way too jambandy for my tastes. The Confrontation jam here is very cool. This is dark, dirty trance and the entire band is locked in. The Spaga first jam has a neat DNB jam. This is all Magner and Allen, although Barber and Brownstein don’t actively get in the way. The second jam never gets outside the type 1 structure, sadly. Magner has some neat leads regardless, but this is not worth relistening.

Highlights: Memphis*, Humu, Confro*, Spaga (1)