April 15, 2006

Precious 3rd night

(<** 2nd Favorite "Mindless Dribble" I have ever seen, just as fresh digitally!! go and refresh yo kind self. **>)

I do not remember the "being present" memory of this night other than dancing my ass off with Janet to the right of the board. We took some amazing Mesc that night, just being honest, the tapes bring me back big time. Yes, I have mini-discs of this run lol.

The 1st mind altering segment was the type 1 trio of Jigsaw ~ > inverted Crickets ~> Earth. A definite highlight. The Jigsaw jam is downright awesome. Close your eyes, pull up your zipper and you are in 2001....perhaps the criminally underrated Pitt show from April of that year. That is how good this Jigsaw is. Almost like a killer Ominous Seapods "Blackberry Jam"? The final Crix jam get real weird but in perfect alignment. These 3 shows have all been weird and dilated. No exception with this great trio.

As previously mentioned, this standalone Spacebird is great. Aucoin really takes this one back to his home in the Andromedan system...he gets homesick. It has more of a boogie and Barber is very distorted and manic. Count it.

Lastly, the killer filler of [Mindless Dribble ~> Confrontation(inv) ~> 42] I'm gonna prop this segment up because this is easily the clearest most energetic jams of the night. As the end (beg) of Confrontation moves along in falls on a cheerful 42. Cookie cutter or not....42 is a wicked way to climax a run, this one included. Dude, "I don't know what to do. Chin is rested in my hands, I feel like I'm on 42."

Oh what a feeling. Yes, you all have the meaning of life at your fingertips! And it all stars with an awakening towards and within the dark night of the soul. Alongside some crispy Biscuits SBDs.

8.25 / 10

""Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.""

First set is great.

All songs they do really well consistently in one set.. … The Jigsaw Earth > Crickets (inv) > Jigsaw Earth is the highlite of this set. Even get a Camera B while it lasted lol and a stand alone Caterpillar was well done to bring set to a proper close.

This set 2 tho is what solidified my journey into bisco.

Spacebirdmatingcall is on par for best of the year imo. The Step Inside debut by magner. Who’s knows what the lyrics are who cares the song is 🔥. The Mindless Dribble > Confrontation (inv) showcases Allen’s progression since joining the band. And > 42 is probably my favorite. So raw and the essence of 2.0 imo. Love it!

The encore was Plan B. Can’t argue with that. There’s a reason why higher ground shows are so great and this show is it 🌲👽🌲

Spy is standard. The first Jigsaw jam lasts only a couple of minutes and is pretty firmly in type 1 territory. The second jam here is pretty neat and has a great vibe to it. Barber’s tone, phrasing, and note choice are phenomenal, and the entire band winds up in very 1.0 sounding jam. This feels like a bookend to the Shimmy from the night before, and again represents the band taking some chances with their new drummer and getting a little more comfortable extending their jams into unusual and uncomfortable places. This leads to a decent Crickets peak. First Crickets jam is forgettable midtempo meandering. The second Crickets jam gets out there as well. I’m not sure what their deal was in this little run, but this gets weird and spacey, and has some great psychedelic stuff from everybody in the band. I don’t think this is quite as cool as the Jigsaw jam, but cool nonetheless. Camera B is jamless. I don’t love this song, either. The Caterpillar jam here is very unusual as well. Because of the way Barber uses the FX on his guitar tone here, this almost sounds like he’s using a MIDI keyboard, and they use this to get dark and weird.

Spacebird is just fine. They at least get out of the usual 6/4 vs. 4/4 jam, but what they get into isn’t all that great. Step Inside is somehow jamless, and Magner doesn’t use the vocoder at all on this debut version. The first Dribble jam turns into a funk-tempo four-on-the-floor jam that doesn’t do much for me. There is a frustratingly long apple-buttered toast type 1 jam. I think this is like 5 minutes of them basically just vamping on this theme. We get it. The third jam in Dribble has a fantastic groove to it right out of the gate, although they spend a minute or so doing the “stop every four bars” bit, which never is interesting to me. Just keep the groove going, baby! The rest of this, and the Confrontation jam, are lots of filler. 42 here is different song, same story. This does nothing for me. Plan B features an extended jam, which is much “jammier” than other jams in this show, and noteworthy if only for the fact that this includes an actual jam for a change.

Highlights: Jigsaw (2**), Crickets (2*), Caterpillar*, Plan B