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April 29, 2006

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4/29/2006
Georgia Theater - Athens, GA
4.188
(16)
The Southern 'Wind at Four to Fly' CD Release Party
S1Helicopters > Highwire1 > I Remember When, Abraxas, Shelby Rose, CaterpillarS2Morph Dusseldorf, Commercial Amen, Rock and Roll Fantasy2, Basis For A Day > I-Man > Basis For A Day > I-Man > HelicoptersE1Spaga
1 1st time inverted
2 FTP (tDB Original)

Reviews

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Treemaculate

Jan 26, 2021

The jam out of Helix is a breakbeat jam, and they develop a beautiful Blissco theme. By the 10-minute mark, Barber is full-on glorious wailing guitar over a very pleasant backdrop provided by Brownstein and Magner. This is really wonderful. IRW is standard, jamless. Abraxas as well. So weird. Shelby doesn’t do anything for me here. Could be worse, but not something I’d listen to again. The Caterpillar jam here has a great vibe to it. The band is satisfied just lying back and locking into the groove that Brownstein has going. Magner has some nice little fill riffs, and Barber plays around with his distorted, effected guitar tone. For whatever reason, Brownstein doesn’t hit the VI in the I-VI progression, which totally kills this ending for me.

Morph begins the second set with a pretty predictable jam. Next, Commercial Amen and Rock and Roll Fantasy are both standalone. Also, Rock and Roll Fantasy is terrible. Just, terrible. Awful. Horrible. The Basis intro that follows more than makes up for this. Magner has an awesome array here of psychedelic, spacy patches that overlay the hypnotic groove that Barber, Brownstein, and Allen lock in for. The Basis jam features Magner on vocoder doing his “All your Basis are belong to us” schtick for a little while. The rest of the jam here is driving trance, and they hit on some great themes. At one point it almost sounds like they’re headed toward the end of Rock Candy. This whole section (around the 21-minute mark) is very cool. I-Man has two “vamp jams” after verses 1 and 2 that last a total of 90-seconds combined. I really wish they just wouldn’t do these. The jam out of I-Man back to Basis has a great groove to it, and I think the entire band here is on point. Magner has some wonderful themes going as the band nears the transition back to Basis. Basis > I-Man is a drop segue with no jam. The jam in I-Man is absolutely beautiful Blissco stuff. Begins with the whole band dropped to almost no beat, then they build up again patiently. This is very 1.0-esque. The Spaga encore begins with an intense, aggressive DNB jam. Allen and Magner are fantastic here. Second jam is a short type 1 jam that can be skipped.

Very, very good show.

Highlights: Helix**, Caterpillar, Basis (Intro, 2*), I-Man (1*, 2*), Spaga (1)