August 26, 2006

Abraxas has a short but pretty decent jam. Therapy is standard. 42 has an extended jam, although most of this felt like filler to me. Boom Shanker has a neat little middle jam. This is not too far outside the box for Boom Shanker, but solid nonetheless. There’s an outro jam out of Boom Shanker, and this is amazing. An ambient, digital sound that the band doesn’t necessarily hit onto that often. Awesome. Gamma Goblins doesn’t really have a “jam” per se. There are a lot of extended sections of music, but for the most part this is all the usual stuff.

The House Dog segment is interesting, at least insofar as the setlist writing goes. They go from the beginning into Kelly Watch the Stars, then into the end, then later come back to the peak (middle). Neat stuff, structurally. I didn’t find either jam in the beginning/ending section noteworthy, but the Kelly cover is neat. The way that they get out of the ending section into a jam is pretty cool, and it’s always to hear them play something that they clearly worked on for this specific jam/segment. The resulting jam is just okay, but still, neat ideas. There’s no real jam after 7-11, they just go right into the HDPF middle peak. I generally enjoyed the dance jam out of the HDPF middle section. This gets very, very pretty as they get closer to Voices Insane. Neither Crickets jam does much for me. I-Man has two very short jams, neither of which is memorable.

Highlights: Abraxas, Boom Shanker (1, 2**), HDPF (3)