October 19, 2006

Just want to point out that both "student" and "pavilion" are spelled incorrectly.

The Buddha jam to start the show is mostly solid. This is pretty Magner-centric, and Allen uses a healthy dose of e-drums to round out the digital sound here. Nice. Morph is about the same, although this has some neat little guitar licks from Barber as well. This feels a lot like a festival set. Spy is standard. Shelby is a lot of wasted time and mediocre DNB. Whip It is standard, and awful. Helix is interesting, as there’s a portion that almost sounds like the band is going to head toward Orch Theme, which of course isn’t debuted for another month-and-a-half. Unfortunately this slides into Cyclone somewhat plainly, and the jam back into Helicopters is not all that interesting either. A 42 encore is a little insulting as it’s basically 10 minutes of awful composition. In any event, they play a short, decent jam to end the show.

Highlights: Buddha, Morph