July 17, 2008

7-11 begins Camp with a straightforward type 1 jam. The second jam is a fast trance jam which hits the usual beats. Nothing noteworthy here. The Boop jam begins as typical funk, then turns into a bass-heavy start/stop jam. This again, does nothing for me. They switch into a generic dance jam before dropping into 42. The 42 jam begins with a fairly boring theme, although there is a hint at something better for quite a while. The second half of the jam is basically a worse version not the 04/19/08 B&C jam, and while this is nowhere near as good, it’s at least fairly enjoyable. Caves of the East is still clearly being developed by the band at this point, as Barber is still playing riffs that would later become Magner's. As for the jam this is mostly a dark, dissonant, downtempo jam, featuring Brownstein using a heavily distorted bass effect. For the most part this is a lot of treading of water, until they shift uptempo. The uptempo shift sounds almost like they could be headed for save the robots, but instead they wind up in the uplifting melodic stylings of Svengali. The end of this jam is okay, but ultimately the jamming that led to it is mostly forgettable. Lastly, the jam in Trucker's Choice lasts all of 2 to 3 minutes, and does nothing of note.

Highlights: 42*