40 Watt show

Sounds like a great show!

Hey kids, I was Mr. Serious, and made the audio recording of the J. show last night, though the serious thing is all looks, I always have a blast when I’m out recording, especially last night. My first J. experience, really only marginally familiar with a little of the Dino Jr. stuff, but it seems like a picked a great first show.

Chris (who taped the Caledonia show, and one of my partners-in-crime) got really sick and didn’t make it, I remastered his Caledonia show and seeded it to sharingthegroove, and this one will -DEFINITELY- go up there too. I’ll post back here for you guys when it’s ready.

Oh, and I thought the tape came out REALLY NICE, I think it will be worth the (small) wait. . .

Sloan

here is the setlist for last night-
freedom
the lung
everybody lets me down
sameday
ammaring
little fury things
yeah we know
get me
tarpit
thumb
freakscene
alone
if thats how its gotta be
the wagon
sludgefeast

it was a great show- that was the twentieth time ive seen J and it was definately one of the best- it was great to hear yeah we know and tarpit- i had never seen him play those live- they sounded really good. J was in top form- the solos for ammaring,thumb, and alone were amazing- and sludgefeast.
i guess youll all get to hear it- so thats good -i recorded it, but my recording stuff isnt all that great- im glad somebody got a really good recording-

Won’t be tonight, as I’m going out to tape Elf Power, but will be very soon, especially now that I have a setlist to work from (thanks).

Be here before you know it

Sloan

That’s great, like CG said, highly appreciated… , and welcome on FreakScene Sloan!

I kept one by hand for the Caledonia show, but didn’t this time, ’cause I figured one of ya’ll would do so. So thanks! Can’t wait for the tape!!

I had been waiting for that night for 12 years. I have always loved WSP and Dinosaur Jr. Who would have ever thought the two would blend? But right from the start, you immediately thought: "How could this NOT have happened?" And then I turn I around and there’s Kevn Kinney! All three of my biggest musical influences right there: incredible. I first knew Kevn’s music, and then WSP, and then Dino Jr. all in succession (with Neil Young hovering over them all) and there they all were in one room (Neil was there in spirit). I still can’t get over how great it was.

My review:

"Saw the show tonite. Fuckin’ fantastic. Kevn Kinney was there and he thought it was beautiful, because it was. It didn’t SEEM loud as usual J, but my ears are ringing so it must have been deceptive. J and Dave Schools were made for each other. Never heard Schools on a four string before, with WSP he plays a six string, but he used it well. He filled in the space that J’s flanger creates. I used to think they Dino tunes that always SCREAMED to be extended, like Sludge feast, and they that’s exactly what they did. Yes the songlist is short, but that’s because each song was LONGER.

And J smiled a ton while he was playing.

The drummer from the Tom Collins was fantastic too. J played a ton of old stuff and very few Fog tunes. It was transcendent; they balanced and expanded each others strengths so well.

It was so danceable. It was so movey. And the crowd was just big enough to give great energy without being smashed into each other: a perfect size to dance and tonite they made it danceable as strange as that sounds. Yet often times the music was like a dream scape, almost trance-y. Like you could just lie down and the music would comfortable wash over you. Like I said, it didn’t SEEM loud.

Just fuckin’ amazing.

They all just fit together so well. The bass actually mattered tonite. Granted I never saw J play with Watt but I know Watt and as good as that must have been it had to have been different than what Schools does. Schools adds little fill ins and flares without being intrusive and he knows how, because this is what Panic does, extend time and space musically so that J can run and play and let loose without having to worry whether his "backing" can keep up.

I always intuited back in the early nineties without being able to articulate it or even really ever think it that it really is all one song; The synthesis was just perfect.

Once again, music exposes genre as the marketing construct it is.

If you get a chance to get a tape, take it.

You’ll then understand how great this show was."