ptchfork
02-09-2005, 07:56 PM
Reviewed this week by Pat (Justus)
Hampton Coliseum
Hampton, VA
Set 1
Keep Your Day Job [4: 10] >
New Minglewood Blues [7: 51]
Dire Wolf [3: 18]
Beat It On Down The Line [3: 28] >
West L.A. Fadeaway [7: 43]
It's All Over Now [8: 17]
Bird Song [9: 25]
Hell In A Bucket [6: 13] >
Don't Ease Me In [3: 03]
Set 2
Scarlet Begonias [12: 49] >
Fire On The Mountain [10: 50]
Estimated Prophet [15: 32] >
Drums [5: 08#] >
Space [9: 51] >
The Wheel [5: 41] >
Truckin' [6: 16] >
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad [5: 14] >
Around And Around [3: 45] >
Good Lovin' [7: 40]
Encore: U.S. Blues [4: 56]
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Comments:
My fifth show and favorite of all I've seen. On this trip were Brad, his girlfriend Donna, Barry, his girlfriend Karen, Trip, and myself, both girlfriendless. We arrived in Norfolk after a 10 hour drive around 3 am the morning of and napped in some random parking lot, then got a room at some hotel of which I have little recolection. We hit the lot mid afternoon and spent some time walking around talking to heads, throwing frisbee, smoking weed, and drinking beers. I do remember that I was dressed in my Uncle Sam pants (red, white and blue vertical stripes with hand painted swirlies) and this tye die with a mandala silkscreened on the front (I wish I still had that shirt). We get in the colusium and Brad starts setting up his taping gear. Trip and I find this hippie hawking doses and make a quick decision to take the plunge, minutes before the boys take the stage.
Well they open with Day Job. Never one of my faves, but a good tight version anyways, and back then I wouldn't think to turn my nose up at anything they pulled out. Highlights for me in the first set were Dire Wolf, Bird Song, and All Over Now, which featured a strong Brent solo with him singing the lead line as he played it on the B-3. They closed the first with Don't Ease and by then the acid was starting to take effect. Trip and I decide to take a walk around. I get caught up in some bubble watching and the next thing I know I'm tripping hard and Tripless! I still remember the whooshing sound a few thousand voices make when you've got nothing else to listen to. Spooked, I return to home base FOB and the whole crew is there.
The second set opens with the most amazing Scarlet->Fire. Jerry, Bobby, Phil, and Brent all weaving in and out of each other's lines without stepping on toes during the Scarlet. In the transition jam, Mickey comes out front with his talking drum and stays throughout Fire, popping the hell out of it. Healy throws on the delay in the last chorus, sounding stong and tight. One short pause and they break into Estimated with a jam on the end they extended so much I guess they figured they didn't have time for the Eyes, so into drums instead. At this point I catch a scent (other than cannabis, which had been a constant) and look around to see some folks peeling oranges. That scent melded with the sound of the drums and left me with a sensation indescribable, but lingering in my memory to this day. The space was very strange, and I though it was just my state of mind, but the tapes bear out the strangeness. Out of space The Wheel, nice work by Jerry on the intro. Bobby gets out the whistle for the Truckin, intro "Tweet tweet, tweet tweet, twee wee weet tweet" and off they go. Fairly smooth transition into GDTRFB. Standard Around and Around into the closing Good Lovin', with Phil strong on his line, alternating the G and F above and below the C. (hard to describe, just listen).
The boys come out for a tight, upbeat US Blues for an encore, and I walk out with "Wave that flag, wave it wide and high" blazed in my mind. Walking back to the car I catch a glance of some friend I never met. I say, "Good show huh?" He says "Oh yeah" and we grin at each other, knowing how much of an understatement that little exchange was.
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Hampton Coliseum
Hampton, VA
Set 1
Keep Your Day Job [4: 10] >
New Minglewood Blues [7: 51]
Dire Wolf [3: 18]
Beat It On Down The Line [3: 28] >
West L.A. Fadeaway [7: 43]
It's All Over Now [8: 17]
Bird Song [9: 25]
Hell In A Bucket [6: 13] >
Don't Ease Me In [3: 03]
Set 2
Scarlet Begonias [12: 49] >
Fire On The Mountain [10: 50]
Estimated Prophet [15: 32] >
Drums [5: 08#] >
Space [9: 51] >
The Wheel [5: 41] >
Truckin' [6: 16] >
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad [5: 14] >
Around And Around [3: 45] >
Good Lovin' [7: 40]
Encore: U.S. Blues [4: 56]
Download From The Archive (http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=15610)
Comments:
My fifth show and favorite of all I've seen. On this trip were Brad, his girlfriend Donna, Barry, his girlfriend Karen, Trip, and myself, both girlfriendless. We arrived in Norfolk after a 10 hour drive around 3 am the morning of and napped in some random parking lot, then got a room at some hotel of which I have little recolection. We hit the lot mid afternoon and spent some time walking around talking to heads, throwing frisbee, smoking weed, and drinking beers. I do remember that I was dressed in my Uncle Sam pants (red, white and blue vertical stripes with hand painted swirlies) and this tye die with a mandala silkscreened on the front (I wish I still had that shirt). We get in the colusium and Brad starts setting up his taping gear. Trip and I find this hippie hawking doses and make a quick decision to take the plunge, minutes before the boys take the stage.
Well they open with Day Job. Never one of my faves, but a good tight version anyways, and back then I wouldn't think to turn my nose up at anything they pulled out. Highlights for me in the first set were Dire Wolf, Bird Song, and All Over Now, which featured a strong Brent solo with him singing the lead line as he played it on the B-3. They closed the first with Don't Ease and by then the acid was starting to take effect. Trip and I decide to take a walk around. I get caught up in some bubble watching and the next thing I know I'm tripping hard and Tripless! I still remember the whooshing sound a few thousand voices make when you've got nothing else to listen to. Spooked, I return to home base FOB and the whole crew is there.
The second set opens with the most amazing Scarlet->Fire. Jerry, Bobby, Phil, and Brent all weaving in and out of each other's lines without stepping on toes during the Scarlet. In the transition jam, Mickey comes out front with his talking drum and stays throughout Fire, popping the hell out of it. Healy throws on the delay in the last chorus, sounding stong and tight. One short pause and they break into Estimated with a jam on the end they extended so much I guess they figured they didn't have time for the Eyes, so into drums instead. At this point I catch a scent (other than cannabis, which had been a constant) and look around to see some folks peeling oranges. That scent melded with the sound of the drums and left me with a sensation indescribable, but lingering in my memory to this day. The space was very strange, and I though it was just my state of mind, but the tapes bear out the strangeness. Out of space The Wheel, nice work by Jerry on the intro. Bobby gets out the whistle for the Truckin, intro "Tweet tweet, tweet tweet, twee wee weet tweet" and off they go. Fairly smooth transition into GDTRFB. Standard Around and Around into the closing Good Lovin', with Phil strong on his line, alternating the G and F above and below the C. (hard to describe, just listen).
The boys come out for a tight, upbeat US Blues for an encore, and I walk out with "Wave that flag, wave it wide and high" blazed in my mind. Walking back to the car I catch a glance of some friend I never met. I say, "Good show huh?" He says "Oh yeah" and we grin at each other, knowing how much of an understatement that little exchange was.
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