Set 2 (68 megs)
It was my turn to do the opening set for this one, so I did my usual Guitar-and-Voice-with-shakers thing (a short 6-song set of originals, including an arrangement of my latest long-distance-collaboration with 5-track, "Under the Tent"). After that, it was two sets of WEGO.
The first set was fairly traditional WEGO -- well realized as I recall … with inspired mid-tempo grooves and a suite of our core lyrical standards.
The second set was just a touch more open, with a few less changes (longer sections of modal jamming), more odd-time overlapping measures, and even a 20-ish-minute section where I was working from a short sheet of clever lyrical inspirations provided by a lady we'd never seen before (thanks for those!).
All in all, it was a great high-energy night (thanks to everyone who made the trip to see us!), which really re-affirmed the power of the format for me and seemed to kick up the momentum looking ahead to October's Gypsy show.
(Finally, whether you were in the group that night, listening from the house, or just grabbing the recordings over the net, please add your thoughts/highlights/etc… in the comments below!)
2 comments:
Dennis convinced me to make the opening guitar-and-voice set available as well:
http://www.neonbrown.com/2010_09_10_AWD.mp3
I still don't feel like I've figured out how to integrate instrumental improv into these sets as much as I'd like to, but some of the vocal-jams are fun here and people seemed to respond well to the songs (this was the first time I could remember where the audience could hear the lyrics to Bionic and so I was surprised to find myself laughing along with them, when normally I'm performing it more on a purely musical level because I can tell nobody is following the ridiculous "story developments")
thanks for putting this up ill have to dl it once i get back in town
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