The Slip Fillmore Street Jazz Festival 7/6/03 setlist: Song of Mysterious Origin ?? ?? (techno style) > Mr. Meowskers Back in Fifteen Minutes Yaki Soba Get me with Fuji Piano Instrumental Sorry
review: found out at the last minute that the Slip would be playing at the Fillmore Street Jazz Festival, but made it to the fair in time to watch them set up their stage. this street festival is big, stretching 12 blocks on Fillmore Street. lots of people, lots of vendors, lots of music. the stage they played on was at the corner of Sutter and Fillmore, and the upward slope of Fillmore away from the stage made for good views for most. oh yeah, it was fucking freezing too. they opened with the Song of Mysterious Origin (formerly termed "Kurdistan" - Brad called it "a song of mysterious origin" the next night in Santa Cruz), and it totally rocked. i think this song is becoming one of my live favorites for it's awesome build-up and Brad's fast moving (and very stretchy) hands (i think at some points, his fingers were stretched across 6 or so frets - on a nylon string guitar!). the crowd was definitely responsive - i think the Pac Heights yuppies liked it too. the second song, i've definitely heard before, but couldn't put a name to it. sorta bluesy and not a regular time signature. they played it at Yoshi's as well two days later (1st set 3rd song). the next song was one i never heard before. it was beat-driven and had Brad using his guitar as percussion (tapping the strings). the sounds that came out definitely had lots of effects on them - some kind of flanged, harmonic sounding, i have no idea. Brad was also throwing in some samples of his guitar playing 16th notes on the same note. i didn't see him record the sample, so i think it was pre-recorded (first time i heard this sound was during Fuji at the Lion's Den in nov 2002). Andrew was totally ripping it up. definitely had a techno feel to it, and it got some people moving. they morphed it into Mr. Meowskers. afterwards, they dedicated it to all the cool cats they've met. after an Eastern, semi-bluesy, techno, rustic americana, and then, a slow-singing song, the Fillmore Street Jazz Festival got it's taste of a "jazzy" tune. Yaki Soba was tight and i felt it was a nod to the Jazz festival. then, they ripped it up with a slow and deliberate Fuji. plenty of people dancing with it. they followed with Brad's piano instrumental song, which was beautiful. ended with a nice Sorry. the setup was pretty sweet, with astroturf laid out on the street in front of the stage. people on the turf were sitting, but along the edges was where people were dancing. it was pretty cold and windy for most of the show, but a couple of times the sun came out and gave us a little warm-up. all in all, pretty sweet. free, outdoor, and setting a good tone for my first of a four day run. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com --------------------------------------- ** We welcome your thoughtful comments - especially newbies!. Please participate by sending an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Web archive at http://email.theslip.net ** To unsubscribe: Send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'signoff theslip' in the body of the message
