February 25, 1999
Brookdale Lodge · Brookdale, CA
14 songs4 segues2 sets
Set 1Magellan★*, Eulogy, Basis for a Day* > Shem-Rah Boo★*
Footnotes
Magellan - One of the earliest Magellans to break out of the box. It gets spacey and sinister in the middle before returning to familiar territory and building to a triumphant peak.
Basis for a Day - A spooky Basis jam for this haunted lodge show. The jam builds up to speed and, rather than peaking, keeps pace and develops into a frenetic Shem-Rah intro.
Shem-Rah Boo - A truly incredible jam. Extreme minimalism, with patient and layered Barber jazz serving as the background to droning psychedelic Magner riffs. After the tense droning psychedelia, Magner builds up to a skull-pounding ending.
Nughuffer - Magner makes ample use of the 1998 synths in the earliest part, and layers on more electronic trance effects as the jam develops. There is some excellent interplay between him and Barber in this part, until a breakdown around the nine minute mark. From here the jam loses a bit of focus until another breakdown around the thirteen minute mark. The jam enters a very Barber-dominated passage of type two as it builds to a powerful Basis ending.
Basis for a Day - An excellent Basis ending caps off this Nughuffer > Basis
Setlist data from the Biscuits Internet Project (discobiscuits.net).