March 31, 2001
Fox Theatre · Boulder, CO
15 songs9 segues3 sets
Set 1Down to the Bottom★* > Hope★*, Mindless Dribble* > M.E.M.P.H.I.S.★* > Jigsaw Earth*
Set 2Jigsaw Earth★* > Aquatic Ape > Jigsaw Earth* > Aquatic Ape, M.E.M.P.H.I.S.* > Spy > M.E.M.P.H.I.S.* > Mindless Dribble★
Footnotes
Down to the Bottom - The Down to the Bottom intro is mellow, free-form, and psychedelic; in other words, it is a microcosm of the entire legendary show. Background synths and lightly strummed guitar chords layer over a vaguely sinister rhythm.
Trance yields to breakbeats yields to the slow, syruppy Hope intro. The type one going into Hope is absolutely gorgeous.
Hope - One of the best Hopes of all time. Feather-light dnb serves as the backdrop for a bliss jam that moves towards more tense dnb and gradually returns to the Hope ending.
Mindless Dribble - A rare “Happy Dribble” jam builds up around one of Barber’s most iconic themes ever created. This theme breaks down after a beautiful uncomposed peak, and the rest isn’t quite as strong, but the first eight minutes or so are enough to elevate it to all-timer status.
M.E.M.P.H.I.S. - Spacey psychedelic atmosphere for the first few minutes, gradually moving towards dub and building to an explosive uncomposed peak. Easily the best peak into Jigsaw (outside of 11/9/00 perhaps).
M.E.M.P.H.I.S. - After a vocal jam (welcome to the band, Max, thanks for the negotiation) the jam takes on a driving quality. Magner utilizes a heavily distorted synth (similar to the 11/9 synths) and the jam builds to a tense crescendo going into Dribble. Between the Dribble hits, the band constructs an entirely different, triumphantly happy theme, before the ultimate return into the song.
Setlist data from the Biscuits Internet Project (discobiscuits.net).