September 8, 2001

Webster Theater · Hartford, CT

13 songs7 segues3 sets

Set 1Voices Insane, Triumph★* > Floes*, The Tunnel, And the Ladies Were the Rest of the Night★*

Set 2Reactor★* > Crickets* > Story of the World★* > The Overture★* > Story of the World* > Crickets > Reactor

Footnotes

Triumph - After several minutes of riffing on the Triumph bass line, the band settles into a mid-tempo trance theme. Sammy brings the rest of the band to a more rock-oriented crescendo before breaking down into eerie ambience.

Floes - Another strong fall 01 version featuring wood block percussion and breakbeats. Beautiful and patient build to the ending.

And the Ladies Were the Rest of the Night - A fiery, if not necessarily improvisationally daring, version that provides a high-energy conclusion to a mellow set.

Reactor - From Magner’s first theme in the jam, you know this is going to be a special one. The jam has a gritty, psychedelic edge to it, and for the first several minutes Magner’s theme proceeds with almost no variation as he allows the other three to create a cacophonic theme around him. After an almost fakeout of the Hope ending, the jam builds to a Reactor peak section but shifts into bliss territory without losing steam. Barber takes the reins after a few minutes and allows the jam to ebb slightly, before building up to a huge Crickets peak. A dizzying inferno of improvisation, and still very much the gold standard of Reactor jams.

Story of the World - The first half is mostly typical Biscuits funk, complete with Crickets funk teases. After a bliss crescendo, Sammy shifts the rhythm dramatically to dnb, and the mood of the jam quickly shifts as well. A sinister dnb jam emerges, with a downright evil segue into Overture.

The Overture - In a rare exception for Overture, the band leaves the dnb territory behind almost immediately in favor of a very mellow trance. Barber’s riff forms the backbone of this introspective jam. It builds with extreme patience, with the tempo gradually increasing for a Magner-led crescendo, before breaking down into a percussive passage that gradually returns to the Story ending.

Story of the World - Bliss trance dissolving into bass-heavy cacophony, in one of the stronger segues into the Crickets ending yet.

Setlist data from the Biscuits Internet Project (discobiscuits.net).