September 23, 2001
Fox Theatre · Boulder, CO
16 songs9 segues3 sets
Set 1Helicopters > Pygmy Twylyte★* > Little Lai*, Basis for a Day* > Spy★* > Basis for a Day*
Set 2The Tunnel, Voices Insane, Little Shimmy in a Conga Line★* > Munchkin Invasion*, M.E.M.P.H.I.S. > Purple Haze > M.E.M.P.H.I.S. > Purple Haze > Bernstein and Chasnoff*
Encore 1Frog Legs
Footnotes
Pygmy Twylyte - Pure pathos. Magner and Barber craft a gorgeous theme, haunting and melancholy, that eventually gives way to a Lai intro. One of the best Biscuits jams ever.
Little Lai - Some restrained, tense atmosphere in the beginning of the jam, followed by a jazzy buildup to a Lai ending.
Basis for a Day - Refined, minimal trance, with a fantastic and smooth segue into Spy.
Spy - Emerging from the Spy ending is a tense and focused minor-key trance vehicle. Extremely patient build to a strong Basis ending.
Little Shimmy in a Conga Line - The main jam is less famous than the outro, but a banner version nonetheless—it breaks down into eerie atmosphere and rebuilds slowly to a fiery conclusion.
The legendary vocal jam outro builds to a haunting cacophony of dreamy, psychedelic spoken word—all along the theme of oversleeping. The build to Munchkin is pedestrian, but after such a unique jam it hardly matters.
Munchkin Invasion - Strong but standard, until a dnb breakdown on the way to the ending.
Setlist data from the Biscuits Internet Project (discobiscuits.net).