November 3, 2002

Pearl Street · Northampton, MA

16 songs10 segues3 sets

Set 1Save the Robots > Crickets > The Very Moon* > Shem-Rah Boo > Trucker's Choice > Spectacle, Mr. Don > Shelby Rose

Set 2Little Shimmy in a Conga Line > Crickets > Ulua, Reactor > Save the Robots, I-Man* > Reactor

Footnotes

The Very Moon - TVM connoisseurs must check out this version. In the preceding Crickets jam, they pretty much fake-out the Crickets peak and suddenly slow it wayyy down for a segue into TVM, but the highlight here is the jam. After a few minutes of captivating, quiet, delicate jamming, Sammy switches it up for a half-time feel and Brownie adds a great funky major bassline, sounding like a Hope intro. From there Sammy switches back to the faster “two-step-on-her-hands” feel and they build up to a glorious TVM peak

I-Man - The First jam goes into high-energy Nughuffer-esque territory with Barber and Sammy playing major roles. Some fun full-band interplay starts as Sammy goes into Beast-mode, eventually returning energetically to I-Man middle. The traditional blissed-out I-Man 2nd jam unpredictably turns into a four to the floor jam. Brownie provides a bouncy bassline as the jam builds and builds in intensity until finally reaching the I-Man ending peak. Keeping things moving with an outro jam that builds to a great Reactor peak caps off this criminally underrated Fall 02 segment.

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