Tweezer review - 12/2/92 Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH

Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 20:23:10 -0800
From: Charles Dirksen cdirksen@earthlink.net
To: rmp@archive.phish.net
Subject: 12/2/92 Tweezer
 
12/2/92 Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH
 
Thank you Paul Glace for the tapes.  Wonderful YEM to close the first
set, btw (it has a Wedge-intro-flavored jam segment).
 
The opening segment of this Tweezer contains some modest vocal jamming
from Trey (can't make out any words).  It's a very punchy and inspired
opening.  Jam segment kicks in (after heavy screaming after the
Ebeneezer lyric) at 4:39.  Page is on the piano, adding vibrating
flourishes here and there that get mimicked by Mike.
 
Fish kicks out the standard Tweezer rhythm.  Trey lets loose a very
heavy chord and sustains it around 5:30, and then fires off some
more.  Hard Rock Trey?  He continues with heavy chords (6:15).  He
doesn't take off until 6:47 or so.  But he's still heavy on the
chords.  He repeats a chord over and over.. Page adds some very
complimentary, melodic piano chords around 7:20 or so, but they don't
inspire Trey to solo melodically.  Trey is still dropping a chord here
and there.  It just isn't inspired.  He's very repetitious.
 
Everyone locks in briefly on a theme of sorts around 8:30, which turns
into something of potential interest around 9:15.  Trey still isn't
that active, prefering not to "direct" this collective improvisation
that until this time (9:40) wasn't really clicking.  This collective
jam builds pretty steadily and climaxes around 11:15.  Trey continues
riffing well, and doesn't noodle.  But then, all of a sudden, the
bottom of the jam just drops out around 11:40.  Very bizarre.  And
they all just play random stuff...  Doesn't sound at all coherent
frankly --  Sounds like a Big Ball Jam, actually, around 12:15!
Interesting.. And at 12:45 Trey hits The Note that starts the "dying
out of the jam" sending.  Weird.  Total time 13:47.
 
two cents
charlie

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