A nice opening.. good pre-Nirvana build, too. Very enchanting.
Page
is just spectacular in this opening, as he almost always is, of
course.. In Mike's solo section, he teases the Brady Bunch theme
a
bit, using a spooky effect that he uses a lot in this section (but
not
always). I don't know what you call this effect.. probably a
FUZZ or
something, because it fuzzes the sound. ;) I dunno. Sounded typically
awry. The pre-charge is great, as is the jamming around the Notes,
for the most part.. well, Trey goes off-key a bit here and there, but
he solidly hits both Notes without difficulty.
"Boy" at 5:51, after not much screaming (Trey started a beat or two
late). Trey definitely says "Boy, Man, wash your face and drive
me to
Firenzi" in the WUDMTF segment, and even yells "SUCK IT" or "SOCK IT"
or something at 7:27, in the midst of WUDMTF... he yells it again as
the tramps jam segment begins. Good Page, but he really isn't
as
active he is often is in here.. still great.
Jam segment at 9:40 or so, and Trey does some Hendrix-like trills.
The jam then goes into a very evil sounding hard rock mode for about
twenty seconds. Trey is trilling severely in here.. he's got
Eddie
Van Halen disease until about 10:39, when he starts mellifluously
soloing.. around 11 minutes, Trey is yelling "Yeah" and "SUCK IT!"
again.. whatever.. The jamming in here KICKS! It really does.
An
excellent jam segment, with great soloing from Trey and accompaniment
from others. Trey is trilling like mad again around 12:10.. a
la
Weekapaug. Short, though. Bass and drums at 12:27.
Mike opens it up
with some severely funky licks, and then Trey and probably Mike yell
SUCK IT again.. seems to be the theme. ;) This bass and drums
jam is
funky and great, but Mike isn't as active as he was on 5/2/92.
Still
funky and thematic. Fish adds some great fills in here... Mike
starts
ripping it up at 14:35 or so, after they had just slowed down..
Closing WUDMTF segment at 14:51... they start vocal jamming very
quickly on "Washington" after about 20 seconds.. WHOA WHOA WHOA is
the
theme for a bit.. then they sing something I don't recognize.. then
some "Run" chanting, and some "Run da da dun dumn da dun ..."
Then
Shaggy Dog at 17:04 (nice segue). They just sing it (it isn't
jammed
on), with Fish singing/screaming between the lines sung by the
others.. (Trey cracks up in here a few times) It is a great version,
and people start clapping... and the beat picks up a little.. some
howling and barking from Fish... and then they end it on 'HO HO HO
IT'S MAGIC, MAGIC, MAGIC AND THE JETS'...
(B rating) (total time around 19 mins)
two cents