Subject: 10/26/96 You Enjoy Myself
 Date:Fri, 17 Apr 1998 21:08:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Charlie Dirksen 

10/26/96  Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, NC

This is a set from 1996 that I kept around.  Lots of jamming tunes..
Good stuff, too. (DWD, YEM, Simple, Antelope)

YEM segues out of the remainder of DWD (a > in other words).  Opening
standard.  Pre-Nirvana segment (they need to improvise more here..
really go off sometime!) is beautiful, spacey, mesmerizing, short.
Nirvana at 3:22.  Sounds great to me. (this segment, in case you
didn't know, has nothing at all to do with the embarrassing band
"Nirvana"... I call it the "Nirvana" segment because I had a powerful
sense of Enlightenment upon first hearing a really shitty copy of it
in 1989)  Enough with the opening segment, which is a bit rough during
the pre-charge... very rough, actually.  Trey is pretty sloppy in parts.
Second shot at The Note isn't at all pretty.

"Boy" at 6:50 after an ***EXCELLENT*** scream from Trey (no doubt
frustrated by the opening segment).  Ultra-groovy, almost laid back,
stylin' WUDMTF segment.  Trey whispers the WUDMTF lyrics,
practically.. tramps segment at 9:06 and the signals for the tramps
moves are Very Present.  Mike's loooooow on his 'doc.  Great stuff
from Page on the hammond..

Jam segment begins at 10:58 with Trey melodiously noodling right from
the start.  Still a smooth, mellow feel to this groove. Trey gets a
bit repetitive around 11:40 on a lick I've heard him play around with
before in YEM.  Borderline Spooky tease within the next twenty seconds
or so.

The jam proceeds in a PARADIGM YEM JAM SEGMENT FASHION for
the next two minutes.  Trey's just tooling around above strong
accompaniment from da boyz.  Good closing jam, but nothing to get your
panties in a bunch over.. until perhaps around 14:15, when Trey starts
cookin' it high up his 'doc, and tearing into some Power Chords around
14:45.  Very healthy close to this jam!!!!  YES!!! =^]

At 15:18 it's BASS AND DRUMS TIME.  B&D slams into the picture with
Mike dankly oozing out a mellifluously funky phaaty veggie solo, and
Fish accompanying quite well... strong B&D but not exceptionally so,
imo, given the last few years.

At 17:07 the closing WUDMTF segment comes in.  Vocal jam isn't
noteworthy.. I listened to it intently, though, to try to hear any of
them say "Remain in Light" at any point.  I'd swear that Fish says
"Remain" at one point.. but then again, you can probably hear anything
in these queerly harmonious vocal jams, if you put your ears to it. (B)

two cents
charlie