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Phish – Festival 8 Acoustic Set November 1, 2009 Indio, CA Shot By Wasian Style

By: Dennis Cook

I am the bottle, you are the breeze
Floating in and out to sea
Fire of a rocket, love by degrees
Show me where the soul will be

Romantic stuff but it’s delivered with the blessed heaviness of Deep Purple or The Black Crowes, sung with ragged potency worthy of Free-era Paul Rodgers, and nuanced with unexpected curves into genuinely pretty melodic space. “Needle Down,” the opening track from Sweet Fist (Response Records), is only the start of a gripping, sexy hard rock slab of the first order. Long torchbearers for thick, undulating rock, Super 400 refines and expands on their sound here, trimming away fat and welcoming in some poppy elements that do nothing to dilute their basic mojo.

Throughout the sense that they throw themselves entirely into the music is inescapable, and together the trio packs a pretty huge wallop. At the risk of too much ancestral namedropping, Super 400 reminds one of early Thin Lizzy, who presented a similar smorgasbord of rockers, love songs, and pleasantly genre pushing experimentation. “Thought It Was The End” is the kind of acoustic-electric shuffler Page & Plant might’ve penned in the ’70s, their reworking of Carole King’s “I Feel The Earth Move” is wicked (akin to Nazareth’s handling of Joni’s “This Flight Tonight”), and bassist/keyboardist Lori Friday delivers dynamite lead vocals on crunchy modern boogie “Flashlight.” Each touch throughout – a few piano notes here, a psychedelic cul de sac there, a nasty blues stream over there – works, with Sweet Fist confirming that this Upstate New York band just keeps getting better.

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Skerik

Local saxophonist Skerik (Critters Buggin, Dead Kenny Gs, Garage a Trois, Syncopated Taint Septet, Roger Waters, Les Claypool, etc) will physically appear at Seattle’s Georgetown Drum School on December 2 at 7:00 p.m. He will bring his latest electronics set up that allows him to efficiently change timbres, sounds and directions.

Skerik will demonstrate signal path, unity gain and survival in the electronic music world, meaning survival techniques using any sound system found in any club, theater, church or cult headquarters. From microphones to monitors and everything between, mysteries will be unveiled. Live playing with local drummer D’vonne Lewis as well as other special guests will occur. Random tips of all types will be brought forth for:

1) Saxophonists: acoustic and rhythmic techniques will be demonstrated.
2) Electronically curious DJs, musicians, seeking new signal paths, effects and monitoring techniques.
3) Aspiring musicians wondering what back stages are really like, and what to say if someone asks you to license your hot new single.
4) Non-performing fans of music looking for insight into the mystery of creation.

Additionally, free Electro Voice PL80a microphones will be given away to 5 students by a random ticket drawing during the class.

Where: Seattle Drum School Georgetown (1010 S. Bailey, Seattle, WA, Tel: 206.763.9700)
When: December 2, 2009, 7 p.m.
Cost: $10