Andrew Bire 12/12/03 Bryant Lake Bowl Minneapolis, MN AUD: MiniDisc > Sound Studio > iTunes > CDR Recorded by Julia Chambers 79:46 1. First Song 2. -> 3. Action / Adventure 4. Why? 5. Lull 6. Capital I 7. MX Missiles 8. Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left* 9. Banking On A Myth 10. Sovay 11. Master Fade 12. Skin 13. Happy Birthday Song - Encore - 14. Happy Day 15. Trimmed + Burning * first time played ------------------------------------- From: Julia Chambers Date: Sun Dec 14, 2003 7:50pm Subject: Bryant Lake Bowl reviewOkay, my last review got out of hand, here's a more subdued one: I travelled to Minneapolis to catch Bird's show at the Bryant Lake Bowl and to catch up with friends. The day of the show was filled with a little too much drama for my taste. Once upon a time I was very organized when going long distances for shows, reserving tickets, finding out exactly where the club was way beforehand, all that good stuff. I guess I'm getting lazy. Hanging out with some of my friends that afternoon, they were deciding whether to come with me, and so called the club to reserve some tickets and were told it was sold out! What?! I didn't have a ticket myself! Oh lord... Okay, it's alright, having Miss Manager's phone number on me, I was pretty sure I could pull a string and get in. Her response to my news that the show was already sold out did not fill me with confidence. "Fuck!", was her initial reaction. So, after much nervousness on my part, and with some positive visualization and the help of Andrea (and the leverage I had being the only person around who could record the show), I did make it in the door. Bryant Lake Bowl is a tiny (only seating about 95 people) sit down theater. Very nice, very intimate. The audience displayed all the best qualities of a group watching Bird, quiet during the songs, ecstatic in their applause. The sound lady did the best job I've heard keeping up with Bird and his reverb demands. Upon speaking for the first time, after a few tunes, Bird assured us that, "No matter what happens tonight, I'm in complete control. Even though I totally fell on my face coming upstairs, spilled my water. It's gonna be a good show...got all that out of the way." Most exciting of all, he debuted a new song! Oh, yes, these are the moments I cherish. Gravy on the "what are the songs gonna sound like tonight?" mashed potatoes. The title of said new song is (and I swear I'm not making this up) Nervous Tic Motion of The Head to The Left. Say the title while making that head twitch and you'll get the idea. Yeah, it's a great song. He prefaced it by saying "I get this perverse thrill, playing things that are not ready to play in front of audiences" Some nice musical moments: The end of Skin dissolved into a swirl of chaotic and dischordant plucking. Generating some nice tension and providing an interesting contrast to the final "Oh what a lovely sound" lyrics. Happy Birthday Song is now a beautiful dirge. Slow, swaying, half the lyrics gone, Bird's vocals somber and deep. A couple times during the set, minor gaffes were followed immediately by a blistering array of notes. Perhaps in an attempt to distract from or erase the memory of the error. Overcompensating can be fun. Julia flac fingerprint: abird2003-12-12t01.flac:412e71a86bc2272d83c9787a40301a5c abird2003-12-12t02.flac:ad57ff3c84628d51ebb89fe3c27f3efc abird2003-12-12t03.flac:238e155583b951dddd6d12e0945b830f abird2003-12-12t04.flac:56780ac440fc9c26970d65d3ecb20894 abird2003-12-12t05.flac:a38904214c91c9346d31774f68e6e252 abird2003-12-12t06.flac:a97416b251a28ed7eb35b8ff5dd13711 abird2003-12-12t07.flac:07dcf95be11ad647888f9da7596aba79 abird2003-12-12t08.flac:5aa479f9102d6c259cb4796f69005775 abird2003-12-12t09.flac:7d81699378bc1ac39607dc130c9d2a42 abird2003-12-12t10.flac:ee71fef36b3f5502cdb664f803c030d4 abird2003-12-12t11.flac:17cebb502b3f0e8aba9c0c545eb00b11 abird2003-12-12t12.flac:75410297341cc05daee04a8a34e7ab31 abird2003-12-12t13.flac:d6813c3dd122bbd06e7f6c7a92f17e70 abird2003-12-12t14.flac:ca8157e35225a4b2ec2f76e5744173ad abird2003-12-12t15.flac:2321a76a7cdcb864dbe589c0b3f8becc App\Http\Controllers\Api\FileDownloadController::download(): Return value must be of type string, none returned