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Past Lives

Elgin

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6/4/94. Elgin, IL Part II

The Butterfly Effect/Toasty/Grow/Fracture

Jeff Libersher- guitar
Phil Bonnet- guitar
Dan Forden- bass, voice
Thymme Jones- drums, voice

This is about nine months after last month’s “Past Lives” installment. Notice the difference in the band’s sound: Even with the overlapping material (“Grow”), you can hear that it’s a bit more aggro in this setting. Also revealed here is our first performance of “Fracture” by King Crimson. It’s a pretty “hungry” (read: sloppy and speedy) rendition, and certainly not short on feels. The drummer mysteriously adds an extra beat during “the bass moment,” but (let’s face it) that’s really how that part should go, anyway.

Wild Card

Language Be Like

Remember “Language Is” from several months ago? Well, since that song is eleven minutes long, we thought we’d give you the considerably shorter version. About eleven minutes shorter. This was an Accident. Praise Serendipity! (And Succinctity!)

Past Lives

Improvisatory Madness in St. Louis (2004)

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11/6/04. Radio Cherokee. St. Louis, MO

Jeff Libersher- guitar
Darin Gray- bass
Todd Rittmann- guitar
Thymme Jones- drums

100% improvisation. There’s a funny story behind this one: On the way
to St. Louis (from Chicago, where Todd and Jeff and Thymme lived/live),
Todd was saying that he loved how Darin always had this perfect, pristine
sound on bass. “You can always tell that it’s him. Nobody else sounds like
that.” When we arrived, Darin was beaming, telling us how he had borrowed
a bass rig with a torn speaker. “You guys love that distorted bass sound, right?”