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ACL: Sound Tribe Sector Nine
Santa Cruz, California’s Sound Tribe Sector Nine (STS9) had the jam band aficionados’ bodies moving and grooving to a beat that lasted nearly the entire hour of the 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Dell stage time slot.
STS9 — guitarist Hunter Brown, percussionist/laptop manipulator Jeffree Lerner, bassist David Murphy, keyboardist David Phipps, and drummer Zack Velmer — worked that groove right around 80 beats per minute wherein hippies just can’t resist doing those free form, spinning dances that yield the appearance of near ground liftoff. There were little pockets of hippie dancers doing their thing sprinkled throughout the several thousand people baking in the sun in front of the Dell stage.
I’m not even going to try to distinguish neither what songs they played, nor their song titles as STS9 is well known for remixing their songs and creating spontaneous ones during their live performances. Sunday afternoon’s set was no different; each song contained polyrhythms that developed from a single moment and then folded back over one another - sometimes after the songs had reached the 10-minute mark.
To the uninitiated, Brown’s guitar lines occasionally bordered on new-age noodling, but to be fair he did a great job of fulfilling the requisite jam band guitar layering and solos under the rhythm without ever sounding terribly cliche.
(Photo by Brian K. Diggs AMERICAN-STATESMAN)
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By pinballio
September 18, 2007 5:50 PM | Link to this
What a trip!