re: Built to Spill tonight!!!

Did he put on chainmail for it?

the mix on the first few songs was terribly muddled .... show got progressively better, but there was a general sense of malaise in the building. Was glad to hear the oldie "In the Morning" ...

The crowd was healthy for what felt like a hastily planned reunion tour with a band that as sonically powerful as they sound in the studio have a hard time matching it live these days .... especially with three members.

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The crowd was healthy for what felt like a hastily planned reunion tour with a band that as sonically powerful as they sound in the studio have a hard time matching it live these days .... especially with three members.

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I wouldn't really call it a "reunion tour" as they never broke up and have been touring pretty regularly for as long as I can remember. It sucks about it being a 3 piece, and honestly, that extra guitar is needed. I saw them a few years ago ( SXSW 2012)and they were a 5 piece band then and they sounded as good as ever.

I can see them losing a lot without that 2nd and 3rd guitar. When Ive seen them, the 3rd guitarist (the one with the long hair and often a beard) played atmospherics while Doug played lead and the other guy rhythm.

I found a mention of the new 3 man lineup in this article... LINK

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Martsch intentionally — as he often has over the years — left Built to Spill's other two regular members, guitarists Jim Roth and Brett Netson, out of the studio to concentrate on working with the new members and to pursue a more raw and stripped-down sound. "It was totally reinvigorating, for sure," says Martsch. "Just playing some different styles was kind of exciting. Everyone's not playing the same thing over and over again, but people have their go-to techniques and sound or whatever, and it's exciting to play with people who have different kinds of ideas. Mostly it's just exciting that it worked out at all, that this was a cool band."

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That's pretty close to what I had, but they played Kicked in the Sun in the place of Twin Falls I believe. And I Would Hurt a Fly was the first encore song.