It was approximately 15 minutes into Built to Spill’s encore of ‘The Velvet Waltz’ when I lost all concept of space, time and reality. ‘What day of the week was it again?’ I asked myself. ‘Did I remember to feed Fluffy?’ ‘Where’s my face?’ When the indie rock legends enter into one of their classic open-ended jams it’s easy to forget such trivial things as the consciousness of your own being, or hypothetically speaking, ‘what songs were just played over the course of the last hour and a half.’ Luckily for me, there’s this thing called ‘the internet’ filled with all sorts of interesting facts and notions supplied by people of a much higher intelligence than myself. And for that, I’m thankful. But I digress. Last Thursday, the band delivered an absolutely show-stopping performance at the State Theatre to a crowd of die-hard faithfuls and indie-rock loyalists alike, featuring such classic songs as ‘Traces,’ ‘The Plan,’ ‘I Would Hurt a Fly,’ and ‘Carry the Zero,’ that left not a single mind un-blown in the house. Oh yeah, and they played an absolutely smoking 20 plus minute version of ‘The Velvet Waltz’ that left the stage of the State Theatre in a smoldering heap of incandescently lit cinders and general good times. Far out, man. Check out the set list and photo gallery below.
Set List:
- Traces
- In The Morning
- The Plan
- Reasons
- Gone
- Virginia Reel Around The Fountain
- I Would Hurt A Fly
- Else
- Don’t Try
- Carry The Zero
Encore:
- Nowhere Nothin’ Fuckup
- Stab
- Big Dipper
- Velvet Waltz
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