Well, I'm glad somebody beat me to the CBGB show review cause I didn't want to sound like a complete idiot, but I had a hard time getting into it all. A big reason is that I was unfortunately right underneath the antics of the "guy who had his own groove going on", who also HAD to be the Frenchman from the DC show cause he kept yelling "I'm from France, motherfucker". When Scott repeated the "I'm from France" line, this jacked up french guy would add "motherfucker" so Scott would get it right. The Frenchman was completely out of his mind, but only started flinging himself at bodies for the few 93/94 songs they played (he would sloppily tell the woman he was with to excuse him). I picked him up once and told him he was being an asshole, and he sort of calmed down, and he didn't go jump on a bunch of people for In Like Flynn, and he didn't knife me in the back later.

So maybe this will only write off a bad review, but I found that they didn't seem to ever "turn it up a notch", they just kept turning the notch a little down to begin a song and turned it back up to where it was to finish a song. There was a certain monotony to a set of songs of similiar length and structure, and the inventiveness of In Like Flynn seems to haunt them. That said, there was enough to thrash around to (without causing my neighbor's bodily injury), and some of the new stuff sounds interesting (and some not). Still, their show here maybe 6 months ago was definitely more propulsive and experimental, where all these new songs seemed to have more individual character to them. That may be because they had less structure to them back then and went on longer. Whatever...

Eli left most of the electronics to "the commander" spinning behind them. There was a House of GVSB afterwards downstairs. The mystery of this thing is solved. It's a house party where Eli gets to play De La Soul, Digital Underground,etc.