Set Lists - Sessions 527 & 528 - Double Dose Monday, - Feb. 8, 2010

 Instagon 527
February 8, 2010
Luna's Cafe 

Sacramento, CA

Instagon Double Dose Monday!!

This was the first time that Instagon had been booked to play 2 shows in one day since 2005.  Originally we booked this show to be our birthday show at Luna's Cafe for the Nebraska Monday weekly series, but then we got the opportunity for a 2nd show at the Press Club.  We had not played the Press Club before, so we really could not turn it down... and the show was with UBERKUNST making their triumphant return to the performing stage, and a great out of town band.. but first lets recap on the first performance of the night and get to the 2nd one later.

 

Nebraska Monday's is a weekly series of jazz and improvisational music booked by local guitarist Ross Hammond at Luna's Cafe.  Originally Ross had booked his trio to appear on this bill with Instagon, but as the date approached it was changed to be his band RACE!! appearing instead featuring Tony Passarell, Tom Monson, and others.  The plan was to play Luna's early.. starting by 7:30pm, play a 30-40 minute set, and off to the next location.   This plan was helped along by Tom Monson allowing us to use his drums for our set, but he forgot his rug and ran home to get it.. Tom rules, we were on the stage by 7:40pm.
This ensemble was a trio.. with an odd configuration.. bass, drums, horn.

On the drums was Dex Lopaz from CHIKADING!, who is a monster on the drums..all over the place.. hard to keep up with.  His energy on the skins is just amazing and his wild time signatures kept Lob off balance for most of the show.  On the horn was our new friend Marco Fuoco, playing various saxophones, and other instruments throughout the night. He also at one point broke into a political rant about artisans and the economy. 

Overall the show was okay.. the begining was much stronger than the end.  The first jam out of the invokation was something that just eneded up being called "527".. it was a free form improv with lots of energy.   The Deamon's Tube was also really hot...but during the Joyride, Lob lost his timing due to trying to follow Dex and the deamon fell from the mark, and of course the clean up was quick and hardly noticable (except to those paying attention)

INSTAGON 527

February 8, 2010

Luna's Cafe, Sacramento, CA

Introduction,
Invokation  >
527*,  (improv free form jam)
Deamon's Tube,
Joyride,
Manic*,  (new riff, first time played)
Marco's Speech,
Thee Little Turtle,
New Virus* >
Thee Sickness,
Deamon Panther (Pink Panther REALLY fast)

Instagon  527 was:
LOB - bass
DEX LOPAZ - drums
MARCO FUOCO - sax & other elements

 

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Instagon 528
February 8, 2010

The Press Club
Sacramento, CA

We were asked to play this show by friends from Boston,MA with the band PROBLEM WTIH DRAGONS.   Robert from PWD had previously lived in Sacramento and played at Noisefest once with his project Jihad years ago.  He had also been part of a band called SHIZMO or something like that that had played with Instagon during the epic Liquid Den residency in Huntington Beach from 2003.   He also asked Sacramento legends of noise and mayhem, UBERKUNST, to play on this show.. they did not let anyone down.. they were full on KUNST.
By the time we left Luna's and headed for the press club it was raining..not really raining hard.. but raining none the less.. this was not a good sign for a Monday night show. But when we arrived we were pleasantly surprised to find a full bar of drinking people who were ready to rock and we came to give it to them.  We were also totally blown away to find OUR name on the marquee outside of the bar.. not the headliner, nor the other band.. but us.. the opening band.. Instagon.
For this show, Instagon consisted of the same band that had played the earlier show at Luna's with the addition of Chad E. Williams on guitar... and Chad came to rock the house down.   This performance was stellar.  Instagon was in rare form and tore up the stage from the moment it was invoked.  The Forward opener was shredding.. and the rest of the set was just as blistering.  Jazz for Satan was the highest point in the set for crowd response.. but that is really no surprize. There was a calming point in the set where one of the new songs, "Sleepwalking"  from the 520 session, was played live for the first time. It included elements of "Dripfall"  in the starting parts, but that quickly faded away and the trance like flow of the riff took over the crowd. ..a run into Echophobic finished out the night.. and there was a funny joke of a tease for Speed of Light at the very end of the session.  It was on fire.. there are no photos that we have seen of this live performance so far.. but there is this really cute group photo taken by Andrew Wayne of CHOPSTICK.

 Instagon 528
February 8, 2010
The Press Club, Sacramento, CA

Invokation,
Forward,
Cosmic,
Jazz for Satan,
Sex Bomb (song by Flipper, aka the punkrock Freebird)
Rock Lobster (song by B-52's)
Sleepwalking
Echophobic
Shut Down tease (song by The Germs)
Speed of Light (blink of an eye version)

Instagon 528 was:
LOB - bass
CHAD E. WILLIAMS - guitar
DEX LOPAZ - drums
MARCO FUOCO - sax

 

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all photos of 527 at Lunas by Tommy VanWormer

photos of Press Club marquee, and flyer art by Lob

group photo of Instagon 528 by Andrew Wayne.