1. Blue Jeans Pizza
2. Lost Along The Way
3. The Conch
4. Tailspin
5. Tubing The River Styx
6. The Pit
7. Another One Gone
8. Wind It Up
9. Y Eaux Massa
10. Down Boy
11. She
12. Where Does The Time Go?
13. Summer O I
14. The Road
15. MacIntyre Range
16. The Col
17. Brittle End
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The Conch
moe.
Fatboy
Could it be that moe. has figured out how a jam band can record a studio album without losing the spontaneity of a live performance and sounding too sterile?
The creation of “Conch” began with all the drum tracks being recorded in an empty auditorium. The album was finished at various studios, tour schedules permitting. Instrumental bridges, sometimes freeform-sounding and other times repeating themes, were incorporated – including a live one featuring vocals by the audience.
Sure, these techniques have been employed before: The Grateful Dead recorded “In the Dark” in an audience-less venue; Pink Floyd’s “Fearless” from “Meddle” ended with a football audience singing “You’ll Never Walk Alone”; and “Crab Tunes/Noggins,” by members of the Youngbloods, was made up almost entirely of improvised instrumentals.
But by using all these techniques to present a wide variety of well-written songs containing some of the finest keyboard and guitar solos ever laid down by a jam band in a studio, moe. has come up with one perfect storm of a record.
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