From: Charlie Dirksen
7/6/94 St. Denis Theatre, Montreal, Quebec (Rvwd 2/95) Although Canadian shows are few and far between, they have
all appeared to have been amazing. This is no exception, and damn, the audience tapes are f*cking sweeet! The Reba at this
show is SICK, and the Tweezer is unusually excellent, along the lines of Bomb Factory 5/7, in the sense that several
recognizable themes dominate (and it's long). The opening segment to this version is very standard, and very dull, until the
Ebeneezer lyric, which contains what sounds like some hideous hungry Krackon-like beast, but I assume is just Zeroman. At
the beginning of the jam, it is very groovy and swinging, but also mellow. Soon it gets kinda spacey and dull, with a lot of
repetitive, uninteresting stuff from Trey. Sounds like he might be trying to get into a groove. Eventually, this spacey interlude
segues into a HYHU jam that is very intense, and sounds cool (like the actual Argent song, for a change), until Trey starts
deliberately playing it off-key in a dark, spooky, tweezeresque fashion (in which case it becomes hysterical to listen to). After a
minute, the jam spins out of HYHU and into a really funky, twisting and swinging tweezer jam that is spectacular! Soon the jam
picks up speed and starts getting very hard-rock-ish. By the 10 minute mark, the jam is ON FIRE!! Just fantastic.. so sick, I
would recommend getting this show for the Tweezer alone, only the Reba is also excellent. At around the 11 min mark or
thereafter, the jam acquires a jazzy feel, initiated by Henrietta "Satin Doll" Tubbman. The jam is still Tweezer, mind you, only
there is no Tweezer theme per se.. a jazzy chaotic tweezeresque jam is what transpires here. After another minute, it sounds like
Mike is NEARLY playing "Shakedown" on the bass! (I said NEARLY.. he doesn't actually play it)... anyway, this jazzy portion
of the jam is intense, unique (for tweezer), and worth hearing. By the 14 minute mark or so, the jam is steadily returning to a
tweezer finale mode. This finale jam, frankly, is the best one I have heard up to this point in these reviews. It makes the ending
of the Bomb Factory show sound as original as "versions" of Rift. 2001 is basically played in this, but primarily by Trey (until the
very end) alone, so I do not think it deserves its own line on the set list. After the 2001 ending climax (which the band joins Trey
for), everyone twirls back into a tweezeresque jam ever sooooooo smooothly! This final part of the jam contains a tease of a
type of theme-jam that I've heard in Hendrix and Aerosmith, which, frankly, sounds a bit like Good Morning Little Schoolgirl --
but much faster and groovy. The ending of this version is also not typical. It just fades out steadily, losing momentum, but isn't
the typical petering out slow ending of Tweezer. This is an awe-inspiring must have version of Tweezer that's just over 19
minutes long. 8.5 rating. (A) The Reprise is standard. BTW, there is also one of the funniest lawn boys at this show (or at least
endings to lawn boy). The poor heart is also hysterical at the beginning, with Fish babbling chaotically. charlie