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Geordie Greep live in concert
Boston, Massachusetts at Paradise Rock Club
February 07, 2025 full concert audio
TRACK LISTING:
0:00 Walk On / The Long Good Friday (Francis Monkman)
1:47 Walk Up
5:25 Terra
13:20 The New Sound
20:59 Jam
22:19 Through A War
27:47 Spain
34:57 As If Waltz
42:18 Jam
43:20 Holy, Holy
58:51 Cua Cua Ra, Cua Cua
1:06:42 Dangerous Liaisons
1:11:39 Parabola / Motorbike
1:30:46 Blues
1:40:22 Born To Run / Can't Take My Eyes Off You
1:43:06 Bongo Season
2:02:44 The Magician
2:23:04 Band Introductions / We're All Alone (Boz Scaggs)
AUDIO LINEAGE: recorded on TASCAM DR-07X to WAV, mastered and split in Audacity to 24/96 bit FLAC (recording/mastering/splitting by nkLottery)
Geordie Greep and the North American band are:
Geordie Greep - guitar, vocals
Cameron Campbell - keyboard
Santiago Moyano - percussion, vocals
Charlie Schefft - drums
Dave Strawn - bass, vocals
Ethan Marsh - guitar, vocals
TAPING COMMENTS FROM NKLOTTERY:
I was positioned in the balcony, left of center, right next to the sound and light controls. The TASCAM device hung over the balcony, aimed at the center of the stage, with microphones set in the wide (A-B) position.
SHOW NOTES - FIRST IMPRESSIONS:
Like most others I come into familiarity with Geordie Greep by way of his band black midi, who recently announced its indefinite hiatus. I got to catch this band (minus guitarist Ethan Marsh) in New York City in September 2024 prior to the release of Greep's debut album The New Sound. Since the live show was my first encounter with this material, the North American band had the opportunity to define to me the way this music should be played. The album turned out to be excellent as well, but I prefer the less grand arrangements, fast and furious fusion, and hungry intensity of this live lineup.
Fast forward five months, this music is now released, road tested, and the band is stronger than ever. There's more cohesion, to put it simply; September felt like a lively experiment for these guys, now they feel like a band.
This was my second night in a row catching the Greep band, the previous night they played in Vermont. Somehow that set extended to 160 minutes, and this one came close in Boston. This band digs deeply into jazz-rock fusion and Latin instrumentation, with splashes of avant-garde intensity and a whole bunch of opportunities to jam, both within and outside of song structures. Geordie's playful approach to these sets has him inserting teases and partial covers at will throughout the set; albeit some nights more than others. This band is sincerely groovy and almost entirely high energy. I was surprised to see them deliver a single, generous, 144 minute set with no breaks and hardly a breather for the audience. The sold out crowd in Boston, rife with young folks and college students, rose to the occasion and put its furious obsession on display, moshing, dancing, belting out the lyrics and having a good time. There was great people watching to be done in the balcony at Paradise. It's hard to pick highlights from this show, I'd recommend the whole thing. However if there must be a shortlist, I'd suggest hearing the stretch from Terra through Holy, Holy. Bookended by two of my favorite album tracks and with a Chick Corea jam in the center, this 53 minute run of music gives a near-full flavor of what ths band brings to the table.