Jun 27 2001 @ Ziggy's Winston Salem, NC

They seem to go in cycles.. right now they seem to be on an extra heavy stint. It was a good show, although they started late and I was actually pretty tired to be in the front middle this time.. didn't have as much energy as I would have liked for all that jumpin around..

I'm going to have to check out Dirty Walt's new album.. they opened with one of his songs and it was the funkiest thing they played all night.

Norwood had a new Warwick.. the corvette body with a stingray pickup and a jazz pickup.. It was your average warwick sound, from what I could tell at that loud volume.. lots of thump. He also played an unlined fretless thumb NT 5 and that acoustic 5 (can't remember what kind). The acoustic was really bright.. he slapped all three basses.. going through the Hughes and Ketner as usual. They had some fascination with seeing how slow they could play a few of their songs, like Shakey Ground and the Suffering. It really was like slow motion; it almost seemed to me like audience torture or something (because the audience will try to dance as hard as they can no matter how slow)! Then they would take it to the opposite extreme by playing a fast song 100x faster than usual causing instant tornado in the pit.

It's always interesting to see pretty girls doing hippy belly dances to the fastest and hardest songs.. hehe!

Norwood has some long fingers.

Oh yeah, they also played some new stuff.. hard and fast.

jordan Make sure you bring earplugs if you go to see these guys!

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