Closing out a three-night run at Denver’s Ogden Theater and making a one-night stop at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, The Disco Biscuits peppered their “Bisco Inferno” setlists with long-dormant bustouts and extended jams.
As previously reported, on May 24, the band offered up a first-set cover of LCD Soundsystem’s “Home” as well as a “Magellan Reprise” encore, effectively completing a version of the song started on May 18 in Asheville, NC.
The band’s biggest bustout of the run came on May 25, during a jam-heavy outing that consisted of ten songs over two sets. Emerging out of an unfinished “Spacebirdmatingcall,” “Liquid Handcuffs” made its first onstage appearance in 283 shows, since 3/21/2010.
The next night, The Disco Biscuits went deep with their set-one opener, playing a 32-minute “Nowhere Jam.” Later, they stayed in an experimental mindset, playing a portion of “Confrontation,” before seguing back into “Down To The Bottom.”
The band’s Red Rocks finale offered fans a killer mix of improv and standby favorites. The first half opened with “The Bionic Helix”> “Korobeiniki” into the ending of “Svenghali.” Later on, The Disco Biscuits put their own spin on J.J. Cale’s “After Midnight” before leading into a set-closing “Helicopters.” Set two featured a monster “Mr. Don” jam, containing “Tricycle” and “Orch Theme.” The Disco Biscuits encored their Red Rocks gig with “On Time.”
“One of the great parts of having songs not in the rotation is how fun it is to bring them back after 3,4,5,9 years,” bassist Marc Brownstein wrote on Twitter. “It’s been such a fun month playing Commercial, handcuffs, boomshanker,” he continued, noting specifically how May 26th’s “Pat and Dex” was “especially fun and surprising.”
Watch full video of the band’s Bisco Inferno run, including Red Rocks, here.
Check out the setlists from all four nights below:
The Disco Biscuits
May 24
The Ogden Theatre, Denver, Colo.
Set I: 7-11> Home> Sweating Bullets, Bernstein & Chasnoff
Set II: M.E.M.P.H.I.S.> Humuhumunukunukuapua’a (inverted) > I Feel Love> And the Ladies Were the Rest of the Night (inverted)> Pilin’ it Higher
Enc: Magellan Reprise%
Notes:
% : completes 5/18/2018 version of “Magellan”
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The Disco Biscuits
May 25
The Ogden Theatre, Denver, Colo.
Set I: Let’s Go Crazy, Resurrection> Sound One> Air Song^> A Fifth of Beethoven
Set II: Triumph> Spacebirdmatingcall^> Liquid Handcuffs&> Portal To An Empty Head, Spraypaint
Enc: Highwire
Notes:
^ : unfinished
& : last played 3/21/2010 (283 shows)
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The Disco Biscuits
May 26
The Ogden Theatre, Denver, Colo.
Set I: Nowhere Jam@, Down to the Bottom-> Bombs-> Confrontation (inverted)-> Down to the Bottom
Set II: The Very Moon^-> Pat & Dex-> Catalyst-> Morph Dusseldorf, Reactor, Home Again
Enc: Dublights+
Notes:
@ : 32 minute, freeform jam
^ : unfinished
+ : dub version
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The Disco Biscuits
May 27
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colo.
Set I: Bionic Helix-> Tetris (Korobeiniki)-> Svenghali[] (ending), The Tunnel, After Midnight-> Helicopters
Set II: Rivers, Mr. Don-> Tricycle-> Orch Theme-> Mr. Don, Therapy
Enc: On Time
Notes:
[] : ending only
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