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New Park Brewing 8/23/25
By: frolfer Date: August 25, 2025, 6:00 am
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Ok, how about a review in a more timely fashion this time?
I try to use my Breakfast travels as an opportunity to play some
frolf at some new courses. On Saturday I played two 18-hole
courses in Bristol, CT. Rockwell Park is especially beautiful
and challenging. The course is poorly marked so I spent some
time wandering the woods looking for the next tee.
I'm still feeling the glow after Saturday's show. Cool venue.
The room itself reminded me of a room here at home called Flour
City Station. New Park is a little bigger but the orientation of
the stage and band is similar. A nice patio for chilling and
right after I got a margarita I see Donny Bee and his friend
Mark. Always nice to see familiar faces when you travel 5ish
hours to a show in another state.
There was no jam or SCA to start. They jumped right into Honey
Butter and the band was in command riding the grooves this song
provides. I always look forward to the jam section of this song.
I need to hear this again to properly dissect it. At this point
I was just happy to be there and everything else was just gravy.
The move into Merge caught me off guard. Second song in? Yup,
and a slow, boiling Merge unfolded before picking up steam and
somewhat resembling a more normal Merge. Again, I think I need
to hear this again to make sure I am accurately describing it.
War Pigs? I was not ready for this at all. They have started off
like we are in the second set already. Firing all guns! Chris'
vocals were on point and band rocked this tribute to the Prince
of Darkness with power and style.
So, at this point I don't know what's going to happen. They are
dealing fireballs right now. Sundance > Bugs > Sundance had me
flashing to Poughkeepsie in 05 with a similar medley. I was in
orbit now. I'll take a Sundance at any time, any day, and at any
point in the set. After Bugs, the jamming continued to take on
new life and they seemed to be moving into the ending of
Puppetry. It seemed to happen so organically that I wished they
went with it and followed through. That would've been just
nutty. But, they had other plans and it morphed back into
Sundance and they but a nice bow on it.
One more before the break brought out Reel Time. This is one of
those songs that I'm not immeditaely stoked with, but as soon as
it gets going, I love the changes and the jam and it ended up
punctuating the set very nicely.
Set break was enjoyable, met some folks and greased the synapses
to proper set 2 calibration.
I made it back inside during the beginning of Tunage but
honestly my head was swirling and I was ready for the Tunage
jam. Another one I need to hear again because I don't remember
much other than enjoying the hell out of it.
Dig was another eclectic choice and to me, it shows part of what
the Breakfast is capable of. Something I always liked about PB
was the shifting of styles and following an epic, progressive
jam with a hip swaying groove with great lyrics.
Now, Gladys is where things got ramped up. The jam went far and
wide and I feel like if this band played regularly, these jams
would be all throughout the set and they may have followed
inspiration and finished Puppetry, for example. Who knows?
Anyways, the Pimp jam was amazing and they rode this wave
through the end of the show, segueing into an epic Late/Over.
Wow
And then the lights came on. No encore? I'm not sure one was
needed anyway. They may have been out of time I really don't
know.
So, awesome show. Worth every mile and there's no show I'd
rather be at. See y'all at the next one!
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Re: New Park Brewing 8/23/25
By: kindms Date: August 25, 2025, 6:02 pm
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Was fun. Sorry I wasnt more social was honestly fighting to stay
awake after a crazy night prior.
Great review and thanks for posting. ;D
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