Artist: Entropy
Title: Live at Willie’s Tin Shop
Completed: (July 13 2002) Yellow Planetary Warrior
Tracks:
1. Planetary Warrior (7:36)
2. In My Wildest (5:53)
3. We the people/Soul jam (8:28)
4. In Lak’ech (8:02)
5. Empty bag (4:41)
6. Blood and Wine (6:56)
7. FEMA Jam (8:26)
8. Wooden Heart (5:14)
9. Hu Nab Ku (8:04)
10. Orange Bang (9:27)

John Wash IV- Percussion
Devin Haas- Guitar, Vocals
Eric Mitchell- Bass, Vocals

This was honestly just the night that I felt I got a decent recording of the band. Which is pretty strange concidering the circumstances. We played in the open air on the roof of this place called Willie’s Tin Shop down in Long Beach. I brought the PA for Entropy and the two bands opening for us (The Trouble Tones, and Chase Franks’ Quiverfish). The whole show was off the hook energy wise. But the lack of adequate monitors (and that I was somehow running the mixing board, while playing guitar and singing) is apparent in the sometimes out of key vocals.
While I couldn’t include the whole show in this recording (it was about an hour and 45 min.) I think the tracks convey the flavor of chaos going on in general. Planetary Warrior opened the show, setting the tone of multi-direction insanity that was our hallmark. In My Wildest was not my favorite recording of the song. But at that time it was a difficult thing for me to perfom and I think the emotion comes across.. We the People trainwrecks into a jazzy improv jam, and then somehow jumps right back on the tracks and plows home. In Lak’ech is presented here in an early version of the live arrangement. Empty Bag is punched out with tasty accurate vocals. Blood And Wine (Eric Mitchell’s sole writing and lead vocal credit) came off rather nicely. The FEMA jam was pulled out of the ether that night, tapping into the recent feelings I had from reading Behold A Pale Horse by William Cooper. It says more about my miss-givings about our political situation than any thing else we’ve probably put out. Wooden Heart is a bit distorted but the heavy sounds John and Eric laid down get the original feeling across. As I get nutty with the loop sampler some of the chaos erupting from stage has a redeeming nature to it. Hu Nab Ku brings the sitar back in, and is presented here from one of it’s only two total live performances. Then there’s Orange Bang, which I think we did a pretty good job of that night. I actually broke a string on the last note before the drum solo, and had it changed and tuned up by the time I had to come back it. Now that’s the kind of challenge only a live show presents you with.... blah blah etc...