Turbine 10/3/14 Stella Blues

The hardest working noodlers in jamband history, Turbine seems to be on a neverending tour. Ryan and the boys are celebrating their recent release. Decent crowd at Stella's got a good taste of the Prog-jam goodness we know as Turbine. Seems like just yesterday a fledgling Turbine was stretching out Herbie Hancock's Rockit on the sea wall at the Vibes deriving power from a gas powered generator at 4am. The lengthy Stella's set had a Nawlins flair with a cover of Dr. John's Right Place, Wrong Time and an unusually strict rendition of Jambalaya. Good cover of Talking Heads Girlfriend Is Better and a soul song that I couldn't place were all good. The lineup is consistent, drums, bass, lead guitar/vocals, and Ryan on guitar and some kind of cyborg face mask mouth synth. The mouth synth bleeped and blipped otherworldly sounds. When Ryan pulled out a balloon to extend airflow to his Darth Vaderian apparatus, you knew you were in it.