Wednesday Night Live

Wednesday Night Live is a raw, powerful, intimate live document of the Bryan Beller Band 2010 touring lineup playing a 45-minute set at The Baked Potato in Los Angeles, plus two bonus tracks from other shows. The Ceaturing: Rick Musallam (guitar), Griff Peters (guitar), Mike Keneally (keyboards / guitar), Bryan Beller (bass), Joe Travers (drums). Though there's plenty of intensity in the funk/fusion workouts "Greasy Wheel" and "Seven Percent Grade" (to say nothing of the emotional low-to-high rollercoaster segue of "Life Story" and "Get Things Done"), Beller's landmark ten-minute composition "Love Terror Adrenaline/Break Through" stands out as the set's high point. Beller remarks, "We're talking about a studio cut with tons of tracks and layers and overdubs, and an impossibly complex melody played by Mike Keneally, and we condensed it into a five-piece arrangement that I'm quite proud of." A serious statement from an artist who's quickly establishing himself as one of the elite bass playing and compositional voices in the rock/jazz fusion scene today.