Ty Segall performs at Starline Social Club in Oakland on Jan. 14, 2020. Karen Goldman/STAFF.

SAN FRANCISCO — “Give a warm welcome to our new drummer, Evan Burrows,” Ty Segall told the assembled crowd at Great American Music Hall Tuesday night. Segall and his Freedom Band weren’t just debuting a new drummer. The raucous show kicked off an extended U.S. tour running through the middle of May, followed by a European trek over the summer.

Segall is hitting the road in support of his new album, Three Bells.

Dressed in a red button-down shirt, Segall, with a nod, launched the band into the moody album opener, “Bell.” As the band moved through the first few songs on the album, the new music seemed grander and more elaborate performed live, with Burrows and longtime bassist Mikal Cronin locking in for a rock solid foundation. Songs featuring acoustic guitars on the new album like “I Hear” and “Void” were even more compelling and powerful when electrified.

The most consistent element in the music was change: from gently strummed guitar chords to overdriven Sabbath-style fuzz, to atonal noise sections, during any of which the band could stop on a dime before striking out in bold new musical directions. The result was an emotional rollercoaster from raunchy funk to heartfelt honky tonk.

The evening’s funkiest moments came from the seasick guitars on “Hi Dee Dee” and “I Hear,” which sashayed and fidgeted over Cronin’s overdriven throb. Segall managed to melt faces with a waling one-note solo over on “Hello.”

Other musical moments were drop-dead gorgeous: Segall and bandmate Emmett Kelly’s haunting harmonies on “Reflections,” the delicately plucked guitar melody of “Looking For You” from 2022’s Hello, Hi. On “Wait,” lush three-part vocal harmonies with Segall, Cronin and Kelly, gave way to searing harmonized two-part guitar solos. Keyboardist Ben Boye moved between synth and electric piano, adding a dash of flavor to the mix.

Droning guitar noise cut out on Segall’s cue as he sang the lyrics that open “Whisper,” off of 2021’s Harmonizer: “Learning my name again/ A slow fade and then/ I saw you turn into a whisper.” Cronin’s rumbling bass riffs chugged with Geezer-like Sabbath intensity before complex and melodic McCartney-style bass runs that shifted the band gracefully between chord changes.

Thanking the audience, Ty Segall and company left the stage to riotous applause.

The Freedom Band returned for a two-song encore. The crowd erupted in cheers at the opening chords of “I Don’t Want to be a Ghost,” from 2012 album Twins. “In California, near the coast/ The sun, it shines here/ And I am dying tonight,” Segall and Kelly sang. Kelly, who’d been straight-faced for most of the night, cracked a big smile. The audience then sang along with the band’s rendition of “My Lady’s on Fire.”

Earlier in the evening, opening act Coral Web provided lush synthesized and largely instrumental soundscapes as the crowd filtered into GAMH and out of the rain. The duet, who introduced themselves simply as Sofia and Henry (the band is the project of Sofia Arreguin, offered up a slightly more dystopian Eurythmics-like feel, even nailing the woman-with-unkempt-accompanist vibe.