2011-06-18 Raleigh, NC

On to 6/18/11 Raleigh

An unexpected - and very rare - Cars Trucks Buses opens the show setting us into a party mode!
Its a great opener and Trey is tearing it up.

Peaches En Regalia - A+ for song choice and placement, it's rough around the edges unfortunately. Things lock in by the end but Trey should've refreshed this one some more


AC/DC Bag - A fine, standard, rocking version. Very nice, but nothing extra memorable at all, so this one is banished from the highlight reel with Peaches


Guyuute - HOLY FREAKING CRAP THIS WAS TERRIFIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nearly flawless, with EXTRA rocket sauce throughout. I couldn't take my ears off this one. DANG SON!!! 

Possum

YUCKY! BLECH!!!

GROSS! Trey is soloing off key to his heart's content. It sounds like me when im in my bedroom jamming along, knowing I'm totally off key and not giving a crap because I'm not good at guitar anyways, lol.

But seriously, this is GROSS  

After that disgusting roadkill Possum, we get an awesome Halley's Comet.

Halley's always makes me perk up - this one is terrific and goes into some awesome jamming. Just as we are rounding the corner into Serious Jamville, Trey ripcords us into 46 Days.

And let me tell you, this ripcord SUCKS. It's not as "all of a sudden" as some worse offenders we've seen, but gosh darn does it hurt. We are RIGHT THERE and he goes "Nope! Chuck Testa!" and turns around...

At least I can forgive him for the OUTRAGEOUSLY HOT 46 Days to follow! GOSH DANG THIS 46 DAYS IS HOTTER THAN THE SURFACE OF THE FRIGGIN SUN!!!!!!

Divided Sky - not a particularly special version (most are excellent if there aren't flubs...), but during the last third or so, Trey absolutely loses his gosh darn mind and unleashes FURY upon us like Prince laying waste to "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the Rock Hall (you know the video I'm talkin bout!). Trey deviates from standard procedure and just unloads fire upon fire unto us. Just heat to the extreme. Worth hearing. This one barely makes my highlight list

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 Set one had me up and down.
After that sick Divided Sky, a stunted Curtis Loew followed. Not one for the highlights reel....
Antelope ended the set in raging fashion but was nothing special besides your typical awesome Antelope

Set 2 however is a different story!!!!

Twist opens and gets things ROCKIN!!! If there was such a thing as a Hard Rock Twist, this is it. Different than your typical groovy versions. Totally awesome. And I'm glad it comes to a clean close rather than starting to jam but be ripcorded

Rift>
Caspian>
Esther

An unlikely trio that is unexpectedly successful!

Rift is, shockingly for 3.0, performed pretty spot on with extra points going to Page The Rage. Seriously, he is on FIRE!!!!!
It melts into Caspian which has a nice little jam for about 2 minutes.
Then at the PERFECT moment they segue spectacularly into ESTHER!!!!!!!!!!

And what do ya know? ESTHER IS RAGIN' AND PERFECT!!

Seriously, the boys are ON tonight playing-wise. As with Charlotte, the jams are few and far between, but everything is at such a high level anyways that you don't care.

BUT THEN THEY PLAY THE OLD BUST OUT GAME AND WE GET BEEN CAUGHT STEALING! OH YEA BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Into a NUCLEAR Piper from there. Holy freaking Mt. St. Helens it will DESTROY YOU.

And into MYFE. Again. It Rages. Nuff said.

MyFe melts unexpectedly into KDF. Nice set placement!!!

Dude, this show is slaying. 

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6/18 Raleigh (Inconsistent at times, but out of this world insane when they click. Set 2 is BONKERS. SEGUE FEST!)
Cars Trucks Buses
Guyuute (Awesome segue into the song! RAGING!)
Halley's Comet (AWESOME JAMMING, RIPCORDED.....
>46 Days (That ripcord SUCKED but this is some HOT CHIT!)
Divided Sky (Skip to the final few minutes with Trey losing his mind)
Run Like An Antelope
Twist - short but SWEET. RAGES!
>Rift (GO PAGE GO!)
>Prince Caspian (Quasi Type II!)
>Esther (THAT SEGUE FROM PRINCE!)
BEEN CAUGHT STEALING !!!!!!!!!
Piper (HOLY MT ST HELENS ERUPTION!)
>My Friend My Friend
>Kill Devil Falls
Split Open and Melt
First Tube