2018-08-04 Alpharetta, GA

 It's sure got some major competition - the previous night was probably the show of the tour (though several others come close) and one of the best shows of 3.0, surely

A weird-but-nice Bouncing Around the Room to open!

I like the song - great little piece of pop - but getting it lodged into the set later on sometimes annoys me. It's like the precursor to Silent In The Morning. A repeating motif that just goes on and on without much payoff in the end. But that's me being dumb and overthinking things - shut up Brad, it was only the opener!

After that they rip into a perfectly placed Chalkdust that gets the head bobbin' from the start and the toes a tappin. 11 minutes in length, I have some slight expectations for this to rock good

Oh man, can't wait to catch a Chalkdust one day - I'm gonna go nuts

 Wolfman's Brother

Major disappointment

Looks great on paper - 14 minutes! All right! But we really mostly just get some - very lovely I might add - extended Type 1.5 jamming for its duration. But that's ok, not everything needs to hit outer space! This is fine stuff with awesome piano shredding from Leo. Trey is doing his "hold the note as long as possible" sustained/bent note jamming thing. Love it.

Seek this out. 

Maze - So, this is what it sounds like when Page the Rage loses his damn marbles!

He absolutely abuses his organ for several MINUTES like Trey would abuse his Languedoc back in the day. Holy crap I gotta see the video of this cuz everyone is laying back and just letting Leo rip it to shreds forever. I can picture Trey turned to Page, laughing his ass off watching him

If you want Hot Page, get this. Pronto.  

Onwards to set 2:

An absolutely world destroyingly awesome Crosseyed and Painless kicks things off with 12 minutes of the best jamming of the year. Oh my sweet gravy goodness this is INSANELY awesome!

And then its into a 24 minute Soul Planet

Yessss!:D

Man, screw the 8/3 Ghost - that was small potatoes compared to this
CP>Soul Planet>ASIHTOS>Piper

THIS SOUL PLANET IS INCREDIBLE! MANDATORY LISTENING !

Dude, if last night was the show of the tour (so far!) this might be the best standalone SET of the tour.

Set 1 was a very mixed bag with only 3 or 4 songs I added to my "list of highlights", but this 2nd set is destroying me. 

Wow

So, 8/3 was the better show, but this 2nd set was incredible. It flowed so perfectly I could listen to it like a constructed album.

Wonderful gig.