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Tuesday, November 9, 2021

2018-08-05 Alpharetta, GA

Starting 8/5/18 right now, aka the You Sexy Thing gig :)

Is that Mike singing YST? Sounds too high for him and his voice keeps cracking lol

Very, very interesting looking first set! Tweeprise and What's the Use, Petrichor, Vultures... 

Ok, so set one is off to a really, really FUN if not great beginning.

You Sexy Thing gets the party started. Then a surprise Tweeprise keeps it going before some atonality with the beautiful yet chaotic What's The Use

Very odd set placement but it makes for a nice change of pace!

That being said, none of the above are actually all that GOOD, so despite their novelty and how great this probavbly woulda been to see in person, the real good stuff doesn't begin until Petrichor

I'm the world's biggest lover of Time Turns Elastic (I'd go mental if they busted it out!) so you gotta bear with me here if I go crazy on it :)

Point is, fun start without anything all that amazing happenning despite the setlist being interesting. :)

Petrichor is where things kick in for me  

Ok, so I think Petrichor is really boring, but this one was performed pretty flawlessly so major points for that.

Then it segued into a monster Most Events Aren't Planned - Page has really been killing it on this tour and its awesome to hear this rock so good! Oh man, they need to play this more - this is so AWESOME!!!!!! 

Reba was monstrous

The composed section was played as good as you can expect from 2018 (meaning ok without major flubs :) ) But the solo!

HOLY FRICKIN CRAP

Trey let it rip and let the magic flow like it was 1994 or something. Holy S#!+

Taste>Golden Age -  Great start to the second set. Golden Age was a blast - it stayed pretty much in the Type 1 realm for the jamming but the last minute or 2 saw them going back into a Reba jam with the whistling and all! Awesome to hear! Felt like a Phish 1.0 moment or something :)

Also, set 1 is BONKERS from Petrichor through the end. If you listen to this show just start it with Petrichor or Most Events.  

Great show but a clear step down from the previous 2
Nothing I would really call type 2 jamming tonight but a load of red hot type 1 or (or 1.5...)

Lots of flubs as well, but then again the show had a very silly and FUN vibe - this was not the kind of show to expect technical greatness from :)

Excellent finish to an amazing 3 night run.  

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