Onwards to show #5!
10/2/21 New York City
Set 1
46 Days - Opener once more. For whatever reason, things dont feel quite
as magical yet and we end up with a strong merely "average great"
version. Gets cooking good in the back half. Listen for Dezron laying
waste throughout! Great stuff! Gets stronger th longer it goes. Awesome
ending.
Tube - WHY HADNT THEY PLAYED THIS YET!!! THIS IS FRIGGIN AWESOME!!!! Of course they lay into this one HARD. 12
minutes long, its an endless series of robo wah explosions, porno
vamping and Dezron absolutely tearing it up like a mother effer. This is
incredible.. my god ...
In Rounds - 11 minutes?! Holy crap this has no business being this kickass. Again, listen to Dezron just kill throughout. Gotta
love Ray's organ soloing. He tears it up for a solid 2 minutes or so
with Trey doing robo wah bursts behind him. Slowly Trey creeps in,
dropping in those waterfall delays at the perfect time to stellar
effect. At this point, Ray backs off and Trey lets go with a perfectly
laid back, bluesy kind of solo. All feel, not flash. God this is killer. Then at the 6 minute mark it goes Type 2...FRIGGIN IN ROUNDS GOES TYPE 2. The jam slowly morphs into this ultra chill, slow and quiet, semi-ambient jam. They completely deconstruct it down to almost nothing!!!!!! Lots of watery guitar and perfectly placed piano. It almost develops a dark vibe! That creaking metal effect from Cyro is pretty spooky. THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!!!
I mean, we get to a point where the drums drop out except for very light
rim shots/hi hat to keep time. You can hear Dezron pushing this thing -
he reintroduces the bass line perfectly and the guys take a minute to
slowly build back into it! Eventually we are building back to the
funk, super slowly and organically!!!!! Trey spatting out hot leads once
more. THIS WAS FRIGGIN X FACTOR MAGIC!!! THIS WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST
JAMS I HAVE EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE!!! HOLY FREAKING CRAP THIS IS
MANDATORY LISTENING!!! HOW THE HELL DID THIS HAPPEN?!?!?
Gotta Jibboo - 11 minutes and what a perfect choice out of that
whack ass In Rounds! Really laying on the chill to great effect, the
extra percussion and Ray's organ sound awesome. It quickly evolves into
the hottest, raging, most fire from from the sky Jibboo you've ever
heard. Pure volcanic heat. Insane....
Cayman Review - Great to hear! Anothr one not played yet. Great stuff
and rocks awesome, but its rather short and ends up being inessential.
Its excellent, but you dont need to rush out to hear it.
Blaze On - 16 minutes. Spectacular version loaded with x factor magic. A+++. Must hear!!!
WHAT A FRIGGIN SET! YOU NEED TO HEAR IN ROUNDS!
Set 2
Party Time - Short and sweet. Nothing remotely spcial.
Ghost - 20 minute Ghost! Hell yea! The jam wastes no time getting
to that "dark funk" place right from the get-go. Again (and I'm sure
you're sick of me screaming this), listen to Dezron!! Man, he was he the greatest replacement we could've hoped for or what?! Love
hearing Ray and Trey solo "together" throughout. Ray begins on the
organ then eventually moves over to piano, causing the jam to start to
move towards "true" Type II. Around 6:30, Cyro starts his sleigh-bell
ringing and Trey sets a loop. We are in orbit. He starts to use his backwards-guitar effect and delay pedals to awesome result. At the 8 minute mark, the jam rounds a corner! The tempo picks up and things start to get GOOPY! That
loop is still going in the background. Trey is doing ultra-murky and
swampy vamping with his wah pedal. Ray is doing killer up-and-down lines
all over his organ. This is sick. For the next couple
minutes, the intensity keeps slowly building until we end up in a
spastic jazz-funk rave of sorts. Trey is totally laying this section
out, letting everyone else pick up the slack. Sink into the groove, you won't escape.....Around
11:45, Ray backs off and Trey steps back in. He begins a repeating
motif that everyone latches onto and causes Fishman to once again change
the rhythm. The jam now has a more "driving" feel, but it still remains
funky. Hard to explain. By 14 minutes, Dezron is holding down the melodic anchor, leading Trey to just let loose. My. Freaking. God. THAT GROOVE!!! From
the 15 minute point, or thereabouts, the jam has built to a white-hot,
rock show intensity with a heavy latin-funk undertone. Trey is
strangling his guitar, going for angular lead lines that are like
needles in the ears rather than melodically pleasant, lol. Backwards guitar psychedelic meltdown at 15:30!!! Holy crap let's go!!! After
this short burst of insanity, Trey returns to the riff that Dezron is
holding steady for a moment. But quickly he goes "nah, I'm not done just
yet" and returns to the lead area. I can't stop headbanging. IMPACT IS IMMINENT!!! GUITAR MELTDOWN!! Unfortunately,
we are denied release and a true "peak" never really occurs. The
meltdown just slowly shifts gear back into the Ghost riff and the crazy
jam dies a very slow and deliberate death....
MUST HEAR MUST HEAR MUST HEAR MUST HEAR MUST HEAR!!!!!!!! THAT WAS FRIGGIN INSANE!!! 
>Mr. Completely - Segue into an 18 minute Mr. Completely!!! AND TREY ALMOST NAILS THE INTRO FOR ONCE!! This sucker is like a guided missile - total ROCK SHOW energy and (mostly) tightness 
The jam begins quickly, with Trey backing off and doing creative vamp
work. It's like a train barrelling down the tracks at 100mph ready to
demolish everything in sight. At 3 minutes, Trey begins a plucky little
motif - Cyro and Ray pick up on this while Dezron holds steady on the
rhythm. Trey lays back and Ray gets a chance to play a very nice solo,
all about note "placement", full of repeating motifs that again loop
back to Trey. And they build it together. At the 5 minute
mark, Trey starts doing some awesome, heavy string bending (you'll know
it when you hear it), that paves the way for him to let it rip. Taking
his time, throwing a myriad of "motifs" out there, over and over, Ray
once more locks in and solos along in unison (as best as one can).
Dezron is still holding down the fort like the Queen's favorite knight. 
Around 6:30, Trey introduces some robo FX, some backwards FX, delays,
etc. But he is choosing his spots and letting it all happen naturally
and tastefully. Patience is the word here - there is not a hint of rushing this thing! Robo
wah in place. around the 8 minute mark, we approach a natural peak!!!
Trey begins this cool ascending motif and Fishman picks up on it,
accenting the right beats with heavy cymbal smashing and perfectly
placed cannon-fire drum fills!!!!! The jam proceeds to start to get
dark. Spooky organ, ultra-funky robo-vamping, Dezron still locked in hardcore.....TThe
tempo is still the same upbeat groove we began with, but there is a
darkly chill undercurrent to it all. Check out Fishman around 9:45 still
quasi-leading this damn thing with his "lead drumming". All
throughout, aroud 9:45 to 11 minutes, Trey has the robo-honker effect
on and he creates an incredibly sick stoccato groove motif.
Ultra-synthetic and robotic, this thing will smash your face to the
ground with it's danceable intensity!!!! By 11:30 he turns off the robo
honk deluxe and the whole jam suddenly gets a more laid-back, latin-robot vibe going!!!! This is friggin' unique!!!!! I've never heard another jam like this!!!! WELCOME TO BLEEP-BLOOP FUN TIMES, SENOR!!! By 13 minutes, the Bleep Bloop army is reigning supreme. I think Trey has set a bleep-bloop loop but I'm not entirely sure! X FACTOR MAGIC! X FACTOR MAGIC! X FACTOR MAGIC!
WE ARE IN SPOOKY SCARY BLEEP BLOOP WORMHOLE HELL!!! PERFECT FOR HALLOWEEN!!!
At 15:30, the
jam comes to a complete stop aside from strange percussion and sound
effect samples!!!! What is this, Chilling Thrilling or
something?!?!?!?!?
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!?!?! IS THIS A PERCUSSION SOLO NOW?!?!?! THE HELL?! IS THAT CYRO SINGING LATIN?!?!??!?!?
AND THEN THIS LEADS BACK INTO PARTY TIME!!! I AM AT A COMPLETE LOSS FOR WORDS!!!!!
>Party Time jam/Mr. Completely Reprise - So Mr. Completely
morphed into this strange sound effect/percussion solo/latin hellscape
psychedelia mishmash of insanity, only to then come back from the grave
with a return to the Party Time feel. And from here, it's all smiles.
Trey doing awesome delay work again. It does it's thing splendidly then
leads back into Mr. Completely reprise.
28 minutes. 28 minutes of life-altering music. That was better than
the 46 Days>Blaze On (51 minutes) or anything else you can shake a
stick at. This was officially the measuring mark to conquer. I cannot
overstate how ridiculous this was.
Shade - Shade is up next and gives us the damn breather we need. My brain is still a puddle of mush pooling in the bottom of my skull.
Twist - 11 minute, ultra goopy and funky Twist up next! This Twist
is killer. It's total robo-wah funk annihilation. It basically stays in
it's lane for the duration, getting hotter and stranger and grimier and
stronger until it's conclusion! Spectacular Twist!! Must hear!! My goodness!
And the solo acoustic encore returns:
When The Words Go Away - Wow. What a great song!! I need to add this to my listening repertoire. Terrific version as well. Heartwrenching....
Theme From the Bottom - Good stuff! Who is playing the 2nd acoustic? Or does this just have terrific stereo separation?!
More - is More
First Tube - Is First Tube
Wow...All in all....my god. What a friggin show. This just might
have been the best one yet! That Mr. Completely suite was absolutely the
strongest piece of improv of the 6 shows so far. Just mind blowing x
factor weirdness.
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