2023-07-29 New York City, NY

 

7 29 23 New York #2

Set 1

Back On the Train - standard, A+, red hot opener. Great stuff.

Down With Disease - Must hear! 19 minutes long, the song itself is a strong reading. Extra "funky" kinda - everyone playing with the phrasing and stuff, but in a good way. It rages the bliss HARD with feeling and impact until a great peak around 13.30-14 minutes. Then we naturally, and patiently, drop into super dark, thick groove Type 2. The X Factor is flowing and then, outta nowhere, the jam just....dies. instantly. Like someone yanked the light cord out of the wall. WTF!! THAT ENDIND WAS HORRIFIC!! THIS WAS KICKING SO MUCH TAIL UNTIL THEN!

The Dogs - At least a big rarity follows. Good version. Great heat! Unfortunately, The Dogs is nothing to bark about and is patently average. Enjoyable enough, but they axes that Disease for this?!

Bug - Very strong version! For Jovi...

Sugar Shack - Shockingly must hear!! The guys nail it, its ultra tight, it almost jams, and is everything a Sugar Shack should be! A+

Evolve - A+ Type I version!! Nothing else to say, its exciting and excellent!

Horn - is Horn

Foam - A+ !!! THEY NAILED IT!! TIGHT LIKE THE HOLLYWOOD BOWIE!!! WOWW!!!!

Moonage Daydream - Facemelter supreme


All in all, despite a lack of jamming after the aborted Disease (a crime...), the set felt very much of a single whole. Song wise im sure it turned people off, but everything was played flawlessly and with extra zest and enthusiasm!!! Highly enjoyable set!!!!

 

Set 2

The Wedge - A++++++ version! Yea its just great type 1, but Trey is on FIRE and it feels tight and right. Fantastic.

Fuego - ...FUEGOPOCALYPSE!!! 30 MIN GOAT FUEGO!!!! LETS GO!!!! Blazing hot, ultra tight reading. Blissful type 1 awesomeness until the first peak around 13 minutes. They begin the first drop and start to really spread their wings. Wonderful stretched out rock jamming until the next peak around 19 minutes. From here, Gordo kicks on his FX and the jam dives headfirst into goopy, murky power-funk!!! Thankfully this lasts a good, long while!!! Around 23 minutes, the funk goes away and they begin to rock out again. Trey does those chirpy, pitch shifted high note things, then they start to reincorporate the Fuego theme. From here it slowly fades out and into.....
A true masterpiece, imo. Not a second of the 30 minute run time is wasted and it never lagged or lacked for direction. The X Factor is flowing tonight!!! Absolutely classic.....

Oblivion - Absolutely killer rock and roll rager!! Smashing!!!! A wonderful lets-just-rock version with a great "classic rock peak" conclusion.

Wingsuit - After a brief moment of interesting ambience, they slide perfectly into Wingsuit. And this sucker CRUSHES!!!! Its super heavy and hot to start, then descends into gorgeous aquatic bliss. All patient and proggy like a good Wingsuit should be! From there thy build it back up and the sucker positively EXPLODES for several glorious face melting minutes. Classic Wingsuit!!! OH MY GOD THIS WINGSUIT IS MAGICAL. HOLY CRAP.




2001 - Out of Wingsuit and into 2001 to give us a lift. Absolutely spectacular version, they jam it to shreds in nifty ways and even get it into type 2 territory!! It ends up somehow, hilariously, morphing into....

HYHU-Cracklin Rosie-HYHU - wtf. Pure Phishy shenanigans. Sick. Hilarious. Awesome!

SANTOS - Santos to close. This one felt next-level. Nuclear bomb hot. Killer.

Standard-but-excellent Farmhouse and First Tube encore.

Absolutely stellar set construction!!!!! The Fuego-Oblivion-Wingsuit was a trio made in heaven!!!! Wingsuit was MAGICAL!!! Fuego was not overrated in the slightest, and that Oblivion is probably UNDERRATED!!!

Set 1 was great, lets not forget (Disease, Evolve, Sugar Shack, Foam!), but this 2nd set was like a 20 ton sledgehammer to the face. Killer!!!!!!

On top of the Feugoblivion-Wingsuit, the 2001-Cracklin Rosie bit was 100 percent must hear as well.

What a show!!!!!