10 19 18 Albany
Holy hell is this first set over yet? Atrocious song selection - good
songs, I definitely do not need most of these all in the same set.
Strawb 23 is great but not my favorite cover so it loses points
Blaze On gets darn hot and has a budding jam that show promise but gets abandoned...
Uber rarity Mock Song kills the set dead in its tracks. Ugh, put it back in the closet!
Divided Sky is ok but flubby. Very "stiff" reading. Not great.
Roggae is less impressive than every other version played so far this year.
Sparkle is not needed
Undermind is hot but nothing special.
Meat is good but another slow song?!
Rift is decent - Trey nails his parts but its not a great version otherwise.
The only truly amazing cut is the world destroying Walk Away to end the set.
A 4.5 rating on .NET?! The second set better be the 2nd coming of Big
Cypress, cuz this first set was in the top 3 worst of the year so far,
holy hell
On to set 2 of 10 19 18 Hampton
A ripping monster of a Carini opens. Its only 10 min but feels like a 20 min epic. Terrific.
A+ type I Sand to follow. Super annoyingly, it winds up at a terrific
Type II "launchpad" moment. The Sand beat morphs into the 2001 beat!!!
Everyone picks up on it and Trey even picks out his notes to play it,
but then Fishman stops it dead in its tracks.
Full stop.
And they begin a 23 minute Golden Age...
WHAT HAPPENED?!?!?! BLUE BALLS RIPCORD IN THE EXTREME!!!! 
So that Golden Age, huh? How about that. Jam of the Year out of nowhere.
Crazy how they be doin that....
Set 2 of 10 19 18 Hampton was excellent overall, though if you remove
the Golden Age Odyssey there have been many better 2nd sets in 2018.
If I had to compare the set to anything though, it felt kinda like 7 24 18 set 2.
A strange show. If you remove the Golden Age, I honestly dont think it
deserves more than a 3.8 or a 4.0 at most (and thats stretching it).
Set 1 was mostly lacking and set 2 wasnt anything special at all outside of the Golden Age
All that being said, that Golden Age took the crown for jam of the
year. Easily. No joke, that was likely a Top-20-of-3.0 jam. It was THAT
next level. Incredibly UNIQUE!!!! Basically, the "usual" jam evolves to
Page playing a story from the Chilling Thrilling samples, and the band
providing the soundtrack to the samples!
Its like listening to an insane audio book or something!!!!!
And the way it flows is like butter ...no stupid ripcords or botched
segment changes. Hell, we even get a lenghty section of pure evil dark
ambience at the end that lasts longer than 30 seconds....
That Golden Age Super Odyssey was a MASTERWORK.
Honestly? It gave me Phish 1.0 vibes in a way as well.
That wasnt a jam. That was a damn experience
So its a shame that the rest of the show is merely "pretty good" at best and lackluster elsewhere.
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