2019-06-19 Cuyahoga Falls, OH - 2024 revisit

 Onwards with 2019 in the truck this morning.

6 19 19 Cuyahoga Falls, OH

Terrific 10 minute Soul Planet gets us raging right out the gate. Strong version, it goes a deep Type 1.5, if you will, pushing boundaries without going intergalactic. Check this one out!!!

Excellent but inesessential versions of Moma, KDF and BOTT follow, with a poor Your Pet Cat thrown in for variety (not a good one at all, imo).

So far, the set rocks good and the energy is up but Soul Planet is still the only must hear.

After Train, we get a good Everything Is Hollow to pick us up. Dance party extreme!!! Nothing essential but great to hear again.

Standard hot About to Run before a solid Divided Sky. DS is a mixed bag - some parts are terrific and others are flubby.

I Didnt Know and a blazing Walls to close the set.

All in all, a strong and consistent set, but the only thing you NEED is that opening Soul Planet. Felt like an early 3.0 set where everything was baseline excellent, but very little stood out from the pack. 

Set 2

A red hot Stealing Time opens the set. Good stuff but, again, inessential. Quickly, they launch into the main course of the show - a massive, 23 minute Birds of a Feather!!!

Now thats more like it!!!

The jam begins by dropping into a slightly majestic, quasi-ambient kind of chill zone. Very relaxed. Slowly the watery effects come out to play and it begins to rise like a building wave. Within a minute or so Trey is back to melodic soloing and the whole thing is building to a massive head!!!

Peak incoming!!! Lets go!!!

They do that kind of anti-peak, save it for later thing and drop into a darker, more rhythmic area instead. Trey on Leslie and delay pedal, Fishman pounding those toms, etc.

Page comes out on the Meatstick synths, Gordo kicks on his FX, and we start to ro develop into a heavy kind of dark funk. Or something like that. This is fantastic!!! Rage it up!

It sounds again like they are working towards another peak section. Anti peak strikes again and they morph into a kinda of upbeat, islandy type of feel. Trey doing textural Leslie work, everyone playing as one. No soloing, lol.

Some "plinko" sounds emerge and we move into another section. Things are still upbeat and feel good and tropical, but slowly some funkiness is returning. The intensity rises sharply and we go into funky stop/start section. Woo!!! Faceplant into Rokk!

Cue all the keyboard vocal samples!!!!

They then shift YET AGAIN!!! Immediately they move into a strange, rapid fire zone of swirl before it quickly dies down into a lovely, piano led area. Slow build to another peak incoming.

This is incredible - its a freaking adventure that just keeps moving and going!

And into the peak they go!!! Absolutely soaring like Divided Sky!!! Yes!! All of my yes!!! Ive got goosebumps! Camden 99 Chalkdust!!! LETS FREAKING GO!!!! THIS PEAK WAS SICK!!!!

And then after the short peak of the gods, it quickly dies down into a darker, more vampy kind of zone. Dark jazz or something. And with that the jam fades out, moving into..... 

....Crazy Sometimes. Now that is how you land out of a jam and into another song!!!!

Perfect pick, it keeps the ending vibe of Birds going in the best way. Not the song everyone wanted but the absolute perfect choice!!!! This feels like an extension of Birds, almost. Uber funky, synths blaring, killer stuff.

Birds>Crazy Sometimes is incredible. Best combo of the year so far and that Birds was the best jam besides the Mexico SYSF. Hands down. Fantastic. X factor magic all over this sucker. This duo was absolutely mind-blowing.

A gorgeous Miss You is the cooldown we get next. Great stuff. No, this is a stellar version. Trey plays the most perfect solo ever. Add this to the must hear pile. All timer right here!!!

Following that we get a terrific trio to close the set - ER>Chalkdust>Slave!!
Fantastic, must hear ER!! Wonderful dark jamming on this!!!

Chalkdust is fantastic. Destroys worlds and the segue out of ER was great. A+ 10 minutes with a great, slow build bliss jam. Goes full type 2. Feels like 20 minutes not 10! Holy crap this was SICK!!!!!

Slave is immaculate tonight. A true 10/10 for 3.0. A definite cut above most others. Essential.

Crazy double encore of Melt into ALBTD to tie it all together!!! Melt is 15 minutes but not the craziest out there. Solid but not essential. Just kinda messy and doesn't even get that crazy. Missed opportunity.

All in all a knockout blazer of a set!!! The must hear music is the Birds>Crazy, Miss You, ER>Chalkdust and Slave, but the whole thing flowed great and worked as a cohesive whole. Damn, they brought the heat this set!!! Killer!!!