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Set 1
Strong 11 minute Carini opener! Stays in a blissful, rocking type 1.5
area for the duration. Maybe not essential but worth a listen.
After My Soul, a strong Rift and a solid Gumbo we get a "fake it til you
make it" Its Ice. Not the finest version, lets just say that.... The
brief funk jamming in the middle is terrific though - more of that!!!!
Winterqueen is very good. About as good as the opening Carini.
Yarmouth Road is an excellent surprise call tonight! Love this song and this is a fine version. Smokin, actually!
After an ok Shade, we get THE highlight of the set. The montrous debut
of Halfway Home!!! Incredible headsmasher soloing, this thing is a
beast! PLAY THIS AGAIN!!!!
After a decent Wedge, this lengthy and lukewarm set closes with a nice Antelope
All in all the weakest set since St. Louis night 2, imo. Good song
choices but everything was stuck at lukewarm temperature. Halfway Home
and MAYBE Yarmouth Road or Carini are what you need. Not a bad set, but
definitely on the icy side.
Set 2
A killer , 15 minute Crosseyed opens the set. Must hear - it rages hard
and quickly goes type 2, dying down into nothing, rising again into
killer bliss, then moving into a lengthy dark Leslie section that will
have you picturing the night sky above. Very very cool version!!!!
And a perfect segur into a nearly 16 minute Everythings Right!!!
ER is strange. Kinda awkward, it goes through multiple different
sections. All highly enjoyable but they move to the next before they can
get to the height of the current spot. Incredible ending though - the
drums drop out and we get 2 minutes of full on, psychedelic space
ambience, Trey shredding madly. Wow.
Perfect segue into the best jam since the Charlotte Jim. Ruby Waves is
only 12 minutes but they CLICK HARD on this sucker. X FACTOR MAGIC FROM
START TO FINISH. HANDS DOWN THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE SHOW!!! From rapid fire
outer space to funkiness to a woo section and all things in between.
5/5 stars for this one. Literally the only flaw is that its so short.
This was a top 5 jam of the summer tour so far.
And into a standard excellent Twist from Ruby. And into a fine 2001 with a rocking Blaze On to close
Insane encore of Maze, Waste, Sanity and Wilson
All in all, definitely one of the lesser shows of the tour. Set 1
just could not build much energy aside from Halfway Home and Yarmouth.
Thankfully set 2 brought the heat but had to struggle through
awkwardness to get to the best of it. Still, id say the CP>ER>RW
sequence is pretty essential listening. CP is great, ER is strange and
RW is mind blowingly great. The rest of the set brings the goods but
that Ruby was the peak for sure.
Actually Twist was incredible too - dont overlook that. Same with Blaze On.
Definitely a grab the highlights show.
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