Back on the train with 2019.
On to Dicks!
8/30/19
Set 1
A blazing Cant Always Listen opens the show (why is this only the 2nd version ever?!).
Free follows and Trey completely butchers the arrangement but come solo time things get grimy and they CRUSH it!
No Men is even better - HOTTER THAN THE SUN! FIRE!!!!!
A terrific opening trio! No Men and Cant Always go in the Must Hear pile.
The following 555 is just ok but BOTT picks things back up. Great
version, with patient soloing evolving to the expected explosive
conclusion.
A very strong (damn near flawless!) version of Rift keeps it going great! Awesome!
Steam cools us down next with some great "mood music". Really
spectacular type 1 version, imo. Really lays into the laid back darkness
of the song - must hear! No, really, this is an exceptional version!
Wow!
After a clunky Poor Heart we get a fun Undermind. An absolute party
rager. It just builds and builds and builds. Very strong peakage on
this. Definitely delivers the goods.
Train Song is up next and is kinda clunky like Poor Heart. Thats ok.
A very oddly placed Wingsuit is up next. Huh. Good version but nothing
special. Actually, the Trey/Page interplay in the back half is downright
beautiful - give this one a listen!!!!
Strong type 1 Blaze On sends us out.
All in all, this set doesnt reinvent the wheel, but it has a
number of damn fine selections that will just tear your face off. CAL,
No Men, and Steam and probably the must hear material, but this was an
excellent listen. Sure the guys had some "rust" here and there, and the
flow wasnt always perfect, but this is nitpicking. Great kickoff to the
2019 run!
Set 2
A fantastic 17.5 minute Everythings Right opens the set in grand fashion
wasting no time getting down to dark, funky business. This sucker
GROOVES! The dark groove soon evolved into a calm bliss though. This
bliss turns into a RAGING rock and roll peak fest of epic proportions!!!
Holy crap! The peak subsides and we move into a synthy kind of area.
Strange outer space type 2!!! HOW IS THIS NOT JAM CHARTED?!?!
MUST HEAR!!!
And then the greatest segue ever into....a 24 minute Mercury!!!! A
stellar reading of the song proper gives way to excellent type 1. Around
the 14 minute mark they shift into Type 2 and just take it to another
level for rhe final 10 minutes. Psychedelic peakage supreme. Absolutely
must hear - one if the finest Mercury's ever played and a GOAT
contender. A++++
After a lovely Shade we get the gobsmacking duo of Light>Party Time.
Light is a great little version and begins to jam nicely. Trey sees his
chance and pulls off one of the slickest segues of all time and the
whole thing shifts flawlessly into Party Time. Party Time almost falls
apart though as they have a hard time syncing up, but eventually they do
abd they RAGE that sucker to a massive hose finale! MUST HEAR!!! SICK!
A RIDICULOUS, face melter supreme hose annihilation Sand follows up and destroys worlds. Again, must hear.
After an extra nice WTU we get THE Hood of Summer 2019 to close the set.
Absolutely spectacular in every way, toss this one in the must hear
pile as well. Good golly.
Show closes with a raging SANTOS.
All in all, that was one of the best sets of the entire year!!!!
ER, Mercury, Light>PT, Sand and Hood are ALL MUST HEAR! WHAT A
FRIGGIN SET!! I LOVED IT AND YOU WILL TOO! 
No comments:
Post a Comment