Finishing Dicks 2019 with 9/1/19 this afternoon.
The final Stray Dog to date opens proceedings (Plague Dawg, amirite?).
It, Stealing Time and Turtle are all solid, if un-noteworthy.
The animal set continues with a 14 minute Wolfman! A must hear version
that funks hard before going type 2 into a lengthy space bliss section.
From here it soars to the absolute heavens. Insane. MUST HEAR!
A red hot type 1 Birds keeps the animal momentum going strong. Fantastic little version!
The show really seemed to "lock in" with Wolfman and WACTOOB keeps the quality going. A gogeous, patient version. Great stuff.
Set does a bit of a backslide with a very clunky Taste. Tries hard but
not a great version. Standard MyFe gets us back on the right track.
The darkness of MyFe moves excellently into a great 20 Years Later. This
song always feels like a treat, whether its jammed out or not. Trey
rips a great little tasty dark solo on this.
A goofy as usual Sparkle sees the set doing a 180 before we get a rare
Crazy Sometimes to funk things up. Excellent key soloing from Page the
Rage!!! Pretty extended soloing on this - this is terrific!!!!
Set ends with a giant 15 minute Bathtub Gin! Wonderful version full of
patiently esoteric jamming. Slowly it begins to build and the fire begin
to burn until we are ragin this beast full bore. SPECTACULAR GIN RAGER!
LETS GO!!! But then the raging dies down into a dark kind of funkiness!
This Gin is terrific! They move out of the funk and back into the rock
and wind their way on out from there...
All in all, this set was all over the place. Wolfman and Gin are
the must hears with a nod to Crazy Sometimes. Note the animal theme!!
Not an amazing set but it got the job done.
Set 2
The debut of Sightless Escape opens set. There is zero reason we needed
to wait until Nashville 2023 for the 2nd version! This is a great little
rocker and it sounds great! Really surprised this one didnt stick
around!
Fuego in the 2nd spot. It begins a little shaky but coalesces into a
smashing, powerhouse rendition, full of absolute flaming hot rock and
roll fire. Pure, unadulterated HEAT. The final 4 minutes or so see it
move into darkish psychedelic kind of playing before quietly blissing to
a calm conclusion. Wonderful kind of "in the box" version of Fuego that
stretches the boundaries without going off the deep end.
As Fuego dies, a 15 minute Piper slowly arises from its ashes like a
phoenix!!!! After a rough, out of key beginning phase, the x factor
kicks in and we get about 10 minutes of ridiculous, outer space, alien,
anti-jazz super ridiculous type 2 in the extreme. If you dig the free
jazz Runaway Jim from 7/31/97, this will be right up your alley.
Insane.
And, perfectly on beat, we then segue into Tweezer! 13 minutes in
length, this is pure, X Factor orchestral, multi-sectional
extravagance!!! Funky jamming gives way to a terrific loop jam heavy on
the percussive side. Things slowly get mor growly and angsty until a
full blown Fuego reprise occurs. The boys jam this HARD until the jam
disolves into several minutes of FULL BLOWN type 2, outer space, non
rhythmic ambience!! POWER DRILL SUPREME!! After a long time in the
ether, the greatest segue of all time happens and they launch into
2001....
I cant believe this Tweezer is not Jam Charted. It's omission is a
complete and utter failure on the part of the JC Team. This Tweezer was
pure "deviation from the norm" in every way. An unbelievable piece of
music.
Anyway, 2001 is a good 5 minute funk reprieve before a SICK Challdust to
knock us sideways! 11 minutes on this one, the song itself is VERY well
performed - absolutely blazing rendition with nary a flub. The jamming
begins interestingly by immediately dipping quiet and deep before
building back into a red hot and funky type of heat!! FUNK FIRE! This is
unhinged!!!! This quickly morphs down into a quiet duel between Page
and Trey. Slowly they begin to pick up the pace and the jam rebuilds
itself from the ground up. Full blown Type 2 strangeness at its finest!
From there it morphs back into raging funk! They ride that to its
conclusion, slowly fading out into....
Yet another "how in the F is this not charted" beast....A must hear Chalkdust - certainly one of the most unique ever played! ABSOLUTELY MUST HEAR!!
....Waste! Waste is very good, as are the Cavern and First Tube that end the set.
SITM, Life and Tweeprize encore. Eh.
All in all... Holy hell what a set!!! One of the most awesome sets
of the year! Set 1 was just ok but set 2 was like X Factor on the
loose!!! The entire Fuego>Piper>Tweezer>2001>CDT was
ESSENTIAL listening of the highest order, especially that Piper and
Tweezer!!!
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