12/29/19 New York
Set 1
Show opens perfectly with a footstomping Turtle In the Clouds. Hell yea.
This version is exceptional, totally loaded with extra mustard
throughout. A+
The same goes for the following Moma - not the hottest ever played, this
one lays hard into the dynamics. The FEEL of this one is just perfect!!! I don't know how else to describe it. Just sublime.
A tasty KDF in slot 3 keeps the good times rollin. KDF has a very nice
jam starting slow and chill before eventually building to a fiery
climax. Not must hear but great nonetheless.
I would dare call Yarmouth Road must hear tonight. Insane full band grooving, this sucker funks hard. Awesome version!
After a decent Wedge we get a hot version of my favorite Page tune
Beauty of a Broken Heart. Slightly shakey lyrically but together
musically, its better than most versions they play, haha. Great stuff!
An unexpected first set Fuego brings the heat next. It doesnt
particularly jam and is only 9 minutes, but it does the job and does it
well. Trey unleashes fire and its an excellent type 1 reading of the
song.
MyFe follows and turns in another hot but standard reading.
A raging hot BOAF picks things up in a major way. Trey lets loose and
annihilation is served. Short but oh so sweet. Stellar little Birds!!!!
After a shocking bustout of While My Guitar Gently Weeps, the set concludes with a good Walls of the Cave.
All in all, there isnt much here that is "must hear", but the set
was still an excellent listen. The energy and playing level was high and
there was a tightness to the playing that was just great. This is a set
to listen to for the subtle nuances in the playing rathe than some
massive jam highlight, because everything was excellent, even if not
much went next-level, ya know? This was like a great 2011 first set or
something. 
Its an excellent, HIGH ENERGY ROCK AND ROLL kind of set, ya dig?
Set 2
The 2nd set gets off to an exceptional start with a must hear, X Factor
Magic Carini! This one goes DEEP into the alien vortex! Starting dark
and swampy, turning into strange kind of 1999-style ambience before
getting crunchy again and slowly "deconstructing" itself, only to shift
into an ethereal chill bliss to close. My god. That was a friggin small-scale masterpiece!
Unexpected and semi-failed segue into Back On the Train. BOTT delivers
majorly. An utterly destructive type 1 reading with peak raging for
days. Fantastic.
And into a 15 minute Gin!!! Unfortunately the Gin fails to live up to
the opening Carini. Its a powerhouse "full charge ahead" kind of
version, but only becaue they sound like they are lost for what to do
for the majority of it. Fishman keeps them tight but they are very
disconnected. Its not until the friggin 12.5 minute mark that anything
remotely interesting finally happens when things get dark and Page steps
on the synths. But almost immediately they group-ripcord into some
ambience! Wtf! Yea this Gin is a messy cluster and not in a good
way. The energy is there but its just some kind of strange, massive,
failed experiment with a capital F.
Not good. 
The following Golden Age gets going nicely and is pretty good overall,
going deep into type 2, yet it still struggles with "structure", once
more faltering to a conclusion and botched segue into....
2001. 2001 has a pretty good jam featuring cool stop/start jamming
throughout. The jam proceeds to get heavy and dark, really laying it on
thick! Id call this one must hear! Serious deviation on this sucker!
A rocking type 1 Sally comes along and keeps the party going nicely.
Good stuff. Unfortunately its a bit short and feels like its already
ending just as its begun...
The penultimate song of the set is a firebran type 1 Chalkdust. Short
again like Sally but its got extra rocket fuel in spades and can melt
diamonds with the heat it exudes. Fantastic!
18 minute Hood to close the set! Very tight on the composition and
absolutely bursting with energy. Upon the beginning of the chill out,
Trey begins to just deliver a series of the most perfect guitar fills,
backed up by Page and Gordo. It almost starts to feel bluesy. This is terrific!!!!
---Very slowly, over the course of several glorious minutes, they take their time increasing the intensity bit by bit. THIS IS SPECTACULAR!!!!!
--&They do a sick stop/start motif and then seamlessly burst back into the Hood chillout like butter!!!!! X FACTOR MAGIC!!!
And then Trey hits it - a 115 second friggin sustained note. Are
you kidding me. And the crowd erupts!!! And they bring it on home....
Yo, forget the rest of this set (except Carini!), that dang Hood was ridiculous!! Now THAT was next level!!!!
Show of Life into a standard Antelope to close.
All in all, this show is a pretty big step down from night 1. In
set 2, all you need are the opening Carini and the closing Hood. The
rest of the set is either too straightforward (or short) for its own
good or just downright bad (that Gin....).
I know ratings aint everything, but I have no clue how this has a 4.3
over on .NET. In no universe is this show more than, say, a 3.8 or so. A
really friggin enjoyable 3.8, mind you, but I must be deaf as 12/28 is a
vastly superior show yet it only has a 4.1.....Just fun to think about
lol.
Seriously though, set 1 had no flaws, it was a tightl played rock set
thar brouht the heat, it just didnt really bring anything beyond "pretty
hot". Nothing offends in any way but nothing wows, really.
Same goes for set 2 aside from the ridiculous Hood and Carini. Its like a
sandwich of mediocrity with two slices of X Factor on the ends.....
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