2/22/20 Mexico
Set 1
The show opens with Fishman singing Willin. Good stuff but does nothing for me, lol
The REAL opener is a beautiful 12.5 minute Tube!! This one starts funky
but spends the majority of its time in a soaring, heavenly kind of bliss
zone. Trey sounds like he is deliberately leaving space and building
the jam, picking his spots, slowly building it to a massive peak.
Probaby must hear. Stick with it - it gets good, I swear! 
Unfortunately good will is lost when they ruin the set flow by following
that with Evening Song. Look, I love the song, but bad placement is bad
placement, ok?
Recognizing the error, Trey launches them into a terrific 11 minute Set
Your Soul Free. Uptempo, HIGH ENERGY, rocking and everything you need,
it gets the job done, going type "1.5", if you will, into a tropical
party zone before concluding and turning into...
Not must hear, but excellent!
...You Sexy Thing! 
YST, 46 Days, Waste, Your Pet Cat....all are solid, fine versions, but none are worth a second listen.
Then comes Mr. 17 minute Tweezer to the rescue!!! Hot, funky type 1 for 9
minutes leads into a full blown Manteca jam! And its off to the races
we go! Type 2 funk madness morphing into friggin Makisupa.... must hear!! This is sick!!!!
They segue spectacular into You Sexy Makisupa and out again into a terrific Type 1 funk fest Twist to end the set.
All in all, a pretty uneven set. Nothing was bad, but the set flow
was all over and the only things you really need are the Tweezer
madness and probably that Tube. Definitely an "off" set.
That Tweezer>Mak>Twist was NUTS though!!!
Set 2
Nice, rocking duo of Energy into Soul Planet to start. Guess Trey wanted a retry of the botched pairing back on 12/8!
Energy is fantastic, diving deep into a dark and psychedelic jam for a
few glorious minutes before awkwardly coming to an unfortunate close.
Trey starts up Soul Planet and this one has MAJOR funk legs, but as with
Energy, it dies just as its really taking off. Still, the 8 minutes
that are here are A+++++ . Killer! Id pretty much call this must hear!!!
As good or BETTER than the New Years version!!!
Even better, they segue into a 19 friggin minute Waves!!!! Waves
is spectacular. Pure X Factor Magic, it spends its duration in spastic
outer space psycho jazz land, ultimately peaking hard before crashing
ashore....Total magic! MUST HEAR!!
The following Carini might even top that!!! 13 minutes and not a second wasted. It goes extremely dark and GRIMY turning into some kind of space funk soup...This
one is NEXT LEVEL. Put this in the pantheon of all time greats. This is
not an exaggeration. Complete X Factor Godzilla Stomp Magic!!!
DESTRUCTION!!!!
A tasty Chalkdust is the bow on top. Slightly unhinged ala the SPAC 2023
version, this one quickly dives into a tropical kind of type 2 before
melting into Have Mercy! Another must hear! Fantastic!!
After a standard, but appropriately placed Life Beyond, we get a great
Hood. Ham Hands Anastasio totally botches the composed parts, but the
band pulls it together and the jam is a powerhouse!!! Not quite
12/29/19, itll still suffice. Solid enough!
Awesome Sweet Jane into Tweeprize encore
Man oh man where did they pull this friggin set from?!?!? Couple
set 1 of 2/21/20 with set 2 of 2/22/20 and youd have a legit all-time
3.0 show!!!!! The Soul Planet, Waves>Carini and Chalkdust were all
spectacular and must hear! I give this set 10 thumbs up!!
If only set 1 were this good!!!
PLEASE GO REVISIT THAT CARINI! ALL OF YOU!!
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