Onwards with 2024 today. Crap run again but screw it. Ill just deal with having to pause too much....
8/2/24 Noblesville
Sickest looking setlist of the tour so far, just about!
Set 1
The show opens with an excellent and energetic (if slightly slow) Punch.
Heck yes. Its looser than the 12/31/23 version but on the whole its far
from the atrocities of some 2018-era versions, etc
The following Kill Devil Falls is absolutely beastly!!! Its
a 12 minute hose bliss rager, but it definitely has extra "spark" about
it that makes it more than worth hearing. This sucker is MAJESTIC!! And
the flawless transition out of the solo back into KDF proper to close
is just....man, a baby's bottom wishes it was that smooth! Must hear. A+++++++ !!!!!
Up next we get a stomping and powerful Halfway to the Moon. A really excellent reading, this one has major OOMPH about it. Borderline must hear. They friggin crush this sucker!! Holy crap!!! A headbanger Halfway to the Moon - how about that?!
A surprisingly rare and excellently played Heavy Things follows. Worth a mention - great version!!!
Next we get an 11 minute Life Saving Gun. Nice kind of low key jam on
this, but on the whole this is one of the least impressive versions out
there. Definitely NOT essential, but its not like its bad or anything.
It just doesnt do much.
After a false start and some Trey banter, the set continues with another
inspired song choice. Shade is Shade. Beautiful as ever. Great stuff!! I
really hope to catch one some day....
Scent of a Mule is awesome to get. Yet another major rarity and also played pretty flawlessly. Killer.
Up next is maybe my favorite new song, Pillow Jets. X Factor all over
this one!! Trey rages the robo wah nice and hard, then the jam goes into
upbeat bliss rock before winding back down into Jim. What a tease this one was! It was RIGHT THERE, about to burst wide open!
Runaway Jim is an excellent and raging hot type 1 excursion. Definitely
kick ass! And with that, the set concludes with another shocker A Day In
The Life. Not my favorite but you cant deny how much this kills!
All in all, this was an awesome first set! Enthusiasm and energy
out the wazoo coupled with inspired song selection is a winning formula.
Muaically, Id say KDF, Moon, Pillow Jets and probably ADITL are all must hear!
Set 2
Set 2 continues the rarity fest by opening with a pretty close to
flawless Oh Kee Pah. Great stuff. Axilla follows and doesn't impress
much, but is noteworthy for a pretty heinous near trainwreck, lol.
Axilla may have been unimpressive, but that perfect slide into the
Disease bass lick was KILLER. Disease is 15 minutes and the song itself
sounds as great as it ever has in recent years. Scorching hot, Trey
nailing his parts and feedback - what is this, 2012 again?! Best performed Disease in a long while for sure!!! Even sans jam I would call it must hear! After
a few minutes of rocking, they go full type 2 and the jam dives into a
cool, laidback, "watery bliss" zone. They then move out of that into a
much harder and kind of funky area that is just sick! GROOVE MACHINE
SUPREME! From there the intensity just build and builds until Trey EXPLODES into the filthiest, nastiest, most fire laden peak solo you can think of. Just spewing fire! Then, Fishman leads them perfectly back into Disease and they wrap it up.
HOLY CRAP THAT DISEASE IS MUST HEAR!!! THAT WAS SPECTACULAR!!!!!!! X FACTOR ALL OVER!!!
How do they top that?! By launching into a friggin 23 minute Scents, thats how!!!! Its
immediately apparent they mean business and are going to take this
sucker deep. An initial round of rocking gives way to a cool section
centered upon Trey's looper while Page gets a jazzy feel going on the
piano. Very cool rock jam there. After a brief minute of upbeat bliss,
the jam quickly shifts into darker more mysterious territory!!! Heck yes, lets go!!! Things
become VERY dark and spooky. Creepy blips and bloops before Pages synth
pushes us into a more atmospheric zone. Just as quickly they leave that
behind for an upbeat section. From there it just builds and builds and
builds ever skyward into Peaksectionpalooza. Just killer! But wait, theres more!! The
peak section begins to build AGAIN into a hotter, more red hot and
ROCKING version of itself. This party rocking sees the jam to its
conclusion. It almost sounds like they are going into Tweeprize at one
point! Avoiding that, the X Factor rears its head once more and they....move prfectly back into the Disease outro to close!! HOLY MOTHER OF INSANITY!!!
And with the spectacular drop into Whats the Use, the universe explodes ......
HOLY CRAP!! INCREDIBLE JAM! MUST HEAR X10!!! THAT WAS ALL OVER THE FRIGGIN PLACE!
Whats the Use is absolutely next level tonight. Special sauce all over
this and the segue into it was just magical! Definitely must hear!!
And into a typical time killer Golden Age. Thankfully this ends up being
a GREAT version! Loaded with energy and extra whatever, it even has a
great little type 1.5 jam going on. Definitely worth a listen!!!
IAWITW is an absolute friggin smokeshow tonight. Complete wah pedal devastation. Absolutely must hear, this thing is NUCLEAR!!! HOLY CRAP!!! AND THAT FRIGGIN PEAK EXPLOSION!!! AND THEN THEY GO BACK INTO DISEASE AGAIN?!?! LETS FREAKING GO!!!!!!!!
Killer YEM BACK INTO DISEASE to close the show. A++ for that encore... Seriously though, that is a damn Gold Standard YEM right there. Just spectacular from start to finish. Definitely must hear YEM!
Holy mother of god. From Scents right through the end of the show
was pure must hear insanity. Disease and Scents were two of the finest
jams of the year so far, hands down. WTU and GA both had extra sauce,
IAWITW was unbelievable....and that encore!!
WHAT A FRIGGIN SHOW! Did I just hear the show of the tour (so far)?!
My god .....
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