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Thursday, January 30, 2025

2024-08-31 Commerce City, CO

 8/31/24 Dicks

Set 1

A very nice 46 Days opens the show. Great jam, powerful and majestic, almost PJ like! Worth a listen for sure!

Since its 2024, they follow that with a whopping 19 minute Oblivion. Easily the best version since 2023, its jammed out nicely with a few different sections. Maybe no X Factor, but absolutely must hear all the same.

After a ripping Axilla we get a friggin 18 minute Gin!!! Gin definitely has some of that X Factor tonight, spending most of its time in a terrific space disco kind of area. Really fantastic.

After a very welcome Undermind (these setlists have gotten STALE!!!!), we get a must hear version of Maze. Absolutely spectacular reading, this one is just loaded with extra sauce all over. A++++

Freeis good but nothing special tonight. A surprise Most Events Arent Planned absolute crushes and closes the set leaving our faces melted. Grab that too!!

All in all, this set was a barnburner, face melting affair!! Oblivion, Gin, Maze and MEAP are all must hear imo with special nod to 46 Days. Killer ROCKING set! 


Set 2

A rocking and fresh Loving Cup opener gives way to yet another King Ghidorah-sized beast of a jam with a friggin 26 god dang minute Kill Devil Falls. My God.... KDF IMMEDIATELY drops into type 2 after the jam, going into a lovely "delay bliss" area for several excellent minutes before working back into a more typical type 1 KDF jam!! Very cool! Around 13 minutes, the jam dissolves into an incredible "ambient heavenly bliss". Full blown type 2, boys and girls!!! Over the next 5 or so minutes they explore this area before slowly working upwards into an incredible robo-hose explosion. Thankfully they continue onward and the jam gets much more pulsingly rhythmic. Trey executes a spectacular segue into WGTYM....

X FACTOR MAGIC!!! MUST HEAR! GOAT KDF AND ITS NOT EVEN CLOSE!!! HOLY CRAP!!!

So WGTYM is nearly 17 minutes of awesome sauce as well. The jam is mostly very dark and psychedelic - they go far into the "space fire" type 2 on this one. Easily the best jam of all the versions so far. As good as KDF, this is essential.

Another spectacular segue and they launch into a ripping "upbeat" version of Crosseyed. This version is full blown bloody murder hose annihilation. Sick! Jesus christ those 3 were the definition of "they teed it up and shot it out of the park" ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL TRIO OF JAMS!!!! YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS SEQUENCE!!!

The show then takes a detour into darkness with Melt and Monsters. Melt is ridiculous as usual. This one is shorter than most, feeling a like a punch to the face knockout instead of a 10 rounder. Total robot hellscape destruction. Im calling it must hear. Its crazy.

Same goes for Monsters. Not as perfect as that one from earlier in the summer that I raved about (was it East Troy??), but this is in the ballpark. Nuts.

A standard blazing Carini closes the set before a breather Bug and First Tube to send us out.

All in all, another insane set. The hits just keep coming! The KDF>Mind>Crosseyed is total magic of the highest order and the Melt is pure lava. Not much to say - they came to BURN tonight. They friggin RAZED Dicks!!!

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