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Night 2 gets off to a tepid start with maybe the most underwhelming
SANTOS Ive ever heard. What the corn - it picks up near the end but this
one is a snoozer!!!
Thankfully the following Ghost is miles better. One of those "slowly
turn the knob up then just rip it off" versions. Sleepy to start but a
magical, soaring runaway beast by its conclusion. Totally must hear,
imo.
Even better is Free. This one CRUSHES like Godzilla. Extremly thick and
funky, Trey annihilates everything with the robo wah for its duration.
100 percent must hear. This one smokes!!!
Following a typically hot BOTT we get a hefty round of strangeness.
Halleys gets taken for a type 2 ride, spending its time in a late night
"Fall 1999 Sand minus the whale siren" kind of zone. Really awesome and
absolutely must hear. Eventually, Trey executes a weird segue into a
brief and awkward SANTOS reprise. To make things even crazier, he then
leads them out and into Satisfaction by the Stones. What in the love of F is going on....Thats an awesome moment and it rocks good but comes to a really awkward close.....
Following that is the worst 2001 ever. This thing DRAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGSSSSSS and never comes together, feeling stilted and sleepy.
Thankfully Chalkdust is way better and ends the set on a high note. An
absolutely demented version ala SPAC 2023, grab this. It rips.
All in all, this set just isnt that great. No energy for the most
part, the guys sound half asleep a lot of the time. Ghost, Free, the
Halley weirdness (must hear but not necessarily great) and the Chalkdust
are all you need. Strong individual highlights but weak as a whole.
Really weird set.
Set 2 opens with a giant 25 minute Disease. Unfortunately, its a monster of the bad variety. The song itself is awful , provoking memories of 2004. Wake up you guys!!! And Trey, effing practice!!! 
The jam isnt much better, spending WAAAAAYYYYYY too long just meandering directionless here and there struggling to come to life...
Bummer. Man, that was the worst epic length jam Ive ever heard.
What a disconnected SNOOZEFEST. Just skip this garbage. This doesnt
deserve to even bear the title of Down With Disease.....
What does it say when they segue into Numberline and instantly the
energy triples?! Unfortunately, this Numberline is also a do-nothing
version with Trey doing that "playing too quietly" thing and a total
lack of energy in his playing. My god, this is brutal. I mean, he/they are trying but it's just a BAD night for Trey it seems .....skip this as well......
And into a massive 20 minute Carini we go. Please save this sinking ship!!! Off
the bat, this also drags...Just drags like a mother....Thank god,
despite the sludge, at least this isnt boring. Good late night grooving
with Trey robo wahing about. Unfortunately this is quickly abandoned for
even more "chill bliss" jamming that lasts the entire remainder of the
jam. On the plus side, the playing is purposeful abd they dont sound
asleep...look, this is GOOD, but at the same time wholly
unnecessary. Good lord please dont tell me 2022 is going to be the year
of "chill bliss"....
FINALLY, some good happens when we get an EXPLOSIVE
ASIHTOS to close the set. Absolutely spectacular and full of extra
everything, this is a nuclear bomb renditon! MUST HEAR!!!
The show concludes disappointly with a coma inducing Velvet Sea and an aggressively lousy and tired sounding Antelope....
All in all....THIS SET SUCKED!!! THAT DISEASE WAS TRASH,
NUMBERLINE WAS ASLEEP, CARINI WAS STUCK IN 1ST GEAR, ANTELOPE WAS
DOA..... Literally the only thing I can recommend is that outlier
ASIHTOS. That was unexpected and unbelievable. Up there with the best
ever played. Seriously..
Man, this show though....
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