2024-10-26 Albany, NY

 2/26/24 Albany

Night 2 begins with a sleepy-to-hot Possum into a glorious Sigma.

Sigma is almost must hear - the jam gets cut short but while it lasts, it slowly gets darker an darker, going proper growly type 2. Aside from the yank back into the song, its really cool. But damn Trey, totally axing the jam for no reason like that was BRUTAL!!! WTF?! BOOOOOOO!!!!



After a standard hot BOTT featuring excess wah abuse, we get the lovely bustout of Nothing. Always great to hear but not overly impressive as it's definitely loose around the edges.

Stash is pretty great tonight. It stays type 1 but just has "extra" written all over it. A very INTENSE version totaly worth checking out. Awesome.

After Bouncing, we get an awesome robofunk Tube LOADED wih robo Trey and growling Gordo. I would say this is must hear. Definitely grab this. This is SICK!!!! Must hear!!!

Gin is effing ridiculous. Chill bliss rock gives way to an all timer hose EXPLOSION from the depths of Mt. St. Helens. X Factor all over this sucker. MUST HEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All in all, this set took a while to get cooking. Much of it is on the hot side of average. Its not until Stash that things begin to take off. Id say Stash and the Tube>Gin combo are what you need.
Also, that Sigma jam ripcord was one of the lamest things of all time. It was just bad, yo. 

Set 2 begins poorly with a nothing special Caspian opener into a pleasant-but-goes-nowhere Disease that gets axed before anything interesting happens.

A 16 minute Ruby Waves follows. Much better, this one kicks some serious butt. At the same time it really struggles to go outside of the box and is mostly a "type 1 Trey shredder" version, albeit a really good one. Not must hear, imo. But good!

The following 16 minute Fuego, however, is absolute X Factor Black Hole insanity!!!! They slowly deconstruct the jam over a very long period of time into a ridiculous, swirling mass of robo fx, layers of loopers, rhythm changes etc until it resembles if Black Sabbath did a type 2 jam or something. Absolute insanity - Mexico Chalkdust level sludge. One of the most incredible jams of the year!!

AND HOLY MOTHER OF ALL THAT IS PERFECT THAT WAS THE SINGLE GREATEST SEGUE INTO A WTU SINCE THE SONG WAS CREATED! FIND ME A BETTER ONE!!!! IT JUST SOUNDS LIKE THE FUEGO JAM NEVER EVEN ENDED!!! HOLY HELL THIS IS UTTERLY AMAZING AND RIDICULOUS!!!!;

Thankfully the following Golden Age keeps the party going. A TERRIFIC reading just exploding from every angle with energy and a ridiculous Fuego Part 2 deconstruction jam at the end. A mind melting type 2 black hole vortex from hell!!! ALL TIMER VERSION!!!! MUST HEAR!!!! WOW!!!!

That segue into that perfectly placed Lonely Trip is just outstanding. Great version. The set concludes with THE Hood of the year, hands down. And explosive, magical, x factor laden reading. 10/10 Must hear at all costs.

After Golgi, a ridiculous "it just wont stop peaking!!!!" Slave absolutely melts our faces. Even BETTER than that Hood!

All in all, set 2 started badly, but EVERYTHING from Ruby Waves onward is pretty much essential. Set 2 annihilated set 2 of night 1. That was a 4.5 level 2nd set ....A very uneven show on the whole but the highlights were MASSIVE!!!!!!!

FUEGO>WTU!!! GOLDEN AGE!!! HOOD!!! SLAVE!!!!

HOLY CRAP!!!!