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Monday, February 24, 2025

2024-12-28 New York City, NY

 12 28 24 New York

Set 1

The show and run open with a very nice 13 minute Simple. Underwhelming at first, it slowly builds a serious head of steam and positively explodes in the back half. Excellent version worth a must hear!!

The following Free is supremely average. Nothing to say, good or bad. Skip!

Farmhouse, though placed terribly, is actually a gorgeous reading. Definitely worth a listen, itll take you by surprise!!!

Poor Heart comes along and wakes us back up. Page is SMASHING that piano and the whole thing is simply nuclear!!! Must hear (for real!).

Tube keeps the energy going nicely. Nothing special in the slightest, there are far worse songs to get a really "average" version of!!

KDF is good tonight. Red hot but nothing you havent heard before.

Great to see Driver entering proper rotation it seems. Good stuff. The surprise hit of the set though is a terrific, must hear Reba!!! They absolutely nail the composed sections and the solo is definitely more inspired than usual (even if way too short). GRAB THAT!!!

The following Oblivion is disappointingly only 6 minutes, but holy hell does Trey UNLEASH. Easily the best soloing of the night so far, dont underestimate this version - it SMOKES!!!!

Antelope is Antelope. Great set ender. Grab it!

All in all, this was a good, if often underwhelming set. Got better as it went on. Id say the opening Simple, Reba, Oblivion and maybe Farmhouse are all must hear.
A good set, not a great one. Very loose around the edges. 

Set 2

The opening stretch of set 2 is just horrific. BOTT is actually a terrific type 1 reading, but this has ZERO merit reason to open the damn 2nd set.

Axilla is honestly the worst Ive ever heard. Please, find me a worse one. Super sloppy and falling apart, the jam even dies before it has a chance to begin. Terrible!!

A Wave of Hope follows suit. Again, probably the worst Ive ever heard. The song is ok but it goes absolutely nowhere and does absolutely nothing. What is this crap?!

Round Room is an incredible bustout to get. No reason for this to be a rarity. However, this is just as bad, or worse, than Axilla. I sounds like they practiced it exactly one time or something. Just constantly on the verge of total collapse. Yucky .....

Holy mother of hell what is going on ......

Finally, IAWITW comes along and actually sounds amazing!!! Killer jamming on this, just blazing hot. This version is positively UNHINGED!!!! Absolutely must hear, it FINALLY sounds like it will go type 2 but, alas, Trey kills it dead....of course. This is why we cant have nice things....

Adding insult to injury, they follow that with a short Twist....oi vey. Its a nice reading but c'mon now.... Also, Treys voice is COMPLETELY shredded. Maybe he was sick??? Its actually REALLY nice and threatens to go type 2 but gets aborted as well....

Time for bustout #2, we get the Mango Song!!!!! Thankfully, this sounds pretty darn great!! Grab it - very good version!!!

They bring the heat with Blaze On next. A RIPPING type 1 version, they just kill it. Good enough for me to say you should hear this one. As with Oblivion, Trey just annihilates.

Cavern rocks nice and good but Cavern is Cavern.

Im sorry, but I skipped Bowie and Mountains. First time Ive purposely skipped a song/songs maybe ever. But this show is just a damn CHORE by this point .....Im positive I dont need to hear either.

The show concludes with F Your Face (why does the crap show get all the rarities?!) and a nuclear 46 Days to close. F Your Face just crushes. 46 is 46. Terrific type 1 that just burns down the house.

All in all, my goodness what a $#!tshow this show/set was. Set 1 had genuine highlights but even those were definitely "lesser" for the most part.

Set 2 was just a nonstop car crash or something. What in the F. You know a set was BAD when type 1 readings of BOTT, Blaze On and IAWITW were the highlights. Lord help us. At least the encore was fantastic. Definitely grab that F Your Face and 46 Days.


That was EASILY the worst show of the year. By a very wide margin. Even Mexico 2024 #1 was a lot better than this (imho).

Is it over yet?!.....

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