12/29/24 finally this morning.
A 4.6 rating?!?! What am I in for?! 
Set 1
The show opens with a very nice Sample. Nothing must hear but it just
sounds really, really good. And it works as a nice change of pace. Dont
want a Sample opener often, but ill take this one.
Bag follows. Great little version. Pretty hot with some slightly funky rock jamming. Another great type 1 reading!
But then, oh boy....a nuclear bomb Moma rears its head.
You know its got EXTRA written all over it when it takes nearly 4
minutes to reach the first verse!!!!! A truly next level reading as far
as type 1 Momas are concerned, this one is just a BEAST.
And who woulda thought Rift would sound so good coming straight outta
the end of Moma like that?! Other than Trey struggling with the fast
ascending part near the end, this is an awesome, HIGH ENERGY reading
that will have you headbanging in no time. They sound tight and PUMPED
UP. Killer.
Thankfully, we get Caspian'd in the middle of set 1 tonight and not
somewhere more unpalatable. This version is a monster!!! Over 12
minutes, it just spits and snarls from the word go, Trey's soloing
filthier than in Moma. Wow. The initial raging gives way to a very nice,
low key kind of bliss zone. Definitely heading for type 2 with this one! The
bliss is merely a fake out and the jam gets dark and heavy and gnarly.
Fishman murdering the drums, Trey laying waste with the robo wah...ALL
HAIL OUR LORD AND SAVIOR X FACTOR MAGIC. Trey steps off the wah and
proceeds to just go all rock god on us, soloing it up. The rest of the
band latch on and we get a kinda Hendrixy vibe going. This in turn goes
dark and nasty again for a bit before seamlessly transitioning back into
Caspian proper and raging to a close.
YO THAT WAS INCREDIBLE!!!! MUST HEAR!!!! HOLY SMOKES WHAT A
CASPIAN!!!! IF EVERY VERSION WAS LIKE THIS THEY COULD PLAY IT EVERY SHOW
FOR ALL I CARE!!!! WHAT IN THE CRAP!!!!!!!
And then Monsters comes along and just goes full blown Chernobyl on us
all...good god sweet Icculus..... another total X Factor must hear
version....WHAT A MONSTER THIS MONSTERS IS MY GOD.
#screamingtreyisbesttrey
Up next we get the pure fire trio of Jim, YEM and Ghost to close out this molten lava first set.
Jim is molten type 1. Terrific. YEM is just spectacular - super tight
and extra oomph all around. The vocal jam is VERY brief and quickly they
slide into Ghost! That transition is SICK. Ghost is another nuclear
bomb. Totally insane. Id call the YEM>Ghost must hear for sure!!!!
All in all, HOLY CRAP WHAT A SET!!! While Caspian is the CLEAR
highlight, the entire thing smoked and the Monsters, Moma and
YEM>Ghost are just as essential. Jim and Rift were blazing hot as
well if not totally essential. A spectacular first set!!!!
Set 2
A rare set 2 opening Gin kicks things off. Really nice version with some
unique melodic stuff in the jam. Quickly aborted however, im sure
everyone in the arena was going "oh no, c'mon now Trey...."
Alas, fear not as he axes it and we are treated to a 37 effing minute Ruby Waves. Hold my everything, what the F....
So the jam begins. They rage uneventfully until somewhere around the 10
minute mark things begin to "click". They spend the next few minutes
peaking hard, spraying that hose!!! Terrific peak!!
------Around 14 minutes that subsides and they go into a sick kinda
mysterious low key bliss/ambience/ethereal zone. Very unique and
awesome. It almost sounds like they are jamming Frankie Says in major
key!
-----Around 17 minutes they slowly move back to heavy rocking,
absolutely destroying again until they hit the 21 minute mark. They then
dive headfirst into an incredible (and definitely unique!!!!) low key
section that feels like an evolution of the first one. A magical section
of music!!!
-----At the 24 minute point the jam picks back up once again. Slowly it
gets funkier and funkier and funkier untill all the way at the 30 minute
mark we are in whacky, funky, robo looper deconstruction zone!!!
GET CRAZY WITH YOUR BAD SELVES!!!!
---------Around the 32 minute mark things begin to coalesce. They rock hard until Trey pulls a GOD AWFUL yank back into Ruby to close.
Other than that disgutingly bad transition back into Ruby, this
entire thing was PRIME FRIGGIN RIB. Just replayed the Eugene 2021 (right
show?) and Dayton 2023 Rubys in prep for this and this one stomps all
over those two "do nothing" versions. This Ruby was SO sick - 5 or 6
different sections, each one highly inspired flowing seamlessly and
naturally into the next ....Hell, it even went type 2 early - you get
roughly 23 or 24 minutes of proper exploration!!!!!
Man, that was incredible. I have zero issue at all proclaiming that HAS
to be the strongest version ever outside of Alpine 2019. I mean, period
So after Ruby, we get the most perfectly placed and perfectly played
Waste to let us catch our breaths. This version is outstanding -
absolutely heartbreaking in its tenderness and sincerity. Think Bakers
Dozen "On the Road Again" vibes, ok? Absolutely must hear .....wow.
A double whammy nuclear bomb duo of Fuego into Cross-eyed closes the set
before a Bold As Love encore. Fuego and CP are both great but neither
is essential, imo. And honestly, I dont like CP as set closer - it
REALLY feels like there should be one more song after.
BAL is terrific. Very inspired version. Must hear!!!
All in all, this show was incredible. For set 2 Id grab Ruby,
Waste and BAL. The aborted Gin, the yank back into Ruby and the weird CP
closer are all points against the set but its nitpicking.
Amazing show up there with the very best of 2024!!!!
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