5 31 22 Charleston
Set 1
A knockout 1-2 punch with a 23 minute SYSF into a 15 minute Walls to
open!!!! Holy crap!! Unfortunately, neither realize their full
potential. Both are GOOD but neither are GREAT. There is no "magic" or X
Factor in either. SYSF in particular takes forever to get going, and it
does get going very nicely, but still feels slightly undercooked. Plus
it features the most ATROCIOUS forced return to the song Ive ever heard -
absolute garbage ending!!!
Walls is still on the lukewarm side of things. As I said though, both
are really nice but neither of them particularly excite.....
Things get better though. After a fiery Sample, we get a MUST HEAR
Steam!!! X Factor all over this bad boy, Trey junps on the way and razes
all in sight. A truly exceptional reading!!!
After MyFe and Sparkle we get another true must hear. Ocelot follows the
same course as Steam. Total X Factor. If someone told me this was the
best version ever played, I wouldnt argue. Holy crap. Seriously,
everything about this is perfection and Trey is just killing.
After a stunning Leaves (MUST HEAR HOLY CRAP!!! Treys solo is freaking insane), Coil closes the set.
All in all, this was a bit of an interesting one. The 2 big jams
were the lesst impressive part for me, Ocelot and Steam were the CLEAR
highlights, the set had good flow, but also some super average stuff.
Shoutout to Leaves as well - AMAZING version.
A good set but a bit all over the place.
Set 2
The 2nd set opens with a very good Axilla 2. Solid, nothing special. The
following 11 minute 2001, however, is very special!!! They jam the crap outta this!!!! X Factor all over, lots of wonderful full band interplay, Trey crushing with extensive robo wah action...This one is a DEFINITE cut above!!! This is AWESOME!!!
And they follow that perfectly with a great segue into a massive 17+
minute Light!!! The song itself sounds fantastic tonight, full of spunk
and very tight.
-------The jam immediately begins without any searching - Trey jumps on
the RoboHonk5000 and we get a great round of playing for a while. At a
certain point the jam develops a slightly more laid back vibe and
becomes a mellow bliss fest, but a fantastic one. Listen to Page and
Trey playing off each other!
------Very slowly and fluidly, the jam starts to build back the heat bit
by bit. Trey jumps on the robowah at the perfect moment, leading us
from bliss hell. Man, this jam is SMOOTH!!! Total fluidity!!! Wow!!!
-------Eventually this leads to a more rhythmic and drum heavy section
that sounds like it could bust out into Party Time at any second. Listen
to Fishman just going all Keith Moon on everyone. This then dials down
smooootttthhhlllllyyyy into a much darker and more tense zone. You know its a great type 2 jam when there are separate sections! 
------This dark and textural zone slowly evolves once more back into
atmospherically upbeat major key playing. The synths and bass fx are
still going though so the whole thing has this kind of ethereal quality
undercutting it all. My god this jam is FANTASTIC!!!
----Finally, the jam turns into a massively triumphant exploding volcano
finale for several absolutely glorious minutes of ass kicking,
eventually winding to a close and segueing into Mountains....
HOLY CRAP THAT JAM WAS SPECTACULAR!!! THAT WAS EVEN BETTER THAN THE ORANGE BEACH TWEEZER!!!!
Mountains is the perfect breather tonight after that nutzo Light. Id
call this one must hear, its fantastic!!! It sounds like a Sea of Stars
jam played by the Dead or something!!! KILLER!!!!
A super fun Meat is next. Friggin fantastic, definitely must hear.
Stupid fun!!! Tons of vocal samples and ridiculously swampy playing.
KILLER.
Meat ends with a "didnt see that coming!" genuine segue into Golgi
that.....somehow works?! Wow. Excellent and high energy Golgi. Golgi is
Golgi but this is good chit, man. AWESOME GOLGI!!!! Golgi will never be
must hear, but this version rages.
Old school double set outro of Slave into Cavern. Slave is pretty strong
with tons of interesting fill work from Trey and blazing heat when its
his turn to let loose. Machine Gun Trey is here, baby! And
then his laid back playing at the start of the real solo....just
beautiful. THIS SLAVE IS SIMPLY FANTASTIC!!!! ABSOLUTELY MUST HEAR!!
JUST MAGICAL!!!
And Cavern is Cavern 
Seriously killer reading though....
Very inspired encore of 46 Days into a fantastic Tube. 46 is robo wah
abuse hell, just gnarly and nasty and synthy and terrific. Tube follows
suit. Both are very much must hear imo. Extremely cool delay jamming on
that! Basically goes type 2! Absolutely insane!!! They both crush!
All in all, wow what a set!!! As a whole, this show was easily
better than Orange Beach 3. 2001, Light, Mountains, that CLASSIC Slave,
46 Days and Tube were all must hear!!! And dont forget Leaves, Ocelot
and Steam from set 1!! HOLY CRAP!
This show was far from perfect but set 2 was basically all killer no
filler and the heights of this show felt higher than the majority of
best material from OB3
The 3.5 rating on .NET is an absolute BS travesty. This show was an easy 4.1-ish level gig imo. The heights were just HUGE.
Great show!
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