6 4 22 Noblesville
Set 1
The show opens with a very nice Turtle. Nothing special but the energy is there and the tempo is up. Excellent.
They immediately kick it into HIGH GEAR with the following Undermind. This baby coookkkssss!! Maybe not truly must hear but its terrific! A definite highlight!!!
And believe it or not, Drift While You're Sleeping in slot 3 was spectacular tonight!!!!
Somehow it kept the energy of of Undermind going and built upon it!!!
An absolutely explosive reading, one of the finest I have heard. What in the F?!? A Drift in slot 3 that not only does not ruin the set but straight up elevates it?! Must hear!!! Holy crap!!!
After a fun Strawberry Letter 23, the hits keep coming with a blazing hot, X Fsctor Stealing Time. They jam the CRAP outta this one!!! A
spectacular reading, hear this at all costs!!! No, seriously, the
jamming in this is just absolutely inspired. Must hear. 10/10. THIS IS MAGICAL!!!
What the hell is this set so far?!?!
Runaway Jim is the perfect followup. It never fully "explodes" but the
energy is sky high regardless and the back half is one big full-band
interplay love fest. Maybe not must hear, but its terrific!!!!! Killer.
Definitely a highlight and worth s listen.
Camel Walk gives us a slight breather. Terrific type 1 reading. As Brent Mydland would say, silky, silky smooth!! Definitely a highlight but probably not must hear.
Id say the following Timber is, however! It stretches wonderfully, just about going
type 2!!!! The initial build up jam is stretched mightily by Pages
colorful synths while Trey slowly builds his solo atop. Patient in the
BEST way, the full band interplay is killer on this. Just listen to
everyone listening close to each other!! Short but must hear!!! Wow!!
Julius and Melt close the set perfectly. Julius is absolutely BLAZING LIKE A COMET BRIGHTER THAN A FULL MOON!!! Holy crap. Nothing special but good lord it just rips!!!
A solid Melt sends us out. Not very long, barely passing 11 minutes.
Despite the length, this has an awesome jam. For a Melt, its
surprisingly cohesive, going into a 1999-style "tensely ethereal" zone
flirting with ambience but really flying through the clouds instead.
Wonderful stuttering synths and patiently building Trey. This is
wonderful!!! Then they slowly move into a deconstruction zone for a bit
before perfectly segueing back out into the song again. Id call this must hear. I thought it was surprisingly great, especially considering its relatively brief runtime!
All in all, this set WAS KILLER!!!!!! Everything was baseline
excellent and Trey was very much "ON" with his playing. The band are
definitely having a good night on the musical communication front as
well.
Id say Drift, STFTFP and Timber and Melt are all must hear, while Camel, Jim and Undermind come close.
I can see why the setlist would turn folks off, but look past that and
go LISTEN instead!! This set blazes, featuring spectacular Trey out the
wazoo. I understand the "flaws", but for me personally this was a smashing set!!
Set 2
First 2nd set YEM opener since 1989?!?! And it reaches 23 minutes including a post vocals jam?!?! All
that out of the way, the technical parts sound very good but arent
"perfect". But zero complaints on that front - sounds great. The lengthy
initial round of funk jamming is just oh so good!!! Pages
keys give it an exceptionally laid back "take it easy" vibe and Treys
soloing is just completely on point. Then of course they build it back
up and tear the roof off accordingly. Right around 15 minutes Trey
unleashes one of the most ridiculous explosions of fury Ive heard in
while. Holy freaking crap!! Then Gordo funks it up and we
go into the vocal jam. The vocal jam barely lasts a minute before being
86d. They quickly and smoothly move back into low key funk for a bit.
Eventually the jam goes type 2 and they spend the remainder in a slow
building, upbeat melodic bliss heaven kind of area. Just wonderful!!!
Holy freaking crap! X Factor ALL OVER that magical beast!!! That
is an all-timer-since-2009 version, hands down. Many modern YEMS are
real good, but few are truly GREAT like this one....wow...
Following YEM, we get to finally witness the birth of Wave of Hope as a
true jam vehicle!!! Nearly 19 friggin minutes on this one. The song
itself is surprisingly funky and thumping tonight!! Total groover! The
first section of the jam is an excellent and inspired aquatic robo bliss
rock section. Genuinely killer. Around 10 minutes, after some delay
action and a brief peak, the jam goes properly type 2, moving into a
more low key, late night rock zone. They quickly move back into inspired
upbeat bliss rocking of the non-generic variety. Wonderful and perfect
melodic playing leads up to a killer peak at 15:30. The jam explodes
with some massive, patented Big Red Sustains, lasting a solid 90 seconds
of "kicking into overdrive". Around 17 minutes a stomping groove
appears but Trey instead decides to reign them in and close the song
proper...
That was DEFINITELY must hear!! It never got "strange" at all, but
despite being 15 minutes of "upbeat bliss rock", basically, it all felt
very inspired, not "searching" or lacking. This was just terrific for
the most part. Killer!!
Great pick of a wah infused Bug to give us a cooldown yet still keep the heat going!! Trey
is just soloing the crap outta this one. Awesome lil Bug. This version
is SICK!!!! Must hear!!! Strangle that guitar, Trey!!!
We get a nice doubleshot of the Farmhouse album with Jibboo following up
Bug. Jibboo is terrific, just loaded with extra pizazz throughout. Not
must hear, but comparable in quality to the Jim from set 1.
The Howling is up next and boy does this sucker CRUSH. All hail our robo overlords!!! Total
robot annihilation throughout from Trey, this is the funkiest thing Ive
heard in a hot friggin minute. Seriously, I think this is must hear. Its
FANTASTIC!!! This thing is WACKY!!! If Jibboo set the ball on the tee,
this Howling absolutely knocked it out of the dang course!!! MUST
HEAR!!! THIS IS KILLER!!!
The set concludes with Good Times Bad Times to complete a fiery trilogy
of awesomeness. And by god is this fire - listen to Trey absolutely nail
that solo!!!!! Freaking fire, thats what this is!!! Holy smokes!!! Im calling this must hear. This just annihilated...MACHINE GUN TREY!!!
In the encore we get something really unique and downright weird - SSSLLLLOOOOWWW MMMMAAAAAZZZZEEEE. This
is so damn strange and I'm not entirely sure if this even "works", lol.
A++++ for creativity and effort and doing something oh so Phishy! The
playing is killer and Pages keys REALLY stand out in a big way on this -
man those keys just crush on this. And then Treys terrific slow burn
solo is just ridiculous. This is actually super awesome!!!
I dont know if Id want this ever again, but this lone outing is pretty friggin COOL!!!
All in all, I loved the hell outta this set!!! I would say YEM, Wave,
Bug, Howling, GTBT and Slow Maze are all must hear!!! (That only leaves
out Jibboo, and an argumen can be made for that one too).
This show was HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT!!! Trey was having a great night solo
wise and the whole affair just brims with "extraness". Hell, Id say the
4.1 rating might even be a bit too low - Id give this a 4.2 or 4.3 most
likely. All it really "needed" was, maybe, one more big improv piece and
the show really could have gone next level!!!
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