6 5 22 Noblesville
Set 1
The 34 minute Sand and tour finale show has arrived! And they open it
with one of the greatest "nobody could have called this" openers - While
My Guitar Gently Weeps!!!! Heck yea! They kill it and Trey delivers a wonderful solo that is both patient and ripping at once. Simply put, they CRUSH this!!
Absolutely essential listening! Trey is just melting everything in
sight like the Chicago 2018 Moonage Daydream or something. Wow. Talk
about a high quality opener!!!
Up next is a red hot My Soul, always a surefire sign its going to be a
hot one tonight!! Maybe not essentil but know that it cooks hot
regardless. Great version!!!! BLAZING HOT!
Rift is the definition of hit and miss tonight. Most of it sounds tight
and BLAZING HOT with ridiculous energy from everyone, and then Trey
comes and completely (literally) botches the ascending lick worse than
the Coventry Glide. August 2004 Rift right here. Shame! 
Horn is Horn. Good enough but nothing special.
Wombat kicks it back into high gear. This is the best played version Ive
heard in a while. Super TIGHT and definitely well rehearsed!!! They
just nail it!! Absolutely bursting with energy with an excellent vampy
funk jam. Not truly must hear, but worth a listen - this is GREAT!!!! 
After a typically lovely Evolve, we get a really good Guyuute. Unlike
Rift, Trey gets his parts right, though there is a weird kind of
"slightly hesitant" vibe to it all. Either way, no flubbage to my ears
so this Guyuute is definitely a success!
Limb By Limb is excellent. The solo is just wonderful. Not must hear but a great reading nonetheless.
To my knowledge, the devolution of Mercury begins tonight with this
measly 10 minute reading. Really nice version, high energy, pretty tight
overall, though nothing special in the long run. A real shame too as it
begins to jam and immediately is killed. Wtf, yo?!
Hot Moma is the surprise set closer. Good stuff! AND HOLY SCHNIKE WHAT A MOMA!!! Even
by red hot type 1 Moma standards this is a cut above. Absolute machine
gun Trey domination of the highest order. Must hear for sure!! This is a
monster!
All in all, this was a highly enjoyable set though the highlights
were definitely clear. Id say the opening WMGGW and Moma are the only
"magical" readings of the set, though My Soul, Wombat and Limb all
turned in excellent readings and Guyuute wasnt flubbed, lol. Also, Trey
is still just crushing his solos like on night 2.
Unfortunately there were lows as well - 2022 continues to be the worst
ever year for Rift, turning in an absolute disaster of a reading (from
Trey at least). I mean, this one is BAD. And then the intro of short
Mercury....
All that being said, the energy and enthusiasm were sky high throughout
so that goes a long way, but there was definitely some
slight....hesitancy to a lot of it. Wombat, My Soul, Moma and WMGGW were
the only times it felt like things TRULY "clicked" in that special way.
Basically, an imperfect but highly enjoyable set!
Set 2
So, a 34 minute Sand to open the set, eh?! Wow, ok! Let me see if I can recap this from memory after the fact:
The song itself is slow and sluggish tonight. They quickly get it together but at first its kinda troublesome.
----Very good type 1 ensues and lasts until around 10 minutes. At that
point they make the decision to keep going and from 10 to 18 minutes,
they jam the crap outta Sand, not going off the edge yet but definitely
pushing the boundaries and exploring all the nooks and crannies. Awesome
section full of wonderful playing.
----- Around 18 minutes things start to get properly strange and they take the plunge. Killer delay and synth jamming.
-----At the 21 minute mark they begin to build a peak and for nearly 6 friggin minutes they basically peak and explode this sucker over, and over and over and over. Absolutely ridiculous stuff.
------Come the 28ish minute mark the jam shifts and they devolve it from
there, slowly winding down with a beautiful, laid back chill vibe
similar to the final section of the Mexico 2024 WOPE or something. And
from there we are out....
Wowzers!! What a beast!! This is an absolute journey. It doesn't
get as crazy as I wish but that is extreme stupid nitpicking. This is an
all timer for sure. There was almost no "searching" and it was
constantly moving naturally. The different sections were all lengthy and
explored properly. This was a monster jam, hands down.
Wow.
A really, really nice Sigma follows to pick us up out of the ruin of
that Sand. The song isnt particularly great but the jam/solo is
excellent. In the final minute or so it begins to go type 2 and they
move, PERFECTLY, into a Sand reprise to finish!! Hot damn that was sick!
20 Years Later is a grear set call after that and is surprisingly
uptempo and powerful. Unfortunately it ultimately doesnt do much but its
a great reading of the song itself.
This is followed by a much welcome Mango Song. Pretty good stuff but nothing essential. I will ALWAYS take a Mango though! Actually, this Mango is pretty friggin nice....
Everyone (except mine!)'s least favorite song, Rise/Come Together is
next. This one is slow and sluggish, not great example when I try to
explain how this song is awesome, lol. Typically excellent solo though!
After a strong Free to close the set, we get a nice encore of Grind into
Slave. Free is played surprisingly well with no technical shakiness or
confusion about the arrangement (for the most part).
Free ends up being really great with terrific delay funk jamming.
Killer set closer. This is an AWESOME Free. Definitely worth a listen!!!
Eh screw it, call it must hear! THIS FREE ANNIHILATES HOLY CRAP!!!
Slave takes fooorereeeevvvveeerrrr to wake up. Pretty lousy for most of
its duration, thankfully the final few minutes see it explode into a
wave of nuclear bomb hose.
All in all, Sand is obviously THE major takeaway of set 2. The
rest of the set is good enough but nothing else really is particularly
great, ya know? It felt like they ran out of steam a little thanks to
Sand. 
Free was smashing though!!!
An extremely mixed bag of a show but the highlights were massive!! Definitely not a poor show but not an amazing one either.
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