7 19 22 Philadelphia
Set 1
Incredible and strange open to the show with a damn a capella....Space Oddity?! Wtf?!?! Major
props for this definite X Factor moment, but personally this is a
nightmare opener for me - its about 3 times longer than needed and its
pretty much my least favorite Bowie song, so...
After a hot Martian Monster comes a 17 minute Halley. The guys sound
lost on thr arrangement but once it gets going it rocks hard, delivering
a great jam that goes aquatic bliss for a long time before several
excellent minutes of late 90s robo haze jamming. Its not extraordinary,
but id call it must hear regardless.
Up next is a 12 minute Stash. The song itself is extremely flubby.
Definitely a poor reading of the song itself, but it gets cooking good
with the jam, almost going type 2 by the end. Not great at all but the
jam is worth a listen.
They follow up with an unextraordinary Moma. Solid and good enough but nothing noteworthy in the slightest.
Man, this set is just all kinds of janky so far 
Thankfully Jibboo is WAY better!! Id call this must hear. Its only 7
minutes but the jam immediately drops into super delicate low key style
and builds back up from there. Totally killer version!!! Must hear!
After a very nice Shade and Old Home Place, the set concludes with
Walls. And thank god it is pretty excellent. Great raging peak on this.
All in all, this is another very mixed bag set. Id say Jibboo and
Halley are must hear (but only just). Some songs are ridiculously
average, some are sloppy, some are great. No need to play this ever
again...
The 2nd set opens way too calmly with More, a bad opener choice imo. Ok but nothing great.
Thankfully they remedy the bad opening choice immediately with an absolutely ridiculous giant Tweezerfest!! The first Tweezer is about 17 minutes, rocking nicely before robo funk deviation begins around 12 minutes. From the 17 minute point, they segue perfectly into Cities, coming back out again into more inspired Tweezer jamming!!
Following about 5 minutes of Tweezer, they go into perfectly, again, into Passing Through! Out of that and into an excellent Isabella before again returning to 5 more minutes of inspired Tweezer jamming!!!
What is this witchcraft!!! This is freaking amazing!!! ALL HAIL X FACTOR MAGIC!!!
Another unexpected segue brings us through a very nicely played 7 minute Mercury that is again sans jam
However, this gets us on to a 14 minute Piper instead! 
Piper never gets strange but I would still call this must hear - it is a
2023 balls to the wall shred beast of the highest order!! Extreme hose explosion!!!!!! Normally I hate a Piper like this but this is outright inspired!! X FACTOR A PLENTY!!! GRAB THIS!!!And into one short final Tweezer jam...Out of that and into 2001. 2001 is killer. A little janky around the edges but they jam this hard, playing around with the rhythm, tons of Martian Monster teasing etc. Must hear, probably and definitely another highlight!!!
A typically good C Zero ends the set. Killer version with excess wah annihilation. Definitely an inspired and must hear reading, imo! IM WAITING FOR MY MAN!
Encore of Drift into the expected Tweeprise. Drift isnt anything great tonight but it's the thought that counts.
All in all, while set 1 was the definition of hit or miss, set 2 was, seriously, basically all must hear aside from the limp More that opened it. This was a massive Tweezer Festival!!! Definitely the kind of set that needs to be played in full!!! Just wonderful!!!
THAT 2ND SET KICKED SO MUCH ASS!!
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