2022-07-22 Bethel, NY

 7 22 22 Bethel

Set 1

The show opens with an incredible, actually jam charted, Golgi!!! High energy, when they reach the "up and down" section they stretch it out and legitimately jam it for a minute or two! Absolutely incredible, total x factor magic!!!

The following nearly 15 minute Sample follows suit. Though it never gets "strange" they jam it out wonderfully and the segue back into the song has to be heard to be believed. Absolutely must hear!!!

After a hot My Soul comes ANOTHER jam surprise with a Gumbo that legitimately goes type 2, dissolving into a funky murk. Incredible version, somehow the jam mutates into an equally dark Saw It Again!!! What the hell is goinf on?! What are these sick segues?!

After some SIA zaniness we get a magical Timber segueing perfectly out of SIA!! Even more jammed out, this is total x factor magic. Holy crap.

Meat, Lawn Boy, MyFe and Guelah are all strong and solid while Brian and Robert is just fantastic.

Excellent Walk Away closer.

All in all, what in the love of crap was this first set?!?! The Golgi, Sample and Gumbo>SIA>Timber were all total x factor must hear magic!!!

Probably the best first set so far and one of the sickest sets of the year so far!!!  

Set 2

Rough start with a short Mr. Completely that gets pretty strange but is entirely disconnected and just....not good.

Thankfully a 24 minute YEM makes us forget quickly. X Factor all over, they push through the vocal jam and jam the CRAP outta this one. One of the sickest, most essential YEMs of recent times!! Must hear at all costs!!! Seriously, this YEM is a behemoth!!!

A hot type 1 Fuego follows. Nothing special but still excellent. Good jamming.

From here, there is literally nothing else to say. There is no more jamming, just a string of solid if unspectacular type 1 readings.

Boogie is hot but ends awkwardly, Scents does nothing....

Having ONLY ALBTD as the sole encore is like extreme insult to injury. At least its a genuinely excellent reading, but what the hell happenned?!

All in all, set 1 was pretty dang spectacular. Set 2 on the other hand was enjoyable but so ridiculously unspecial I cant describe it. YEM is a giant shining diamond. The entire rest of the set is just, pretty much, a waste of your time.

At least ALBTD was great.  What the hell happenned?!
Man, no way I can give this show more than a 3.5 thanks to that 2nd set.