7/31/22 Columbia, MD
set 1
Off with a bang with a 15 minute Wave of Hope! All right lets go! Wave
is really good, basic just doing "extended type 1". It never fully
"delivers" but it gets close! Great opener!
After Dogs Stole Things comes Bag. 10 minutes long, it stretches into
type 1.5 territory, delivering a high energy, synth filled, gooey rock
fest. Absolutely SICK slow build peak finale. Killer. Grab this!!! Wow!
Following a fun Sparkle and a surprisingly funky BOTT, we get the first
true X Factor moment of the night. Mull is 12 minutes of kick ass ridiculousness!!! Absolutely must hear!!! All hail X Factor Magic!!! They
finally take it for a proper ride, going full blow type 2. Heat,
extreme funk and a robo meltdown. This is ESSENTIAL. Give me more!!!!
The Foam that follows is just as essential. Played flawlessly, for real,
it sounds straight out of 1993. No I'm not exaggerating, holy crap.
Dang!!!
And onto a 15 minute Ghost to close the set! And Ghost is fantastic! It
jams nice and chill, very slowly increasing in intensity until it just
EXPLODES into an incredible hose finale. A true must hear. Killer.
All in all, set 1 was excellent! Not a single low point and
everything was base level excellent. Flow out the wazoo as well!!! Foam,
Bag, Ghost and ESPECIALLY Mull were all must hear. The set doesnt
exceed the X Factor insanity of night 1, but if night 1 didn't exist, Id
be calling this one of the best first sets ever. Killer.
Set 2
Good set opening with a really nice Halley. Unfortunately, there is NO
jam and Trey awkwardly has them full stop, out of nowhere, just launch
into Tweezer instead.
Thankfully, all is forgiven with this Tweezer being a hefty and killer
19 minute jam beast. They build upon the Mull from set one, increasing
the soupy funk to level 5000!!! Somewhere around 10 minutes, the jam
shifts into this really unsettling and very unique, melodic minor key
kind of zone for a while befoe returning to the light for a killer
ethereal kind of bliss rock section. Around 15 minutes they go into this
insane funky blues shuffle bit for a few killer minutes, extremely
reminiscent of the 8/6/21 Simple. Perfect ending following that.
Definite X Factor all over. This is a MUST HEAR Tweezer!!!!!! Yo, this Tweezer is SICK!!!!! PURE MAGIC!!!!!
AND HOLY MOTHER OF ZOMBIE BANANA JEEZUS - THIS WINGSUIT!!!! THE GOAT!!
BEST IVE EVER HEARD!!!! COMPLETE AND UTTER MAGIC!!! ONE OF THE MOST
INSANE SOLOS EVER PLAYED BY TREY, EVER!!! MORE MAGICAL THAN A 1995
REBA!!! WHAT IN THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY?!?!?! THIS IS
UNBELIEVABLE!!!
* faints and dies *
No. Seriously. Im not exaggerating. Ive heard some incredible Wingsuits.
This topped them. All of them. This is THE definition of "definitive
go-to all time version".
What in the world .....
After a brief Tweezer reprisal jam to pick us back up, we go into a
raging 9 minute Birds. Chill at first, it is ultra high energy
regardless and slowly just builds and builds, raging to a climax. If you
aint bangin your head to this one....
Terrific Joy follows and gives us a lovely break from all the world-destroying going on. Excellent as ever.
Out of Joy and into Taste. Taste is a fireball!!! Must hear version, a Type 1 Taste doesnt get finer than this!!!
And the segue into WTU is so choice. WTU is strong and then we get the
duo of Howling and SANTOS to close the set. Both blaze hard hot, though
neither are truly "essential".
Highly inspired encore of the rare Show of Life into Loving Cup and of
course Tweeprise to close. Show is absolutely gorgeous and I really wish
this wasnt a rarity!! 
Loving Cup is hot as ever. Great stuff.
All in all....this show was killer, once again. Less generous on
the X Factor than night 1, this show felt more "typical excellent show"
then the unique craziness of night 1. Still, an absolute sick show from
top to bottom without a single low point and a number of MASSIVE
highlights.
Easily a 4.2-ish level show, imo. For set 2 the Tweezer, Wingsuit and the Taste were the must hears, imo
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