8/2/22 Cuyahoga Falls
Set 1
What in the love of all that is unholy - the show opens with an a capella. Strawberry Fields Forever. Heck. Yes.
I wouldnt call it must hear - the arrangement is kinda boring - but its still awesome regardless.
First true song of the show is Crowd Control. And this one kills!! CC
often drafs and rarely achieves proper "liftoff". This one is incredibly
high energy and just awesome. Honestly, this is probably must hear.
Up next is an awesome early set Punch!!! Punch is downright terrific
tonight, super high energy, sounding practiced etc. Treys soloing aint
too great but otherwise this is basically pretty flawless! Awesome!!!
46 Days gives us our first taste of X Factor tonight. Terrific reading
that just explodes, featuring a SICK kina laidback night time jam for
the final few minutes. It actually goes proper type 2! Essential.
A mid set YEM is an odd placement, but the technical part is, again, but
its an excellent reading so who cares. Nothing special, but is
definitely really good!!!
Tube and Shade are both average excellent but then Reba is totally
botched by Trey, only to be redeeme by a soaring solo peakfest
High energy Cavern to close.
All in all, the playing was excellent (aside from Reba) and the
energy is high. Everything is basically "base level excellent", though
very little sticks out and makes you go "wow!".
Also of note, Trey seems to be favoring the neck pickup again and his tone is back to sounding like crap.
Grab Crowd Control and 46 Days.
Set 2
25 minute friggin monster Free to open the set. Oh my sweet X Factor god! The
song itself is tight and extremely hot. The initial soloing is off the
hook and it rages type 1 all the way to the 13 minute mark. From there
to about 17 minutes, they search a bit, going type 2 with some
excessively upbeat robo rocking. Around 17 minutes, after jamming a cool
melodic motif for a bit, the jam slowly begins to move back into less
overtly "happy" grounds, heading for just a hard hitting, straight up,
rock and roll section. Basically they take it friggin nuclear and burn down the friggin house for about 4 spectacular rocking minutes. Around 21 minutes, the jam goes low key befoe positively ERUPTING like
a volcano. Honestly, this sounds like one of those mid 90s Mikes Song
jams or something!!!! From about 22:30 the jam gets real funky again.
From there they slowly wind it down to a close with a perfect segue
into.....
All in all a terrific jam, a definite beast. This one doesn't get
strange at all for the most part but bas just rages extremely hard. A
must hear, of course, even if it was a little too "one note" for my
taste
...Esther!!! Heck yes!!! 3rd one of the year so far, I think? Great
version! Followed by a blazing hot Blaze On that goes into a cool darker
jam in the back half.
Then we get a big boy 16 minute Scents. Never really going type 2, it
basically follows the blueprint of Free and just gets progressively
hotter as it goes with tons of raginf guiar and hose spraying abound.
Must hear.
After the worlds shortest 2001 picks us back up. Killer type 1 reading, really excellent.
The set closes with a KILLER 14 minute Melt. X Factor all over this,
imo. The jam is very rhythmic and "together" while simultaneously wacky
and nutzo. The jam sounds like 10 minutes of a dying robot, all angular
and whatnot. Must hear.
A+ encore of a must hear Gin. Its a type 1 rager, but its TIGHT AND
BLAZING HOT, delivering the hose with MG Trey on full display.
All in all, this set was all killer, no filler, full stop!!! Free,
Scents, Melt and Gin were all must hear, imo. The energy was through
the roof and Trey was on FIRE.
Id give set 1 like a 3.5 or so. Set 2 is like a solid 4.4ish level.
Overall, id balance it out to like a 4.2 level show or something.
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