8/5/22 Atlantic City
Set 1
The show opens with Chalkdust into Wilson. Excellent opening, both are high energy and rock great.
Sand is interesting tonight. It doesnt rage, and it doesnt bliss rock
either, instead spending its time in an interesting and powerful melodic
kind of introspection. Not must hear, but its got character!
Plasma is very good, eschewing funkiness for outright rocking. Hot version.
Theme and BOTT are both solidly strong though neither is remarkable.
And then, holy crap, outta friggin nowhere, 21 MINUTE SIGMA! LETS FREAKING GO!!! Loaded
with X Factor, this is a monster of a jam. The initial type 1 starts to
skew when Trey starts introducing loopers. Around 14 minutes the whole
thing goes pedal to the medal, absolutely EXPLODING, before eventually
calming down into a terrific robo rock section. Killer segue into
Cities. Must hear at all costs. Absolutely unbelievable.
Following a short Cities the set comes to a close with an average hot version of More.
All in all, this was a strong set. Aside from Signa though,
nothing is must hear. That being said, everything else was at a
"excellent if unremarkable" kind of level.
But that Sigma. Holy mother of type 2, that was insane.
Set 2
A raging and excellent Axilla sets the scene before a 15 minute Soul
Planet takes over. Another essential X Factor jam, it begins dark and
growly, going into a wonderfully aquatic melodic jam. Slowly it picks
back up and peaks hard eventually turning into a full blown rock jam
again before again dying down with some spectaculaly groovy robo
strangeness. A terrific and probably underrated jam. Go revisit this! Killer flow, really fantastic!!!
And then, the hits keep coming with a friggin 21 minute Disease up next!
Disease is outstanding. As must hear as the Bangor version, this one
goes deep Type 2 from the outset. Around 8 minutes, Trey begins looping
and icy, crystalline synths start to appear. For the next 4 minutes they
build a beautiful, twinkly, night sky kind of space jam. Extremely
cool. Working out of it, around 14 minutes they slowly shift into a kick friggin ass robo groove that thankfully lasts a long time. Plinko jamming, ridiculous robowah abuse, Pages textural synths. This thing is MONSTER!!! Somewhere
around 18 minutes, after some Midnight Rider teasing, the jam slowly
starts to bliss out and from there they bring it on home like tucking us
neatly into bed. Beautiful. Ok, now THIS is the Disease of the year and
definitely in my top 5 of 2022 so far. X Factor everywhere, this is an
incrdible, flowing, multisectional ADVENTURE!!! This is sick!!!! THAT WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST JAMS OF MODERN PHISH. IT WAS PERFECTION!!!
ALL TIMER JAM ALERT!!!
And the following 15 minute Ruby is JUST AS GOOD!!!! HOLY CRAP!!! X FACTOR MAGIC, EVERYWHERE!!!!! Ruby
is spectacular. The jam quickly deviates going into devastating
party-robo-jamming, evolving into a killer stop-start ROCK JAM. Finally
it slowly builds t an astonishing and lengthy finale, producing the finest hose peak conclusion since the Pelham 2021 Carini. No, SERIOUSLY, this is THAT good. And instead of returning to Ruby, they do a Disease reprise!!!!
Ghost is 12 minutes tonight but keeps the magic going full stop!!! Not
even finishing the sing proper, they dive immediately into a dark and
brooding and HEAVY jam with No Quarter riffage abound. X Factor in
spades. This is easily the most OUT THERE Ghost I can think of,
easily, in the entire 2018-2024 period. No other one gets this STRANGE
iirc. This is mindblowing. DOOM METAL GHOST.
In a perfect and unbelievable segue, the set closes with Hood. Hood is
A++++ across the board. Highly inspired robo jamming in the intro abd
the whole thing is just absurdly amazing. My god.
Awesome encore of Monkey into a must hear, heavy robo funk Free.
All in all ....WHAT IN THE LOVE OF CRAP WAS THIS SET?!? WHERE DID
THEY PULL THIS FROM?!?! X FACTOR ACROSS THE BOARD!!! If 2/26/22 is still
show of the year, this is hands down SET of the year. Honestly, this
was one of the most insane, magical, ridiculous sets Ive ever heard.
Complete must hear. My god. This is like a 4.8 level second set.
Seriously.
So yea, just grab everything from Disease through Hood and the Free as well as Sigma from set 1.
My god.
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