2022-08-14 East Troy, WI

 8 14 22 East Troy

Set 1

Great choice of The Landlady to open. Played pretty good with no flubbage. Great stuff!!

Unfortunately Runaway Jim is a snoozer. The song takes forever to get going and completely lacks energy. It almost gets going at the end but its way too little way too late. Major bummer!

Divided Sky is solid enough. Definitely not bad, but its very "sticky" and never really takes off very well. Trey struggles massively with his sustain notes. Eh/10

46 Days is decent but not great. The song never gets too hot and it has a budding jam with some cool delay stuff that Trey horrifically ripcords them out of.

DISGUSTING!! YUCK!!! That "transition" into Stealing Time was Coventry level garbage. Adding insult to injury the intro is botched even worse, with them unable to lock in at all, tempo all over the place. Throw this right in the trash

Surprisingly, Sugar Shack is pretty good. Still way too sleepy, Trey at least nails his parts. Solid enough.

After a nice Shade and a positively uninspired Moon, this lousy set comes to a close with the ONLY highlight of the entire set, a 13 minute Everythings Right. Surprise surprise, this is a terrific version! The boys finally CLICK and deliver a hard grooving, high energy rendition with MASSIVE peaking and rocking. Seriously, this is must hear.

All in all, this set is basically hot trash for the most part. Excessively "sticky" playing from Trey, a total lack of energy and the guys totally not "clicking" at all. This set was just downright LOUSY.

The ONLY thing truly worth hearing is the set ending ER. Everything else is just trash, pretty much, really.

 

Set 2

The 2nd set opens with a killer 11 minute reading of Energy! High energy, it goes type 2 quickly, delivering spctacular robot funk jamming with a hefty dose of strangeness thrown in. This one gets there, big time. Definitely must hear!

They follow it with an excellent 10 minute Jibboo that keeps the dancing goinf strong. Trey sets legit whale siren early and its off we go. The boys definitely sound infinitely more locked in that set 1. Treys soloing is sticky but this is otherwise an excellent reading. I'm calling this must hear, it's fantastic. Seriously!!

A 10 minute Soul Planet follows and hold on to your friggin space suits!!! This version is on FIRE!!! It stays type 1, but it sloooowwwlllyyyy builds into a series of minutes long peak raging of the highest order. Hose supreme. Must hear at all costs.

Excellent segue into a perfectly placed Rift. Rift is excellent, really well played!!!!

Reba follows and delivers an almost must hear reading. Technically, its 98 percent perfect and the solo is spectacular, if just too short.

Martian Monster is too short, but whats here just kills!!! Extremely inspired and "extra", im calling this must hear.

Broken Heart Attack>HYHU>MM jam is incredible!! This sequence is so unexpectedly killer!!! And the way HYHU works MUSICALLY in the sandwich is shocking. Must hear trio!!!

A raging Possum and a grindy Slave close the set excellently.

Waste and First Tube encore, both are extra excellent A+ readings. Waste is magical!!!

All in all, this set was shockingly fantastic!!! I honestly think the Energy, Jibboo, Soul Planet, BHA Suite and maybe Waste are all MUST HEAR with shoutouts to Reba, MM and Slave.

This was an all killer, no filler set. This set kicked so much ass!! Definitely one of my favorites of the whole year!