2022-09-02 Commerce City, CO

 9 2 22 Dick's

1 set rain delay show.

Good 12 minute Carini to open. Good energy but struggles to do more than a pretty good peak and gets aborted as soon as it starts to get strange.

YEM in slot 2 is sloppy compositionally, but again, great energy. Nothing special in the slightest but a nice set call. Noteworthy is that they push through the vocal jam again and keep going. Very quickly though Trey reaches a perfect transition point and they segue excellently into Ghost.

Ghost is really, really good. Borderline must hear, it reaches a genuinely SOARING peak that is all kinds of awesome. Definitely worth checking out!

After an uneventful Julius comes Reba. Reba is far from perfect but the jam/solo is just stupendous. A really, really GREAT solo from Trey. Absolutely worth your time! Another "borderline must hear" piece.

Tube is pretty excellent. Nothing must hear but great all around. Up next is a 16 minute Tweezer into WTU. Tweezer never gets strange but Id call it must hear. Its excellent, just exploring lots of different little subtle areas. A rager. Love the Destiny Unbound teasing.

WTU is another standout. Great as ever. Id call the pair must hear.

A rare standalone Paug>No Men>Paug reprise is next. Paug is boring and pointless but the segue into No Men is awesome. No Men is blazing hot but extremely short without any jam, leading back into a short Paug reprise.

Moonage Daydream and Chalkdust to close are MUST HEAR!! Moonage is nuclear and Dust is among the finest type 1 versions of recent years featuring an incredible solo from Trey.

Inspired encore of a rare Pebbles and Tweeprise. Good stuff.

All in all, for a 1 set rain show, this was surprisingly really good. I can't call it a GREAT show and nothing had any real "X Factor Magic". Most of it was excellent on its own terms but nothing beats anything else played this summer.

The people on .NET calling this the show of the summer are smoking crack, straight up.

A+ for effort, B+ for result. The energy is there and most of it is really good, but even the "must hear" music is very much "lowercase" and not MUST HEAR, ya know?No way was this a 4.2 imo. Id give it a strong, like, 3.7 or 3.8 though!!

Its better than you expect but never truly excels for the most part - Dust, Moonage, and Tweezer>WTU are what you need most, probably.