12 29 22 New York
Set 1
Holy mother of Icculus what an opening!! 22 minute Fluff into a YPC.
Fluff is very good if not perfect. Great energy. Somehow they smoothly
lead out and into slightly dark and powerful kind of hard rocking jam.
Very much pushing. After a good while it starts to bliss out and Trey
slowly leads them through an extended segue into a smashing YPC.
X Factor magic right out the gate. Hell to the yes. Of course the damn thing is must hear! 
And then immediately into a 17 minute Gin?! Oh crap, its gonna be one of
THOSE shows!! Gin is definitely wild and wacky, going way out into type
2 land. Unfortunately, this is TreyDHD: The Jam. Thry are listening to
each other and the whole thing flows great, except for the fact that
there is about 80 different sections lasting 10 seconds each. As soon as
they shift gears Trey immediately gets bored and moves them again.
Excessive "searching" in that regard. It does have a great finale (not
as great as the one from 12/28/23, though!).
I cant call that must hear or even particularly "good". It was
just..... not great, imo. Sure it was amazing in person though! Still,
A+ for effort. A 17 minute type 2 Gin in slot 2 must at least be
acknowledged!
Following that we get the debut of Hey Stranger. Im calling this must
hear - I think this is a killer, killer version. Hot, tight and inspired
soloing abound.
Just as good, if not better, is Tube. Average great, until the back half
where it picks up major steam. They land in a ridiculous hose spraying
section with Trey holding an insane note for, honestly, had to be at
least a minute. This version is a POWERHOUSE. Must hear!!
A rare 1st set Slave is the icing on the cake. Other than feeling to
short, this is excellent and powerful all around. The soloing is
especially shreddy and "wall of noise". Great stuff.
A terrific Blaze On closes. Just 10 minutes of high energy rocking, robo funking and just plain ol killing it
All in all, this was a spectacular set! If you put this as the 2nd set of one of the summer shows nobody would bat an eye!!!
Basically flawless aside from the super janky Gin jam. The Fluff>YPC, Hey Stranger and Tube are what you need most, but my god what a damn set!!!
Set 2
A super fresh start with an incredibly rare Bowie opener (dont think Ive
ever heard one!). Kinda sloppy compositionally, it makes up for it with
excessive all around energy and a terrific major key kinda jam.
Borderline must hear. Really, its great.
What is definitely must hear is the following trio of songs!!! The X
Factor fun begins with an incredible 16 minute ER. Likely the version of
the year for me and one of the best Ive ever heard. Its a soupy, dark,
groove fest of epic proportions. Spectacular to the end, you NEED this
in your life.
YEM follows and delivers a hot reading with a maniacally BLAZING solo
from Trey - holy mother of Mt. St. Helens, for real. This is essential
for the extraordinary raging that occurs. My god.
The nearly 16 minute Ruby that follows reaches easy all timer status
imo. A soupy, spacey, ridiculous psychedelic monster of "hold on to your
friggin hats" insanity. Top 8 or so version ever, I reckon. Its that
spectacular. And again, Treys soloing is NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION.
After some relief with Lonely Trip, the set concludes with monstrous
type 1 readings of BOTT and C Zero that are among the finest type 1
versions imaginable. Pure full throttle, A+ versions of both.
Fantastic encore of Guyuute and Possum
All in all, HOLY MOTHER OF MOVE THE F OVER 8/5!!!! THIS SHOW WAS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS!!! TOP TIER ACROSS THE BOARD, YO!!!
Seriously, where the HELL did they pull this from?!?! The entirety
of set 2 is top shelf. You can really almost say the whole damn show is
must hear - its that good - but if you really nitpic id say the trio of
ER, YEM and Ruby are the most "essential" pieces.
An extraordinary show up there with the likes of Chula Vista 2021 for my money.
Easy overall 4.5 for me. At least!!!
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