2025-04-19 Seattle, WA

 4 19 25 Seattle

Set 1

The show opens with a tasty 9 minute Free. Solid, good energy version. Nothing special.

Outta nowhere, we get pummeled with a 20 minute Gin in slot two. Hot damn!! Unfortunately it stays type 1, basically, but its FLAMETHROWER hot and loaded with SO MUCH ENERGY!! Off the rails hose explosion finale included. Normally id bitch about this but this is absolutely smashing. Must hear! This kicks ass!!!

Evolve is fantastic tonight!!!! 10/10, everyone is just going off and the whole thing is stellar, even by Evolve standards. Must hear!!!

Then comes Stash....third must hear in a row, this version is pure X Factor. The song sounds great and then the jam immediately dives straight into DARK and evil jamming, like a demented Carini. ALL HAIL SCARY STASH!!! Its not super long but my god is it powerful!!!!! Wow!

Following excellent but not must hear readings of Pebbles and Farmhouse we get a fantastic Suzy. Borderline must hear, its got extra sauce imo. Awesome.

The set closes with a mind blowing Walls of the Cave. Even by Walls standards this one is RIDICULOUS!!!! It goes on forever, just blazing a trail of destruction worse than an F5 tornado. X Factor for sure, MUST HEAR!!!

All in all, this was an excellent set!!! On the whole it felt a step down from night 1 and most of the highlights were "ever so slightly lesser". The only thing really aporoaching the magic of night 1 was Walls, but the whole set was great and im very much nitpicking in the extreme.

No complaints here really other than me preferring night ones first set.

Awesome stuff.

 Set 2

Ooh baby, 19 minute Chalkdust to open!!! Please be awesome, I beg! The song itself sounds great, played up tempo and with high energy. The jam gets off to a rough start. I swear they must spend like 7 or 8 minutes just trapped in this incredibly BORING, uneventful and meandering kind of hazy melodic bliss rock. I wanted to shoot myself. Thank god, in the final 6 or 7 minutes it starts to turn ever so slightly.... psychedelic and ethereal. Now its getting good!!!! Slowly they ramp up the intensity until they effing EXPLODE into what feels like a multi minute peak VOLCANIC NUCLEAR ERUPTION!!!! You get a peak! You get a peak! You get a peak! EVERYBODY GETS A PEAK!!! Its an absolutely magical and unbelievable finale!!! I hate to keep making the comparison but its the only thing I can think of - this jam SOARS to the effing heavens sounding like the 99 Camden Chalkdust. That kind of peak.
You can easily chop out the first entire half of the jam, but the back half is incredible. Must hear, but only for the back half.

Out of the death throes of Dust and into a 14 minute Light. And holy mother of Satan what a funky robo hellfire piece of black magic this is. The song sounds great but the ENTIRE jam is spent in this mother effing INSANE "2021 on STEROIDS" funky robotic wah annihilation crackhead whatever. BALLZ TO THE WALL ROBO WAH FUNK STORM. WHAT IN THE LOVE OF GOD IS THIS.

Hands down, that is THE most OUT THERE, extreme, downright INSANE light ever played. Find me a more wacky, insane reading. Go on, im waiting. That was definitely up there with the heights of night 1 or Mexico AND THEN SOME.

After topping it off with a perfectly executed and oh so kickass Chalkdust reprise, we go into Fuego. Just as insane as Fuego and equally must hear. X FACTOR FROM HELL. Dark, heavy, abstract and molten. One of the darkest and most evil versions ive ever heard. 

 

And of course the darkness continues into a black hole Monsters. And holy crap that was the best set placement of all time I swear. Another winner, as emotionally potent and ass kicking as any other.

A really good Piper (I THINK....) is next. It sounds jammed good but has an awkward dead stop ending.

Numberline closes. Unfortunately, I had to skip Numberline and Monkey. The sound this set is so ATROCIOUS that it's literally putting me in a bad mood. I cant take it.

Inspired encore of Sleeping Monkey and a typically evil 9 minute MyFe. MyFe is melty enough for me to actually label it must hear!!! Shorter but UNHINGED!

All in all, by any metric, this is an excellent show. Definitely a step down from night 1 (the highlights werent AS high for the most part but it's nitpicking. The Dust>Light and Fuego were unbelievable readings. X Factor galore. Good stuff. 

 

On the negative, this set was now the low bar all time worst LivePhish recording Ive had the displeasure to hear. I thought the Sphere and Albany were trash. This is WORSE!!!!

Listen to Light, Fuego, Piper - WHERE IS TREY?! WHERE IS PAGE?! YOU CANT HEAR THEM!!! This set sounds worse than an aud recorded up in the rafters. You can even hear audible level adjustments throughout.

I am deleting the board for set 2 and going AUD. There is no way to make this harder/more infuriating to listen to.