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Set 1
A Jim opener tonight like its 1997 again. Unfortunately its a lousy opener, low in energy and honesty just kinda boring. Bummer!
Thankfully, they fix this immediately with high energy type 1 readings
of Blaze On and Martian Monster. Both are excellent though neither are
must hear.
The first must hear of the night is Birds of a Feather. This one is high
energy, featuring some inspired bliss rock jamming in the middle,
giving it a "floating in the clouds" kinda vibe, culminating in a
MASSIVE sustain peak!! Trey even sets a loop of the sustained note and
they flawlessly return to the song proper, absolutely raging this sucker to its conclusion. Definitely some X Factor magic on this bad boy!!! Add that to the list of greatest shorter jams ever!! That was AWESOME!!! 
555 keeps it going nicely. Excellent version with good energy and dark jamming. Good stuff.
Up next is a spectacular Divided Sky!!! A+ version all
friggin day!! They nail the hard parts, its full of energy and Trey goes
banana sandwich on this sucker. MUST HEAR. THIS IS KILLER!!!
Then outta nowhere we got a monster, 18 minute....Ether Edge?! Ok!! Not
my favorite song, it makes up for that in spades. The song absolutely
blazes top tier bliss rock type 1 for a long damn time. Just as its
starting to get boring, around 13 minutes it breaks loose. They spend
the next 5 minutes in "burn Tokyo to the friggin ground" molten lava meltdown zone. X Factor city. Absolutely must hear, of course. This is just ridiculous.
The set ends perfectly with an excellent and tight reading of Coil.
All in all it wasnt my favorite set, but aside from Jim it was
pretty dang terrific for the most part. Birds, Sky and Ether are all
legitimate must hears.
That Birds!!! Excellent stuff 
Set 2
14 minute Bag to kick things off! Awesome. Its not a shredder, but at the same time its VERY high energy and they absolutely burn down the house with this bad boy. At
the 8 minute point Trey introduces this metallic stoccato riff. And its
off to the races diving into type 2! Gordo and Trey are both going nuts
with hardcore robo fx usage and the whole thing is just crushing in
every way. Definitely some X Factor at play!!! Eventually the robo
jamming subsides and it moves into a cool major key area that is more
textual, Trey using water fx and, awesmely, jumping on the wah for "slow
washes". Slowly the jam morphs from there into a more tensely
semi-ambient zone for a bit before awkwardly ending outta nowhere. That was incredible except for that "wtf?!" ending.
THIS IS FRIGGIN SICK AS HELL!!!!!!!!! MUST HEAR!!! THIS BAG RULES!!!
And holy mother of crap, that LAUNCH into Life Saving Gun was the
sickest, most bad ass transition/placement of all time. Like following
one huge shot of adrenaline with another!!! And oh hell yes WE ARE JAMMIN THIS SUCKER!!! Immediately, the jam begins with them diving headfirst into a SICK watery funk jam. Everyone building a funky bedrock of pure awesomeness. If your head aint banging, I dont know how to help you... Somehow
the jam slowly morphs into a VERY 1999-style psychedelic "semi ambient
flying in the sky" kind of jam. Trey doing awesome volume work, Page on
the synths. Quickly they move back out and they all sync up on a motif
from Trey, slowly building the jam skyward, obviously working towards
Peaksville. Trey begins to work in the descending main melody line of
LSG into the heavenly mix. Page follows suit and they rock it to home
base.
FREAKING AWESOME. PROPER TYPE 2 GUN!! X FACTOR MAGIC!!! MUST HEAR!!! THAT WAS SO SICK!!
And the hits keep coming!! THEY MOVE RIGHT INTO THE HOWLING AND LTS FRIGGIN GO. This
set "construction" is absolutely ON POINT tonight, holy crap. That is a
KILLER 1>2>3 punch to open the set. Of course this thing is great
as always. Maybe not the greatest of all time but it totally keeps that
energy going hard. Trey laying it down funky while Gordo kills on the
bass. I swear, is that the damn Meowdulator pedal at play? MEEEEOOOOWWWW!!! Then
Trey comes back out answering Gordo by going hard on the robo filter
for a good while. Man thing smokes. Straight up funk annihilation!!
Screw it, im calling this must hear - it is SO badass.
Oblivion follows and, unfortunately, its only 6 friggin minutes. Cmon
guys, stop devolving the song...At least what is here is excellent.
Somehow in the jam, natually, Trey "stumbles" into the Antelope lick!!
And into a very rare mid 2nd set Antelope!!! Nearly 12 minutes as well.
This sucker absolutely rips from start to finish. The main "buildup" jam
in the middle is excellent, feeling eventful and hard hitting rather
than the "generic" workout it sometimes can be. Overall, this Antelope
isnt must hear, but it continues the non stop fire of the set perfectly.
Gotta say, thank God for Sea of Stars coming next. That cooldown is
genuinely needed at this point, haha. Freaking awesome version, it melts
into this crazy kind of "psychedelic night sky" zone.
Very surprisingly, they follow it with a 16 minute Everythings Right!
The jam begins by sinking into a really, really cool "dark night time"
jam. Laid back yet rocking. Everyone is totally in sync, responding to
each other and working together excellently! Dude, this is awesome. Just sink into the groooovvveee..... Around
9 minutes, the jam shifts into an ethereal major key zone. Kinda watery
and "airy". Everyone syncing up on this one little motif, then Trey
lets it rip and sends us upwards. This jam is FANTASTIC! Listen to how SMOOTH the whole thing is!!! From
here Trey lets it rip and they spend a few minutes peak -rocking the
crap outta this sucker. The jam develops some serious weight and begins
to rock like a mothereffer. Trey just going nuts. My god this ER is BAD ASS!!!!! X Factor Magic strikes again!!!! LETS FRIGGIN GO!!! GET IT TREY!!! Then at 13 minutes the jam just EXPLODES before
they return back to the chorus and send us out. My God, that was
incredible.....talk about yer high quality set closer!!!!
From there, we get a super inspired triple encore of Taste, About to Run abd Slave!! Holy moly, move over Possum>Tweeprize!! Taste is a SMOKESHOW tonight. It is more often than not these days and this is another primo version. Pure fire. Awesome.
About to Run is next and I gotta say, that works extremely well moving
out of Taste for some reason. As with Taste, its a typically burning and
excellent reading, but not really must hear.
Excellent typical Slave closer.
All in all, I enjoyed the crap outta this show but I think night 1
is better by a wee bit. This has a 3.95 rating on .NET. Thats about how
id rate it - probably a 3.9. It really just needed one BIG jam in set 2
to send it over the edge. That being said, there was still basically
nothing but quality music throughout.
The Bag>LSG>Howling combo is incredible as is the friggin magical
Everythings Right. And massive props to that damn encore!!!
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