2025-04-27 Hollywood, CA

 4 27 25 Hollywood

Set 1

Awesome Landlady opener tonight! Landlady is played perfectly. Great start! A rarely placed Cavern gets us up and rocking before Llama in slot 3. What is this, friggin 1992?!

Llama is the fist must hear of the night. Some definite X Factor for sure. This thing SMOKES!! Not only that, it kinda goes type 1.5 or so, definitely breaking out of the Llama "mold" into a crazy soaring kind of 2018-style area before coming back into Llama proper. FANTASTIC!! This deserves a Jam Chart entry - all day. Definitely "different" than most others.

Just as good, they follow with a 10 minute Sand. Borderline must hear, its nothing you havent heard before, but the heat dial is turned to 5000 and broken right off. A very "powerful" and downright GNARLY version. KILLER.

And up next is The Lizards!!! I GUESS THIS IS 1992!!! Unfortunately, Lizards, and the following Hey Stranger are good enough but also never anything above average.

Then comes a 12 minute Timber. The next must hear, it never really "peaks", but it burns excessively hot for a very long time. Absolutely worth your time - AWESOME version!

Then like a slap in the face comes Joy. Love the song and the cooldown placement is great. But this version is YUCKY!! Treys voice is completely gone and out of tune, he is completely fumbling chords and leads throughout... it's just shambolic. Ugh...

The set ends on a high note with a rocking Most Events. Killer as always, not much to say.


All in all, the creative setlist choices and the Timber, Sand and Landlady are what makes this set enjoyable. Much of it was enjoyable but sloppy or just downright janky (Joy).

Good overall but with definite highlights. Id give it like a B+ 

 

Set 2

The 2nd set opens, actually refreshingly (imo) with More. Unfortunately, its not particularly strong, really barely average (again, imo).

Not a great start! But then woah baby we get a 28 minute YEM!! Longest version since 1.0, right? Good Lord!! The composed parts sound good enough but I definitely wouldnt say tight - Trey just has this "hesitancy" tonight. Thankfully he gets over it quickly. They proceed to then deliver maybe the YEM of the effing decade so far!!

Jamming excellently, around 15 minutes they reach the vocal jam. Almost immediately they '86 that sucker (seriously, after about 30 seconds, maybe!). I dont think Fishman ever stopped drumming!! For six minutes they lay down the nastiest, most 2021 "gooey robo super funk" jam since, well 2021. Spectacular. Then at 21 minutes it shifts into actual type 2!!!! It enters this melodically ethereal kind of bliss zone. They jam the F outta this, slowly increasing the intensity and twistiness of the whole affair. Eventually it slowly gets heavier returning to more "typical " YEM jamming.

HOLY CRAP!!! X FACTOR OVERLOAD!!!! LETS FREAKING GO!!! ALL TIMER YEM ALERT!!!

They then execute one of the sickest segues EVER into a 14 minute Twist. And Twist might be even better than YEM!!! WHAT THE CRAP?! YOU GET SOME X FACTOR! YOU GET SOME X FACTOR!!! EEEVVVEEERRRYYYBBBOOOODDYYY GETS X FACTOR MAGIC!!!!!!!!!!!

MOST JAMMED YEM SINCE 2021. RIGHT HERE. MY GOD THIS IS BONKERS.

They explore EVERY nook and cranny of this sucker to the extreme. Mexico 2022 BOAF seagull drops, more intense working out, lovely melodic jamming. It has it all. It feels like a 25 minute adventure crammed into 10 minutes of jamming.

Legitimate all timer of the post 2009 era right here. All day long. No, its not Fukuoka 2000, but what is?! This is an extraordinary version right here laying waste to 90% of the others surrounding it ....inctedible....

So that unbelievable "so much is happening I cant keep up" Twist comes to a close and they launch into the most extraordinarily, unbelievably nuclear bomb KDF for the next 11 minutes. More fiendish energy than a nightclub cocaine sniffer in 1986 Miami. Around 530 it shoots for the moon and goes into an absolutely balls to the wall MENTAL jam. Full type 2, they go 2021 "spastic roboMelt synth looper up/down whammy pedal HELL" on this beast. The definition of absolutely UNHINGED. This is unfriggin real. What is even happenning. Sucked into the robovortex!!!!!

What in the love of X Factor.....

And into a rare Lifeboy as the much needed cooldown!!! Excellent reading, worth a listen. The set proper concludes with a solid 2001 into an absolutely scorching - with a capital s - SANTOS to end with our faces melted.

Continuing The x Factor overload, The encore consists of a frigging 22 damn minute Fuego!!!! What in the crapballz!!!!! Sweet banana jeezus!!! And my god someone call the Army - GODZILLA IS ON THE LOOSE!!

Fuego thrashes and snarls and spits and stomps. It basically crushes everything into oblivion with its robo synth heavy fire wackadoodle Uber strength. Absolutely must hear - maybe the HEAVIEST ever played?!?! My god.

All in all, set 1 was super mixed. Set 2 started badly with More but basically ended up being a nonstop sledgehammer of "what is going on?!" amazingness.

The whole YEM>Twist>KDF and UBERFUEGO are all beyond must hear.

Thank god the tour ended on a high note!!