7 4 25 Boulder
Set 1
12 minute Gin opener tonight. Gin is pretty boring for the first two
thirds. The finale absolutely explodes but its nothing special in the
long run.
Up next is Moma. Good stuff but positively average in the most extreme way.
Following a rare Beauty of My Dreams, Theme delivers the same "good
enough but also excessively average" level of quality the rest of the
set has achieved so far ....
Rift is strong overall but again nothing special.
What in the heck is going on?? This is the most AVERAGE set of the
whole year so far. The playing is fine and the energy is basically
there, but there is nothing, at all, remotely "impressive" or
"memorable" about any of this...
Finally, the first keeper of the show is an excellent 14 minute
Oblivion. Nice and tight with excellent groove power, this one kinda
develops this unique kinda vaguely bluesy vibe about it. Around 6
minutes they shift into this stoccato kind of area. Trey sets a looper
in the background for texture. Yo, this is a sweet little jam! From
here, the jam proceeds to start to swirl into this washy kind of
vortext. Trey flirts with going major key but the rest of the band
amusingly subvert his efforts and force it to stay dark. Slowly some
robo and wah effects start to seep in, Page is washing us down with
synths and the whole thing becomes downright growly. This is
SICK!!!! Just a mushy, gooey, oozing kind of Oblivion. Into the swirling
vortex we are sucked ...COME GET YOUR HELPING OF ROBO SOUP!!! Good
god, listen to Gordon absolutely tearing it up on this sucker. Anyone
saying they cant hear him are lying - hes way up in the mix (at least in
this show), and its glorious. Man, I really cant say enough about this
Oblivion. Must hear all friggin day - this is the definition of FILTHY MCNASTY!!!!
Yo dawg, you need that Oblivion in your life, stat. Got it? Good. Now go rage it loud and heavy.
Perfectly, the song ends and they immediately launch into Timber. Right
away, Timber starts flirting with a really cool kinda dark vibe.
Terrific version, it rips as usual. Awesome feedback squeals as the song
swirls to its dark peak. Trey kicks on the Leslie giving the peak a
unique flavor. Terrific little Timber. I'd call it must hear in tandem
with Oblivion.
Up next is a super rare Guyuute!! For some reason Trey sings it an
octave up and it sounds terrible, lol. Thankfully, musically, they
friggin CRUSH it! Pig slaughter supreme! The technical parts are
NAILED and th energy is over the top. The "swirling vortex" section is
played as good as any great 1.0 reading. This version was nuts. Must hear, man. My god.
The set comes to a close with the duo of BOTT into Most Events. BOTT is
truly terrific. A genuinely EXCELLENT reading, possibly must hear
because its just that good. Good lord, this is one of the most spectacular type 1 readings ever. No. Really. Its EXCEPTIONAL!!!! MUST HEAR!!!
Most Events is typically strong but breaks the run of must hear material.
All in all, this set started ridiculously unimpressively. Skip
STRAIGHT to Oblivion and just delete everything prior. With Oblivion
they kick into high gear and the rest of the set kills.
Oblivion>Timber, Guyuute and BOTT were all must hear, imo. Fantastic
readings.
Set 2
The second 2 opens tonight with a 12 minute Simple in a rare set opening
spot. The tempo is kinda slow and sludgy on this one. Eventually the
song shifts into this cool kinda driving rock section. Trey flirting
with loops/textural backwards guitar stuff. Super cool. Suddenly some
synths come out that sound like a talk box and the jam kinda starts to
sound vaguely like a Sweet Emotion jam or something. And then the space
robots slowly creep in. Welcome to type 2. 
This
is sick as hell, like some kind of outer space sonic "wallpaper". Very
late 90s in that "slow build evolution" kind way. Freaking SICK.
Eventually Trey returns to melodic playing sans FX but Gordo and Page
are refusing to totally return from orbit. The jam is kind of in this
"late night, floating through the stars" area. Super cool when Trey
flashes on the Leslie for a bit. God, this jam is so SICK!! Just cruising through the night sky. Slowly it winds down to a close and into Mind we morph.
The tempo slowly decreases and they sliiiddde flawlessly into a 14 minute Mind! THAT FREAKIN SEGUE WAS LEGIT AS HELL. And
this version is freaking AWESOME!!! Immediately immersing itself
completely into darkness, Trey raging the porno wah, Page laying down
those foreboding synths. Then the two of them sync up on this melodic
line...this is magical. Freaking X Factor Magic. They rage
the melodic space rock until 12 minutes when it goes full ambien wash
before Fishman brings the beat back and they take this space jam to a
slow, but incredible breakdown/meltdown close. Just as you think its
over, Trey launches back into a ripping solo. Full deconstruction.
Complete abstraction....add that jam to the hall of fame for
dark/spacey/melty jams. Holy mother of awesomeness. Honestly? That was
at least on par with - if not BETTER - then the 44 minute Pittsburgh
reading. Complete focus and perfection.
And, with another perfect segue, we launch into an 18 minute Tweezer and the universe explodes.... And Tweezer....another UNREAL reading
that just spits, snarls, crushes and annihilates everything in its wake
topped off with the most ridiculous peak finale imaginable. For
my own sake, I will write an extended review of this. There is SO much
going on and its unbelievably perfect just like Mind was.... 5000/10
reading. Very "Raleigh 1999 Sand". Dark and powerful. THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST, MOST PERFECT TWEEZERS LAID UPON OUR UNWORTHY MORTAL EARS!!!
Then comes the Godzilla stomping No Quarter we were certain would come
out of Mind. Delivers just as you expect absolutely killer fantastic.
And then into a 15 minute Disease?! Are you freaking kidding me? What the heck is this set!!! And
its the most ridiculous type 1 reading of recent times, even more than
that amazing version from spring tour. This version is absolutely screaming from the friggin sky!!!! This one just SCREAMS!!!!!!!!!! Holy hell talk about capping off a set! Another must hear!!!
If you can believe it, they double whammy us into an 11 minute Ghost. And, if you can believe it, it puts that Disease to shame! Just
like the 12/28/23 Gin>Ghost, just when you think things cant get any
more nuclear, they come out and bomb you 20 times harder just because
they can. This has GOT to be the strongest, hottest, most EXTREME
"type 1 set closer" Ghost ever. Its not just blazing, its downright
solar. Add in a ridiculous wall of sound style to the whole thing and
its just a 5000 ton sledgehammer to the face. And then some.
Holy shiznit.
Hot encore of a blazing C Zero into Tweeprise.
All in all... ok, I understand the 4.5 rating on .NET now!!! From
start to finish, set 2 was pure magic. The jams were incredible, doing
anythinf but stay in the box. The heat was out of this universe. The
flow and segues impeccable. The X Factor Magic off the scale....
In years to come we will remember this 2nd set as among the finest ever unleashed for any era. Period.
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