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Set 1
Uber fresh start with a Martian Monster into 2001 opener! MM is super,
super thick and groovy. Tray never solos that much or goes bananas in
this one but the whole thing is just this grimy and gritty swamp murk.
Not essential, but excellent.
The same can be said about the following version of 2001. Definitely
some extra and groove to this one, it totally delivers but again it ends
up being nothing particularly must hear.
The first true must your piece of the night is an amazing 13 minute
Mikes Song. This might be the strongest type 1 reading in years,
seriously. Where in the hell did this come from?! This thing positively
snarls and spits and snaps and bites like a pitbull on crack.
Ridiculously powerful this one just steam rolls you into oblivion. Holy freaking moly......MUST HEAR!
Unfortunately the good times come to a brief end and they, astonishingly
and very awkwardly, move into and not particularly great and
horrendously placed version of Velvet Sea. Instant skip. Wtf yo....
They rectify matters by jumping straight into a 9 minute Weekapagug. It's average strong and does the trick but nothing special.
Versions of Sand and Evolve follow. Again, both are average excellent
but neither standout. Strong on their own but nothing you need to run to
hear.
The set concludes with a decently inspired pairing of MyFe into No Men.
MyFe is pretty cool tonight. It never goes full-blown dark meltdown type
2 like we expect, instead staying in this pretty cool kind of dark and
melodic zone where Trey and Pagee patiently play back and forth with
each other for a good while. It's actually really cool but unfortunately
the jam feels like it's missing a conclusion point and awkwardly goes
into No Men. No Men thankfully delivers the goods and ends the set on a
very high. An absolute Barn burning rendition as usual, this one seems
to go on forever and ever in the best way with terrific explosive
peeking. Must hear.
All in all, this wasnt a particularly amazing set. Nothing wrong
with it, the energy is there, the playing tight, etc But theres very
little to get particularly excited about either. ,
It also felt like Trey was under delivering or something like that. When
he did decide to show up he was absolutely ripping it up like crazy,
but it really felt like he was laying back way too much for a lot of the
set. Weird. And wtf was with that Velvet Sea
Basically its on the strong side of a average. Perfectly fine and
im sure great in the moment, but nothing more. All that being said, the
Mikes Song is absolutely essential - some x factor on that! And the
MyFe>No Men is a big keeper as well.
I don't know I just didn't drive with the set for some reason it's
actually kind of annoying, because it was definitely not anything
approaching poor.
Set 2
Oh sick, an 18 minute Oblivion! Please go dark, I beg. Bring the wormhole, please! Spending
too long an upbeat Bliss Rock mode, finally around the 11 minute market
starts to shift to a much darker and moody or sound. Kind of meandering
around nicely, until around 15 minutes we finally take Oblivion into
outer space!!! We spend an absolutely glorious minute or two in the
frigging wormhole before working our way back out. Man what a tease!
This was a killer jam and definitely must hear but man what could have
been if they kept!!
And boy do they keep it going, onward with a freaking 25 minute Disease! And holy moly mother of sickness, they give up the ENTIRE enchilada with this!!!!
Whens theast time we had a full blown type 2 multisectional, outer space
galaxy orbit Disease?!? Dick's 2017?? Now THIS is what every long ass
version of the song needs to aspire to. The initial jam spends a decent
amount of time flittering back and forth between dark and light type 1.
Eventually it starts to go askew. Hell yes this is it!!! Let's go!!!
Trey slowly starts layering loopers one by one by one as the minutes to
by. The gym develops into this noisy and hazy kind of fireball wall of
sound. Absolutely rocking and blazing but also this Sonic kind of force like the production on End of the Century by The Ramones. This
lasts a long time it's absolutely incredible. Just layering loop after
loop after loop!! Eventually the loop fest starts to die down and then
all of a sudden they pull the rug out from under us and we DROP into full-blown outer space lunar orbit ambience. I'm talking Fukuoka 2000 ambience. For 5 gloriously interstellar minutes. Oh my sweet glorious Neil Armstrong!!! This
is five of the most out there minutes of modern fish and not saying a
lot considering we have such masterpieces as the Manchester Twist in
recent memory to compare to. Eventually it dies its death into
nothingness, and out of the ashes rises a 12 minute Light absolutely perfectly!!
Light out of darkness!!!!!
WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT DISEASE?!?!? OKAY NOW THERE'S ANOTHER GAME OF THE
YEAR CONTENDER FOR SURE. HOLY MOLY WHAT IN THE LOVE OF GUARDIANS OF THE
GALAXY WAS THAT. PLEASE DO MORE OF THAT I BEG!!!!
Light is another must hear. 12 minutes of A+ type 1. This Light is
exceptionally powerful and heavy with a ridiculous final minute of
extreme "WOOOOAAAAHHHH" vocalization from Trey. Very funny. Think of this as the equivalent to the Mikes in set one. An absolutely killer must hear version!!!
Even stronger is the following 13 minute Life Saving Gun! You know the Piper I raved about from Forest hills? Apply that to this LSG. An
absolute monstrosity, crushing everything, at warp speed and with more
energy than a nuclear power plant. Holy moly. Even better it goes type 2
in the end for a couple glorious minutes. Absolutely must hear!!!
Insane reading!!!
Finally we get a much needed respite with a very very nice Waste, before
a nearly flawless version of Fluffhead brings the set to a close in the
most majestic and celebratory manner. Another a+ reading for 2025.
Maybe not must here but hot damn is it as fantastic as any other played
this year!!!!
Hot encore of Golgi into a typically nuclear Rock and Roll. Heck yes.
All in all, this was ANOTHER very strong show! Honestly, my
nitpicks would set one are probably just in my dumb head, and the second
set is, again, ANOTHER 2025 monster!! Oblivion straight through LSG is
just one SLAMMER after another!!!
Add that Disease to the all timer list. Thats gotta be "top 10 of
3.0/4.0" worthy. You better make sure you have your spacesuit handy
before you listen to this one. And don't forget the Oblivion just prior -
it's way better than I could describe. Never mind the heavy and crushing versions of Light and LSG...
I'd probably rate this show a solid 4.3 ish, maybe. Set one would get
like a b+, set two would be close to an a+. So balances out.
ON TO THE TWEEZER FEST WE GO 
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