Working on a Saturday today so we get a weekend listen in. Super stoked
to hear this show considering I've already heard the second set having
had an amazing bedroom guitar jam to it, lmao
9 13 25 Birmingham
Set 1
The show opens with a lengthy Back On the Train. Energetic yet relaxed.
Its your standard, excellent type 1 BOTT opener. Great stuff. The
aforementioned relaxation quickly disappears however and the song just
takes right the F off!! Hose city on this sucker, they rip it to shreds.
HIGH ENERGY!! Killer little version!
Letting us know this is going to be one of THOSE night, they proceed to then launch straight into a 16 minute Cities in slot 2. Hell freaking yes, dawg. A
short round of initial funking is quickly elevated when Cactus takes
the lead with a super sick and filthy bass effect. Things get nasty!! Out come some robo fx and synths etc. The funky psychedelia is here. Strap in tight, boys and girls. Total X Factor dripping from every pore of this performance (shame the mix sucks!) Trey
finally starts leading again with some cool stocatto melodic jamming.
Fishman is just exploding, Mr. Fills on the kit back here. THIS JAM IS SICK! LETS GO!! Its like a massive, funky, cloud of awesome. Finally at the 10 minute mark they naturally shift into a slow build upbeat melodic jam. Fishman is pounding those
effin drums, holy hell. Someone want to accuse him of overplaying, this
would be a jam to point to, haha (I love his playing but I'm just
saying 
). Thankfully just as quickly at the 11 minute mark the jam shifts on a
dime back into pure darkness!!! Unfortunately its not to be, and its
back to the light. They are riding that line, unsure which way to go
until Page and Trey sync up and its off to the races. It kinda peaks but
not really, slowly dissolving beautifully into a really beautiful and
low-key chill out outro. Complete with 1999 style hitch shifting from
Trey. We are floating among the cosmos tonight!!!! And with that, this
epic jam reaches its conclusionComplete and total connection
between the guys. Add this to the best jams of the year list!!! Wow!!!
THIS KILLED!!! FREAKING GRAB THIS!!!!
Oh so perfectly out of Cities they segue, legitimately, into Sample!!! Damn that segue worked better than I ever could have imagined what the hell. Its
just Sample, but it just blazes to hell tonight. It almost feels like
the coda/finale to the Cities that came before - the explosive peak
finale, if you will. I'm definitely calling this must hear in tandem
with Cities. Hot damn!
Our first "breather" comes with a nicely placed Theme. Super powerful, awesome peaking. Holy freaking smokes! THIS CRUSHED!! LAVA IN MY EARHOLES!!! Trey
holds one note for about a minute and the whole is basically nuclear.
Must hear. Type 1, to the nth effin degree. You know, the usual. 
After The Old Home Place its time for a damn 23 minute Gin.....ok! 
The
initial jamming sees Trey slyly introducing loops for a VERY cool
effect of the type 1 playing with other stuff happenning beneath. Around
7 minutes the wah comes out and the jam starts to get rather ferocious
and intense. We are ROCKING, ya dig? Very driving, if you will. Trey
sounds lost for a minute before coming back in. Finally he comes back in
and around the 11 minute Mark the jam enters an incredibly cool and
trance like kind of psychedelic soundscape zone. Dude this is so freaking sick. For a couple minutes they ride this wave until around the 14 minute mark the jam dissolves and comes to a natural close. But wait, there's more!! A WHOLE LOT MORE!!!!! As
the jam is dying Trey makes the glorious decision to egg everybody back
on and we go into a very quiet and delicate kind of "floating slowly up
into the stars" jam. For about 5 minutes we explore this outer space
ambience. Second by second the intensity increases but it happens so
ridiculously slowly that you don't even realize it until it hits you
later on and you go "wait a second how did we get here". Oh my freaking God this jam is incredible. FINALLY A TYPE 2 GIN!!!! Around
the 17 minute Mark the jam begins to gain a heavy amount of power and
they spend the next five or six minutes in a ridiculous slow burn peak
section of epic sonic noise destruction proportions. It's a
ridiculous and magical psychedelic wash of noise and sound from the
heavens like I haven't heard in.... Maybe ever. Add this to the Mount
Rushmore of Gin's please. It absolutely deserves it. I don't think it's a
jam of the year but if somebody said they thought it was a top five? I
would not argue. This was like the Forest Hills Carini refined and
executed in the most amazingly perfect way.
MUST HEAR AT ALL COSTS. IF YOU HAVE TO PICK BETWEEN LETTING YOUR
CHILD DROWN IN THE RIVER OR HEARING THIS? WELL THAT KID IS GOING TO
DROWN I'M SORRY TO TELL YOU!!!
If that doesn't have your jaw hanging on the ground.....
And if all of that wasn't enough, the X Factor continues its rampage of
utter destruction and we close the set with a 15 minute Runaway Jim.
This gym is basically the equivalent of the Gin preceeding it. On steroids. If you ever wanted to know what a category 5 hurricane mixed with an F5 tornado sounded like, proceed directly here. No this isn't just a raging type 1 reading, I don't know how to explain what this is. It
kind of goes into that weird type 1.5 zone, slowly building from there
around the 7 or 8 minute mark. Would you call this a peaky shred fest?
It's so much more than that. It's like the heavens opened up and
40,000 fire hoses rain down on us full blast. A swirling Titanic
histrionic mass of utter nuclear annihilation. What in the love of
Satan.
My jaw was, again, hanging open with this.....
All in all, I am at a complete loss of words to properly express my
thoughts of this set. This was an all-timer first set along the likes of
SPAC3 set 1. The Cities>Sample, Theme, Gin and Jim are all must hear
readings, but the Cities, Gin and Jim are legitimate all timers.
Please find me the most recent versions of Jim and Gin that approach
what these two achieve. They were channeling something tonight, be it x
Factor magic or something from the Lord above. I am in shock.
Set 2
Continuing the show it looks like we have a monstrous set ahead of us.
You know what's up when it opens with a 21 minute Sigma Oasis.
Sigma is killer. It stays upbeat and blissful throughout, but it's
ridiculously powerful from start to finish. The gym is absolutely
soaring in the strongest way, with a really cool part where they all
link up on this interesting sound (mode/key/whatever) and peak that
sucker to oblivion. There's no strangers about this jam just epic
awesomeness on all fronts definitely full of x Factor.
Keeping the fire going we move straight on into a burning 15 minute
Disease. The song itself rages and is absolutely killer. The first
section of the jam sees it dying down into a very nice and quiet kind of
night sky bliss jam. This goes until about the 10-minute mark when
things begin to change. Suddenly it shifts into a nasty, snarling, dark
wah jam of the No Quarter variety. Just heavy and brooding. Hell yes.
Lots of teasing. And then it develops this SICK descrnding motif. Trey
introduces it, then Page latches on. Trey then rips over it. This thing is friggin BEASTLY!!!! Powerful as F!!!! HOLY MOLY THIS IS SICK!!!!! I cant with this band...my god. Trey just keeps going, spitting robo wah fire from hell over this slow doom march of a jam. Woe to ye who enter thine portal of Hades.
Dude, what in the f was that monstrosity!!! It was only 15 minutes but felt like a 30 minute crusher. Holy crap.
And out of Disease with one of the greatest set list calls of all time straight into a ripping 18 minute Life Saving Gun. When you've just melted the universe what do you follow that up with? Why more lava of course! And melt the universe they do... It's
hard to accurately describe this jam. So much going on from start to
finish. It's like one giant massive ridiculous Sonic noise destruction
robot vortex beehive gateway into robot o.blivion. Just a swirling mess
of loops and robo-d construction and synthesizers etc etc etc. O.ne
of the finest psych jams of a year loaded with them. X Factor to the
9th degree on this one. Probably the goat version at this point, really.
This version is effing mind blowing.
Even better, it winds down in morphs into Pillow Jets. GOAT type 1
reading right here. . End of story. This one is extraordinarily
ridiculous in terms of the fire the heat and the interconnectedness
between the players. This version will melt your universe and do it
again and again and again and again. Just nuclear fire on top of nuclear
fire. Pillow Jets is always hot, but this one is just 12 steps above.
Christ....
Perfectly, they follow it up with Mountains In the Mist. Another
spectacular reading this one really evokes imagery of The Dead. Go
listen to this and don't tell me it doesn't sound straight out of a 70s
Dead show. Terrific. Beautiful.
And then comes Blaze On to bring us back to Earth.... Of course it
absolutely annihilates. Not much to say but it's pretty much the hottest
type one version ever played, know that.
The set proper ends with a 10-in minute Ghost. The final must hear of
the show, it follows suit with the rest of the set as far as being
absolute liquid lava in your ears, what about halfway through something
strange happens - it deviates and begins to ascend into the
stratosphere! Of course not to that extent but it's comparable sonically
to, say, the Camden 99 Chalkdust. Not that extreme but that's the
closest thing I can think of as far as that vibe. It's absolutely
incredible. Seriously this is as must here as it gets. All hail
our Lord and savior x Factor magic for he reigns supreme over our
universe. Where in the love of sweet baby Jesus did all of this energy
come from tonight.....This Ghost is just.... Jaw on the floor going "wtf
was that?!", ok?
Molten encore of Shine a Light and SANTOS. Sick.
All in all, this show currently has a 4.3 rating over on .NET. it
10,000% deserves that and even more. I would honestly seriously call
this probably a 4.5 level show. It's absolutely superb. I cannot throw
enough praise on it as you can probably already tell....
An all-time classic show for any era, it's easily as strong as SPAC3 or
stronger even, imo. If this show isn't held aloft by the masses as a
classic in years to come then it will be a major crime to humanity.
Sigma Oasis (!), Disease(!!!)>LSG(!!!!!!!!!)>Pillow
Jets(!!!!¡!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), Ghost
(!!!¡!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Dude....
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