, attached to 2023-09-01

Review by spreaditround

spreaditround SET 1:

Wolfman's Brother: Easily the best of the run so far. Sick, patient, old school funk in the intro. Good stuff and a helluva way to open this show. Woo hoo!

Sparkle: Slooooow. Old. One of the worst versions ever? Probably. Time for the shelf. >

Bathtub Gin: Trey’s voice sounds hoarse. Solid jam, good version – workmanlike. No bliss crutch!

Back on the Train: Trey blows one line of lyrics.

Halfway to the Moon: Fantastic back and forth between Page and Trey! Really nice jam.

Bouncing Around the Room: Sounded good I thought.

Stash: These days, the beginning of this jam is about as patient as we can hope for. Very well done! Great peak too! For the era, I would recommend. It has replay value *for the era*

Esther: Good version, clean. >

David Bowie: Pretty good. I have been calling for them to shelve Bowie. Still feel that way. But this was pretty good.

SET 2:

Sand: The first part of the jam is super lame. But with 8 and half minutes it gets weird and cool. Lots of reverse reverb from Trey. Sounds like a fall 99 jam! Check out the effect Page throws down at 21:20, woo hoo! I bet CK5 went wild with that. Again at 22:00 >

No Men In No Man's Land: Nice and sparse to open the jam. But it unfortunately moves on quickly to the canned bliss jam you have heard hundreds of times since 2017. ->

Llama: Like the placement.

Mountains in the Mist: Nice cool down.

Scents and Subtle Sounds: Lots of whale call in here. Did not like this one. >

Shine a Light: Nicely played, sounds great.

ENCORE:

Wilson: Standard. >

Split Open and Melt: I guess I just don’t ‘get’ this song anymore. I feel like you need to be there and be on drugs to ‘get it.

Summary: Really good first set, very fun. But the second set just doesn’t have much to hang your hat on outside of 8 and a half minutes of Sand. Would rate this as a 3.8/5.

Replay Value: Wolfman’s Brother, Stash, Sand.


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