SET 1:

I Never Needed You Like This Before: Good opener, well jammed. Ending a little sloppy?

Turtle in the Clouds: Standard.

Llama: Nice banter before this kicks off, Trey seemingly in a good mood. This is ripped. Trey employs that ’99 reverse reverb/backwards effect perfectly. Well done sir! I will say something audibly seems off with Fishman during this version.

Clear Your Mind: Seems they are really enjoying themselves. Sign of good things to come? >

Sample in a Jar: Standard.

Taste: Body of work is fine, ending is sloppy (Trey).

Ocelot: Nicely jammed. Trey rips it up at the end.

Julius: Broadway Trey to the max. Embarrassing. Jam is fine, nice trills. Sloppy ending.

Saw It Again: Standard. This tune has always had so much unrealized potential outside of 12.12.97, so strange to me. >

Sparkle: Standard.

Ass Handed: Standard.

Sand: Gets a bit whale call ‘ish around the 6 minute mark. Big peak at 9:35.

SET 2:

Everything's Right: Trey playing nice clean, leads through about the early part of the nine minute range. He lets it breathe momentarily, Page striking some beautiful stuff on the baby grand. Trey jumps back in is building some tension, very nice. From here, they employ some effects that are spacey. The next 7 minutes or so are heavily influenced by effects, pretty gnarly in here. The echoing effects that start around the 10 minute mark are especially psychedelic. At 16:05, Trey drags the band out of these murky depths and is headed for a major mode jam. It stays in this vein for the remainder of the jam. Check out the Slave type jam that *I believe* starts at 18:48, really sweet – this goes through 22:01! This is an all timer jam! The re-entry into the vocals was slightly jarring but who cares after all of that! >

Soul Planet: The jam kicks off at a breakneck pace with Trey “Screaming through space”. Things start to get nice and weird at 6:14, love this sound right here – absolutely love it. Wish they would have stayed in this space longer. At about 7:14 it drifts into an ambient space, ethereal. Beautiful. By 8:22 they are moving out of this. It’s still mellow but Mike is urging the band to pick up the pace. 10:25 – a very pretty note sustained by Trey and then it seems to be game on from here – the pace is definitely ratcheting up. Another long, held note from Trey from 11:42 to 11:59 – it’s fantastic. From 12:35 and for the next minute and a half there is a neat little jam going on with Trey and that high pitched guitar effect out front – this allows them to sneak through the backdoor into… ->

Twist: Completely standard. Surprising, after the last two sweet jams I would have thought they would have pushed this to the max. Wonder who in the band was not feeling this one? >

Most Events Aren't Planned: Standard, played close to the vest. Seemed like this would have been a great opportunity to take this for a ride?

Monsters: Decent enough song, would think this has some potential.

Also Sprach Zarathustra: Does what it usually does, no more, no less. >

Rock and Roll: Standard face melter.

ENCORE:

Grind: Standard.

Tube: Interesting how Tube in the E slot is almost exclusively a 3.0 thing. Only once did that happen in 1.0 (6.26.94) and 9 times in 3.0. This is a standard version. >

Ghost: I don’t understand this in the encore slot at less than 8 minutes. You just burned this tune for the next however many shows so you could play it for 7 + minutes? Why? Frustrating.

Summary: First set is solid, nothing to really write home about but that’s fine. Everything’s Right is flat out very special. Soul Planet, while not that long, goes many places and all of them engaging. So, what happened after that? This had the makings of a set two for the ages, it was set up to be just that. But for whatever reason, they just didn’t want to go there? It’s really too bad. I would rate this show as a 3.8 out of 5.

Replay Value: Everything’s Right, Soul Planet.