Thanks for recap Suzy! Appreciate your take on the show. Loved you attention to some key details, especially some of the thoughts that I shared when listening.

Disclaimer: I have lived in Birmingham for the last four years and my wife and I would have been at this show had it been held last year. This year, sadly, we had a planned road trip to CT so that our 15 month old could meet his family for the first time (COVID!!!!) and last night I was in the early stages of an 18 hour road trip with wife, son and 4 dogs, back to Birmingham so had to settle for webcast. Luckily 18 hours affords you lots of opportunities to relisten to that Carini. Anyhoo…

MOMA was one of two obvious openers for show (at least to this Phan who had an extra year to think about an opener and then, ultimately miss my hometown show…lol!) owing to the fact that the show was held at the OMA (oak mountain amphitheater). The other being cities (Trey’s liberties in adjusting David Byrne’s lyrics to “a lot of bridges in Birmingham).

Notes on the Carini. First off, the pace of the beginning seemed different, quicker and lyrics in a different cadence. Didn’t feel flubbed so much as intentional and I thought it was super cool. Paige was full on with new effects during those tension build ups between verses. Could have been the fact that I was six hours into that 18 hour haul. Would love to heard others takes.

Spacey effects carried throughout the first major key jaunt with the lead passing from Paige to Trey. Such eerily similar sounds coming from their respective instrument…nay weapon. I had this blast off into outer space feel throughout that section. Saw the torch passed to Mike to take the helm for a bit with a wicked Bass lead that was just plain sexy. Then we get to that Allman Brothers section, gotta respin to provide specific song, but was on the tip of my tongue. Thought I heard some Dead influences peak through as well ( a boy can dream).

Mahalo Nui,
Matthew