Leading up to showtime, everyone I met was saying, "This is the night!" We called 9 tunes before the band took the stage. All of them were played. My wife, for the first time in her life, looked at me very intensely during T. Reprise. "I have CHILLS all over my body!"
The band is continuing to break new ground. Thematic jamming has always been a part of the band, but now it's taking on a new vitality. Just when a jam starts to loose steam, someone sweeps in with a fresh idea that the band latches on to. Long Beach and SF3 contained some of the best musical communication I've ever heard in person and I feel lucky to have been there to witness it.