, attached to 2023-10-06

Review by lofus99

lofus99 Friday night. Shrooms night. Seems to be a pattern this year! Like 7/28 at MSG and Friday at Dick's, this is indeed a perfect psychedelic 2nd set! No filler. Being a musician who also improvises with the boys regularly and who also enjoys playing on shrooms, as it elevates your communication in the music realm, I am pretty sure this was a shrooms night for the band. You can play just fine on shrooms if you get the dose right. Mike made it very clear that he likes to shroom and play (look at his notes from the LivePhish release form Portland Meadows 1998!) and no doubt others in the band have as well....but sometimes it hits you a little harder upfront than you would like....and you are just hanging on, musically speaking, till the end of the first set, so you can take a breather and get your bearings for a transcendental 2nd set. This is exactly what Page looked like to me after bumbling through the Destiny vocals as they somehow made their way through A very out of character Character! Wolfman's was gold but don't miss the Axilla jam! That was dark and broody. As was mentioned by a review from Dick's Trey just lost his friend James Casey at the end of summer and this show has many elements of him and the boys thinking about his death. Hear what trey says before diving into the Axilla jam and look at 2nd set songs. Oblivion being the obvious one.....

2nd set was absolute psychedelic perfection from top to bottom. No filler. The Jiboo>Oblivion was just sick! Finally Oblivion gets taken for a serious ride. Absolutely love this song now! They did a beauty in the summer, but most of you missed it, because it was part of that aborted rain show from NC (who has an outdoor stage on east coast without a roof over the stage?) This one clocks in at over 20 minutes and with an impressive 10 minute Jiboo....we are halfway through the set!!! Epic stuff folks. Then Torn and Frayed!! Just as long as the guitar plays!! Awesome bust out!! Well played and one of my fav Stones songs they play. Light was also stellar and just dripping into an equally amazing Fuego with dark psychedelic jamming for the end jam. Killer stuff! Time to rock out and SANTOS is as good as anything. Note the lyrics are about space and our mortality so fits with the shrooms and Casey tribute night!.......
But if there was any question about the band having a shrooms night, look no further than this encore!! Over 20 minutes of deep delish with the surprising 46 days>Antelope!! Both just dripping with psychedelia! Brilliant stuff boys! Contrary to the other review I saw, this is worth many listens!!! Especially for any psychedelic listening parties you may have! This 2nd set will hold up against any legendary psychedelic piece of music. Electric ladyland levels here folks for sure. And I am very fussy about what I listen to when tripping. My musicians ear will not accept just average music when under those conditions. If you don't like this set because of the song selections, then you are missing the whole point. No Rules. It's about the playing, not the song selection.


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