Absolute barn burner of a show! Wolfman, like Buried Alive the night before, is such a classic show opener. I must admit I was wearing my Llama shirt so I was pretty stoked to hear a nice FAST Llama in the 2 hole, even if Trey flubbed the opening bit at first. The Martian Monster was funky af, Trey had a lot of fun with the crowd during that long pause in the middle of a beautiful Divided Sky, and the Axilla was fun and rockin! I've always thought that Taste is way underrated and they gave us a good one to end the first set.

But the 2nd set is really where it REALLY took off. The Carini/Light sandwich was over 30 minutes long and melted my face clean off; everyone was screaming when they went back into Carini!!! It was one of those evil Phish jams where they get so far away from the song during the jam, almost to the point of leaving the audience confused, and somehow bring it back without any pointless noodling in a way only these four can. This gave way to Sand, which they once again used as an extended jam vehicle that got weird but funky. This was my first Lizards and they rocked it the fuck out, and the YEM to end the set had it all: Trampolines, the vocal jam, and more importantly, they came out of the vocal jam with more instrumental jamming that brought down the house. I don't care what anyone says, that YEM holds its own against any 1.0 YEM, and I confirmed that listening to the soundboard recording a week after the show, so don't tell me it's attendance bias!

Finally, the closing Encore was, I believe, the 2nd longest Meatstick ever played. Boy did it get funky and jammy, all 12,000 of us were dancing our asses off like we weren't tired from 2 straight nights of dancing. Definitely their best show of September, and that 2nd set may be the best set from 2025. Killer show, blew the first night out of the water.