@FACTSAREUSELESS said:

@Lerxst said:

An underwhelming show? You must be daft. A new arrangement of an old standard, for it's 300th, by the way. A near non-stop second set. A perfect Reba. First Tube ending to the second set, with Jedi antics by Trey. Fire played after it's longest gap ever. Everyone around me was quite quite pleased with the show they saw, and certainly no one called it underwhelming. In fact, the reviewer calls it "phenomenal." What were you reading/hearing?

My understanding (I don't go quite that far back) is that Llama (one of my top five fav. songs) originally was slow and syrupy, but that this mode was quickly shelved and revamped in favor of the more familiar and speedy version we all know. If this is the case, and I'm pretty sure it is, then this is no doubt a historic one-off, rather than a new way of playing it.

The debut is played at a slightly slower tempo for sure. Slightly. The record states that Trey was influenced my ARU and so forth. I hesitate to call what happened here a new 'arrangement.' As usual, the band, aware of everything, probably got a cool idea, checked it a few times, said yup, and opened with it. A totally cool move.

Man. I'm not bashing the idea, the performance, or even the show. Given the band's stated penchant for the venue, some of the music I've caught there, and what's gone down so far, I simply thought the first set was off. I don't have a watch out or anything. But the Dust was short, the Tube was short in real time. (And the latter felt like it really could take off). If that makes me daft, well so be it. I am curious, however, regarding set list construction; and I think it's fair to question what happened here. Just seems like a much more Page-oriented/driven set. Especially when contrasted with MPP I.