Nine times out of ten, if I tell you "the Antelope is the jam to listen to", you're probably going to assume (and probably rightly so) that the show is not worth your time. This is the tenth time. The Antelope here builds quite nicely from the start in the 3.0 Antelope tradition (the middle ground between early-90s flamethrowing and late-90s chillness), then with no warning neatly slides into an short-but-sweet Type II jam, Trey climbing the ladder with an ascending guitar line, before just as neatly sliding back into ye olde Antelope jam as though nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Without the excursion into something different it would've been a nice way to end the set; with the excursion, it enters 3.0's shortlist of most memorable Antelopes.

The rest of the show is reasonably good, certainly good for a tour opener; I imagine that most people will consider the first set to be the better of the two, and I think I'd agree with them, as it boasts strong versions of Stash, Theme (!), Wolfman's, and a neat segue from Mike's Song into Silent in the Morning (the entire Groove is not too shabby, either). The second set, for its many pleasures (the really mellow Page showcase in Golden Age, R&R melting away into an ambient jam), feels a bit like a missed opportunity more than anything else. Don't get me wrong, I listened to the show and I enjoyed it, especially in the aforementioned peaks, but the bar's been raised pretty high for 3.0, wouldn't you say? This show might have dropped jaws in 2009; in 2013 it's mixtape material. Nothing wrong with that. It's early days, after all, and if the worst that can be said about a show like this is that you'll want to hang on to not-insignificant chunks of it, that probably augurs well for the rest of the summer.

Hot damn, that Antelope was special, though.