SET 1:

Ghost: Heavy synth, and a great loops to get this one started. Absolutely love that! Super cool and even keeled build for minutes on end and then they let it peak in the most subtle way at 12:30. It’s just so sick. The crowd responds in kind. More low key greatness at 12:46. Shift towards that crunchy summer 97 sound in the late 13’s – this is fairly brief though. Hard driving and rocking throughout the 14’s. Trey steps down at 15:30 and hands the keys over to Page and Fish. >

Wilson: Standard, but the place was already bursting at the seams ready to get rowdy on a Friday night and this did the trick. >

Funky Bitch: Pages solo is outstanding. Really good version all around, spirited for sure. >

Black-Eyed Katy: Red hot, Trey gives a good work out.

Sparkle: Great energy actually. Crowd is into it. >

Runaway Jim: Pretty solid jam here. Goes along as you might expect. The last couple of minutes have a sort of grungy, Hendrix feel to it. It was enjoyable in person those many years ago and still today. Decent segue into MFMF. ->

My Friend, My Friend: Standard.

Ginseng Sullivan: Standard.

Limb By Limb: Incredible guitar work from Trey. So beautiful. He is at the tippy top of his game here. >

Character Zero: Wank city.

SET 2:

Stash: Kind of an all over the place type of version. First peak is sort of harried and flaccid. There is a second peak that sort of sneaks in through the backdoor. A very understated version.

Bouncing Around the Room: Ouch. Terrible, terrible placement.

Julius: Bizarre placement. At this point I was definitely getting antsy at the show. But things were about to get really weird in the best way. In the late 7’s they start breaking away from the normal structure of Julius. Well sort of I guess. It’s still bluesy in nature and you can kind of still hear the theme so not really Type II. By the 9 minute mark though it does go Type II thanks to Trey, but this is only momentarily -very brief and then Trey brings it back around basically to what you would consider the hard rocking ending part of Julius. At the ten minute mark you can tell they are a ship without a rudder, not sure where to take this. Page is leaning hard on his organ. At 10:35 Trey comes back in heavily with that traditional Julius shredding. 12:30 Don’t take another step lyrics but basically whispered and then back into a quieter jam, Mike stomps his bell. Back into Type II and the funk. In the late 14’s they are taking this down low, getting quiet again. This is very interesting, sounds very cool. Page trying to funk it up, but the rest really aren’t going for it. By 16:40 you can tell Trey is angling for Slave. So, that Julius was interesting if nothing else. Definitely goes type II. Would recommend for the uniqueness of it and the willingness to take some risks. >

Slave to the Traffic Light: The two metal builds in the composed section are a little bit more evil, slow, and heavy than typical. Cool. I this point in my fandom I was head over heels with Slave from ALO. Had always loved when – in that version – that dude yells YEAH in the quiet section that happens right after the composed section ends. Thought I would try this at this show. We were way, way up in the rafters. But in the aud on the Relisten app at 4:01 you can hear my yell. It’s faint because it’s so far away from the tapers but it’s there. Getting goosebumps now listening and thinking about this moment and my buddy that was next to me that night that I still am close with all these years later. Good stuff. As a result of this yell, I lost my voice - quite literally - basically couldn't talk on Saturday and Sunday - attended both of those too. At 7:50 you can tell Trey has something up his sleeve. He takes it into a little heavier, edgier territory than what you would expect from a typical Slave, but it’s still within the confines of the normal jam. Crazy awesome trilling at 10:15. Ten seconds after that though is when this goes Type II. Heavy metal raging! By the 15 minute mark, things are just super weird and extremely intense. White knuckle stuff if you were in the right headspace like we were. Wowzers. An easy all timer and the most unique version every played. The segue into Lizards is out of nowhere. >

The Lizards: Perhaps not the most cohesive version you will ever hear but it’s good enough.

Loving Cup: Has some extra mustard. >

Chalk Dust Torture: Pretty normal version.

ENCORE:

Bold As Love: Awesome. Love this tune so much in this slot.

Summary: Really weird show and on the lower part of the fall 97 totem pole. Attended and had a lot of fun but even in the moment we knew it was up to snuff versus most of what had come before it on this tour. There are two very unique jams in this show and some nice bookends, but it doesn’t have that wow factor and the setlist construction is out there. That’s ok. We were about to get a bomb dropped on us the following night. I would rate this as a 4/5. Current rating on .net is 4.17/5 (182 ratings).

Replay Value: Ghost, Runaway Jim, Limb By Limb, Julius, Slave to the Traffic Light