1/26/18 #thecrb Live Review, Set One: New Cannonball Rag opener, after a (very) brief noise jam.
Great solos traded by Neal and Adam here in this extended take on Cannonball Rag. Love when they open with this tune.
Spacey fadeout now. Adam punching the organ.
> Tomorrow Blues.
Longer than usual jam in Tomorrow's Blues. Great interplay between Neal and Adam.
Fantastic almost-twenty-minute sequence of jammed songs to open the show.
Keeping the jam going with Vibration and Light Suite!
I love when this
song drops into the dark funk jam section. On par with some of
my
favorite dynamic moments in Phish compositions.
Adam absolutely killing it early on in this Vibration jam.
Huge building momentum now in what is usually a much more mellow jam.
Mega-peak that drops into a clean-toned Neal solo. Great transition there.
More abstract, tension-y space now. Tony's drumming is great here.
Great ending to
the jam > Venus in Chrome. If there's a better first quarter to a CRB
show out there somewhere, I'd love to hear it.
Bit of a pause after Venus.
Chauffeur's Daughter next. I'm looking forward to the new album just for this song and Venus in Chrome.
I love how naturally the jam comes out of this song. Building a bunch of energy again.
Jam fades out naturally. > High Is Not the Top.
Some serious honky-tonking going on here. Have I mentioned already that this is a great set?
It's about to get even better. Adam piano intro -> Tulsa Yesterday.
Great take on Tulsa: as usual these days, it's a 15+ minute Neal showcase.
Awesome, extra-jazzy ending to the tune. A brief pause before they drop into Rosalee.
End pretty much a
perfect set one. The only way that would have been better
was with a
Rosalee -> MCR -> Rosalee sandwich at the end.
Set two starts out with the midtempo jam Dream Baby.
I have to admit this isn't my favorite CRB cover, especially to open a set, but
Adam is killing this version.
Roan County Banjo picks up the tempo a bit, next.
100 Days of Rain
is next. This is one of my favorite CRB songs, and this show was the
first (and so far only) time that I've caught it live. It was a pretty
great moment in an overall excellent show.
Neal's tone during the outro solo on 100 Days always sounds a little like Trey's Languedoc to me.
Some excellent dual-guitar jamming between Neal and CR here.
I'm a Hog For You is next.
Killer Adam/Neal interplay here between the verses.
And we kick off the fourth quarter (brought to you by Barefoot In the Head, as usual) with Hark the Herald Hermit Speaks.
Extra hard rock-out at the end this time through. Next song is a slow-tempo take on Behold the Seer.
The slow tempo makes this mid-song funk interlude even spacier than usual.
Finally slowing things down a bit (90% of the way through the show) with If You Had a Heart to Break.
GOOD TO KNOW
Nice long, jammy intro.
Have I mentioned how much I FUCKING LOVE the extended outro jam on this song? Well, HERE IT COMES
Key change at the end of the jam to drop nicely into Narcissus.
End a great second set.
This is a monster show by CRB standards. Three hours of music!
The icing on the cake is the Mr. Charlie encore. Woo!
Seriously, I
didn't remember this show being so good. Setlist-wise, it's probably the
best show of theirs that I've been to. Tons of great jams in the first
set (five of the eight songs are 10+ minutes).
Second set falls a
little bit into the late '17-early '18 trap of being really
Barefoot-heavy, but if you're going to cram a set with new tunes, Hark,
Behold the Seer, and If You Had a Heart followed by Good To Know
featuring a monster jam is not a bad way to go.
All in all, a top-shelf show here, in competition with Redding '17 and Portland '16 for my favorite.
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