@MikeHamad said: during the second set last night (after Carini) all the jams went right for that I-IV alternation (piano especially).

glad someone pointed this out. the I-IV plateau/stuck-point seems so beneath our boys yet they still get stuck in that for nights at a time. it's what distinguishes a show from a quick flick through of highlights and fast-forwards to minute 7 of anything in hopes of new territory but coming up empty handed (i.e. I-IV plateau shows) versus something i'll listen to again and again combing through for every morsel of delicious dissonance and syncopation, amazed every time (i.e. nights that avoid I-IV, I-V, etc. played out rock/adolescent changes).

Maybe they're getting something out of it that i'm not hearing, maybe it's the lights, maybe it's the crowd. Who knows?

To me it just sounds like they've become good enough/know what to play for a basic steady-state reaction, that even when they phone it in it's still 'pretty good.' It's pretty 'dad' of them, and there aint nothin' wrong with that. You feel lazy after mowing the lawn, you play a I-IV'er after traveling for a few months.

fishman/gordon play at the transition from "Legalize It" to "Weekapaug" is one of my favorite moments from the tour for its uniqueness and how locked in while gappy it was.