This was show # 65 for me, and the first one with my girlfriend First set was a good time, very standard except the Cars Trucks Buses opener had a little extra mustard on it. Divided Sky was really good too, definitely dug the lighters in the air during the pause. Also of note, I think that was the only Ginseng I've seen out of my 25 shows I've caught so far this year. So that's kind of cool. Other than that, just an average-great first set. The 2nd set on the other hand is the clear winner in this show.

The boys came back on and Mike started toying with his underwater effect which can only mean one thing: Down With Disease. Also of note was the Pop Goes the Weasel tease during the intro. That was a lot of fun and I enjoyed singing the tease out loud to my girlfriend. Very clean rendition of the song itself, and the jam starts out with Trey playing a somewhat melodic run of notes from the 5:40 mark to the 6:25 mark when Fish kicks things up a minute just before giving back into the current beat they all had going. Trey picked up on Fish's extra fills and really starts playing some nice runs of notes after that. Just after 7 minute mark we hit our first mini-peak of the jam, and around 7:30, Trey is changing his notes by alot with lovely piano work accompanying him along with Fish's driving beat. Just over 8 minutes in and things look like they're starting to cook up, the band is starting to gel together and become one. A little bit of a fumble at the 8:35 to 8:40 mark but the boys recover the fumble and do a good job keeping it after that. Minute 9 brings along just a hint of darkness. And seriously Fishman is on fire for this jam, Page starts layering the jam on his piano very nicely. Mike finally chimes in at the 9:49 mark and now things are starting to get very pretty, very mellow. Not too mellow though thanks to Fish's driving drumbeat. Trey is playing some very nice chords here. At the 10:40 mark Trey starts a theme that I can't help to think I've heard him play before. Regardless, its some amazing shit. Fishman, Mike, and Page are all right behind him on this one. Really, Fishman and Page especially are the glue holding this thing together right now. After the 12 minute mark Mike is starting to gain some prominence in this jam. All the while, Trey and Fishman are so in sync its awesome. Trey starts on the wah-wah for a few measures at 12:40, then shifts to a more serene tone with Page playing some awesome fills as well as Fishman. 13:23 things are starting to get weird, and weird in a good way. At this point, we are very much in type-2 territory. 13:48 mark Page is mimicking the notes Trey is playing on his guitar with one of his synthesizers, and let me tell you it is amazing. Mike drops in a few solid bass lines to remind everyone he's totally into this jam too. 14:40 mark Trey is playing very mellow runs of notes, and now it's a full band type 2 space jam. Fishman holding a verrrrry solid beat, Page dropping some lovely synth stuff at the 15:38 mark with very nice work by Mike in the background. 15:53 Trey sounds like he's coming up with a new theme with Fishman right behind him, seriously this is an awesome jam already. Nice bombs by Mike as he and the rest of the band are following that theme Trey has been working on for over a minute now, patience is the key here. At 17:08, Trey is starting to take that theme he started over a minute ago and play an AWESOME run of notes! He is playing so beautifully here and it comes with perfect piano work right behind him and Fishman driving this beat home. Trey is seriously playing an awesome themed-solo. 18:00 minute mark and we're starting to hit our big peak, band is 100% in sync. 18:30 and Trey is starting to go off big time! Not obnoxiously, actually very melodically with the band. 18:54 and now we have a full band peak, and Trey takes us to the cosmos with his playing. 19:25 and we have officially hit the peak. Glorious HOSE going on here folks, with a full peak especially from big red until the 20:00 mark exactly. Boy wasn't that an awesome 35 second long peak. From there, Fishman keeps the beat going with Page and Mike laying down a very solid groove in which Trey is playing that same theme from the 15:53 minute mark of the jam. That doesn't last long at all though and the band starts to slow it down quite a bit. 21:00 mark and now we are officially in mellow, very serene land. Great bass work from Mike here.

>to Taste, definitely not a -> but definitely a >.
Taste was a very standard rendition, and quite frankly even though this is one of my favorite tunes I just don't see them nailing the composed part like they used to in their prime. But hey, it's all good because I personally thought they killed that jam.

2nd major of the set is up next, the 20 Years Later. After the last chorus is over with at the 5:02 mark, the standard 20YL jam occurs and Page is on fire with the organ. All of a sudden, this is no longer a standard 20YL jam because just within a minute, Trey is hitting some extremely funky notes. All the while, Mike and Page are owning it behind big Red with Fish of course holding everything together. Page particularly on his organ is just killing it and we're not even at the 7 minute mark yet. Ok, we just hit it now. Whatever. Trey starts playing some Saw It Again-esque notes shortly after the 7 minute mark, and its followed by some very distorted notes from Trey all the while the rest of the boys are killin it. Page on that organ man.... jesus!! 8 minutes in and he is simply killing it. 8:20 shows us rock-star Trey with Fishman providing the perfect drumming fills with Page still goin ham on that organ! Rock-star Trey is still killin it, but on the snap of a dime he goes to straight funk-star Trey. but 9:00 we are in a full-out funk jam for 30 or seconds until Trey decides to go for a more rock based song. Page, still on his organ killin it of course. Mike is playing some nice fills with Fish. 10:00 mark and we got some soft playing from Trey, Mike takes over the spotlight for a second along with Page. Page is still playing that damn organ and I'm loving every second of it. Very funky jam here at the 10:25 mark, Fishman shifts fills at about the 10:45 mark to bring this jam a different feel. We are in full type 2 territory here folks!! 11:20 shows Trey developing a theme with Page realllllly laying it down on the organ! Fishman playing a very appropriate beat with Mike right behind him. Page and his organ.... holy shit. The 11:40-48 mark is all Page baby. After that Trey comes back in with some nice runs of chords. Rather standard rock-chords from Trey over Page's amazing organ work and Fish's driving beat sounds amazing right now, especially with Mike's great fills exactly where we want them. 12:44 and Trey starts playing a rather upbeat set of chords, Fishman almost immediately changes his beat to something more upbeat as well. Mike laying down the funk of course, and I think this is the first time the whole jam Page isn't slamming the organ. Instead he's on the piano, 13:20 is the start of a lovely jam. Amazing piano fills from Page at the 13:37 mark. And Trey is clearly starting to run out of gas on this one, but the rest of the band is in full glory. Particularly Fish and Page.

Pretty smooth > to Piper, even though the 20YL jam was still going. Piper is an extremely average version, although it's definitely on the shorter side (8 minutes) it's still an enjoyable version due to Page's organ playing in the middle of the jam. Besides that though, not much to this version of Piper IMHO. I guess there's a pretty cool but very short space funk jam from the 7 minute mark to the end of the song. I would've love to have seen where that jam would've gone if they kept playing. Instead Trey chose #line

I'm just not a fan of number line, so I used this song to take a much needed bathroom break. Got back in time for the ending solo/conclusion of the song just in time for the last highlight of the 2nd set.

YEM- very clean rendition of this classic song. Almost flawless to my ears. After the tramps jam, we go into the real jam of the song. Things start slowly with a nice little funk jam, Mike owning the jam so far. Trey eventually chimes in with Fish and now they have a nice little beat going for sure. Page hops in on the clav at the 12 minute mark to give this jam the only thing it was missing. Trey plays a rather interesting run of notes and chords to my opinion, something that truly sets this version of YEM apart from others I've seen. Page playng on the clav truly gives this YEM a much funkier feel than usual, same with Mike's awesome bass playing. Other than that, things get to the normal raging YEM jam we've come to expect from 3.0. Page really shines on this one though, with some truly awesome fills on his piano, same with Mike and his bass. Trey tears his solo to shreds though with amazing full band accompaniment. VJ starts at the 17 minute mark. The YEM was followed by Grind, and what's to say about Grind that hasn't already been said before?

Bouncing Around the Room to start the encore was very nice, my girlfriend and I were in total bliss by this point. Dancing with each other, holding each other. What can I say, we both love the song.

Up next in the encore was Reba!!! First Reba encore since the last fall tour they did if I'm not mistaken! This Reba was truly amazing, I loved every second of it. Danced like a manic that's for sure. & to follow Reba was a Good Times Bad Times that brought the house down. Great ending to a phenomenal show.

Hear the DWD jam and 20YL jam at all costs. Those were 2 truly amazing jams. 4.4/5.0 seems like the perfect rating for this show. I had a truly great time, and I'd definitely put this in the upper 15 shows I've seen if not top 10.