6-12-09 - Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN

please review the show, not the other reviews....




...reviews of recordings of the show...

from	eric tipton
date	Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:52 PM
subject	My 6/12/09 Bonnaroo review

Hey folks.

So I wasn't at the show. Just got done listening to it. 

Here are my thoughts:

SET ONE

Chalk Dust Torture 8:07 

Standard. Pretty much nailed it.

Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan 5:08 

Like the others played thus far. Nice. Trey says something like "It's an 
honor to be here, thanks for having us" after the song was played.

The Divided Sky 13:48 

Well done. I think the Divided from Asheville had a bit more fire to it.

Possum 8:00 

Standard.

Down with Disease 17:23 

Nice little funk jam from 9-13 minutes. Some nice riffs from Trey and then 
they go for the wrapup. Good jam.

Alaska 7:40 

Sounded good. 

Stash 14:56 

Total snoozefest. 13 minutes in Trey finally wakes up. Too little, too 
late. Garbage. Kind of reminds me of the SOAMelt from Jones Beach.

Golgi Apparatus 4:43 

Not bad.

Wolfman's Brother 8:50 

Nothing too crazy. 

Poor Heart 2:25 

OK.

Kill Devil Falls 15:18 

Pretty good jam - has some spacey exploration to it and segues into >

Free 8:53 

Pretty tame. Nice Mike action after the vocals.

Wading in the Velvet Sea 5:56 

Meh...

Harry Hood 14:31 

First clean composed section, woo hoo Trey! Other than that, just another 
Hood that meanders aimlessly and has no true peak at the end. Someone hook 
Trey up with a copy of 12/30/95.

Highway to Hell 3:41 

Nice bustout. Last played 2/26/97 - 321 shows ago (and what a show that 
was!)

2001 7:22 

Short, doesn't do a whole lot but good placement. Nice segue into >

You Enjoy Myself 10:49 

Slight screwup @ 4:10. Once all the composed stuff is over with they start 
jamming a bit.  Then, kind of out of left field they segue into >

Wilson 5:48 

Wow! No one could have seen that coming. Standard Wilson segues right back 
into >

You Enjoy Myself 7:54 

They picked up right where they left off, very, very cool stuff.

ENCORE

A Day in the Life 5:19 

Standard.

In Summary - this was exactly the sort of show I thought they would play 
at the 'Roo. Plenty of their 'hits' and not a whole lot of crazy jamming.




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