2012/11/02 - Penn's Peak - Jim Thorpe, PA

Set 1: Nipple Trix > Wife Soup, Room to Breathe > Breathe, Much Obliged > Uncommon, Eat, 2x2

Set 2: Robot World > Higgins, Der Bluten Kat > No Comment > Der Bluten Kat, Life During Exodus, All In Time

Encore: Wizard Burial Ground > Orfeo > Wizard Burial Ground

Solid show. The Robot > Higgins sequence is extremely fun, as is the encore.

Happy Birthday to another good show!! Obviously the RW > Higgins is alltimer material, especially if you like proggy UM. As is the MO > Uncommon worth a listen. DBK, NC sandwich is tasty too. Gotta give this one a spin on the commute home, check it out if ya can

@Pookells knows, this is a good’n

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This wife soup is quite good also, one of my favs. When Baylis’s solo section starts up instead of him taking it, jake and Bayliss both get into this euphoric uplifting build that eventually ends with them both peaking it nicely. One my go to wife soups if I ever happen to be in the mood

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Underrated DBK and MO

Happy Birthday great show! This opening Wife Soup :raised_hands: gotta give this RW>Higgins a spin. D>Pop Tart/No Comment>BK is very well done. This show was such a party, crowd was into it. The energy was palpitatable. What a time. Fall Ter :maple_leaf::green_heart:

bUMp. Top underated show of 2012. Firesome MO>UC, 2x2, && obviously the classic 1, 2 punch of RW>Higgins where the Higgins is essentially a continuation of the super industrial RW. This day seems to bring the heat.

Happy Birthday great show!

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I fucking love this show!

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Happy (belated) Bakers Dozen Birthday, stellar show!

Smokin’ MO->UC :green_heart:, 2x2, DB>Poptart>K.

Any excuse to bump this RW>Higgins which is one of the great examples of them continuing a jam in the next song; ala that Lockn 9.4.2014 Puppet>Higgins>String. Just an absolute fire :fire: industrial rock stew that is this opening s2 1-2 punch.

show/tour fluff

I love this show, I was early in my UM tour adventure, yet, I knew I saw something special that night. Definitely one of the “I get it now” moments. Easily in the top 5 of shows I’ve had the privilage of attending. As of now, I believe my wysc is almost 80.

I wanna say this was my first time at Penn’s Peak, my crew & I drove from college, drove down&back up in the same night. I think this show was after a chemistry exam or something. Buddy and I happened to be in the same class so we hightailed it outta there to get to the show in time. My oh my, what a time it was.

Cheers :clinking_beer_mugs: it’s fun to look back, reminds me to look forward to what’s to come. Looking forward to seeing all of you fine folks in the not so distant future! I look forward to enjoying some UM then coming back to center as to enjoy both moments concurrently :sparkles:

Riiiide, ride riiiide, least I’m enjoyin’ the ride!

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Definitely a great show! 13 years. Damn.

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Easily one of my top 5 fav shows attended! It was also my first (and only) time at Penn’s Peak, a few days after Hurricane Sandy, and we got a little fall snow that night. Just felt like a magical evening all around.

Set 2 is just a prime example of everything I love about UMprov. Plus that WBG>Orfeo>WBG encore!

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That’s riiight, good pull it did snow a little bit that night. Nice giving the context, Sandy did hit just that week, late in the season so that was pretty significant.

s2 is all killer no filler, for sure

That encore is one of the best I’ve seen, full band Orefeo in that WBG, a true rarity!

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For some more personal context, my buddy and I both dragged our non-UM fan girlfriends to the show, and stayed in the same hotel room outside Jim Thorpe. My buddy and his GF got fucking bed bugs and my GF and I somehow did not. Now that’s a magical evening!

And yea, re: Sandy. We drove out from Long Island, which got hit super hard. Lots of LI lost power, crazy lines at gas stations, etc. So it felt great to just leave that behind for a night and party.

Also got my first Life During Exodus, which was debuted just a week before on 10/27/12. I was spinning the track repeatedly since downloading that SBD, so that was also awesome to catch as well.

Edit: Listening to this Robot World right now… Myers came in real fucking hot on this set. Scotty has some work to do.

Wild, I stayed there one time a few shows back.
No way, that’s definitely some tour magic if I ever heard it, ahah!

Yea, now that you mentioned Sandy; iirc a few classmates were concerned about their loved ones. I can see why, you’d wanna jump ship for a night. Sure it was all kinds of chaos going on. Sweet you got rewarded with what I consider a classic heavy UM show. Few things can beat a great UM show to take the stresses away for a little while. Truly a wonderful gift, that’s really cool, man

Superb point about where they were with their sound. I almost forgot about how new it was. That place was a frenzy of a dance party when they broke out into Life During Exodus. One of my distinct memories of that show, for sure

Man, that RW.. I’m convinced Kris was trying to smash holes in his drum-heads lol. Those fills are bloody absurd. Scotty can do it - as his confidence builds, so will the fills and have the presence in the groove to know when to hit the forte when necessary