HOF 19 vinyl should just be this Ringo for the first three sides and then something else for side 4. This shit is legit some of their best playing in a great year.
Love the Kyle sections of this Ringo. It’s really interesting hearing another keyboard player sit in. You can instantly tell it’s not Joel
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couldn’t agree more
Since we missed most of the couch tour second Nye set due to internet outage at the Fillmore, tour gigs gave me a voucher for the 12/30 show. Not sure if it works for everyone, but give it a try. standbyNYE. Capitals matter
I’m currently rewatching this Ringo and Kyle Hollingsworth crushes his guest appearance through and through.
But, it seems like Kyle was hurried off. There’s no debating the fact that they all played well together. At one point Joel pretty much tells Kyle it’s time for him to step off stage. You can see his posture change and he slumps over, defeated. 
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Rewatching right now and completely disagree with your take here. First of all, Kyle is up there for almost 15 minutes. That is a lot of time. A LOT of time. Secondly, when Joel leans over to him he’s telling him they’re going back into the song. And then the second thing he says is definitely to stop playing at that exact moment because there’s no way he would’ve been able to sync up on the “bunch of greasy animals” riff. That riff is in 7 and in whole tone. Kyle doesn’t slump over defeated at all. He just gives sort of an oops look as he realizes they’re back in the song and he doesn’t know what to do. Fortunately he hops off at exactly the right moment.
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Of course I buy the replay a couple days before they throw it on YT 
Anyway I agree with cshore, the dueling keys had run its course IMO. I fuckin love the jam from 21m-29m, so dope.
After watching the stream, I gotta say, Your Gigs has gone way downhill in terms of editing. So many times they seem to focus on the wrong player, or show Jake from behind while he is crushing a peak. And how about the dumb as hell effects during Coffin’s solo? Lol might as well just superimpose the Windows Media Player visualizer.
And my biggest issue is the fact that the audio and video is always just out of sync enough to be super annoying. And then they charge $20 for this shit! Truly an incredible grift.
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Agree with Colin. Joel is definitely just telling him they’re about to go back into the song and then to stop because of it. Loved that sit in.
dumb as hell effects during Coffin’s solo
my wife was annoyed by the effects, for sure
All improv sets should happen more often!
Finally listened to the Ringo. Really enjoyed the majority of it. Could’ve done without the stupid falsetto lyrical.
Honestly I really like the idea of using a song as the framing for the improv set. I’d be down with them doing that again the next time they do one. They have so many multi part tunes that could work really well in that manner. I’ve always felt improv is that much more impactful when it comes out of a song you really enjoy and I think the drops back into and out of the song add a fun wrinkle that make certain pieces of the set hit even better for me than standalone.
I totally agree with that ^
Especially if they’re falling flat in a section they can start teasing a return to the middle/ending and gain their footing a little instead of everybody just out there in space.
I always thought they could do a great Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast that way…
Rise and Shine > Jam > Sunny Side Up > Jam > Morning Glory > Outro Jam
I agree that using Ringo worked really well. But am I really the only one that’s bothered about that being considered an “all improv” set? Maybe I’m just listening to too much Biscuits and Spafford lately…
I mean, pretty much 55 minutes of the 61 minute set was improv. So yeah, I think it’s fine.
Which means 6 mins isn’t improv. That’s a song length. It should be called the “almost all improv set”.
typically, i am one to nickle n’ dime nit-pick semantics. but this isn’t one of those battles, for me
It mean it was great…and I love Ringo. I’m not arguing that. I’m just saying it’s not all improv. They said it would be. That’s all I’m saying.
They also said the 20th anniversary event would be a “special night”.
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