2024/12/30 - Boulder Theater - Boulder, CO

D+, 4/10. First and importantly, the audio was trash for more than half the show and helped me not enjoying it.

EG started good, cock rocked, started another jam that could’ve been good, abortion into a no jam Floor. That completely killed any mood that I had about this show. Up until the CWII, I was about as bored as I’ve ever been for a stream, regarding the 2nd set at least.

Set 1 was OK with some tolerable white boy funk and chugs, but the standard 40s funk jam made it seem like way too much white boy funk for 1 night.

I’ll fluff all day long, but if I’m listing sets of the run, these 2 could easily be the bottom 2. Gonna be positive and believe the energy they had for the encore transfers to tonight.

Respect your opinion 100% and at the same time feel like it was the best show of the run so far.

Though for me, song selection has a lot of weight in addition to the actual playing.

It’s the beautiful (and sometimes maddening?) thing about music and art: one man’s trash…

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You might be on to something with the song selection. This show isn’t my ideal good time in that regard. In fact, I kept feeling like it resembled a festy setlist only missing a Wappy.

Plus, I’m already feeling not-positive about tonight knowing there’ll be horns, multiple covers, and potential drunken sloppiness while I’m trying to stay awake way past my bedtime, meaning I was selfishly expecting some let loose for this show.

Idk, song selection looks pretty meh aside from btl and swerving

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That’s what i was trying to convey

I also thought this was the best show of the run so far. So did bluish

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New wings and hiccups disqualify this show from being best of anything. Such terrible songs.

Hiccup has been a consistent jam vehicle since being released SIYD

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best show of the run so far

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Idk if i can fully trust the opinion of the one person that I know for a fact wasn’t on drugs.

Why are they playing 4 AFAF songs in a show when it’s almost 2025? I don’t even hate the album but that feels like overkill this far from release and on a New Years run. Cool to see Swerving pop up though

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@SchladopianFir @opsopcopolis You do you.

But for me, last night:
-junk, remind me, BTL, floor, 40s, Cem walk, Snucka, swerving

Those crushed (from a selection POV) what I liked from N1:
-IC, Turn and Run, Phil’s, Pig, 1348

And N2:
-plunger, AIT, to lay me down.

Again, this is only a song selection opinion - not an actual jam/energy/vibe opinion.

Dunno, that might make @bluish the most qualified to make the statement. Hah

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N2 S2 was peak nostalgia song selection for me

With the exception of Concessions those are all the tunes that got me into and made me love this band

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Ya can’t argue with that. Mulches, fancy, AIT.

Strong.

N2 S1 did little for me so I was prob discounting the strength of S2

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It was the songs you didn’t list from last night that killed me

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To each their own. As an overall set it wasnt amazing but AIT was JOTN for me and the Strides jam was super fun too.

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Just watched the encore…catching up on all the drug band NYE setlists after a week up in Door County.

Hope everyone is having a great NYE run so far.

Any definite highlights I should listen to here today?

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Shows trash

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Gtb

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Song still sucks