My vote for best opener would be from this date 17 years ago. Just a f’n beast of an August.
3/22/07 JO > Great American is my fav opener seen.
Dump 7-7-18. Just a personal favorite.
Best two encores I’ve seen were
11/2/11 BLBC
7/30/10 AIT > Hangover, Wappy > AIT
Feel like I haven’t seen many great openers, but these come to mind:
4/10/09 Wappy
9/14/12 AIT
2/6/14 Phil’s
10/29/14 Robot
11/1/14 encore was fun. Release > Fussy > Gulf Stream
Fussy is a great encore song
SUAR
3/4/17 - AIT is a personal favorite. Always fluff this one up as an underrated jam with 3 distinct sections. Not the longest jam but a great start to the show IMO
Can’t believe I forgot this one. Def the best encore I’ve seen but it’s almost cheating since they did long encores during that entire run
7-21-17 AiT was a really solid start to a show that got rained out.
Yep
I’m terms of openers seen in recent memory, 10/13/18 Attachments stands out.
10.7.09 Example 1 was a sick opener.
I like that song as an opener.
My first show 4/13/08 opened with a 20+ min HBB. That was a pretty good way to hook me right away.
And it was all downhill from there
He caught FP at his last show. He can finally retire from UM