Oh finally, a thread for me to type up all of my favorite heavily attendance-biased jams.
Intentions Clear from scamp 2019 was awesome and underrated. I’m sure a big part of it was the ominous black storm rolling through in the background, lightning off in the distance. You could feel the intensity of the energy in the air. Very humid, felt like the sky was going to open up and absolutely unleash on us. If that storm hit Three Sisters it would have done some damage. Joel’s eerie atonal key part really fit the moment, and Jake’s heavy (power?) chords he’s playing really help build the suspense.
Love that one. I feel like we don’t hear a lot of multi part composed jams anymore (2010.07.30 and 2014.08.09 Mulches also both come to mind.)
Come to think of it, that whole Best Buy 2012 run has some really great jams that I don’t hear talked about much. Fir jam in a different part of the song (sorta), DBK middle eastern jam with Jake on slide, huge Domino lyrical, huge virtue, and bridgeless lyrical (got used in a song that I’m currently blanking on)
Bad Friday is the show you are thinking of. Yea that run crushed I think it’s the lack of a huge standout jam that puts the blinders on for people. The IC> Voyager > WMM > forks segment is an all timer for me.