Audio quality is pretty nice for the time - apparently Fish got some new gear and you can tell - his hi-hats especially have a great cutting presence that was lacking before. Wish there was a little more Mike and little less Page, but very good all things considered. Lots and lots of banter here as they're playing at Goddard, and while there are flubs & slip-ups, the band almost always sounds rock-solid on the essentials - not always true in the previous months.

Only set: Fire kicks things off and serves as the soundcheck as afterward they give the soundman about 50 tweaks to the monitors - 'Mike needs more Mike in his mic' - Nancy comes up to drum for I Didn't Know w/ Fish on trombone - they do some ironical lyrical delivery, and then Nancy sticks around to shriek on Halley's. Halley's has a nice fiery solo on the end that > to Light Up Or Leave Me Alone. It's been a minute since they played that and its resurrection here is pretty good. Drums & Bass are pretty tight together in this show. The jam is this quiet, quick thing with a little tension/release. A couple minutes of banter, and then YEM, which finally sounds tight/near perfected in the composed section! The jam is solid, eith a good organ beginning and some interesting Fish beats as the guitar jam heats up. They crack themselves up with some Jackson 5 quotes in the vocal jam. The band sounds particularly giddy as they start up Lizards, which suffers a little in the details. BBFCFM with a Marley reference - one of several in the show.

JJLC begins with some more monitor tweaking and Page really, really kicks ass with ultra-busy runs that barely fit into the song - every time he hits one, I'm expecting him to fall flat and he pulls it off - really cool! Trey's solo is solid enough but Page is definitely the star. They've got Bobby Brown playing harmonica - good enough. Fluff speeds way up in the middle for some reason, then slows way down towards the end. Pretty accurately and energentically played though. More tempo fun as they blast through Alumni so fast they can't do Jimmy Page right. Hopefully they get that looked at! They have fakeout versions of Rock On Into The Night (lol) and HYHU (lol) before they bring up a saxophone man for A Train, which he does not want to play (lol). It's good enough, honestly the sax player doesn't add a whole lot.

This show's a fine show, band's obviously having fun, and there's flubs but it never gets rocky. JJLC, YEM have moments and there's a ton of banter ranging from funny to dorky. Don't know why it has a 2.6 rating on here, I'd put it dead on average or a bit better. Band is becoming tightrr by fits and starts.