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R15/W03: 11-16-1997 McNichols Arena, Denver, CO

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cactusfan:
the first set may be underwhelming, but the second set, though short, is non-stop fire, and the Bowie encore is blistering.

Augustus:
NICU - Trey having a little trouble with the first lead part. Good enough opener, tho.

Meh Soul - Trey takes the first solo and it's quite rippin'. It was a good call to switch the solo order when they did the following year.

BEK - *LUV* to bits. Just so fresh sounding (no shit) and slick. Mike is so clear during this Tour. Cool version. Doesn't get as dark as Cleveland or WS, but I dig it.

Farm - Live "debut." Two brand new ones back-to-back to get the crowd all stokey! I like the 4 versions from '97.

Homeplace - Only cool as a show opener, obv.

Billy - Been working on my NOT jokes. Anyway, this set has some pretty sweet flow going on...NOT. Actually a pretty good solo going on until the last few passes.

CTB - Set could benefit from a dose of Flo-Max. Only version of the Tour. Nice one, tho, with Page smashin' the Grand. The only thing that could make me hate on this set any harder would be if they played one of my least favorite orignals right after this tune.

Scent - Fuckin' kidding me? I HATE Scent more than any of you. Oh, sweet, some bitch guest is gonna spruce this one up.  :roll: What a bitch. Then they start palying some other bullshit. Or should I say, Bitchshit? Tempo gets all fucked up. WORST.

Heart - Again, more tempo issues. I hate that feeling when all you want is for the set to end...

Taste - Just plowing thru all of my favorites right about now. Good version, tho. 'Twas cool when Fish switched to a straight-ahead one toward the end of the jam. They hit the ending, too!

Hello - This is how you cap a crap. Set.

Timber - Long and spacy intro. Kinda goes along with not much to note until 11:30, where it really mellows and spaces out. They hit on a great major key jam ~14 through. Wished this developed more before heading into >>>

Simple - Pretty good segue. Standard Simple jam until the last 45 seconds or so where they start to segue into Wilson. Again, I wish that they had developed that more. >>>

Wilson - Little loose.

Hood - Composed is OK and gets rough during the Mr. Minor part. Surprisingly, it is Mike that is playing in the wrong key for almost the entire section.  :-o Sweet jam that really hits a high point around the 14 minute mark. Proper ending. A lot of people speak highly of this version, but I never got the hype. It's longer than most and is much better compared to the first set, but it's just kinda standard to me. >>>

Izabella - High energy capper.

Bowie - Ultra rare encore slot. Didn't appear in this position again until Hampton 'o4. Liking the intro. Somewhat of a Stash tease to start the jam. Page takes charge early on. Tension ~11:30 with an awkward release out. Bad bend by Trey that was meant to be a balm. Some more tension at the 14 min mark. Band is all over the place. Finally hit a good peak. Good slam into the outro section.

Welp, there's some good and bad aspects of this show. The bad is that this show sucks. The good is that it was the last meh show of the Tour. So we can all that this crappy show for helping Fall '97 be as epic as it was.
I give it a C.

cactusfan:
well i went and listened to this after reading your review, aug.

i'm with you on the first set. BEK is hot and Farmhouse is a great song in fall '97 and not so much elsewhere. otherwise, it's a bunch of songs with no flow.

but i gotta say, i still dig this second set. it's too short, and it's not huge like much of fall '97, but it still flows and works for me. i really like the Timber, that it's a swirling build without a lot of melodic definition. i love every Timber from this tour. i don't think the song ever sounded better.

the segue into Simple is sweet, and even the segue into Wilson works. they knew how to segue back in them days.

i like the Hood a lot. not a best ever version, through, tis true.

and Izabella is a hot closer.

the Bowie is smoking, if imperfect. not as good as the first set closer from 11/29, though (which seems to me a generally overlooked brilliant Bowie).

so maybe what does it for me with this show is simply the overall way they're playing at this point in time. even when it's not great, it still has a kind of loose intensity i really like.

strangely enough, the second set from the 17th, which gets all the love, is not one of my favorites. something about that one doesn't really click for me. the first set is where it's at for that show.

JustJezmund:
The timber simple is pretty money with the frankie says segue.

mbw:
Sweet NOT joke.

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