Thanks for the review. Great write up. Loved the writing style and your ability to paint a very elaborate picture.

Thought, for this go around, I would add my show notes. Disclaimer, unedited and from the couch (and bed):

Note times are in central time zone:

Phershey
Sexy thing 635 gave hints of the first set to come and as they dropped into
Wombat 642 wawah effects underwater menagerie with hints of shakedown slow drift softer tone effects frog tone type two page synth
Sexy thing tease 650 sexy wombat mashup hard stop cuddly but muscular
Land o chocolate
Talks about being locked in man cave 652
Free 653 felt like an extended intro Mike slinky tight jam fishman holding down the fort CK5 with this red and light cascading out effect turned purple machine gun 80’s laser tag lighting whining guitar sustained wine
Into the outro some demented centipede of lights waving across the top of the backdrop big Mike slinky bass lines noodling out pulsating
Asihtos 703 staccato licks out of way way way
Tiptoed the line between type 1 and type 2 Sexy thing between page and Trey screaming guitar fishman leading a second charge short lived turned feisty now twisting toward 1 full band wah wah wah repeated into the ending.
Halley’s Comet 711 Mike lead bass bombs into a vocal medley of central part of town this Haley’s ripe for the major treatment purple lights with Trey on a dead sequence of central part of town page on synths firing laser beams and Mike dropping bass bombs with the army procession almost xeyed each taking stabs at leading the charge the stage bathed in red veil of CK5 lights fishman picks up the rhythm with Trey effects echoing his notes sonic landscape being laid out in front of them the jams turns major key like victory 4 beacons of light CK5 bathed in yellow as Trey ushers in the new dawn simultaneously as the sky goes dark stark contrast from the jams initial darkness out of the proverbial muck comes a series of riffs beckoning to the gods escaping from the central part of town into Elysium. Hard to pick up Mike but page is tickling the keys like an angel possessed him. Shuttered effect out as things wind down almost like theme from the bottom and enveloped in a sea of red the jam begins a dark twist back into the eerie abyss with more laser beams and a CK 5 spectacle. Then soft and blue landing in

Lonely trip 727 major juxtaposition of the former and latter that worked with it’s elegant embrace

Giboo 733 as Trey dropped those wide swooping loops layered over each other kuroda s lights began a searchlight effect across the stage and audience. Purposeful playing band weaving musical thoughts in and out of each others sonic space with a slight build and volume increasing type one soire that built to the final sequence had the crowd on boogie mode.
Meat 742 with page’s organ taking us to church and Mike on the mic dropping early bass bombs another vocal medley looped into the Start stop section (a musical musical chairs of sorts which I would take any day of the week) Mike got turned up for this one turnt up for this one and turned up. 746 charge hockey theme. Groggy tone out Sexy thing back into Meat worry band interplay kept these meat rambling before an extended stop that came back full groggy force framp Ton style which dissipated into maze

Maze 749 now come page storming on the keys, organ forming brilliant trills as we frantically move through the endless maze Trey hopping bouncing beckoning for his romp through the maze calls for his instrument to be turned up and fires into an inspired solo that tirelessly builds and builds the tension to a cataclysmic frenzy with CKs strobbbing effects missing the peak early regroups and then the whole band opens wide up and takes it into the red zone before eclipsing the first set with the last vocal medley before the ditty of an ending and a last sexy thing reprisal. 758

833 set two
Theme out of the lyrical section into the build up Trey leans into a soaring lead page laying a back drop on his grand with tight pocket held by Fishman. Mike rig is decidedly subtle. Treys sustain beckons again before building to yet another full band crescendo and a transition back into the composed from the bottom section leading to the outro and melding into the frantic beginning of BOAF
841 Trey rolls up his sleeves high and tight to step into his staccato licks page hangs over the Wurlitzer as CK5 strobes the stage with white. Mike starts to build his sound out of the ether. Trey shifts to major key the band locks kn behind his lead as the sheets of lights spray out onto the audience.

Page and Trey trade riffs before the tone gets heavier, thick and the Moog is on the loose. Fluctuating between ethereal and sinister the frog returns from the bog as the crew refreshes, down shifts and pivots to another beautiful whole band interplay, weaving through each other without any one of them dominating ck5 has this crystallized effect as rods of red blue green and white grow upward on the monstrous rig. Trey throws echoes around before some soaring licks that are greeted with pages moog. Fishman goes double time and the band falls into an improvised outro that sets the bird aloft again. Fishman helps the darkness take hold with series of percussive licks and the growl effect rises from treys rig. Out of the ether comes the reprisal of BOAF. Band bathed in blue they slowly build the birds theme to the wah wah and like that this bird has landed.

900 Bug is a welcome breather that builds so inconspicuously. Before you know It there is not a soul standing still and Trey is a man possessed as he navigates through Chocolate town churning the molten goodness with note played. The final refrain echoes out to the crowd with the music bleeding into
909 light quickly shifts into low gear a sottovoce of sorts with Mike locked in. Another stranger things themed light sequence with kuroda cascading angled beams of light purple and orange in alternating variations. A flying orange bird burns into red and then this slapping effect of lights clapping with the stage. This light stays positive almost Jim like until

918 party time appears having melaterialised from nowhere like a sleight of hand trick. Slick and silky smooth segue, like drawn butter on warm toast. Page bending the notes on his moog to the point of absurdity and Trey full teasing Sexy thing yet again.

922 Ruby waves placement bodes well for this jam vehicle and quickly the echo effects abound and plinko funk firing from the stage in tight licks. kurodas tight thin lights are like moonlight streaming through the fog. The plinko echo was mirrored by kurodas strobe cascade and it appeared for a moment the lights were playing the band. The band brings the volume down and gradual reascends to a rollicking plateau before taking things up a notch. Dropping back into the Ruby Waves for a just a moment the sonic dissonance that resulted was cut through and

938 Chalkdist torture appeared. Another lyrical faux Paux stirs the crowd. Machine gun Trey atones for his sin builds the tension to peak after peak. As if we thought things couldn’t get more hectic we hit yet another fever pitch peak before the band reels CDT back in to its cage until the next time it’s let loose. A slight nod to Sexy Thing Trey calls the crowd you sexy thing you and four horseman of the apocalypse now and exit stage left. 946

949 show of life fills the encore slot like a delicious bar of chocolate. Totally satisfying.

956 say it to me santos is like the gooey nugget found inside the chilocolate bar. Kuroda cues the rig up for one last dance across the stage backdrop as the bad builds yet another peak to culmination and puts a solid exclamation point on the night 2 in zhershey pa.