You know the part of Bittersweet Motel where Trey says he doesn’t care if they miss a change, or a number of changes, he just cares about the energy in the room. That’s how I feel about tonight at the Mann. This was such a high energy show, consistent huge energy from crowd and band from top to bottom. Who cares if they miss a few changes when the energy is through the (Mann’s beautiful wooden) roof, and the jams are this satisfyingly good.

Strawberry directly into a Gin with an ecstatic jam that was easily my highlight of the first set, but the midset Coil was also great, as were the Type I rock-out peaks of Walls > 46 Days. Trey can miss a few notes in Walls any day if he slays the guitar-god peaks this hard.

2nd set is relentless. DWD wasted little time getting to serious Type II spaces, and then yet another one of the Trey newbies goes deep, as they jam The Well, and jam it hard. Length and girth in this Well jam, in addition to the aforementioned energy. The rest of S2 gave truth to the lyrics in Beneath a Sea of Stars - it really felt free of time. Despite the time stamps not crossing the 10 min mark again, every remaining song in S2 felt narratively and improvisationally rewarding. And Crosseyed > CDT put a series of exclamation marks on it.

I thought this show rocked hard. See all you beautiful people again tomorrow night.