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There are Breakfast shows, and then there are Crazy Freaky Serhead Uber-Rallies. Tonight was one of those. Unparalelled crowd energy. Massive jams and lights. Superb mix of new tunes, old classics, and the perfect cover. My god, the trenches were crazy. Props to the massive .info presence for lifting the show to level after face-melting level. An absolute, no-doubt about it, smashing 10. :thumbsup:
The band smoked everything, but let\'s start the props for 1st set with your captain, Dave Pecoraro. He wrote a brilliant setlist, combining three classic standbys (Eppy II, Cut Me Some Slack, WUIAC), two great newer but established tunes (Doughboy and No Regret) and two new songs (Psygn, Future Peek.) Great mix and segue opportunities. Opening with Eppy II, a song that is usually a closer, really sets a huge tone and opens the door for potential greatness. If you ever saw Phish open a show with Antelope, Harry Hood, or Split Open And Melt etc. then you know what I mean. Opening that big sets a precendent that must be topped all night. If the band fails to keep the pace then the show will be a letdown, but if they keep stepping up from there as the Breakfast did last night then you\'re gonna have an epic on your hands. Pec\'s setlist dared the band to come out charging and take it higher from there, and they answered the bell.
Second set was circa 2000 all the way up until Tricky Ways. STL was monumental and left no doubt that this second set had truly unlimited potential. LDZ>HDX was raging, but the mid-set Simpleton is when the .info trench brigade really floored it into the red. Everyone was jumping, fist-pumping, screaming, hugging, and dancing like they fuckin meant it. From Simpleton all the way through the "one more set" chant before and after the encore the whole place was coming apart at the seams. Nice work people! You could really see the effect everything was having on the casual fans in the crowd. Not only were they getting way into it, but they all had that look on their face of knowing that they were not at just another show by some band they went to check out. They knew that they had stumbled into something very different and very special. You couldn\'t have been in there last night and not known it.
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On to the afterparty. Thanks to everyone who came by! A super-serhead gathering if there ever was one. New York, New Hampshire, CT, Mass, and even California were all well represented. The 5am guitar/sax jam was a huge highlight. Galenas, sallyalli, Mia, Jule, postom, Todd, Freespirit, Peaches, Lexington, and ChrisF it was a treat to have you and your friends over. And big ups to the headdy morning crew of mamlakabubadaya, princesscaspian, stevengencs, jim cobb, giavanna, Me!, and berzerker. Also pre-show dinner was probably the most .infoers ever at one table, that was pretty cool!
What an end to a 3-night run. I am beyond wiped. Thanks to everyone who was in Burlington on Thursday and Friday making that so amazing as well. I love you guys. See you soon!
-SW
