902VickersMASTODON EXCLUSIVE
Going to post videos of my Top 5 Favorite Jams of 2023 daily leading up to next leg and then will release a playlist of my top 32. Still tinkering with order but have my top 5 set. Starting with #5... (#goose)
No. 5
3/30 Wysteria Lane - Ryman Auditorium N1, Nashville TN
The Rysteria - absolutely massive double peak monster. Here’s a clip of the first one
Don’t go back to Rockdale@902Vickers heh. I’m currently listening to that Wys. I’d have it 4 or 5. Haven’t quite been able to nail down the order yet. #goose
Brad Solari@Backeasyjim @902Vickers Interesting. Seems a bit underrated. I have it at 2. And the Cleveland AIN at 1. 🤷♂️
In fact for my money if you took the first half of the Wysteria jam and combined it with the 2nd half of the Clev AIN jam, it would easily be the current JOTY.
Point being, no jam so far this year has 2 elite sections yet (like the previous 2 JOTY winners).
@vriphish76 @902Vickers Cleveland AIN is in my top 10. It’s an excellent jam. It does get a bit “boring” for me. I wish they had really developed Peter’s piano sequence around the 15 min mark or so.
If we want a multisectional masterpiece maybe we have to wait. But I’d put Nash Mad up against the 2021/2022 winners and I think it would be competitive. It doesn’t have discrete sections per se’, but it doesn’t really have to. A bit of slop and chaos services a jam with unclear boundaries.
@Backeasyjim @902Vickers Agree to disagree on the AIN. It is anything but boring from 17 mins to the end. Its absolutely gorgeous stuff.
The Madhuvan first jam is basically a 726 jam into a Cleveland Rockdale jam reprise expanded. Great and all but it’s been done before and was not totally original improv. But to each their own. 💪
clifff@vriphish76 @Backeasyjim @902Vickers I’ve only listened to most of this tour once or twice so not drawing any lines in the sand… but I may go listen to the Cleveland Rockdale now cause I’m currently a little obsessed with the Nash Madhuvan
@clifff @Backeasyjim @902Vickers as in the 3/10/22 version that made the elite 8 last bracket. Go check it out. It has a very similar section around 11 mins in.
@clifff @Backeasyjim @902Vickers actually it’s from about 9 mins until about 14:30. It’s definitely VERY similar, almost a reprise of the same jam. Slowly builds up the same exact way and he plays some of the exact same licks.
@vriphish76 @Backeasyjim @902Vickers dang, good call on this similarity. Still love this Mad but does take it down a notch
@clifff @Backeasyjim @902Vickers That’s my take. I still have it as my 3rd ranked jam so far this year. Think it’s amazing. Just can’t put it at 1 because I feel like I have kind of heard it before. 🤷♂️
@vriphish76 @clifff @902Vickers the similarities to 3/10 Rockdale aren’t as vivid to me but I can see why someone would think that. Different keys but still some overlap in the sequence and motif.