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View NotesShow Notes: Not much to say on this one.  SO I'll include the Rasta Review.  Von Sauce opened with a hard rock pop set.
Here's Rasta!

Tonight was all about the classics.  They dusted off some songs that
they haven't played in quite a while.  Some were a little rough, but
that's to be expected to a certain degree.  One of the side effects of
having such a deep catalog of music to choose from is that some really
solid songs end up falling out of the regular rotation and when they
come back they usually aren't as tight as we remember.  Tonight that
wasn't so prevalent, but it was there.  Fairy Tale set a dark tone to
get things started, and that theme kept going for the first part of
the first set.  Head Inside and Schizophrenic were both a bit off but
not too bad.  By the time they got into Waft they had hit their stride
and all cylinders were firing in sync.  It really felt like they were
listening together and feeding off of each other during this jam,
playing as one entity at times.  Definitely the highlight of the first
set for me.  Pace was pretty solid, and it was great to hear Spinning
Around again.  I remember the first time they did Found A Job and
Scott joking that it would be the last as well, but they really put a
lot of work into it for the SMS show and it sounded great tonight.

The second set got started with a tuning jam that turned into a pretty
extensive tease of The Cardigans' song Lovefool.  Then Royce laid down
a snare rhythm and out came Baby Hold On which seems like it's been on
the shelf forever but really played well tonight.  Fall In Line
featured some sweet sax work by Kevin.  Next up came another rarity in
Come Home.  I really like this Timmy song and hope it gets a foothold
in the rotation soon.  Mel and Kari Marie came up to add some vocal
harmonies in Naïve Melody and Life During Wartime.  Lonely Girl had a
nice bass solo in it, but nothing like the Jimmy Happy Jam from a
while back.  My second set highlight was the closer ~V the most raging
version of 50 Ways that I've ever seen.  Not just funky, but rocking
with Jason tearing it up and Timmy jumping out of his seat.  Man, I
tell you that's got to be my favorite one and I'm really stoked to
hear the tapes.

I wasn't really expecting an encore, or a quick Ween encore if we were
going to get one, but I was way off.  Kevin slid his mic stand up and
they kicked into a hot I Wish with Kevin singing lead and sounding
like he was born to do it.  This turned into a pretty wild funk jam
that segued on into The Squirms.  It wasn't all that long, but it
built a few layers and came to a peak that, as always, sent everyone
home with a smile.

-Rasta