I'm making a point of checking out everything I can of this tour as it makes its way toward the show I get to see in May. I love the way the material mutates as the tour goes along, and you have to enjoy building the suspense until you actually get to see them.
This is a particularly serendipitous convergence of a great taper, who has recorded the band before and knows what to expect, in a good room, grabbing what sounds to me like the show of the tour so far. It has to be difficult to capture this band, and hats off to all who pull it off. This one benefits of having an especially (to my ears, anyway)inspired performance.
The first track literally explodes. I can almost feel what it must have been like to be slammed back by the initial onslaught.
Text file says cut 3 is "Dark Stars In the Dazzling Sky". It has several monstrous riffs that are familiar, but not so much borrowed as part of the dna of electric psychedelic music.
I especially like the intro to Pink Lady, with what sounds like flute before it drops into the main riff. Later there's a fine OM riff, with another highlight when the return to Pink Lady really kicks in the afterburners.
There are other, very good captures of this tour so far (Johnny Brenda's is especially solid), but damn! This is a really good performance.