February 6, 2025

Milwaukee, WI

Set I

8 songs · 1h 23m

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1h 23m

The set as tape — each song is as wide as it is long, segued songs run on unbroken tape (split by a splice, not a gap), and jams burn.

1Flood in Franklin Park — Grant Green.
2I'm Writing A Novel — Father John Misty.
3Drive — Unfinished.
Drive — The late-blooming younger brother of 24's monstrous high-school quarterback and homecoming king, "Cap Drive." The sibling resemblance is unmistabkle, with the same prominent good looks and form. But while 24's two-guitar Goose section immediately unleashes a colossal wall of sound, this one ambles through the halls of adolescent uncertainty before finally finding its senior-year stride — ignited by Rick’s delicate yet forceful guitar-work, Pete’s sudden organ attack, and Cotter’s thunderous drumming.
4Bloodbuzz Ohio — The National.
SALT — "Pancakes"-ish major-key peak jam guaranteed to bring a smile to your face with its breakneck momentum.

5 songs · 1h 21m

1Atlas Dogs — With Tarantella Napoletana tease from Rick.
Atlas Dogs — Rick finds the "Tarantella Napoletana" jam he loves so much in extended versions of "Atlas Dogs" and builds it to a fiery peak. Cools and eventually winds into a beautiful segue -> to a standout "Animal."
Animal — The most remarkable thing about this “Animal” is how unexpectedly non-"Animal" it reads. A listener jumping in blindly right after the verses could easily get lost in the sauce of a typical “Arcadia” jam. We find Ricky doing that trademark Ricky thing, with a gradual sustained build patiently transforming a simple musical idea into a high-energy, major-key bliss explosion. This rendition portends of only good things for “Animal," quite possibly as the next big jam vehicle.

1 song · 10:20

Reading the ledger› = segue = jam chart pick¹ = see the notes under each set