I want to start off by saying I really love thundercat and have been listening to him for years. I adore his music and him as a person and I was insanely pumped to see this convert. I was really disappointed. The sound was awful at the venue with everything being far too loud in the mix, especially drums, and thundercat’s bass was far too quiet. The gig lasted a gruelling 2 hours and at least one hour of that was horrible improvisation. Which all blended into one because the instruments were all at a similar frequency. You couldn’t hear anything clearly and it was a huge muddy improv mess. There would be cheers after the extended improvisations in every song and I think that the crowd weren’t cheering the improv they were cheering that it was over and he had finally started playing the song again. Basically the melody or groove was completely lost and I just got totally sick of it. He forced us all to endure this before playing ‘them changes’ and ‘friendzone’. At the end I was totally exhausted and I wouldn’t see him again :/

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