For those of you who hate my reviews, here's the short, typical
Lamehendge version:  "Thsi YEM kicks ass man.  Definatly git it, cause
youre gonna luv it!!!!!!! yes.  KIND BUD!!"

High quality DAUDs are available of this show.  Don't settle for
hissy, muddy copies.  The Audio Technica 4056 copy (thanks Mark G.,
and I suppose Don Wright (?)) is excellent DAUD quality.

The pre-Nirvana segment is very beautifully spacey & melodious, and
the actual build-up just before 'Nirvana' includes a lot of
crescendo/diminuendo play.  Nirvana at 4:11.  Trey isn't as tight as
he could have been in the "Nirvana" segment, and actually concludes it
a bit early.  Mike's solo section is a frolic, but is otherwise
insignificant.  The pre-charge section is intensely powerful and
GRIPPING.  Forcefully and mightily played.   The shots at THE NOTEs
are both excellent, as is the jamming around the first one (the second
shot at THE NOTE is sustained flawlessly by Trey).

"Boy" at 7:35 after an excellent scream.  WUDMTF segment is typically
funky and sharp.  Tramps ("trampolines") segment begins at 9:50 with
Page soloing well over Mike's signals for the tramps moves (well, it
sounds like Mike is signaling the moves), and Fish's tight drumming.
There's some phaaaaat, funky stuff from Mike around 11 minutes, and
some rhythmic (with Fish's groove) chording from Trey.  At 12:02 or
so, Trey starts vocalizing melodiously while playing his 'doc (singing
along with it, basically).  Excellent, ultra-groovy opening to the jam
segment.  Trey's borderline-scat singing in here is excellent. You've
heard him do this sort of thing in plenty Scent of a Mules, of
course.  But I've never heard him do this in YEM's jam segment before.

Around 13:30, Trey is still melodiously scat-singing along with his
'doc, and Mike and Page accompany quite well.  Fish adds A TON of
brilliant fills in this whole jam, fwiw.  He even hits the woodblocks
a lot.  Professional, exciting accompaniment from all (and Mike has that
ultra-drippy, wet slinky bass effect in action).

Around 14:30, Trey begins seriously soloing on the 'doc, at first
starting in the lower octaves, mellifluously noodling.  By 15 minutes,
though, he's locked into an ultra-Zepplinesque groove with Page, Mike
and Fish that COULD segue into Immigrant Song if it wanted to (but it
doesn't.. comes damn close to SOUNDING LIKE Immigrant Song in here,
though... (16 mins)).

A very intense, hard-core YEM jam around 16:15, which is primarily
chords and POUNDING, until Trey breaks out trilling a bit around
16:30.  Trey rips shit up a little bit before dragging out this
Zepplinesque, chord-laden RAGE of a jam around 17 mins.  Page is
hardly audible, in all honesty.  This is an INTENSE, LOUD, HARD ROCK
groove around 17:15, which begins to steadily dissolve into an
esteemed, hazy WALL OF SOUND around 17:30..

And then, at about 17:50, Page begins soloing (Trey moves to the
mini-kit and rhythmically & repetitively accompanies Fish) on the
clavinet, I believe.  Page's soloing is erie in light of the wall of
sound, and the thick, rich bottom spilled out dankly by Mike, Trey and
Fish. Around 19:20 Mike begins to solo more prominently, firing off
phaaaaat licks on his 'doc!  Could this be bass and drums?  An
intensely psychotic, fiendishly groovy jam around 20 minutes!!!  Mike
is soloing away actively and melodiously, employing a drippy, 21st
century metallic-psychedelic effect over a steady groove laid down by
Fish and Trey.  Page is hardly audible around 21 mins.

At 21:14 the closing WUDMTF segment kicks in, and, well, Fish wasn't
listening to Mike (or was just intensely into the groove, eyes closed,
like me, and in Another World completely!), and the drums kinda
dragged into the closing segment sloppily.  NO "bass & drums segment,"
really.. the whole jam segment was too mesmerizing and enchanting --
it simply flowed sooooo well, that to demarcate a "bass and drums
segment" wouldn't be Right, in my opinion.

The vocal jam is a typically psychotic vocal jam, only it includes
some Trey-inspired "Palucifer" lines, before Trey audibly articulates
"Hinkley" and "David Hinkley."  Lots of vocal jamming on the David
Hinkley theme (well, for a good two minutes).  Around 24 minutes,
though, the vocal jam dissolves into a typical Fall 1995 highly
active, bewilderingly mouthy & hissy vocal jam.  A little shouting
from Fish.  At 25 minutes the jam cools, and the dying out of the Fall
1995 vocal jam ensues (soft chanting/harmonizing, for the most part).
At approximately 26:44,  a beautiful -> segue into Sleeping Monkey
occurs.  The whole band vocal jams on Sleeping Monkey for a good
minute! =^]  At 27:30 the Monkey vocal jamming pretty much ends and
Fish gets back on the kit for the real Monkey.

This was an EXCELLENT all-around version of YEM.  The jam segment
didn't really climax, in all honesty, but the whole thing was
***VERY*** intense and hypnotic.  A very impressive version, worthy,
in my opinion, of an unquestionably above average rating.  "A/A-"

TWO CENTS
charlie