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bettymoonunit Reviewed: June 12, 2023 concert by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
I'll be honest, I feared I was being an idiot, buying tickets for consecutive KGLW shows; how different could they possibly BE? I knew the setlists would be different but the whole impact of this show was completely different than Sunday. I've listened to all their albums but I still didn't understand how versatile a band they'd become. Again I was really in awe the whole night, mostly unable to stop dancing. It's wild how differently they present themselves on their albums; the studio masks come off and here's this bunch of goofy dudes freed from the constraints of getting it exactly right. For a middle-aged guy like me this was a night of frequent nostalgia pangs, the way Gizzard borrows liberally and directly from its antecedants. Normally that bugs me; this band takes it to such an extreme you have to marvel at how they blend it all so well. Almost Ween-esque. Night one had the bigger highlights, night two it's hard to pick highlights because the whole thing flowed so well. (Didn't make it to night three, sadly.) Suddenly my live band priority list is all shook up, I was not trying to let this happen.

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