From: Charlie Dirksen
04/16/94 Mullins Center, UMASS, Amherst, MA Well, two YEMs in three nights. I think maybe they wanted to redeem
themselves from 4/14's version as quickly as possible. Or it was requested by a friend of theirs.. or.. or.. Opening standard.
Vibration of Life discussion during the pre-Nirvana segment. They really work on it in here, to try to get it to work. And it
seems to. The crowd is NUTS! Nirvana at 3:51. Mike's solo section, along with the pre-charge and jamming around The Notes
is fine. Nothing unduly exciting, though. "Boy" around 7:09 or so. My copy has a dropout in the "charge" section. WUDMTF
segment is standard. Brad Sands jumps on the trampolines. You go, Brad.. ;-) Another serious dropout/cut on my copy.
Sounds like the jam segment. 11:20 time or so. I dunno. Oh well. Jam begins quietly, with some delicate noodling from Trey
and Mike and Page (Fish is quiet). At 12:17 or so, Trey teases Santana's Oye Como Va, briefly. Slowly, steadily, the jam starts
creeping back in intensity. Trey is still noodling delicately in here, though. Very pretty, nothing exceptional, in my opinion. This is
definitely NOT a below average jam segment; it is just not that much of an above average one, in my opinion. Trey's soloing is
melodious for the most part, and is engaging, but at times this jam sounds like it could have been somewhat tricky to really
DANCE to. Just doesn't start raging until very close to the bass and drums segment, which, by my undoubtedly incorrect timing,
comes in at 15:47 (with sustain from Trey and Page into its opening.. a fantastic transition!). Mike and Fish groove as usual in
here. Very repetitive anti-melodious funk from Mike for the most part. He does nothing impressive, based on what I've heard
him do. Tis very, very laid back and dry. Fish's accompaniment is good, and includes some fun tom work, but this whole bass
and drums segment is honestly one of the lamer ones in '94. Final WUDMTF segment at around 17:30 or so, but again, my
timing is probably off by a good twenty or thirty seconds. Could even be more, I just don't know. The vocal jam is well,
uneventful imo. I wasn't that pleased with this YEM. Although the jam segment was interesting, it really wasn't significantly
awesome to redeem this YEM. The highlight had to have been Brad on the tramps. Total time something around 22:17. Then
Coil kicks in. C rating. two cents KingMoron420