The final night at Bader Field continues in the mold of the previous two shows, with a slightly more interesting first set and a second that combines the worst bits of the two previous nights.
Once again, there are no real highlights in the first set. The rote set might not have the energy of the previous two nights, but it's got some rarer tunes, like "Brother," "Jim," "Dogs Stole Things," "NICU," "Foam," and "Timber." There's a lot of shredding, if you're into that sort of thing, on "Brother," "Timber," and a massively heavy "Walls of the Cave."
"Drowned" opens the second set, and the jam out of it is about as platonically Phish as it can be, going space funk for a few minutes while Trey Plays That One Chord Progression He Does and Page Uses That One Organ Tone He Uses, and then it's over and we follow the fade-out into "2001." "2001" and the "Reba" that follows are probably the highlights of this set (or show?), for what that's worth.
The rest of the set is pretty standard. "Chalkdust" is a solid, rocked-out version that ends in a nonstandard cloud of noise, out of which "Caspian" comes. This is the shortest "Caspian" ever (maybe true?) because at the beginning of the jam Trey hits on the "Silent" riff and pulls off a great segue. That sets up two set-ending tunes "Bug," then "ADITL" before a really oddly-placed "Disease" that actually ends the set.
"Gotta Jibboo" and "Quinn" make up the equally weirdly chosen encore.
The Live Review:
6/17/12: And now, the final of the three Bader Field shows.
6/17/12: Brother opener.
6/17/12: Some nice melodic playing from Trey there. Runaway Jim next.
6/17/12: Dogs Stole Things in the three-slot after a pretty standard Jim.
6/17/12: This song is always creepier than I remember it being.
6/17/12: Some more songs happened. Boogie On, NICU, and now Foam.
6/17/12: Solid take on Foam. Wilson next.
6/17/12: Timber next! Jam starts with some pretty great guitar lines from Trey.
6/17/12: Moody noodling happening now. That's fun to say, 'moody noodling.'
6/17/12: Fun take on Timber. Trey quizzing the audience about song endings again afterwards.
6/17/12: Fluffhead!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO… https://t.co/9VUv8ZRGxj
6/17/12: Signs that I might need to take a break from Phish for awhile: I'm watching a War On Drugs concert video w… https://t.co/RBT3RlSztB
6/17/12: Set continues after a mostly tight Fluffhead with Walls.
6/17/12: After a Walls outro jam that returned oddly to the chorus progression (or at least Trey did), we continue… https://t.co/QxhNWYW6eC
6/17/12: S2 opens with Drowned.
6/17/12: Drowned evolves pretty quickly into a straightforward but fun space-funk jam. Mike playing a big role.
6/17/12: Jam sputters out pretty quickly, but out of the haze comes 2001.
6/17/12: Nice long intro to 2001.
6/17/12: Nice, lengthy-ish take on 2001 leads into Reba.
6/17/12: Pretty great Reba here.
6/17/12: Roses Are Free
6/17/12: Band teases another post-Roses jam ala Worcester, but Trey pulls out Chalkdust instead.
6/17/12: Trey directing Chalkdust in a tension-y direction there briefly.
6/17/12: Trey giving the scales a huge workout and Page giving the organ a huge workout during this version. Huge n… https://t.co/5sjNz3x9VI
6/17/12: Weird, loop-filled ending to the song as well.
6/17/12: Rest of the band adding to the noise now.
6/17/12: > Caspian
6/17/12: Caspian goes short, as Trey replicates the Silent In the Morning riff and -> Silent occurs. Bug is next, a… https://t.co/W5Zf7Wudtv
6/17/12: Page-only outro to Bug leads into Day In the Life.
6/17/12: Noise rock at the end of ADITL leads into Disease.
6/17/12: This is the tenth song of the second set.
6/17/12: End set with a spicy Type I Disease.
6/17/12: That sounded sort of gross.
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