The Boston Creme show continues to follow the latter-run template of the most recent BD shows, resulting in some amazing music without scaling the heights of the shows from the early legs of the run.
The first set is one of the better mixes of first-setty tunes from the back half of the BD's very first-setty sets, and the frankly amazing "Sunshine of Your Feeling" medley elevates things, for sure. You might dig rarities like "Soul Shakedown," "Uncle Pen," "The Sloth," "FYF," and "Fire." You might want to hear the jazz-to-rock transition in an extended Type I "Jibboo." And you might, like me, really like the synthed-out take on "Mule" and the funkified "Plasma" jam. You might also enjoy these things very little, and find this to be a surprisingly normal set for the second-to-last BD night, all things considered.
Regardless of all that, though, you need to listen to "Sunshine of Your Feeling." Afterward, Fish says the band has been waiting twenty years to play it, and I believe him. It's fantastic in the Phishiest way.
A monster "Ghost" kicks off the second set, and contains most of the show's improv. But that's okay because it's a great take. We travel through funk and then a head-fake toward bliss jamming before departing on a more cerebral loops-and-synth-based exploration. Eventually, this transitions into a space that recalls the "circus jam" from 8/4's "Scents" and then peaks in a predictable but fun way in the end anyway because why the hell not?
"Petrichor" follows, beautiful as always, and then there's "Light." As "Light" is arguably the flagship jam vehicle for 3.0, it seems odd that it doesn't get much of a treatment here, but it doesn't. It noodles around in its usual pretty-much-Type I zone for a few minutes, then fades into an ambient jam that's interesting but is cut way too short for "The Lizards." And I really like "The Lizards."
The rest of the set is an energetic, joyous victory lap of predictable tunes, and "Joy" sends us home on an emotional high note if not necessarily a musical one.
Bring on the final night!
The Live Review:
8/5/17: Heading into the last two BD shows. Today, it's Boston Creme time.
8/5/17: Or, I guess 'Boston, Cream' would be more appropriate in this case.
8/5/17: Soul Shakedown Party opener.
8/5/17: Uncle Pen!!!!
8/5/17: The Sloth! Seems weird that there hasn't been a gimmick song yet, but I'm loving these setlist calls.
8/5/17: Extra mellow jazzy Type I jam here in Jibboo. Page on electric piano.
8/5/17: Extended Type I take on Jibboo that reaches a huge peak before subsiding into FYF.
8/5/17: Sunshine of Your Love
8/5/17: -> Hooked On a Feeling
8/5/17: -> Sunshine
8/5/17: -> Long Time -> White Room -> Long Time/White Room mashup
8/5/17: This is fucking ridiculous.
8/5/17: -> Sunshine -> Hooked On a Feeling.
8/5/17: Fish says they've been saving that joke for 20 years. Trey: 'This whole thing was just so we could do that.'
8/5/17: After a brief pause, Frost.
8/5/17: I love me some Frost. It's more a TAB song than a Phish song, i think, but it's still a great song. Mule next.
8/5/17: Neat synth bit from Page. Now echoplex from Trey. Adding a new dimension to the Mule duel, for sure.
8/5/17: Some marimba now.
8/5/17: > Fire!
8/5/17: Alaska. Or, as I like to think of it, Ocelot II.
8/5/17: Plasma!
8/5/17: I've loved Phish's take on this tune since the 10/17/14 Carini -> Plasma.
8/5/17: Like Jibboo, Plasma gets extended and rocked-out, but never really gets out of the box. Set ends w/ Sunshine tease.
8/5/17: S2 opens with GHOST. I've been waiting for this for 11.5 shows.
8/5/17: Temporarily shutting door during office hours so I can crank it.
8/5/17: On whiteboard: 'Be back in 21 minutes.'
8/5/17: After a few minutes of funk jamming, the band modulates into a brighter sounding space.
8/5/17: At this point, the rest of the band is pretty clearly just waiting for Trey to come up with a bliss jam riff.
8/5/17: A more loop-based direction segues into a funk-chord jam with Page on synth.
8/5/17: Heading into something that sounds like the 'circus jam' bit of Scents from 8/4. Crowd cheers.
8/5/17: Band finds a much more organic way around to launching and all-out bliss assault on this Ghost jam.
8/5/17: Big ol' happy Phish throwdown happening now.
8/5/17: Whoever decided to follow that joyful Ghost jam with Petrichor is a genius.
8/5/17: Been playing that SBD orchestra Petrichor from Trey on loop lately. So good.
8/5/17: Another great take on Petrichor. That song has been super-solid lately. Light next.
8/5/17: Reverb-y jazz jam happening now. Pretty standard territory for Light jams so far.
8/5/17: Light definitely goes Type II, but stays in a pretty standard Light-jam place for most of its running time.
8/5/17: Page goes to the organ for the last little bit, which is interesting.
8/5/17: Ambient fade-out after that.
8/5/17: > The Lizards
8/5/17: After a spirited take on The Lizards, The Horse > Silent.
8/5/17: Quinn next. Trey throws in a Sunshine tease, to boot.
8/5/17: Rocky Top is gonna round out a high-energy fourth quarter.
8/5/17: Encore, fittingly after that rock-fest, is Joy.
8/5/17: All in all, another great BD show. No jamming in the first set, but a strong set anyway, anchored by 'Sunshine of Your Feeling.'
8/5/17: Aside from the monster bliss-Ghost, the second set actually also had a relative shortage of jamming, but was high-energy and fun.
8/5/17: I'd love for the run to close out with another show like those first five batshit crazy shows...
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