7/8/12 #phish Live Review, Set One: AC/DC Bag opens the last show of the first leg of summer tour.
A loop of the end of Bag leads into My Soul.
So far, the first set is a pretty straightforward affair: Camel Walk, Sample, Wilson, Party Time, Gumbo, Nellie Kane.
It's always great to hear Driver, though.
Things perhaps getting a little more interesting now with Foam.
Spot-on take on Foam. If I Could is next.
This was one of the first Phish songs that I ever heard, and I still love it. Wish they'd play it more often.
Great interplay between Page and Trey during this outro jam.
Interesting tonal change, with SOAM following If I Could...
SOAM jam starts off surprisingly driving. Now getting more abstract and angry.
Sounding more like a 90s Melt jam than a 3.0 one.
> La Grange! That's weird. But certainly welcome.
And that's the end of a well-played but generally unremarkable set. Maybe give Foam a listen if you like that song a lot?
7/8/12 #phish Live Review, Set Two: Axila I opener.
I have to admit, I was really hoping that during the Baker's Dozen we'd get Axila I and then an Axila II bustout right after. They *are* technically different songs, after all.
Light next. Trey sings the second verse first, then comments on it during the song. As if lyrical flubs don't happen with Light like 60% of the time :)
Light departing from its arpeggiated shuffle at around 5:30.
Fishman killing it now. Sparser jam. Page on electric piano, Trey playing power chords.
Getting eerie now.
Nice segue out of the haze into Twist.
Really grungy funk jam coming out of Twist. Page on clav.
Short but sweet Twist there.
> KDF.
Standard KDF jam just devolved into an arrhythmic noise fest.
Nice segue out of that mini-jam! -> MFMF.
Another wild tone shift: MFMF > Swept Away.
> Steep. Steep outro jam has added melody vocals from a few band members
(sounded like Trey and Mike).
PIPER
Trey latches on to a descending riff that Page is playing (!) and here we go!
Tons of momentum in this jam right now. Feels like it's ten seconds away from hitting a summer '15-style peak.
Another movement to the jam now.
More space noise now. Trey screaming.
Sounds like Kung.
Nope. -> Free.
Oddly, *now* they go into Kung.
> Hood!
This is a really weird second set setlist, but it's definitely keeping the momentum going. Reba-like playing from Trey early on in this Hood.
Reba-like playing from Trey early on in this Hood.
That was a really compact take on Hood, but a great one.
Loop-filled ending leads to Cavern.
A marathon-feeling second set continues after Cavern with Bowie. Wow.
We're going to pass the three-hour mark during this Bowie and the band is still firing on all cylinders. Not exactly a revelatory version, but a strongly-played one.
Page thanking the audience at the end of the second set.
YEM encore!
Super-swingin' jam section here.
Trey biffs the entry into the song's closing "Wash Uffizi..." part, and everyone sort of crashes into the vocal jam. It was pretty awesome.
End nearly three-and-a-half (!) hour show.
Well, the first set wasn't anything to write home about, but that second set definitely redeemed the show. A solid jam in Light, a weird but great, non-stop middle-set sequence, and a "real" jam in Piper...all with what felt like a second second set coming after it.
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