8/15/12 #phish
Live Review, Set One: I'm excited to start reviewing the second leg of
'12 tour. Hoping that it follows the pattern of most summer tours, where
things really start to open up during the second half/leg.
That said, a Suzy opener sounds an awful lot like most of the early leg of tour...
Well, Page is happy to be back. Killing the ivories during his Suzy solo.
Cities after Suzy. Trey laying down an especially good melodic solo.
Next is the screech of KDF. Sort of feels like they're trying to stretch this one out lately, especially after the SPAC version, but never quite getting there.
Guelah, Cool It Down. Can't argue with that pairing.
Strong take on Stash, and I'll always love hearing the outro to Bouncing.
Gin doesn't really get Out There, but it has a REALLY high-energy ending. End set?
Nope. Quinn the Eskimo rounds things out.
On paper, that set wasn't that much different than most of the early summer first sets, but something felt different about it. Band seemed to be stretching a bit on tunes like Cities, KDF, Stash, and Gin in a way that typically haven't in '12 first sets.
8/15/12 #phish Live Review, Set Two: Set two opens with Rock and Roll. Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like we haven't heard that one for awhile.
Trey is tearing into this one early.
Page over to the organ signals a change in the direction of the jam. Getting darker now.
Quick turn to a faster, almost circus-like sound. Is there such a thing as "circus-funk"?
Trey laying down some loops. Things getting stranger again.
Ambient jamming now.
Page leading a build back out of the ambient haze now. This feels super-rare for 2012: that Trey didn't pull out Twist, or Piper, or Number Line in the middle of that loose section.
Weird, pulsing jam happening now. This is great.
Really great four-headed jamming at the moment. Nobody taking over.
This sounds completely different from literally anything played during the first leg of this tour.
It's probably been a sustained eight or so minutes of this weirdness at this point.
Past twenty minutes in the jam.
Trey chording for a second that made it seem like the jam might head back in a funk direction, but now all kinds of ambient noises taking over. Wow.
This is like the mellow companion of the Gorge '11 Rock and Roll.
Fishman is an ace in this part of the jam.
Ends with a bass blast from Mike. That was amazing. Ghost next, too!
Sounded like Trey was teasing My Woman From Tokyo there for a minute.
Ghost jam modulates really smoothly and is now picking up momentum.
Big peak now, reminiscent of the first set's Gin jam.
Bringing the tempo waaaaaay down now. Spooky section.
Someone (Fish?) teasing Roggae lyrics.
-> Limb By Limb. The Roggae transition would've been cooler, but that was still pretty great.
Trey is unleashing the blues a bit during this LxL solo.
Guyute next!
Dirt follows a well-played Guyute. Interesting setlist choices after Ghost.
HOOD
They definitely rip through the composed section of Hood in 2012 in a way that they don't in 2018.
Fantastic plunge into the jam here. Great playing by everyone.
Trey using some loops, to surprisingly great effect.
Great little section that's recalling the RnR jam earlier...has to be on purpose, right? If so, that's just fucking gravy.
Seamless build and then drop into the outro progression.
Huge wall of looping guitar cries from Trey to end the song. > GTBT.
End set two.
Julius encore.
Well, that really felt like a completely different band than the one from the early tour leg: more patient, more exploratory, and even on the non-jammed songs, always adding little details here and there that stood out.
The RnR jam is easily my favorite thing from 2012 so far. In addition, great Gin, the Ghost sounded like it could have come from 2015, and the Hood was my favorite version of the year so far.
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