For some reason, my music player is CONVINCED that the album art for all three of these BGCA shows is the cover of #wilco's Sky Blue Sky. At this point, I'm just rolling with it.
Lotta extra
mustard on this version of Jim. That either means this is going to be a
killer show, or one of those early 2012 shows where they just play 400
seven-minute songs. I guess we'll see.
Great vocal breakdown in the middle of Wolfman's.
Getting some 90s-level melodic soloing from Trey now.
Plinko-ish jamming now.
Damn, that was a great Type I Wolfman's. Nellie Kane next.
Welp, after that
Wolfman's, the band definitely did just start playing an early 2012
first set. On the upside, this version of Ocelot is actually pretty
decent.
I enjoyed I Didn't Know > 46 Days more than I thought I would.
Thanks mostly to Page, that was the most fun four-minute Tube I've heard in a long time.
Also always nice to hear hear When the Circus Comes in the midst of an onslaught of random songs.
Also, a not-flubby version of Sugar Shack. They should just end the set right there.
Going into SOAM instead. I'll take it.
SOAM is super-chaotic. Loving what they've been doing with it lately (in 2012). Lots of loops.
Looks like the first set is going to wrap with Cavern. Ninety minutes.
8/18/12 #phish Live Review, Set Two: Golden Age kicks off the second set.
Even way back in 2012, it's in way too high a key for Trey to actually sing it. Just sayin'.
Sometimes I like to just listen to only Fish for the entire Golden Age composed section.
Neat little funk jam emerging from Golden Age, but it quickly peters and Trey starts up Piper.
Piper jam builds a bit, then gets yanked for Mike's.
A pretty
straightforward Mike's with some angular soloing from Trey gets a
hard
segue into Simple. I'm partial to this transition because one of the
first #phish shows I had on tape had a Mike's > Simple > (I think) Groove sequence.
At the time I thought they always went together
Lots of great interplay in the Simple outro. Trey and Mike taking over now, playing off of each other.
Ambient jam! Happy to hear this come back after it was hinted at then ripcorded earlier.
I am rarely happy to hear the whale call, but this is one of those times.
This is a long, patient jam, here.
Ambient jam goes into Number Line. Such a good seven or so minutes of #phish, there.
Set feels like
it's starting to revert to another "hits playlist"-type affair, but I do
love the Number Line > Carini transition.
Weirdly, Carini pretty much ends on a dime after the composed part and a brief solo. Trey calling for Wilson.
This very late-set 2001 seems especially randomly chosen.
Fluffhead looks like it's going to close the second set.
Nice, high-energy version of the outro jam there. Loving Cup continues the second set.
End set.
Is there a more perfect encore song for a two-hundred minute show with five minutes of jamming than Show of Life?
No. The answer is no.
Zero is the other encore song.
Well, after Long Beach and BGCA I sounding more like latter-day 3.0 #phish,
this show definitely took us back to early summer 2012 in a
mostly-not-good way. That said, check out the first set (yeah, you read
that right) for some legit jams. SOAM and Wolfman's were great.
Oh, and the Simple in the middle of the second set was goddamn gorgeous.
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