The Live Review
8/24/12 #phish Live Review, Set One: Possum opener.
Very
loose-sounding Possum. Everyone getting a chance to take a stab at some
Type I improv. Here's hoping that things open up a bit more than 8/22 in
terms of both song selection and playing.
Cities is next. Lots of cheers at the "Birmingham" line.
Nice little outro with Page on electric piano. > Sample.
Great playing
continues through some first set staples. Timber pushes the band to
briefly jam in an interesting way, but otherwise, it's been pure
first-settiness so far.
Trey teases the
crowd in the back for "being higher than you were last time we were
here," which prompts Page to dedicate Lawn Boy to them.
Trey now
dedicating the next song to a different part of the lawn, and then a
particular guy "with the towel on your shoulder." It's DWD.
DWD stays Type I
but features some serious dominance from Trey. This might be developing
into another really straightforward set, but Trey is really putting a
little extra on each song within those constraints.
Rest of the set
follows the tone established by the first half: Gumbo, Ginseng, Wedge,
Julius, Cavern are all well-played, standard takes. Set-ending WMGGW was
pretty nice, though.
8/24/12 #phish Live Review, Set Two: Rock and Roll opener.
Rock and Roll jam
opens with another great Type I Trey solo, then Page switches to the
clav and now we have a sort-of double-time Cities jam on our hands.
Nice build-up in this jam so far.
Slowing down now. Echoes and loops. Page on electric piano. Really beautiful jamming.
After a few minutes, the jam fades really naturally into The Lizards.
Fun to hear The Lizards that early in the set. Halley's is next.
Quick stop at the end of Halley's, then a drop into Sand.
Type I Sand jam building nicely.
This was the perfect song choice for Mega-Shred Trey. He's killing it.
Sand rock and roll peak fades quickly out into a loopy, ambient space. Sort of sinister-sounding.
Space > Twist.
Santana-esque jam forming out of Twist.
Twist jam haze > Birds.
I think that the
move into Birds signals the end of the brief "jamming" part of the
night. Boogie On, a short 2001, and then Waste are next.
To be fair, Boogie > 2001 were joined by another neat, if under-a-minute haze "jam."
Looks like Slave is going to end the second set.
Kind of unique, proggy entrance into the jam. Huh.
Nice, long, drone-y section before the build begins.
GTBT is a nice choice for a lone encore tune.
Set two wasn't
bad, but started off with a really promising Rock and Roll jam, which
made what followed feel a little anticlimactic.
A lot of the set
felt like a '09 or '10 second set where there wasn't any sustained
jamming, but each song was joined by a minute or so of improvised space.
It certainly
keeps the momentum going (set two would have made a great opening set),
but it definitely leaves me wanting more to sink my teeth into. That
said, the RnR -> The Lizards is worth a listen, as is the Sand.
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