The Verdict:
While just about every show lately, especially during fall tour, has skewed more toward "weird" than "good," some have managed to be weird in a good way, though most have been weird in a "meh" way. This show is one of the weird-good ones.
Sorry if that last sentence is confusing. I'm food coma-ing mightily at the moment.
So, the first set is absolutely full of friggin' songs. There are thirteen of them. And almost every one is a song that would make you raise an eyebrow in surprise if you heard the band start it up. It's like they just picked a shitload of songs they hadn't played in a long time and threw them all at the wall the see what stuck. That's the good news and the bad news: the good news is if you get super jacked about rare songs being played, this will blow up your brain; the bad news is that that novelty's about all you get. The performances range from standard-great to "Which one of us wrote this song and how the hell do we play it again?", as you might expect.
Set two is a lot stronger, though less consistent than all the segues on the setlist might lead you to believe. "Possum" doesn't go anywhere special despite opening the set, but the band absolutely hammers it nonetheless. The "Light" jam is serious business, with a section I'm calling "space calypso," a "Manteca"-style jam, and a smooth ambient wind-down into a "Mike's" that recalls the "Possum"'s rock-rage. Things get more straightforward after the "Light," but they don't stay that way as there's a "Makisupa" -> "Night Nurse" -> "Makisupa" sandwich in the middle of the set. Then the "Ghost" joins the hallowed company of many a great late-show mega-jam: it's short, but incredibly powerful and "gets there" with plenty of time to spare. Highly recommended for many reasons, not least of which being the great segue into "The Mango Song." The set-closing "Groove" also gets weirder than usual before transitioning through a "CYHMK?" jam into a reprise of "Llama" from the first set.
There are a few strange snags in the flow of this set, but it's still one of the more interesting and one of the (mostly) best-played sets the band has put together in fall 2010, at least.
The Live Review:
10/26/10: So, this show opens with the first After Midnight since Big Cypress.
10/26/10: The Sloth is next. Sounding great out of the gates.
10/26/10: Alumni Blues is next and also has some serious swagger. This bodes well for some actually interesting music...
10/26/10: I spoke just in time. Alumni > Jimmy Page > Alumni, but with a neat little blues outro jam tacked on to the end.
10/26/10: Sounds like the early 90s in here.
10/26/10: Mellow Mood! Also gets extended a bit. Mike is going to town.
10/26/10: After a long conference, the band settles on Access Me next. Nobody knows the words, but hey.
10/26/10: Llama next. I'm loving the results of this setlist weirdness...mostly.
10/26/10: Another long conference, and then All of These Dreams.
10/26/10: The Curtain!
10/26/10: With!
10/26/10: This S1 so far deserves some special attention just because of the setlist.
10/26/10: After Midnight, The Sloth, Alumni > Jimmy Page > Alumni, Mellow Mood, Access Me, Llama, All of These Dreams, The Curtain With
10/26/10: Not a single one of those is a song I'd even remotely expect to hear at a typical Phish show.
10/26/10: Extra-good Page solo in this Scent of a Mule.
10/26/10: A Song I Heard The Ocean Sing is getting a little extended, too.
10/26/10: It's Ice! This is a weird first set. It's like they've just abandoned the entire 'Play the same songs we always play well' mode.
10/26/10: Instead, they're playing a lot of rarer songs, with absolutely no respect for flow or whether they remember how to play them.
10/26/10: But somehow, it all works really well.
10/26/10: Walls of the Cave closes the first frame.
10/26/10: There isn't anything in that set that deserves a relisten...
10/26/10: ...but if you like first sets with unpredictable setlists, it doesn't get much better in '09-'10.
10/26/10: Second set opens with Possum. Early jam is really broken-down and minimal.
10/26/10: That was a HUGE rock and roll Possum. No legit jamming, but just about the best S2-opening version you could hope for w/o it.
10/26/10: Light is next. Been some great versions lately, so it has a lot to live up to.
10/26/10: I feel bad about this, but at this point in my Phish life, I just sit back and wait for the Light arpeggio jam to...
10/26/10: ...transition into the interesting part without really paying attention to it.
10/26/10: Some loops from Trey and then Mike drives the jam into a deeper, loops-and-synth-filled space.
10/26/10: Is there a jam style called 'Galactic Calypso' yet?
10/26/10: Super-Manteca vibe now.
10/26/10: Really smooth transition into it, too.
10/26/10: Someone really needs to start screaming 'CRAB IN MY SHOEMOUTH' any time now.
10/26/10: Jam winds down > Mike's. Fantastic version of Light even if I didn't get my full transition into Manteca :)
10/26/10: Super heavy version of Mike's > Simple.
10/26/10: A typically gorgeous Simple jam gives way to Makisupa Policeman.
10/26/10: Makisupa -> Night Nurse > Makisupa. Very cool.
10/26/10: The Wedge gets a slightly extended jam, too.
10/26/10: Very late-set Ghost. Well, shucks.
10/26/10: This Ghost exploded hella early. Eleven minutes of SERIOUS GHOST HERE, FOLKS
10/26/10: Perfect transition into a great blissed-out space with repeating Trey riff. Building again now...
10/26/10: Outro bliss-riff and Mango Song riff interchanged with one another. That was amazingly
cool.
10/26/10: Mango Song outro gets buttslammed into Weekapaug!
10/26/10: Circular jam emerging from the end of Groove.
10/26/10: Ghost lyrics over the jam, now.
10/26/10: Night Nurse lyrics now.
10/26/10: Can You Hear Me Knocking jam now.
10/26/10: Full-on Llama reprise now.
10/26/10: Egregious misuse of the Show of Life encore after ending the second set in such a spectacular fashion :)
May 28, 2015
2010-10-24 Mullins Center II
The Verdict:
If the first night of the Mullins Center run was interesting and provided jams in unexpected places, the second night...really doesn't do either of those things. But not for lack of trying.
There are a lot of great song choices here, both sets hang together really well, and the energy's high throughout (and Trey's in his usual 2010 form). But what you end up with is basically two really good first sets. In the first set, the "Ride Captain Ride" cover is great, "Stash" gets extended in interesting ways, and there's a brief harmonics jam at the end of "Fee" that leads perfectly into "TTE"...and that adds just enough novelty and variety to offset the jukeboxiness of the rest of the set.
Set two is a similar deal. "Seven Below" opens but doesn't go anywhere, there's a great first-set "Wolfman's" jam, and the rest is all show-opening fare except for the typically great "Roggae" and a surprisingly varied "Bowie" to close the set.
The Live Review:
10/24/10: Time for a super early review this morning. Yay?
10/24/10: Bag to open the second Mullins Center show.
10/24/10: Some relatively understated guitar work from Trey in the build-up of this Bag.
10/24/10: Camel Walk is second, with an extra-weird bridge in the middle.
10/24/10: Divided Sky next. Usually a sign that it's going to be a composed-epic-heavy setlist.
10/24/10: Ride Captain Ride!
10/24/10: Stash. Really minimal breakdown to start the jam.
10/24/10: Trey switches modes mid-solo. Stash getting a little weird.
10/24/10: Extended Stash doesn't ever get more than just a little weird, but a strong version. Now,
megaphone sirens and Fee.
10/24/10: Extended the harmonics-based outro 'jam' of Fee a bit.
10/24/10: Sirens and synth coming in now.
10/24/10: Electric piano.
10/24/10: 10/24/10: -> TTE. I think that's the first time I've ever been excited to hear TTE start. Great segue.
10/24/10: I think that Fish is switching up the beats a bit in this version it's neat.
10/24/10: TTE was TTE. Cavern next.
10/24/10: Cavern > Antelope.
10/24/10: That S1 was weird. 4 songs at 10+ minutes, 2 at 15+, and yet nothing really of interest to speak of.
10/24/10: The Stash was a little weird, so check that out if you're a Stash jam completist, I guess.
10/24/10: S2 starts with Seven Below!!!
10/24/10: So far, Seven Below jam is just a huge rock and roll jam. Looping, screaming guitars.
10/24/10: 'Just' a huge rock and roll jam :)
10/24/10: Return to main riff @ the end of the song, > Wolfman's.
10/24/10: Another excellent Wolfman's. Continues to be one of the standout tunes of 2010, despite mostly being deployed in the first set.
10/24/10: Wolfman's, Number Line, Alaska. All high-octane versions but no real jams on the horizon again tonight.
10/24/10: Seems like 10/19, 10/20, and to a lesser degree 10/22 were an anomaly rather than a resurgence.
10/24/10: Put Free in that category, too.
10/24/10: The Lizards is next, though, which is nice.
10/24/10: 10/24/10: Brother > Roggae. At least the setlist is getting interesting even if the playing isn't.
10/24/10: Great Roggae jam. Fantastic runs from Mike throughout.
10/24/10: Fluid segue into Taste from out of the Roggae jam.
10/24/10: Taste > Waste. Fun with setlists!
10/24/10: Waste fades into the Bowie intro.
10/24/10: really interesting Bowie jam so far. Kinda moving toward a bliss space there for a minute or two, then back into the typical mode.
10/24/10: I typically try to avoid the whole 'for 3.0' qualifier when I can, but Bowie is perhaps the song most neutered by the comeback.
10/24/10: That said, that was a better version than most, 'for 3.0.' Now Quinn.
10/24/10: Trey playing more melody than rhythm in Quinn, even during the vocals. Was unique, but seemed to throw the band off a bit.
10/24/10: So, CDT is a weird encore choice. But there it is.
10/24/10: That was one of those shows that just felt like a whole bunch of songs. Good songs, well played, but nothing to get excited about.
If the first night of the Mullins Center run was interesting and provided jams in unexpected places, the second night...really doesn't do either of those things. But not for lack of trying.
There are a lot of great song choices here, both sets hang together really well, and the energy's high throughout (and Trey's in his usual 2010 form). But what you end up with is basically two really good first sets. In the first set, the "Ride Captain Ride" cover is great, "Stash" gets extended in interesting ways, and there's a brief harmonics jam at the end of "Fee" that leads perfectly into "TTE"...and that adds just enough novelty and variety to offset the jukeboxiness of the rest of the set.
Set two is a similar deal. "Seven Below" opens but doesn't go anywhere, there's a great first-set "Wolfman's" jam, and the rest is all show-opening fare except for the typically great "Roggae" and a surprisingly varied "Bowie" to close the set.
The Live Review:
10/24/10: Time for a super early review this morning. Yay?
10/24/10: Bag to open the second Mullins Center show.
10/24/10: Some relatively understated guitar work from Trey in the build-up of this Bag.
10/24/10: Camel Walk is second, with an extra-weird bridge in the middle.
10/24/10: Divided Sky next. Usually a sign that it's going to be a composed-epic-heavy setlist.
10/24/10: Ride Captain Ride!
10/24/10: Stash. Really minimal breakdown to start the jam.
10/24/10: Trey switches modes mid-solo. Stash getting a little weird.
10/24/10: Extended Stash doesn't ever get more than just a little weird, but a strong version. Now,
megaphone sirens and Fee.
10/24/10: Extended the harmonics-based outro 'jam' of Fee a bit.
10/24/10: Sirens and synth coming in now.
10/24/10: Electric piano.
10/24/10: 10/24/10: -> TTE. I think that's the first time I've ever been excited to hear TTE start. Great segue.
10/24/10: I think that Fish is switching up the beats a bit in this version it's neat.
10/24/10: TTE was TTE. Cavern next.
10/24/10: Cavern > Antelope.
10/24/10: That S1 was weird. 4 songs at 10+ minutes, 2 at 15+, and yet nothing really of interest to speak of.
10/24/10: The Stash was a little weird, so check that out if you're a Stash jam completist, I guess.
10/24/10: S2 starts with Seven Below!!!
10/24/10: So far, Seven Below jam is just a huge rock and roll jam. Looping, screaming guitars.
10/24/10: 'Just' a huge rock and roll jam :)
10/24/10: Return to main riff @ the end of the song, > Wolfman's.
10/24/10: Another excellent Wolfman's. Continues to be one of the standout tunes of 2010, despite mostly being deployed in the first set.
10/24/10: Wolfman's, Number Line, Alaska. All high-octane versions but no real jams on the horizon again tonight.
10/24/10: Seems like 10/19, 10/20, and to a lesser degree 10/22 were an anomaly rather than a resurgence.
10/24/10: Put Free in that category, too.
10/24/10: The Lizards is next, though, which is nice.
10/24/10: 10/24/10: Brother > Roggae. At least the setlist is getting interesting even if the playing isn't.
10/24/10: Great Roggae jam. Fantastic runs from Mike throughout.
10/24/10: Fluid segue into Taste from out of the Roggae jam.
10/24/10: Taste > Waste. Fun with setlists!
10/24/10: Waste fades into the Bowie intro.
10/24/10: really interesting Bowie jam so far. Kinda moving toward a bliss space there for a minute or two, then back into the typical mode.
10/24/10: I typically try to avoid the whole 'for 3.0' qualifier when I can, but Bowie is perhaps the song most neutered by the comeback.
10/24/10: That said, that was a better version than most, 'for 3.0.' Now Quinn.
10/24/10: Trey playing more melody than rhythm in Quinn, even during the vocals. Was unique, but seemed to throw the band off a bit.
10/24/10: So, CDT is a weird encore choice. But there it is.
10/24/10: That was one of those shows that just felt like a whole bunch of songs. Good songs, well played, but nothing to get excited about.
May 14, 2015
2010-10-23 Mullins Center I
The Verdict:
This show is weird-good. It might even be weird great. What the fuck am I talking about? Read on to find out!
Well, I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can, for example, describe a show like 10/20 in a few sentences and it immediately becomes clear why it's great. "There's a lot of fun teases in the first set, there's that weird seguefest/space jam at the end of the second set." These things are 1) weird, 2) technically impressive, and 3) unique. Describing a show like 10/19, on the other hand, doesn't really get across why it's so damn good ("There are some dark jams that are neat."), and yet I'd argue that both shows are equally awesome.
I bring this up because I think 10/23 falls into the latter category. It's hard to explain what it is that makes it a notable show, but it is one.
The first set starts off in pretty standard way, but pretty quickly turns interesting with a far-out "Tweezer" that never quite takes off entirely, but falls into that "Type 1.5" realm that elevates beyond most first set versions. The set winds up with a Phish-weird "BBFCFM" > "HYHU" > "Love You" > "HYHU" sequence and a hilarious and surprising "Tweeprise" closer that features the "Meatstick" opener's chorus vocals instead of the usual "Tweezer" vocals. There's nothing hugely impressive going on here improvisationally, but it's just fun, and it's one of Those Sets.
The guys play "Disease" for the second night in a row to open S2, but that's fine because this version packs a punch, getting strange quick and then morphing into a Tahoe "Tweezer"-like bliss rock jam before segueing into, of all things, "MFMF." The "Disease" jam itself is a highlight, but probably the best part of the show is, believe it or not, the "MFMF" -> "Caspian" -> "Halfway" -> "Boogie On" sequence. That sounds weird, and it sort of is, but the "Caspian" jam is weird and unique, "Halfway" is a stark take on the tune with alternate (unfinished) lyrics, and "Boogie On" features some extra loops and effects throughout the last few minutes that culminate in a great "Maze." Oh, and the segues are all pretty much perfect. Check this out, for sure.
Lastly, like many "Hood"s this year, the "Hood" is awesome, though it stays in the usual mode and doesn't wander like many '14 versions do. And the "YEM" that follows is the first show-closing "YEM" in awhile that feels like it's really deserved. Great show.
The Live Review:
10/23/10: While 10/19 and 10/20 were great shows, 10/22 was a return to form, so to speak. Will
10/23 suck balls? Let's find out!
10/23/10: Meatstick opener. It's like past Phish read my last tweet and responded.
10/23/10: Party Time is second. Serious bass work from Mike early on, and Page is laying down a
great organ solo now.
10/23/10: Golgi in the third spot, KDF in the fourth. Very first-setty so far.
10/23/10: Tweezer! Either the mix is different on this recording, or Mike is on fucking fire tonight.
10/23/10: Mike is driving the jam, Trey adding some neat harmonics. Page on the electric piano.
10/23/10: Mega mellow funk space in Tweezer. Mike still creating most of the notes.
10/23/10: Now a whale-y, noodly dream sequence.
10/23/10: This jam never strays too far away from Type I With Tone Changes (Type 1.5), but it's got great momentum. And in S1!
10/23/10: Studio-style wind-down at the end of the Tweezer.
10/23/10: Lawn Boy, lots of growls from someone (Page?) during Mike's solo.
10/23/10: Lawn Boy, Sparkle, BBFCFM. Definitely weird setlist flow during this show. With exception of that Tweezer, sort of a goofy set.
10/23/10: Some guy in the crowd is just SCREAMING 'THE SLOOOOOTH!' over and over again. #crowdbanter
10/23/10: Page starts up HYHU while Trey exhorts Fish to sing a song by chanting 'Henrietta! Henrietta!'
10/23/10: Fish sings half of Love You, ad libs some lyrics about the Electrolux, then attacks it face-first.
10/23/10: Band drops out, absolutely horrible-sounding solo from Fish on the vacuum now.
10/23/10: So, that was fun. Tweezer and BBFCFM > HYHU > Love You > HYHU break up the monotony of an otherwise standard fall 2010 S1.
10/23/10: Speaking of monotony, here comes Possum!
10/23/10: Very tension-and-release-filled Possum, actually. Great version.
10/23/10: Tweeprise?! Crowd is confused, no cheering.
10/23/10: I'm imagining that they're struck with the sudden fear of 'Oh shit, what if I bought a ticket to a single-set show?'
10/23/10: Okay, if you weren't confused enough yet, Tweeprise features the lyrics from the Meatstick chorus.
10/23/10: I love this band pretty much all the time.
10/23/10: Might not have been the most musically adventurous set of music ever, but Phish having fun on stage makes up for a lot of that.
10/23/10: Dude is still screaming for The Sloth. Also, someone just screamed 'PSYCHO KILLER!!!' right into the recording mic.
10/23/10: DWD opens the second set and gets weird pretty much off the bat. And I mean really weird. This is exciting.
10/23/10: Lots of loops and echoes. Trey laying out a rock solo over them.
10/23/10: Transition into bliss-mode rock. Sort of Tahoe Tweezer-ish for a minute or two.
10/23/10: Bliss rock shifts back to the loopy madness.
10/23/10: Loopy section is petering out a bit, though Mike is still laying down some excellent lines.
10/23/10: Trey pulls off a decent segue into MFMF instead of pushing for a second wind.
10/23/10: Welp, whatever else happens in this show, we've had a serious jam out of both Tweezer and Disease in one night.
10/23/10: What the hell is going to go into the jam slot tomorrow night guys? BET YOU DIDN'T THINK OF THAT AHEAD OF TIME.
10/23/10: MFMF -> Caspian. Trey started up the Caspian intro during the MFMF outro. Weird, but...unexpected, I guess?
10/23/10: This is almost more like a Simple jam than a Caspian jam. Very cool.
10/23/10: Sounds a bit like a WTU? tease from Trey. Would be a great segue.
10/23/10: Oh, shit! It's a Halfway To the Moon tease, actually. Great segue!
10/23/10: MFMF -> Caspian -> Halfway. Weird but notable sequence.
10/23/10: Instrumentation on this version is sparse.
10/23/10: Alternate lyrics from Page.
10/23/10: ...aaaaaaand -> Boogie On. Great string of segues, and some unexpected S2 songs, and a great Caspian jam. Awesome.
10/23/10: Loops at the end of Boogie > Maze. Not quite a ->, but almost keeps the streak alive.
10/23/10: Some extra machine-gun Trey at the end of that Maze. Now Wading.
10/23/10: A little spacey jamming at the end of this Piper. Definite Maze teases from Mike.
10/23/10: Just as Piper is developing (maybe), Fish hits the Hood beat. Nice, succinct version, though.
10/23/10: Hood for set closer?
10/23/10: Even as grumpy about 2010 as I am, there've been a LOT of good Hoods this year.
10/23/10: And Trey is currently dominating the 'slow build' part of this one.
10/23/10: Yup, good peak too.
10/23/10: YEM! Guess this ain't over yet.
10/23/10: Nice little Wilson-y jam in YEM, and a super-size Mike and Fish rhythm breakdown.
10/23/10: At the end of the vocal jam, someone screams 'FUCK YEAH!' #crowdbanter
10/23/10: Shine a Light encore.
This show is weird-good. It might even be weird great. What the fuck am I talking about? Read on to find out!
Well, I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can, for example, describe a show like 10/20 in a few sentences and it immediately becomes clear why it's great. "There's a lot of fun teases in the first set, there's that weird seguefest/space jam at the end of the second set." These things are 1) weird, 2) technically impressive, and 3) unique. Describing a show like 10/19, on the other hand, doesn't really get across why it's so damn good ("There are some dark jams that are neat."), and yet I'd argue that both shows are equally awesome.
I bring this up because I think 10/23 falls into the latter category. It's hard to explain what it is that makes it a notable show, but it is one.
The first set starts off in pretty standard way, but pretty quickly turns interesting with a far-out "Tweezer" that never quite takes off entirely, but falls into that "Type 1.5" realm that elevates beyond most first set versions. The set winds up with a Phish-weird "BBFCFM" > "HYHU" > "Love You" > "HYHU" sequence and a hilarious and surprising "Tweeprise" closer that features the "Meatstick" opener's chorus vocals instead of the usual "Tweezer" vocals. There's nothing hugely impressive going on here improvisationally, but it's just fun, and it's one of Those Sets.
The guys play "Disease" for the second night in a row to open S2, but that's fine because this version packs a punch, getting strange quick and then morphing into a Tahoe "Tweezer"-like bliss rock jam before segueing into, of all things, "MFMF." The "Disease" jam itself is a highlight, but probably the best part of the show is, believe it or not, the "MFMF" -> "Caspian" -> "Halfway" -> "Boogie On" sequence. That sounds weird, and it sort of is, but the "Caspian" jam is weird and unique, "Halfway" is a stark take on the tune with alternate (unfinished) lyrics, and "Boogie On" features some extra loops and effects throughout the last few minutes that culminate in a great "Maze." Oh, and the segues are all pretty much perfect. Check this out, for sure.
Lastly, like many "Hood"s this year, the "Hood" is awesome, though it stays in the usual mode and doesn't wander like many '14 versions do. And the "YEM" that follows is the first show-closing "YEM" in awhile that feels like it's really deserved. Great show.
The Live Review:
10/23/10: While 10/19 and 10/20 were great shows, 10/22 was a return to form, so to speak. Will
10/23 suck balls? Let's find out!
10/23/10: Meatstick opener. It's like past Phish read my last tweet and responded.
10/23/10: Party Time is second. Serious bass work from Mike early on, and Page is laying down a
great organ solo now.
10/23/10: Golgi in the third spot, KDF in the fourth. Very first-setty so far.
10/23/10: Tweezer! Either the mix is different on this recording, or Mike is on fucking fire tonight.
10/23/10: Mike is driving the jam, Trey adding some neat harmonics. Page on the electric piano.
10/23/10: Mega mellow funk space in Tweezer. Mike still creating most of the notes.
10/23/10: Now a whale-y, noodly dream sequence.
10/23/10: This jam never strays too far away from Type I With Tone Changes (Type 1.5), but it's got great momentum. And in S1!
10/23/10: Studio-style wind-down at the end of the Tweezer.
10/23/10: Lawn Boy, lots of growls from someone (Page?) during Mike's solo.
10/23/10: Lawn Boy, Sparkle, BBFCFM. Definitely weird setlist flow during this show. With exception of that Tweezer, sort of a goofy set.
10/23/10: Some guy in the crowd is just SCREAMING 'THE SLOOOOOTH!' over and over again. #crowdbanter
10/23/10: Page starts up HYHU while Trey exhorts Fish to sing a song by chanting 'Henrietta! Henrietta!'
10/23/10: Fish sings half of Love You, ad libs some lyrics about the Electrolux, then attacks it face-first.
10/23/10: Band drops out, absolutely horrible-sounding solo from Fish on the vacuum now.
10/23/10: So, that was fun. Tweezer and BBFCFM > HYHU > Love You > HYHU break up the monotony of an otherwise standard fall 2010 S1.
10/23/10: Speaking of monotony, here comes Possum!
10/23/10: Very tension-and-release-filled Possum, actually. Great version.
10/23/10: Tweeprise?! Crowd is confused, no cheering.
10/23/10: I'm imagining that they're struck with the sudden fear of 'Oh shit, what if I bought a ticket to a single-set show?'
10/23/10: Okay, if you weren't confused enough yet, Tweeprise features the lyrics from the Meatstick chorus.
10/23/10: I love this band pretty much all the time.
10/23/10: Might not have been the most musically adventurous set of music ever, but Phish having fun on stage makes up for a lot of that.
10/23/10: Dude is still screaming for The Sloth. Also, someone just screamed 'PSYCHO KILLER!!!' right into the recording mic.
10/23/10: DWD opens the second set and gets weird pretty much off the bat. And I mean really weird. This is exciting.
10/23/10: Lots of loops and echoes. Trey laying out a rock solo over them.
10/23/10: Transition into bliss-mode rock. Sort of Tahoe Tweezer-ish for a minute or two.
10/23/10: Bliss rock shifts back to the loopy madness.
10/23/10: Loopy section is petering out a bit, though Mike is still laying down some excellent lines.
10/23/10: Trey pulls off a decent segue into MFMF instead of pushing for a second wind.
10/23/10: Welp, whatever else happens in this show, we've had a serious jam out of both Tweezer and Disease in one night.
10/23/10: What the hell is going to go into the jam slot tomorrow night guys? BET YOU DIDN'T THINK OF THAT AHEAD OF TIME.
10/23/10: MFMF -> Caspian. Trey started up the Caspian intro during the MFMF outro. Weird, but...unexpected, I guess?
10/23/10: This is almost more like a Simple jam than a Caspian jam. Very cool.
10/23/10: Sounds a bit like a WTU? tease from Trey. Would be a great segue.
10/23/10: Oh, shit! It's a Halfway To the Moon tease, actually. Great segue!
10/23/10: MFMF -> Caspian -> Halfway. Weird but notable sequence.
10/23/10: Instrumentation on this version is sparse.
10/23/10: Alternate lyrics from Page.
10/23/10: ...aaaaaaand -> Boogie On. Great string of segues, and some unexpected S2 songs, and a great Caspian jam. Awesome.
10/23/10: Loops at the end of Boogie > Maze. Not quite a ->, but almost keeps the streak alive.
10/23/10: Some extra machine-gun Trey at the end of that Maze. Now Wading.
10/23/10: A little spacey jamming at the end of this Piper. Definite Maze teases from Mike.
10/23/10: Just as Piper is developing (maybe), Fish hits the Hood beat. Nice, succinct version, though.
10/23/10: Hood for set closer?
10/23/10: Even as grumpy about 2010 as I am, there've been a LOT of good Hoods this year.
10/23/10: And Trey is currently dominating the 'slow build' part of this one.
10/23/10: Yup, good peak too.
10/23/10: YEM! Guess this ain't over yet.
10/23/10: Nice little Wilson-y jam in YEM, and a super-size Mike and Fish rhythm breakdown.
10/23/10: At the end of the vocal jam, someone screams 'FUCK YEAH!' #crowdbanter
10/23/10: Shine a Light encore.
2010-10-22 Dunkin' Donuts Center
The Verdict:
After the excellent 10/19 and 10/20 shows, 10/22 is definitely a step back. That said, it's still better than the vast majority of post-Berkeley Phish shows thus far. The first set is really nothing to write home (or at all) about, so I won't. It's a completely standard affair aside from a setlist that fits together really well and doesn't let up. Much.
The second set actually follows a bit of a 10/19 blueprint at first: the last few minutes of the "Rock and Roll" dissolve into some legit evil jamming. "Carini" follows and goes immediately evil -> rock peak. It's one of those excellent short-but-sweet jams and even though Trey prematurely kills it for "My Problem Right There," somehow even that song works in the next slot because the boys are on a roll.
The "Sanity" in between "Mike's" and "Weekapaug" gets a great sort-of-jam, sort-of-noise-wall extended outro, complete with lots of weird screaming and keening, and a late-set "Light" gets taken for a long walk. Had this "Light" really worked, I think this could have been elevated quite easily from an average-great set to an excellent one, but, for me at least, the jam is pretty pedestrian. There's not a lot going on beside the usual Trey-peggios and it never really develops beyond that.
That said, there are some gems in this second set worth checking out, and hope for the FUTURE.
The Live Review:
10/22/10: Four shows left until Halloween. Can they nail three shows in a row?
10/22/10: Disease opener.
10/22/10: Standard Disease to open, slanky Funky Bitch following.
10/22/10: Fluffhead. Weird placement.
10/22/10: Rough landing at the end of Fluff. Roses Are Free is next.
10/22/10: THAT PUMPKIN = MY DESTINY
10/22/10: Rift! What is this, summer of 2014?
10/22/10: Actually, a much solider version than most 2014 takes.
10/22/10: Moma. We're definitely in '2010 First Set' mode tonight. Hoping for a surprise or two, though.
10/22/10: Moma followed by Ocelot, NICU.
10/22/10: Ocelot solo was a lot more rock and roll and peakey than usual, but otherwise nothing to see here yet.
10/22/10: Sample, Julius to close set one.
10/22/10: Julius got extended a little, but just longer than usual, no surprises.
10/22/10: S2 opens with Rock and Roll!
10/22/10: As an aside, LivePhish's use of '[PlaceName] Jam' tracks for 2010 shows is really weird and inconsistent.
10/22/10: It happened with most serious jams in summer 2009, has been really patchy since, and if I remember, is gone by '11.
10/22/10: We've gone from 'Rock and Roll' to 'Providence Jam' now, but it's definitely just more Trey soloing.
10/22/10: Getting darker now, about two minutes into the jam.
10/22/10: Dark ambient space now. Really damn cool. Almost 8/5/11-ish.
10/22/10: It was sorta winding down anyway, but Trey killed it with a > Carini.
10/22/10: Trey pulls out a great little riff here and drives this Carini into the stratosphere. This is crazy-guitar-peak city right here.
10/22/10: Trey just killed the Carini space jam for a segue into My Problem Right There.
10/22/10: It was a decent segue, but man, he's be vicious to jams in the last few shows.
10/22/10: Rock and Roll darkness jam > Carini darkness jam > My Problem Right There doesn't make a lot of sense in general.
10/22/10: I actually really like My Problem Right There in a weird way, just strange placement.
10/22/10: Mike's is next.
10/22/10: Trey has conjured another great riff and everyone is running with it. Neat to hear a Mike's jam with a little structure.
10/22/10: Welp, now we're back to Rock Noodling Mode.
10/22/10: Mike's -B Sanity. That's weird.
10/22/10: Sanity lyrics are especially hilarious this time around.
10/22/10: Extended vocal and then instrumental outro on Sanity. I wouldn't call it a 'jam,' but it's neat. Loops now.
10/22/10: Drum and bass jamming out of the feedback noise now...dying out...transition into Groove!
10/22/10: Above-average Groove to close out that weird and fun sequence. Suzy is next.
10/22/10: Monster piano solo from Page.
10/22/10: Suzy > Light.
10/22/10: Slowing down from the typical jam-opening arpeggios at around 6:00.
10/22/10: Fish and Mike are pushing around for something interesting, but Trey's not taking the bait.
10/22/10: Back to the vocal outro now.
10/22/10: ZERO'D
10/22/10: Trey playing a weird, dissonant solo in Zero. The band catches on, and now there's a full-on wind-down -> outro peak. Cool!
10/22/10: Zero > 2001.
10/22/10: The 2001s lately have been short, but surprisingly interesting. This one definitely follows suit.
10/22/10: Loving Cup, end set.
10/22/10: First Tube puts a punctuation mark on a pretty straightforward and uninteresting sentence.
10/22/10: Shades of the last few shows here, though, definitely not a backslide into the Dark Times of Really Recently.
After the excellent 10/19 and 10/20 shows, 10/22 is definitely a step back. That said, it's still better than the vast majority of post-Berkeley Phish shows thus far. The first set is really nothing to write home (or at all) about, so I won't. It's a completely standard affair aside from a setlist that fits together really well and doesn't let up. Much.
The second set actually follows a bit of a 10/19 blueprint at first: the last few minutes of the "Rock and Roll" dissolve into some legit evil jamming. "Carini" follows and goes immediately evil -> rock peak. It's one of those excellent short-but-sweet jams and even though Trey prematurely kills it for "My Problem Right There," somehow even that song works in the next slot because the boys are on a roll.
The "Sanity" in between "Mike's" and "Weekapaug" gets a great sort-of-jam, sort-of-noise-wall extended outro, complete with lots of weird screaming and keening, and a late-set "Light" gets taken for a long walk. Had this "Light" really worked, I think this could have been elevated quite easily from an average-great set to an excellent one, but, for me at least, the jam is pretty pedestrian. There's not a lot going on beside the usual Trey-peggios and it never really develops beyond that.
That said, there are some gems in this second set worth checking out, and hope for the FUTURE.
The Live Review:
10/22/10: Four shows left until Halloween. Can they nail three shows in a row?
10/22/10: Disease opener.
10/22/10: Standard Disease to open, slanky Funky Bitch following.
10/22/10: Fluffhead. Weird placement.
10/22/10: Rough landing at the end of Fluff. Roses Are Free is next.
10/22/10: THAT PUMPKIN = MY DESTINY
10/22/10: Rift! What is this, summer of 2014?
10/22/10: Actually, a much solider version than most 2014 takes.
10/22/10: Moma. We're definitely in '2010 First Set' mode tonight. Hoping for a surprise or two, though.
10/22/10: Moma followed by Ocelot, NICU.
10/22/10: Ocelot solo was a lot more rock and roll and peakey than usual, but otherwise nothing to see here yet.
10/22/10: Sample, Julius to close set one.
10/22/10: Julius got extended a little, but just longer than usual, no surprises.
10/22/10: S2 opens with Rock and Roll!
10/22/10: As an aside, LivePhish's use of '[PlaceName] Jam' tracks for 2010 shows is really weird and inconsistent.
10/22/10: It happened with most serious jams in summer 2009, has been really patchy since, and if I remember, is gone by '11.
10/22/10: We've gone from 'Rock and Roll' to 'Providence Jam' now, but it's definitely just more Trey soloing.
10/22/10: Getting darker now, about two minutes into the jam.
10/22/10: Dark ambient space now. Really damn cool. Almost 8/5/11-ish.
10/22/10: It was sorta winding down anyway, but Trey killed it with a > Carini.
10/22/10: Trey pulls out a great little riff here and drives this Carini into the stratosphere. This is crazy-guitar-peak city right here.
10/22/10: Trey just killed the Carini space jam for a segue into My Problem Right There.
10/22/10: It was a decent segue, but man, he's be vicious to jams in the last few shows.
10/22/10: Rock and Roll darkness jam > Carini darkness jam > My Problem Right There doesn't make a lot of sense in general.
10/22/10: I actually really like My Problem Right There in a weird way, just strange placement.
10/22/10: Mike's is next.
10/22/10: Trey has conjured another great riff and everyone is running with it. Neat to hear a Mike's jam with a little structure.
10/22/10: Welp, now we're back to Rock Noodling Mode.
10/22/10: Mike's -B Sanity. That's weird.
10/22/10: Sanity lyrics are especially hilarious this time around.
10/22/10: Extended vocal and then instrumental outro on Sanity. I wouldn't call it a 'jam,' but it's neat. Loops now.
10/22/10: Drum and bass jamming out of the feedback noise now...dying out...transition into Groove!
10/22/10: Above-average Groove to close out that weird and fun sequence. Suzy is next.
10/22/10: Monster piano solo from Page.
10/22/10: Suzy > Light.
10/22/10: Slowing down from the typical jam-opening arpeggios at around 6:00.
10/22/10: Fish and Mike are pushing around for something interesting, but Trey's not taking the bait.
10/22/10: Back to the vocal outro now.
10/22/10: ZERO'D
10/22/10: Trey playing a weird, dissonant solo in Zero. The band catches on, and now there's a full-on wind-down -> outro peak. Cool!
10/22/10: Zero > 2001.
10/22/10: The 2001s lately have been short, but surprisingly interesting. This one definitely follows suit.
10/22/10: Loving Cup, end set.
10/22/10: First Tube puts a punctuation mark on a pretty straightforward and uninteresting sentence.
10/22/10: Shades of the last few shows here, though, definitely not a backslide into the Dark Times of Really Recently.
May 11, 2015
2010-10-20 Utica
The Verdict:
Two great shows in a row in 2010 is nothing to sneeze at, though I gotta say that if I had a time machine I'd go back and insist that 10/19 get the DVD release instead of 10/20.
That gripe expressed, the first set is one of my favorite first sets in post-2000 memory. In fact, it works better as a second set than the actual second set does. "My Soul" and "Vultures" are both stand-out versions, the "Wolfman's" -> "Cities" sequence stands up to the same sequence as it's found on Slip, Stitch, and Pass, and "Guyute" kicks off a back half of the set that sees "Guyute," "Bowie," and "Wilson" all played within and around each other in a major yarn ball of teases. "McGrupp" and a short-but-sweet "Saw It Again" set up a big set-closing "Antelope." Words don't really do justice the amount of playing around the band does in this set and how loose they sound while doing it. Just listen to the whole thing.
The second set, unfortunately, doesn't really live up to the promise of the first set. Trey absolutely beheads the opening "Drowned" jam just as it's taking off, and minus a few minutes of interesting "Sand"-based jamming, things never really recover until "Split" kicks on. Granted, what follows there is a great "Split" -> "Have Mercy" -> "Jam" > "Piper" -> "Split" sequence that, put together with 10/19's mid-S2 sequence almost makes up for the majority of fall tour suckage singlehandedly. But this set is more Great Jam Sequence Surrounded By Standards than Great Set All Around.
Either way, though, I'm damned happy to listen to these two shows in a row and I'm looking forward to wrapping up fall tour on a positive note, now.
The Live Review:
10/20/10: Trying to fit a review of the whole Utica show into the last three hours of work. Whooo!
10/20/10: My Soul to open. Slow tempo, extra blues. Mike is up in the mix.
10/20/10: My Soul was great, now an extra-spicy version of Stealing Time.
10/20/10: Trey sounds like he's trying to start up PYITE at the beginning of Stealing Time, and then again after, but Page starts Vultures.
10/20/10: That's weird and doesn't happen often. On the other hand, fucking VULTURES. One of my favorite Phish songs.
10/20/10: When they played it in SF in '13, I'm pretty sure I didn't stop screaming the entire time. Which I suppose defeated the point.
10/20/10: POTATO TO THE THROAT
10/20/10: Proto-'Woo' jam at the end of Vultures.
10/20/10: Wolfman's, complete with vocal/guitar jam.
10/20/10: Only clav and vox now. Awesome.
10/20/10: This is one of those jams that just makes me want to hug everyone in the band because it is just so awesome and happy.
10/20/10: It just keeps going. S1 Wolfman's is my favorite jam of fall tour so far.
10/20/10: Nine minutes, but it blows away anything longer. That's what she said. #sorry
10/20/10: -> Cities!!!
10/20/10: 'A lot of ghosts in Birmingham...bridges.' Hilarious flub.
10/20/10: Great Wolfman's -> Cities combo. > Guyute.
10/20/10: This isn't the cleanest Guyute around, but it's fast and high-energy, so that can be forgiven.
10/20/10: Guyute > Bowie. Band playing Guyute outro riff over Fish's Bowie beat.
10/20/10: This is extremely creepy.
10/20/10: Synth now. Guyute outro vocals from Trey.
10/20/10: Dave-Guy Bowyute.
10/20/10: Trey teases Guyute in Bowie breakdown.
10/20/10: Wilson tease in the jam. Crowd chanting 'Wilson!'
10/20/10: 'Bouncing like a newborn elf' from the band, 'Wilson!' from the crowd, layering over each other. Amazing stuff right here.
10/20/10: Another Wilson-chant-bit near the end of the jam.
10/20/10: End of Bowie -> Guyute reprise -> Wilson.
10/20/10: If 10/19 and 10/20 are an apology for every other show of fall tour, apology accepted.
10/20/10: Guyute teases in Wilson.
10/20/10: More Guyute teases.
10/20/10: 'I must inquire Guyute, can you still have any fun?'
10/20/10: Guys cracking up on the outro vocals.
10/20/10: > McGrupp!
10/20/10: What the hell is this band and what has it done with 2010 Phish?
10/20/10: This would be an incredible first set in 2014.
10/20/10: McGrupp > Saw It Again. Weird, but that's okay. Two great songs.
10/20/10: Guyute teases at the end of Saw It Again, with creepy 'Saw it again!' vocals.
10/20/10: Trey starting up Antelope over Page's synth effects.
10/20/10: Of course, more Guyute teases in the Antelope intro.
10/20/10: Great, high-octave tension bit in the Antelope jam proper.
10/20/10: Okay, I'm only going to get to one set today. Sorry!
10/20/10: S2 review and thoughts on 10/19 and 10/20 tomorrow.
10/20/10: Best S1 in recent memory, S2 starts with Drowned.
10/20/10: Drowned is actually sort of anemic compared to the first set. Standard Type I jam transitioning into some funk chording.
10/20/10: Moving into a darker space, Mike and Page driving.
10/20/10: And Trey just pulled out a massive ripcord > Sand. That was a bad one.
10/20/10: That moment when you can just feel them starting to gel perfectly and Trey hauls off and punches you right in the fucking nuts.
10/20/10: Trey's laying way back in this jam. Clav and bass up front.
10/20/10: Maybe he's ashamed of himself, AS HE SHOULD BE. BAD TREY! BAD!
10/20/10: Standard rock jam > some weird alien-sounding high-octave shit. I like this Sand.
10/20/10: Crazy loop effects > Theme. Loops over the Theme intro.
10/20/10: Axila I after a standard Theme. S2 is weird so far, barring a great Sand.
10/20/10: Birds. This might be one of those rare shows with a strong S1/weak S2 combo.
10/20/10: Extremely...umm...'loose' version of Tela is next.
10/20/10: Late-set Split.
10/20/10: Trey just modulated the hell out of something and now we're Type II. About 5:30 in.
10/20/10: Looping space into something almost ambient.
10/20/10: Trey singing lyrics to Have Mercy over the cacophony. Band fades out, comes back in.
10/20/10: Playing slowly morphs into a reggae beat.
10/20/10: Beat quickly fades back out into another dreamy jam sequence.
10/20/10: Jam sounded a little like Steam there for a minute.
10/20/10: Jam gets more and more driving...closes with Fish starting up what sounds like the Groove drumbeat, then immediately fading.
10/20/10: Trey starts Piper. Relatively long build to lyrics.
10/20/10: Page and Mike push the jam into rapid-fire territory at around 4:30.
10/20/10: Electric piano washes are really making this mellow jam space work, now.
10/20/10: Effortless move into more funk. Sounds like Birds.
10/20/10: Oh, it is. Trey is playing the melody line from Birds.
10/20/10: Fish building up the drums. Mike definitely teasing My Soul.
10/20/10: -> Split reprise.
10/20/10: Split > Slave.
10/20/10: The mellow part of that Slave featured some extra-good Trey and Mike interplay. End set.
10/20/10: GTBT to close a show where, indeed, the first set was better than the second. That Split -> Have Mercy > Piper -> Split...
10/20/10: ...was something else, though, for sure.
Two great shows in a row in 2010 is nothing to sneeze at, though I gotta say that if I had a time machine I'd go back and insist that 10/19 get the DVD release instead of 10/20.
That gripe expressed, the first set is one of my favorite first sets in post-2000 memory. In fact, it works better as a second set than the actual second set does. "My Soul" and "Vultures" are both stand-out versions, the "Wolfman's" -> "Cities" sequence stands up to the same sequence as it's found on Slip, Stitch, and Pass, and "Guyute" kicks off a back half of the set that sees "Guyute," "Bowie," and "Wilson" all played within and around each other in a major yarn ball of teases. "McGrupp" and a short-but-sweet "Saw It Again" set up a big set-closing "Antelope." Words don't really do justice the amount of playing around the band does in this set and how loose they sound while doing it. Just listen to the whole thing.
The second set, unfortunately, doesn't really live up to the promise of the first set. Trey absolutely beheads the opening "Drowned" jam just as it's taking off, and minus a few minutes of interesting "Sand"-based jamming, things never really recover until "Split" kicks on. Granted, what follows there is a great "Split" -> "Have Mercy" -> "Jam" > "Piper" -> "Split" sequence that, put together with 10/19's mid-S2 sequence almost makes up for the majority of fall tour suckage singlehandedly. But this set is more Great Jam Sequence Surrounded By Standards than Great Set All Around.
Either way, though, I'm damned happy to listen to these two shows in a row and I'm looking forward to wrapping up fall tour on a positive note, now.
The Live Review:
10/20/10: Trying to fit a review of the whole Utica show into the last three hours of work. Whooo!
10/20/10: My Soul to open. Slow tempo, extra blues. Mike is up in the mix.
10/20/10: My Soul was great, now an extra-spicy version of Stealing Time.
10/20/10: Trey sounds like he's trying to start up PYITE at the beginning of Stealing Time, and then again after, but Page starts Vultures.
10/20/10: That's weird and doesn't happen often. On the other hand, fucking VULTURES. One of my favorite Phish songs.
10/20/10: When they played it in SF in '13, I'm pretty sure I didn't stop screaming the entire time. Which I suppose defeated the point.
10/20/10: POTATO TO THE THROAT
10/20/10: Proto-'Woo' jam at the end of Vultures.
10/20/10: Wolfman's, complete with vocal/guitar jam.
10/20/10: Only clav and vox now. Awesome.
10/20/10: This is one of those jams that just makes me want to hug everyone in the band because it is just so awesome and happy.
10/20/10: It just keeps going. S1 Wolfman's is my favorite jam of fall tour so far.
10/20/10: Nine minutes, but it blows away anything longer. That's what she said. #sorry
10/20/10: -> Cities!!!
10/20/10: 'A lot of ghosts in Birmingham...bridges.' Hilarious flub.
10/20/10: Great Wolfman's -> Cities combo. > Guyute.
10/20/10: This isn't the cleanest Guyute around, but it's fast and high-energy, so that can be forgiven.
10/20/10: Guyute > Bowie. Band playing Guyute outro riff over Fish's Bowie beat.
10/20/10: This is extremely creepy.
10/20/10: Synth now. Guyute outro vocals from Trey.
10/20/10: Dave-Guy Bowyute.
10/20/10: Trey teases Guyute in Bowie breakdown.
10/20/10: Wilson tease in the jam. Crowd chanting 'Wilson!'
10/20/10: 'Bouncing like a newborn elf' from the band, 'Wilson!' from the crowd, layering over each other. Amazing stuff right here.
10/20/10: Another Wilson-chant-bit near the end of the jam.
10/20/10: End of Bowie -> Guyute reprise -> Wilson.
10/20/10: If 10/19 and 10/20 are an apology for every other show of fall tour, apology accepted.
10/20/10: Guyute teases in Wilson.
10/20/10: More Guyute teases.
10/20/10: 'I must inquire Guyute, can you still have any fun?'
10/20/10: Guys cracking up on the outro vocals.
10/20/10: > McGrupp!
10/20/10: What the hell is this band and what has it done with 2010 Phish?
10/20/10: This would be an incredible first set in 2014.
10/20/10: McGrupp > Saw It Again. Weird, but that's okay. Two great songs.
10/20/10: Guyute teases at the end of Saw It Again, with creepy 'Saw it again!' vocals.
10/20/10: Trey starting up Antelope over Page's synth effects.
10/20/10: Of course, more Guyute teases in the Antelope intro.
10/20/10: Great, high-octave tension bit in the Antelope jam proper.
10/20/10: Okay, I'm only going to get to one set today. Sorry!
10/20/10: S2 review and thoughts on 10/19 and 10/20 tomorrow.
10/20/10: Best S1 in recent memory, S2 starts with Drowned.
10/20/10: Drowned is actually sort of anemic compared to the first set. Standard Type I jam transitioning into some funk chording.
10/20/10: Moving into a darker space, Mike and Page driving.
10/20/10: And Trey just pulled out a massive ripcord > Sand. That was a bad one.
10/20/10: That moment when you can just feel them starting to gel perfectly and Trey hauls off and punches you right in the fucking nuts.
10/20/10: Trey's laying way back in this jam. Clav and bass up front.
10/20/10: Maybe he's ashamed of himself, AS HE SHOULD BE. BAD TREY! BAD!
10/20/10: Standard rock jam > some weird alien-sounding high-octave shit. I like this Sand.
10/20/10: Crazy loop effects > Theme. Loops over the Theme intro.
10/20/10: Axila I after a standard Theme. S2 is weird so far, barring a great Sand.
10/20/10: Birds. This might be one of those rare shows with a strong S1/weak S2 combo.
10/20/10: Extremely...umm...'loose' version of Tela is next.
10/20/10: Late-set Split.
10/20/10: Trey just modulated the hell out of something and now we're Type II. About 5:30 in.
10/20/10: Looping space into something almost ambient.
10/20/10: Trey singing lyrics to Have Mercy over the cacophony. Band fades out, comes back in.
10/20/10: Playing slowly morphs into a reggae beat.
10/20/10: Beat quickly fades back out into another dreamy jam sequence.
10/20/10: Jam sounded a little like Steam there for a minute.
10/20/10: Jam gets more and more driving...closes with Fish starting up what sounds like the Groove drumbeat, then immediately fading.
10/20/10: Trey starts Piper. Relatively long build to lyrics.
10/20/10: Page and Mike push the jam into rapid-fire territory at around 4:30.
10/20/10: Electric piano washes are really making this mellow jam space work, now.
10/20/10: Effortless move into more funk. Sounds like Birds.
10/20/10: Oh, it is. Trey is playing the melody line from Birds.
10/20/10: Fish building up the drums. Mike definitely teasing My Soul.
10/20/10: -> Split reprise.
10/20/10: Split > Slave.
10/20/10: The mellow part of that Slave featured some extra-good Trey and Mike interplay. End set.
10/20/10: GTBT to close a show where, indeed, the first set was better than the second. That Split -> Have Mercy > Piper -> Split...
10/20/10: ...was something else, though, for sure.
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