[We would like to thank Michael Leigh and Loretta Leigh (@Mcquinn and @Llama2Boot) for recapping last night's show. -Ed.]

Phish’s last show on January 28 was in 1990. So, that made tonight kinda special. It’s hard to get a January 28 show.

The day was the usual Day 1 chill. People still arriving, people running into annual Mexico friends or others they’ve not seen since their last show. So many of us glad to get out of the bitter cold in the States. Even if the temps here are on the cooler side, 72F is still 50+ degrees warmer than where my wife and I came from.

All were wondering what would come tonight. Some new songs? "Real You" and "Mindless Mood" were road tested with TAB’s last tour, but would they make the jump? Would we get some Mexico debuts? Would we get a Bobby tribute at all? We were treated to a great 22-minute-ish "Theme from the Bottom" for soundcheck yesterday (Jam, “My Soul,” “Theme,” ran about an hour total with the full band). That followed Trey playing drums by himself for almost 2 hours until the others joined him for soundcheck. Would that be the best "Theme" of the weekend?

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