I've seen some amazing shows at the Long Beach Arena, so it was nice that Phish added it to their list of places not played before. Less than full, but the sound was fantastic and the lights were incredible, plus the smaller crowd = not taking an hour to get out of the parking structure.

I was in front of the soundboard, great group of people around me. Didn't know Justin Bieber was there, after seeing all the celebrities at the Hollywood Bowl --they sure as hell aren't going to Long Beach on a Wednesday-- funny he'd show up in the LB.

My impression of the show matches pretty much with pzerbo's. I was expecting kinda ragged "first show of tour" playing but they all played well. Trey was consistently good all night --he even played the Mr. Miner part in Hood correctly!-- a virtuoso at the top of his game. Loved his solos in Stash, Gin, Ghost and LxL.

One thing I was a bit disappointed about was that the RnR jam, while very interesting and containing some very cool jamming, kind of hummed along at the same spacey pace. There were a couple of points where Trey locked in to a cool riff and looked over at Fish, as if to say, "OK, 4/4 rock out" and Fish just kept playing fast fills on the toms and cymbals.

Overall, I had a great time and I wish I had the money to go to the Bill Graham or Dick's Sporting Goods shows. Oh well, 'til the 2013 summer tour........