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melt_the_tek9 I like this list, well played! But, some things just keep hanging on that set my bother button to being pushed on almost full time:

Can we please, PLEASE, not over emphasize the "set I=lackluster" comparison anymore? I agree, the "heat" comes in the second set, but lets all be honest here, and bare our hearts for a minute: the songs played in the first set are fire songs, because they are Phish songs that we love almost 100% of the time. But in the past, they used to play big, huge songs in the first set, and sometimes they didn't; in 2004, they let it fly in the first set, for instance. But I see both sets as the whole night, the buzz before lights fall and "what are they gonna open with?!?!" feeling, the sound, what they'll play set I and NOT set II, etc. The whole night is Phish, not second half.

And, the Tahoe Tweezer was killer, no doubt. Great. But, to rank a whole show based on one big song alone, at #3 for the whole year, THIS year especially, over even the New Year's show? Personally, I thought the truck set struck me as more important and memorable than the Tweezer: the old instruments, the closeness and intimacy, the song selection, location in venue...all that.


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