These were four of the greatest consecutive musical nights of my life as I was also able to get into the final night of Santana at the Fillmore on 4/19. I remember the anticipation for these shows was so over the top it bordered on frenetic. I had run into some "in the know" friends at the Charlie Hunter show in Los Angeles a couple weeks before the P&Ph shows in which they spun tales of the rehearsals where Phil, Kimock, & Molo were also practicing Phish tunes. Until that point, I hadn't really thought that Phish tunes would work their way into these sets. Our minds went delirious with setlist possibilities of the band seamless weaving in and out of both Dead & Phish tunes. It didn't exactly end up the way we imagined but that didn't stop us from dreaming it... and dream I did. I have rarely been so excited about an event that it's impacted my dreams... but this one did. A few nights before the shows I dreamt I was in the high school gymnasium, the band was stage, and everyone in the audience was sitting cross legged on the floor singing in unison as the band ran through a version of Uncle John's Band. It was a short dream but that part was so real & so vivid. Needless to say that when they started playing UJB that first night, it was a pretty surreal moment for me... both arms raised high in the air and me yelling "I dreamt this! I dreamt this!". I got some rather awkward and stern looks from some folks within earshot of me but I didn't care. Dreams had become reality.

That week still feels like a dream to me. At the time, we felt so lucky to be witnessing such a momentous occasion in music history as if we understood it's timeless significance even in the midst of the experience. And one that sonically (and now visually thanks to the remastered videos!) has stood the test of time.