Fall tour opener 2014!
Tour openers are mixed bags mostly, but I traveled so far and was so psyched for music that I came in ready for anything, with no expectations. That was a good thing for most of set 1. I like many of the songs in the first stanza but felt most were sloppy and Not Well Placed!
"Waiting all night" is a song I enjoy but not the ideal one to open a show.
Until the Simple>Maze, Coil the first set felt sponsored by the local Adult Contemporary Radio station, due to being Homecoming weekend here in Eugene.
The 20 minutes Carini>Plasma was really well played and high energy. Farmhouse is prob my least favorite Phish song ever and IMHO doesn't belong in a second set! The Adult Contempory radio station felt back for Farmhouse and Halfway to the Moon(another song I enjoy when placed properly)
C&P was fun but seemed a little slower than how PH usually plays it, being closer to the Talking Heads version. Hood was pretty standard awesome and Rocky Top ended a fun mostly well played set.
Wingsuit to open encore was another case of bad placement and so was the Sleeping Monkey that followed. Quinn is one of my favorite ways to end a show. Overall I enjoyed the show (except for these girls who talked the entire night, and got louder when we politely asked them to keep it down).
On to Seattle for a "Live stream" show that I expect will have more continuity.