, attached to 1997-07-30

Review by spreaditround

spreaditround SET 1: NICU: Standard. >

Wolfman's Brother: Extremely chill version. Slow and methodical and of course deep, deep funk. At 10:34 this one gets into a hard rock, sort of classic rock kind of feel. A little over one minute later it kind of segues into >

Chalk Dust Torture: Every so briefly toys with going Type II in the mid 7’s. Forsakes that route in favor of Trey taking us to Shreds Town USA. Man, he just rips this to shreds! Trey does the Bobby Weir ‘Thank you’ after this one, lol.

Water in the Sky: Standard.

Stash: At 7:23 Trey shifts this jam into major key mode. Snapped back into familiar Stash territory at 8:51. Good Stash jam but gets great starting at 12:00 thanks to Fishman, he completely takes charge. Big, ‘ol delay effect from Trey at 12:59. There really is not a screaming peak in this version. Very good version, not great.

Weigh: Standard. >

Piper: Standard. >

Cars Trucks Buses: Standard.

Character Zero: Standard.

SET 2: Punch You in the Eye: Standard. What is with the air horn in the crowd, lol. Get out of here with that crap! >

Free: Very solid and funky. >

David Bowie: Heady intro, Fish on vacuum but super quiet. Things start getting interesting around 14 and a half and then around 15:20 Trey starts porno funking around, very cool stuff. The eventual segue is incredible and a legendary moment in the band’s history… ->

Cities: This version gets very funky for a brief amount of time ->

David Bowie: Very up tempo finish, great climax for a legendary version of David Bowie – all timer without a doubt.

Bouncing Around the Room: Standard.

Uncle Pen: Standard.

Prince Caspian: Pretty much standard. Pretty Page on the outro. >

Fire: Standard.

ENCORE: My Soul –

Replay Value: Chalk Dust Torture, Stash, David Bowie, Cities, David Bowie

Summary: I know I will get crushed for this but I think this show is overrated. Outside of the Bowie Cities sandwich, there isn’t a whole lot here. This show is more on the level of Austin . Phish.net has it at 4.495/5 (218 ratings). I will rate it as a 4.2 out of 5.


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