, attached to 1997-08-13

Review by spreaditround

spreaditround SET 1: Amoreena: Fairly confident no one call this, lol. Page sounds great. Nice little jam to it as well. >

Poor Heart: Standard.

Stash: Guess this one is underrated. Think it sounds great. Nice jam to it. Big time peak in the early 12’s.

Water in the Sky: Standard.

Gumbo: Mike and Fish just dominate in the early going, crushing it and leading the way. Trey takes the lead in the mid 9’s taking this one straight to Funkytown, USA. They stay in this pocket for a good, long time – it’s great. Eventually this ramps into a blissful, major chord jam that just crushes. Mike sounds AMAZING in here. Trey keeps that going and then layers these great lines on top starting around 15:41 – it is incredibly cool. An all timer for sure, one of the very best. ->

The Horse: Standard. >

Silent in the Morning: LOL at the ending on this one. I guess Trey just didn’t want it to end.

Beauty of My Dreams: Standard.

Crosseyed and Painless: Composed section seems a little slower than most but once they get well into the jam this turns into a hard charging version until the last few minutes that awash with heavy effects >

Wilson: Little drummer boy stuff is cool. This didn’t technically close out the first set but basically it does considering what came next. Wilson to close out the first set is exceptionally rare.

Sweet Adeline: Standard.

SET 2: Runaway Jim: LOL at Trey’s vocal gaffe and then his audible whoops when he belts one to many “Whoaaaaa”. Strong, straight ahead version really rocks.

Ghost: Love this version, the funk is fantastic and eventually it turns into more of a hard edged, aggressive nature with Mike snapping off some of the nastiest bombs you will ever hear. Love this Ghost. ->

Izabella: Fair segue out of Ghost, Trey set it up about 20 seconds before they executed, and it was still a little choppy but oh well. They predictably smoke this one as you would expect.

Sleeping Monkey: Standard. >

McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters: Standard. >

Sample in a Jar: Standard. >

Also Sprach Zarathustra: Seems kind of forced and like the band was shooting darts at the wall to see what would stick but this turns out to be a very strong version. Love it. >

Golgi Apparatus: Sloppy. Very sloppy. >

Frankenstein: Standard.

ENCORE: Theme From the Bottom – Strong as any from 97 seem to be.

Replay Value: Stash, Gumbo, Crosseyed and Painless, Runaway Jim, Also Sprach Zarathustra. The second set seems choppy to me once you get through Izabella.

Summary: The Phish.net rating of 4.435/5 (193 ratings) seems quite generous to me. I think this show is definitely a 4 out of 5 but not much more than that. I will settle in with a 4.1 out of five.


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