, attached to 2023-07-15

Review by spreaditround

spreaditround SET 1: Runaway Jim: Very slow tempo out of the gate. You can definitely hear Mike well during the composed section and when the jam starts – that is good to hear. They jam this out nicely, nothing too crazy but always nice to get an old school tune with some length to start a show these days!

Foam: Wow, old school combination right here! Nice job Phish.

Set Your Soul Free: Bleep, bloop, bleep. That’s what the beginning of this jam sounds like to me. This lasts for a couple of minutes and then straightens out. Page lays down some very heavy effects – like what you would expect out of What’s the Use. With two minutes remaining he abandons that for the baby grand. At this point Trey truly takes off and gives this sucker a proper ripping. Outstanding jam - would happily recommend. The re-entry is quite sloppy. >

Fluffhead: Nice! Feeling it! Nice end shred Trey! >

Everything's Right: Right around 7:50 from Trey “I love you” – What was that all about? Fantastic jam. Trey out in front the whole way, confident and rocking hard. Great stuff! The re-entry here was a little rough too. >

Esther: Not as technically proficient as 4.22.23 – still nice to hear and a solid effort all around. >

Golgi Apparatus: Standard.

SET 2: Rift: Standard. >

Tweezer: Trey is super heavy with effects out of the gate, Mike sounds good. By the 7 minute mark, Trey is off the effects and sounding nice and clean. Mike is sounding good still too, just wish he was louder in the mix. From 7 minutes through 13 minutes or so, this section is sublime. Really pretty Trey runs, ethereal – beautiful stuff. I thought the Lion Sleeps Tonight tease was very cool. Nice and subtle. Around that 13 minute mark, Trey uses some sort of delay effect heavily. That lasts for a minute or so. Upon completion Fishman and Trey are driving the band to an intense direction. Sneakin’ Sally stuff around 15:35 and beyond. Page is funking hard in here, absolutely awesome. Around the 18 minute mark Trey employs heavy effects but just 2 minutes later there is a jubilant release, the hose is in full effect here! By the 22 minute mark we are hearing huge, clean peaks from Trey, amazing. By 23:00 this is settling a bit and getting funky once again. By 25:00, now we are into a very hard rocking section, with lots of Trey echo effects, I have heard this a lot before these past few years, kind of annoying to me but this only lasts for 90 seconds. Now we have more hard charging, balls to the wall rock. 28:28 another big peak! Jimi Hendrix is on stage playing guitar at 28:40, WOW! Incredible Tweezer, an absolute all timer in any era. Would highly, highly recommend this beast!!! Good segue into… ->

Golden Age: Standard and short, nice, pretty jam. >

I Always Wanted It This Way: Good jam with huge peaks in the last minute and a half and then back into… >

Tweezer: Minute and a half bookend >

Harry Hood: Standard.

ENCORE: A Life Beyond The Dream: Standard. >

Tweezer Reprise: Standard. >

Big Black Furry Creature from Mars: Nice! Nod to 20th anniversary a day late to 7.15.03?

Summary: Very strong show with a great second set, an all time jam in set two with some good depth surrounding it. Phish loves Alpharetta and they delivered the goods tonight. Would rate this as a 4 out of 5.

Replay Value: Set Your Soul Free, Everything’s Right, Tweezer


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