SET 1: Evening Song: Good enough tune. The vocals sound uncomfortable for Page. >

A Wave of Hope: The first thing that grabs my ear is the breakdown that starts happening around the mid 12 minute range. They take things down a few notches and trey hits this echoing effect. Very cool. Another effects driven breakdown starts around 16:45. The jam that eventually evolves out of this is truly inspiring. Very peaky! The re-entry into the ending lyrics is real head scratcher. Trey singing them way to fast an in an uncomfortable high register. I don’t get it. But, whatever. That jam was ridiculous. This is an all timer version for sure.

Cities: Another very upbeat, very peaky jam. Beautiful. Peaks for days and days. Damn! Impressive. Those two jams at the beginning of the set is just nuts. Guess they let everyone know they weren’t messing around.

The Old Home Place: They basically start up Beauty of My Dreams and then immediately stop after like half a beat. Then from Trey, “This is thematic Mike, this actually follows the last song in a little bit of a way”. Then they go on to play TOHP and play it as you would expect. >

Free: Broadway Trey. Plenty of vibrato, singing in that higher register and halting delivery of lyrics. Why? Cool interplay from Trey and Mike in the early stages of the jam. Trey with that bullfrog effect.

Brian and Robert: Page’s solo was sweet I though.

Stash: Good enough. The ending is quite strong but the body of work before hand is just really sort of nonexistent.

My Soul: Rip roaring good time.

SET 2: More: Really? To open the set? >

Ruby Waves: Love how quiet and dark this gets in the early stages . This is great! Page has some huge WTU style effects showcased in here. Wish they would have kept this going, but Trey’s love and light ADD would not allow it unfortunately. Good news though, it eventually finds itself in a funky, bouncy jam. Tons of fun there. All in all, this was a very solid jam. The segue into Plasma is ridiculous. ->

Plasma: The very early stages of this jam are awesome. Trey sounds like he is right out of Summer 97 – by 4 and a half that is over but still – loved that. The jam gets effects heavy in the middle, breaks into upbeat mode. Page again is leaning on heavy WTU like effects in the 9 minute range and ongoing for two minutes. The last 4 or 5 minutes you will find Trey blazing through tons of great runs. Not peaky type stuff like in Wave of Hope and Cities though. This is a very strong jam and to date was the longest version they have played. >

Simple: Pretty chaotic jam through the middle part. Plenty of dissonance and even slight whale calls. Solid enough jam – nothing to write home about really but it certainly keeps the momentum up. >

Mountains in the Mist: Ahhh, I will take this most anywhere/anytime. Takes me right back to 7.3.99.

Split Open and Melt: Chaos and effects. Had to be there’d.

ENCORE:

Good Times Bad Times: Absolutely crushed. Very impressive!

Summary: If the jams are why you love Phish, then this is the show of the tour so far IMHO. Great show! 4.3/5

Replay Value: A Wave of Hope, Cities, Ruby Waves -> Plasma