Pretty good show. A felt a bit hurried IAWILTB gave way to what was 46 Days in a rare two slot and I danced as hard as I possibly could given it was so early in the show. The following Bathtub Gin went thru what I remember was at least three distinct sections in its 19 minutes with Trey busily grinding his way on his axe and Fishman just tearing it up on the skins, I felt that he was tonight's MVP, a kitchen sink would not have been big enough for all the ideas he turned into a plethora of grooves.

Then came the next song, I could hear by some of the oooh's and aaaaaaa's that it was something out of the ordinary but how much I did not know until the end of the song when I told my seat mate, "ok, I'm stumped" and he proceeded to answer "Fikus". Shortly after I get on my phone, pull up this site only to tell me that the last time played was...1998, the same year my seat mate attended his 1st Phish show. I've been to some "bustout" shows but this one will easliy best any prior gap chart entrant. Theme was a splendid nine minutes that eventually bubbled up to the surface and loved Trey's finger picking on Timber. Bethel was treated to the 2nd ever Human Nature and it was cool and groovy. The band finished the sets off with a spirited LxL, a whiplash-inducing Axilla (I) into a really nicely jammed put Sigma Oasis for its nine minutes.

The 1st ever (also to start the 1st Set) Buried Alive>AC/DC Bag was Olympic Center '95. The following nine, with the exception of one (12/31/19), opened the 1st Set. This was the 1st ever to open the 2nd Set and if the BA Reprise is not counted from DCU Center '12, this was the first BA in the 2nd Set since '03. Afterwards the Bag got taken for a 24 minute ride and I recall the 2nd half of it being very hose-like. The 13 minute Fuego that followed was very propulsive and its jam segued nicely into a feel good 11 minute Golden Age which led to, besides the Fikus blowing a hole in the gap chart, the most "interesting" point of the show, Simple. Felt like it was poised to get big but...after the "song" itself "ended" there was no jam, zip, zero, nada. I've never been in the building for one so short it didn't even hit the five minute mark. Trey seemed to hit the emergency brakes on it after they got finished singing and then came...Life Saving Gun, a fave of mine and tonight's was no exception, ripping thru its 11 minutes. The murmurs of approval followed Harry Hood into the town of Bethel and Trey took out the hose for an extended period in its latter half to end the 2nd Set. A beautiful Life Beyond A Dream and ...S.A.N.T.O.S was the double encore and finished off a fine show in fine fashion. Happy to have been able to attend it. And still pretty amazing and impressive that a bunch of nearly 60 year old men would want to still work this hard for their money.