Mondegreen was epic. All of the three nights (especially Friday & Saturday) that preceded this show can (and will) stand up with some of the all-time greats. The thing that really amazes me is the seemingly endless ways the band can deliver 5/5 shows. Mondegreen was almost a reverse baker’s dozen in that instead of saying ‘here’s a gag or a theme: we are going play with it within the structure of a normal phish show and still deliver the goods’, they said ‘here is almost no tour debuts and limited interplay with the mondegreen theme and we will still deliver the goods’. Like how is no tour debuts or gags at a festival not stale? Well it’s because these guys have another gear they can go up all the time. They fill familiar spaces with sounds and feelings that are fresh and new. I’m still in awe of the not so secret secret set jam from Friday & disease through carini from Saturday. All killer, no filler.

No reasonable person can blame the band for doing their best to navigate the weather. As was the case at Dicks n4 and Fenway 2019, the band just isn’t built for single set shows. Things feel rushed, the jams feel canned. These shows tend to lack personality. I am as disappointed as the next person that this was how Mondegreen ended, but by no means should this put a damper on what was otherwise an other-worldly festival experience put on by the best band in the game.