, attached to 2013-10-25

Review by TooManyUrkels

TooManyUrkels Very early show for me in my personal Phishtory, and while my memory doesn't have all that many stand-out musical segments from it (I starkly remember the encore - maybe the best part of the show), it was a great time in the moment to be sure. That said, listening back, this show's kinda overrated. Phish just got so much better in the back end of the 2010s that it overshadows this show's highlights in comparison.

A lot of the playing is well-executed and precise, but the jamming sounds rather truncated and undeservedly floaty. I think you can tell by the songy second set that the lads just weren't syncing up at the right times to push beyond the confines of the song structures, leading to a lot of "bliss" passages, as someone else noted.

Again though, the encore: high energy, and I remember my buddy Kevin exclaiming that "Trey doesn't wanna stop!", which felt true. Solid 3 stars though srynotsry


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