What a show, Phish in Alpharetta is always a phenomenal time. Total show length was 3:18:47, a tad long in the tooth and every phans wish. As I sat pre show and chatted with other phans we ended up getting most of the songs we discussed wanting to hear. I love these conversations and coincidences. Who doesn’t love a Buried Alive opener? What a special treat to get a beautiful Slave, a typical set closer, in the three spot. I’ve noticed this tour that several typical set closers and or encores are moved further up into set one or two. Other examples this late summer tour include A Day in the Life at Bourbon and Beyond and Good Times Bad Times n2 B’ham, both usual encore songs played before the encore. After that scorching set one we knew that we were heading to the land of Oblivion for set two and this set did not disappoint. After 46 minutes of Oblivion>Bowie>Fuego it was now time to cool down with Leaves. Trey teased Dixie’s Land at the end of Fuego right at the 15:18 mark and in Leaves Trey brought a mellow Fuego jam back in to Leaves, it was quite pleasant. My Birthday was recently so I’m counting Number Line as my B-day song. For those of you who don’t like Drift While Your Sleeping or Monsters, you’re not really listening and your not surrendering to the flow. Drift and Monsters was an absolutely beautiful end of the show! Antelope was a scorching end-cap and was certainly curfew busting going past 11pm! This is definitely another highly rated Alpharetta show.

This is why we Phish.