To me, this was a pretty incredible show overall, that fell just short of truly being flawless.

Set 1 was damn near perfect, and focused more on the classic early 90s phish tightness style over exploratory jamming. Possum>Wolfmans>Lengthwise>Maze>Theme was such a fantastic start, each version absolutely ripping and none overstayed their welcome. More isn't my favorite, but it was a tight version that set the stage for Divided Sky very well. And as good as the first half of set 1 was, the second half was even better. An epic Sky, followed by impeccably tight renditions of NMINML and MEAP. (Is No Man's better as a tight energy filled jam rather than an exploratory jam vehicle?) And that would have been a pretty perfect set... But Trey just plays straight into an impeccable version of Fluffhead instead... Most Fluffheads Aren't Planned? A perfect way to close.

Set 2 starts with Hey Stranger, which I felt could have gone in an interesting direction, but they cut it short instead of jamming it out. (Was it an intentional warmup? Did they try to jam it out and decide... Nah, let's just segue into Disease instead?). That said, Disease gets spacey, jazzy, deep, and weird, and was the top jam of set 2 imo. Winterqueen was a pleasant cooldown, if not my favorite ballad. Energy goes straight back to 10/10 again when Tweezer starts, which was a ton of fun as Tweezer always is, even if imo this Tweezer was fun but nothing truly special. Still, it's Tweezer - some of them have to be only great.

Then, the set loses energy. Seven Below could have stayed exploratory, but was cut short. (I think set flow would have been better with a Mondegreen-esque ~50-60 minute 1-2-3 punch of Disease>Tweezer>Seven Below without the Winterqueen cooldown, but alas). Short versions of Piper and 2001 were nothing special, even though 2001 always gets the crowd going. Then, a pleasant Everything's Right to close it out. (Not a big fan of the sappy Trey songs, but this one had some solid juice). Makes me think - Did the band plan to close out set 2 with Fluffhead, but Trey knew in the moment that set 1 was really special so he played it there instead?

Speaking of sappy Trey songs, we get A Life Beyond the Dream in the encore slot... Kinda kills the energy imo but this was a well-played version of the song with a great Trey solo. Anyway. That's not what we care about. This show had perhaps the greatest Hood of 4.0 to close everything out. I'm still thinking about Trey's note held for about a minute and a half... leading up to a magical peak. It's just that good.

So yeah, a pretty perfect extended first set, we got a nasty Disease and a fun Tweezer in an up and down second set, and then got one of the greatest Hoods in recent memory. Gotta give this show an A-, but it's about as strong of an A- as possible.