12/28 has historically been the warmup show. I’m sure many people skipped tonight, but as the rule goes… never miss a Sunday show.

Buried Alive into AC/DC Bag had the crowd pumped up. Roggae, Rift, and Wolfman’s with some jamming were great 1.0 selections in the first set. Then… PYITE. Mid set. Hot damn. And they jam the intro too. Beautiful. Sigma and Taste were good. Trey wraps up Taste and takes his guitar off… “they can’t be done?” … picks up the acoustic guitar and then we get Sleep. Beautiful. I heard it once at SPAC ‘19. A welcome bustout. Antelope to close is classic. Truly an above average first set, especially for N1.

Set 2 begins with Oblivion, DWD, Simple and damn, it got weird! 40 mins of jamming led to a little Jibboo cool down that wasn’t really a cool down, and then… Theme. I thought this was the part of the night where they just stop jamming and rattle off 4 more jukebox songs. WRONG. Instead? Longest Theme ever. Jesus Christ. I need to listen back, but I was grooving in the moment. Back into simple for good measure, then throw in an ER for the vibes. Great show. Slave in the encore slot is as predictable as the sun coming up every morning. Glad they got it over with night 1.

TLDR: Shows like this are why we Phish. You never know when they’re going to happen, so that’s why you do the whole run. Fingers crossed they maintain this energy through the whole run.