, attached to 2025-12-30

Review by phishphan1984

phishphan1984 As we settled into encore and I heard "It will all feel new," it dawned on me that this was a fitting theme for this night, where some classics were trotted out, but in typical fashion, with different takes that felt new and invigorating.

Jotting down some quick thoughts:

Set 1 - very nice. Would have liked to remove a song or 2 to allow more time for some of these other excellent jams to be expanded
- CDT-Moma Dance-CDT sandwich another fun back and forth. 3rd night in a row with a playback song, is this a tell for NYE?
- BOTT - really excellent type I jam
- Divided Sky and Reba - nothing fancy, just done right
- Tube - Soaring, funky, great type II stuff!
- SOAM - Evil Phish. Not unlike some of the versions of the past few years in its approach, but once again pulling itself from the Phish-induced wreckage was mind boggling, patiently and expertly done

Set 2 - Rocked hard, with the first 4 songs equating to about an hour of non-stop type II jams that went in different places. Ghost, Light, and Crosseyed and Painless were all standout versions in my book.
- Ghost: Great interplay, smooth and deft movements to different chords and tempos
- Light: Beautiful as always, but a little more juice and just a very pleasing set of melodies
- Crosseyed and Painless: So funky, so exciting, this one really got all of the crowd going and would highly recommend this relatively short but sweet version
- First Tube: Great set closer after a high energy Cavern that Trey teased us by pretending this was the final song, Trey really wanted everyone engaged here and brought it!!!

Not a sensational show, but an excellent one nonetheless, with several type I and type II jams that stuck their landings, and the band on their game playing all their classic and complicated tunes without a hitch.

One more night and crossing my fingers for more Phish magic :)

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