Props to the dude bitching about 2001>Santos and one-song encore (and a pretty impressive Fuego at that), I needed the laugh this morning.

Top-notch show. Fun old school beginning trio and a fantastic Sand that went type 2 and is definitely worth a listen, as is the YEM. The Twist didn’t do a lot for me but if you’re into bleep-bloop Phish you’ll love it. Phish doesn’t exist to please one fan, and if those jams are your yum I’m not here to yuck ‘em.

Can we get a petition going to have them play Most Events more often? Feels like every time they play that tune they crush it.

Solid end to a great spring. Bring on summer tour!

Just finished the livestream and WOW, I was absolutely blown away.
The show started off straight from Picture of Nectar!! The whole vibe was very yellow, so awesome! I loved the upbeat vibe, great as shit! Solid sand! Just powering through. Lizards!!!! OMG just made me dance and sing on the couch lol. Beautiful. Very funky Stranger??! So scwobbley. Timber!!! Joy, and MEAP are cool! Very cool vibe for the first set, just a giant yellow dance party (that should have been the color!!!)

Second set while did initial eyeball at More I literally could not believe how tight they were, just absolutely locked in and smashing. YEM!! Holy shit, If I say not this was absolutely the best part of the entire show, just RIPPING!!! I can't explain, just listen. Solid twist! KDF was the ONE for me!!! Just on fire and TIGHT MOMENTS. Lifeboy, Zarathustra! SANTOS RIPPING at the end, I normally not a fan of this one but just the right time and the right energy and IT JUST BLEW UP THE WORLD!!!

I have no words. the encore, Fuego..... oh my, if that was not one of the greatest moments holy tarnations. I could not believe what I was hearing. Absolutely monster and huge sounding, huge huge Fuego. Cannot believe this. Worth a listen, that itself is just ... omg...

Either this was an amazing show and my socks really got kicked off or these edibles are smacking extra hard right now.

Dare I say, best show of Spring 2025?

4.35/5

Jaw dropping. This was the show LA was waiting for all weekend.

You could tell when they opened with The Landlady it was going to be a night to remember. Cavern in the 2 slot brought the crowd to a frothy peak, ready to burn the Bowl down one last time.

Then. Llama, Sand, Lizards. This show #32 for me (first was Rochester ‘97) and to get Llama and Lizards for the first time was a moment of pure joy. Heavenly.

Hey Stranger kept the good times rolling, until Jerry the Mule came to call. I always want to get a Timber, and this one went really deep, arguably type 2 jam. Joy gave us a moment to scoop our brains back up, only for Page to bring the set home with a stellar Most Events aren’t Planned. His synth at the start made me think I was at a NIN concert, in the best of ways.

Giddy setbreak, back in time for a quick More to spark off the final frame of Spring Tour.

And then. YEM. The Phish song of Phish songs, the rhombus shaped godhead of the Phish experience. This YEM felt like a living breathing spatial entity…it enveloped all in its path and left us changed. Incredible throughout, with a jaw dropping post vocal jam jam. The transition into Twist was so buttery smooth, it felt like Twist just existed fully formed inside YEM and the magicians pulled it out of the hat.

At this point, approximately an hour into set 2, this had already achieved lifetime show status. But wait! There’s more!

KDF rocked out, with a killer jam. Great clearing of the air after the psychedelic masterpiece of YEM—>Twist.

Lifeboy. Another song I’ve been chasing for the last 30 years. Perfect placement, perfectly played. Just exquisite.

2001 and SANTOS brought the party home with a smash.

Fuego encore was perfect. Statement Fuego to end these fire benefit shows. Phish, like LA, know that inside our Fuego, we keep it rolling.

So grateful, one of the best nights of my life!

Saw the show in section G2. Conditions: high 50s, cloudy, very light mist/sprinkles leading into show.

L.A. L.A. nd L.A. dy starter.
Cavern (as pointed out in forum thread has always been played here) as the Bowl is cut into a cavern. > L L.A. ma
Sand, Lizards in the canyon..? maybe this is stretching it. I thought Timber might have been a callback to PDX.
The MEAP quick and hard transition to the jam section @~3min kicked Page into high gear, and the I/IV jamming from 6:00-end felt like a high energy Cavern-reprise.

2nd set
YEM: @7min Trey almost reordered the Man-God part and laughed for a bit as he had to snap back into it after hearing the audience say God at the correct spot…also loved the scat breakdown!
KDF: I thought Trey was trying to whoop-up the audience around 5min during the slide sounding thing, and the back half of the jam was wild and crazy robot dance attack with killer light sync.

Overall, the jams each stretched out into their own interesting territory, making it a memorable experience.

I am writing this review on the Wednesday after the show. While I may not be able to fully remove my attendance bias, I can definitely try to remove recency bias by having waited a few days.

There was an X factor this night and most felt it. People saying the band was tired…that’s projecting, my friend! We had great seats behind CK5 and were in a great position to take this one in. Also, I finally brough enough layers to be warm enough that the unseasonably cold / damp weather (by LA standards) wasn’t really affecting this Miami boy.

1st Set

• Landlady was somewhat surprising given PYITE being played a few shows earlier but very cool to hear for a 1.0’er and apparently the first one in a couple years, which might explain the slight flub on the intro but nothing too noticeable.
• Cavern, now here we go! Fairly standard, well played. And oddly, the second tune of the night where Trey and Mike get to dance!
• Llama going type II was so cool! A good omen? We’ll see…
• Sand also going type II, OK so we’re in a mood to venture out of the box. I’m digging it so far.
• A first-set Lizards? What kind of show did we get ourselves into here?!? Trey seemed to be having some tone control issues but got it dialed in eventually. The buildup during Page’s solo before the outro seemed to catch Trey off-guard a little at the peak (Page peaked a bit early), but as a player/student of this music, I can attest that song is not easy unless you’re playing it OFTEN, which they don’t anymore sadly. Trey also had some minor flubs on the grand finale outro, but I’m not Brad Sands, so I’m not going say it wasn’t good because they missed some changes. Energy and intent were there. Lots of folks were calling this song before the show (our crew included) so I guess we inflected reality just enough to manifest that shit. READ THE BOOK!
• With Hey Stranger, the little flubs we’d been hearing here and there seemed to get ironed out, understandable given the highly interlocking nature of that song’s groove. Great time to look around and smile at your neighbors. Ryan and Sarah from Denver CO, hello!!! Man, Trey really loves the combination of that Mutron (auto-wah) and Whammy (set for down an octave, or up). He mentioned it during one of his rig-rundown videos and sounds like it’s still his go-to sound during funk jams.
• Timber Ho is always welcome in my book, and again, some Type II key changes going on here.
• This band really wants me to be happy, which of course brings me …. Joy.
• Most Events Aren’t Planned…..love love love this song. Great closer, very funky and well played. Fate extends a hand. Indeed! Play this more often PLEASE!!!!!!!

2nd set / Encore

• More. Hmmm…well played and I guess I like some idealism with my Phish. Some friends really dislike this song (hi Letty!) but I’m a romantic and a pragmatic idealist so yeah, I’m good with this song as an opener.
• YEM. Longest YEM in decades, and it’s not because they were tired/bored. This went through the usual form into the vocal jam but their vocal jam started to mimic the 2-chord G/C jamming they had just exited, so they reemerged with MORE funk jamming, almost like they had to do it! Then some more Type II key change jamming ensued, with lots of bells and whistles taboot. The madness could have gone on for longer but instead we cut into >
• Twist in from YEM, and great call in my opinion. VERY COOL that the jam, which often starts out bombastic and then winds down to mellowness, actually STARTED very lean and mellow, as if the band knew we were all dialed in and didn’t need any extra theatrics. But here we go with more type II key change type jamming.
• Kill Devil Falls felt like we were entering the “victory lap” portion of our program, but was fun. Some whammy shenanigans in the outro jam with start/stop, time changes, key changes, dissonant boomerang loops, and a partridge in a pear tree. Then back into the KDF groove, morphing into ….
• LIFEBUOY. If you don’t like this song then f--- you 😊 Ricky Bobby jokes aside, this was a perfectly placed ballad. As a phisherman myself, I love placing ballads after sick jams so we can all catch our breath and process what we just heard. This was absolutely beautiful to the point of getting slightly emotional given the state of the world we’re in. And then, seemingly out of nowhere….
• 2001 was all Page. Like really, ALL PAGE. I had one of the headiest visuals I’ve ever had at a show. Short but sweet.
• SANTOS raged. I am now a fan of this song; was on the fence before this night but this was a very compelling version.
• What can I say about the Fuego encore that the length doesn’t convey? A great choice IMO. They just didn’t want to stop playing, but alas, all things must pass. Don’t worry guys, we’ll keep it rolling.

This was one of those shows where I didn’t want to leave for at least 15 min post show. Plus I was in no hurry to navigate the nitrous roadblocks on Highland (no pun intended, that’s the name of the street). Thanks Phish, I'll be back.

I will always remember where I was witnessing my favorite band perform a fantastic show mere hours from the public learning they had been snubbed from the Hall of Fame... and Phish (at least Trey) campaigned for it... we won the fan vote, phish did a profile for the New Yorker, had articles popping up in Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and Consequence of Sound supporting their Hall of Fame bid... and just to be rejected. Rejected by a glorified Hard Rock Cafe in Cleveland. The worst part is its clear there was a push and at least someone really cared about this recognition. And I traveled from NYC for the Hollywood Bowl run not realizing the announcement was on the same night as the tour closer... I found out in our waymu ride to the venue. But it hurt cuz it felt like it mattered to Phish who've rarely attracted mainstream recognition. The song choices felt intentional. There were intense lows and highs that felt more emotional than a typical phish rager, which are more carefree and light in mood. I loved this show, I'm glad I was there for it.

Single greatest couch Sunday show of all time IMO .. I plan to save this one somewhere for a long time .. what a great story .. just what I needed to carry on as we head out into the next few weeks..Summer tour is next! Have Phun everybody!

My plan was to play video games and stream the show from Sirus XM.. I quickly realized this was something special and just sat there and listened.. was melting by Joy.. I had to go upstairs and just sit with the wife and dogs for parts.. I live in CST and was trying to hang on to my eyelids when Fuego came on..

Joy to you too … plan to hang out here as long as I’m around.

Man. Greatest band ever. This is my favorite part of life and I care about it deeply. But I'm pretty disappointed in these guys from 2001 until the end. One song closer (a repeat also) is not why I see Phish. Is this the point where one starts becoming jaded?

Jams we're solid. Thankful for timber always. Come on fellas