was i the only one at utica last night?
great show, amazing segues/endless teases, 1995 style type-2 jamming. no whale calling. the one main thing it lacked was the big peaks, which disappointed me a little. Par example...treys playing in antelope early-mid in the jam was fucking amazing, i was totally locked in an d the whole band was perfectly in sync, but they just failed to really blow the roof off the place at the end of the jam. same deal with the bowie. and the best segue of the whole show was in the second set when they did the SOAM thing into have mercy, into birds of a feather jam again! (even though they already played it), into something else, back into SOAM...the execution was perfect, but they just didnt blow the place up at the end of SOAM like i hoped they would have, it just kinda lingered and ended.
overall id give the show a 7.5/10...loved the song selection, loved the jamming/segues/teasing, but i took off a solid 2.5 points because they lacked the thing that IMO makes phish phish, and that is the epic peaks which make my hairs stand up.
great venue, there wasnt a bad seat i the house.
