I: AC/DC Bag, Camel Walk, Crowd Control, Stash, Cars Trucks Buses, Carini, My Sweet One, Character Zero, Tweezer
II: Wilson > Down With Disease, 99 Problems*, Big Pimpin\'*, Chalk Dust Torture, Harry Hood**, Taste
E: Bug, Tweezer Reprise
* Jay-Z cover; first time played; with Jay-Z; Cyro Baptista on percussion.
** unfinished. well, i started writing this early this morning.. got busy, and now here it goes.
i\'m gonna have to disagree with wolf about this show. to me, this was a show to find out if phish was for real on this tour or not. they teased me in the beginning, and almost had me, but then it just reminded me of what the last couple years have been like.
first of all, song selection = very good. on paper, i think this show looks very very promising. and starting things off with acdc/camel walk gave me goosebumps, because i was expecting more of what i got the night before.
but i dunno.. it just seemed like the energy wasn\'t there. even with carini, a hard hitting phish song that i\'m usually banging my head to, didn\'t have it on this night. this show was filled with all of the flubs, uncertainty, and lack of energy that i\'ve seen for the past few years (post-hiatus). first set, great song selection, but lack of energy had me hoping for a better second set.
wilson - great kickoff, but again, a slamming song that didn\'t slam. very rushed. no build-up to either
\'now you got me back thinkin...\' or
\'blat, boom...\'. there\'s usually a good jam before the former and a good pause before the latter to get you ready for them, but trey rushed right into both, and imo, took the balls out of it.
dwd was good. i got a little teary-eyed actually, because the
\'waiting for the time when i can finally say, this has all been wonderful, but now i\'m on my way\' line really got me thinking about how this was it, and after this summer, i wouldn\'t have this any more. i really enjoyed the dwd.
the jay-z intro was great! i was pumped. and as soon as i heard him say
\'if you\'re havin\' girl problems i feel bad for you, son\', i SCREAMED \'
i got 99 problems but a bitch ain\'t one!!\'. incredible. great guest work there.. jay-z left while the band jammed out the end of big pimpin, and they closed it and immediately went into chalkdust. i was happy to hear another rockin\' song, but the flubs killed it. trey rushed into the verses in the beginning - fine. but he completely forgot how to come out of the jam/solo in the middle, and a whole section of the song was left out. it\'s just not good when phish is playing jay-z songs better than phish songs.
hood - a personal favorite, and another forgotton song. unfinished. not like the \'97 unfinished hoods - this one trey clearly forgot the end (page was trying to go into it, but trey never followed). it eventually dissolved into nothing, and they started a pretty weak taste. bah.
encore was decent, but expected. overall, absolutely nothing like the night before, even though i only caught 2/E the previous night. i\'ll give it a 6/10, with the song selection saving it from a 4-5.
that said, i\'m still not convinced either way about what band is touring right now. it won\'t be till august that i see them again, but i\'m hoping they get it together over these next few shows.