, attached to 1996-12-06

Review by spreaditround

spreaditround SET 1: Wilson: Standard. >

Peaches en Regalia: Standard. >

Poor Heart: Fishman is in high spirits. >

Also Sprach Zarathustra: Super Bad tease by James Brown at 2:00. Super funky! Pre cursor to 97. >

Llama: Standard.

You Enjoy Myself: The lines Page plays during tramps I can essentially recite in my head. So good! The rhythm that Trey plays post tramps is so sick, so 97. Exceptional YEM, all timer! Donuts, I love donuts!!!

Cars Trucks Buses: >

Down with Disease: Oh God, oh God. That groove they hit at 7:25 is oh, so sublime!!! The trilling from Trey heavily throughout the 8’s – it’s what Phish dreams are made of. Incredible. >

Frankenstein

SET 2: Julius: Completely smoked.

Sparkle: Standard. >

Mike's Song: Love Trey’s staccato intro. That nasty space they get into at 7:45 is why I Phish. So dark and nasty. Trey’s trilling at 9:30 is so choice. The peak at 10:00 is about as high as you can get. >

Simple: At 12:00 this one finally busts out of the pretty picking and gets into a heavy groove in the late 12’s. Aggressive, dark and mean. At 14:00, it could almost go Izabella, but it was not to be. In the late 14’s this is going major jam, very blissed out. That theme that they hit at 16:49 just kills me every time, I love it so much, sound a bit like Blister in the Sun and then Fish starts singing it at 17:29. >

Harry Hood: How do you even follow that up? With a smoking Hood of course! The hose is realized right around the ten minute mark as Trey hits on the same repeating theme a number of times, gorgeous music. 13:39 is why I Phish. As you can tell this is one of my favorite versions. The peak isn’t even spectacular. But the build is a wonder to behold. >

Weekapaug Groove: Love Fish and Trey egging Mike on during his intro solo! Fun stop/start stuff two times. Definitely a solid version right here.

Sweet Adeline: Standard.

Good Times Bad Times: Smoking! Page’s vocals are as strong as any you will ever hear from him.

ENCORE: Harpua: Happy Trails tease by Dale Evans Rogers at 0:34 and at 2:34. ->

Wildwood Weed: Funny stuff. ->

Harpua: Jimmy in the desert. ->

I Want To Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart: Wish there was video of this. ->

Harpua: This is NOT Red Rocks in Colorado (lol). Trey calls on Fish but he must have been backstage getting ready for Suspicious Minds “oh, he’s gone” ->

Suspicious Minds: Absolutely hilarious, you have to watch the video of this – it’s so funny!!! ->

Harpua: Put all your money on 17 people.

Suzy Greenberg: Susie Q tease by Dale Hawkins. 97 funk shows it’s face in this one. Les destroys it in here.

Replay value: 2001, YEM, DWD, Julius, Mike’s, Simple, Hood, ‘Paug, Harpua, Suzy. Just an incredible show, so many significant highlights and then the madness that they threw down in the encore slot? Incredible. Wonder how hard they partied after this show? Anyway, this show is an obvious all timer and the second best of the tour – second only to Halloween! I would rate this as a 4.6 out of 5.


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