"Tonight seems like a Tweezer night." - Me in yesterday morning's 8:11am entryThe Phish, 8.11.04 Great Woods, MA
Set 1: The Divided Sky, Suzy Greenberg > Funk Jam > Down With Disease > Prince Caspian > Scent of a Mule > Tears of a Clown* > Scent of a Mule, Mexican Cousin
Set 2: Antelope > 2001 > Golgi Apparatus, Waves > Tweezer > HYHU > Terrapin (Love You)** > Trey Polls the Audience > HYHU*** > Trey & Fish drum solos > Timber Ho! > Sample In a Jar
Encore: Bouncin' > Tweezer Reprise
Notes: * With special guest chick picked from the audience on vocals.
** Fishman on vocals and vacuum.
*** Trey and Fishman drumming
What a show! It was Jay's last show. I bumped into Emi and Junko in the lot before the show. We had decent seats, Page side in Section 8. Divided Sky opener? Suzy was jammed out with high funk content. Page was on. You have to play tight, when you bring the funk. And the boys were smoking early. Down with Disease was mostly all Mike. Scent of a Mule segued into a cover of Tears of a Clown (I thik they forgot the words) and some chick came up on stage from out of the audience and sung the rest of it with Phish. And I was pumped to hear Mexican Cousin. Some people I know hate it, but I firggin love hearing it!!!
I found Emi and Junko at setbreak again! Set two started out hot with an unfinished Antelope that segued into a spectacular 2001, with a juicy rift/jam the guys kept weaving in and out of 2001. The smoke machine was in full effect and quickly filled the stage. Golgi was high energy, crowd pleaser. The band seemed to enjoy themselves on that tune. Waves was mellow, then came on strong. Trey really likes playing that tune. Tweezer had a nice funk-high-end jam, and then it was Fishman vaccum hijinks. There's nothing quite like driving hundreds of miles to the middle of nowhere, just to see a 40 year-old, short fat guy, who looks like he hasn't slept in a week, wearing a dress/mumu... and braking out a vaccuum cleaner solo in front of 25,000+ fans. Trey asked the audience if they think Fish's hijinks + Vac solos + signing "Fish" songs ruined the show. That was friggin funny. Some people actually voted against FIsh!! And he flipped the off. I wanted to heary Timber Ho! The closer, Sample, was another high energy, crowd singing a long tune. Encore was saved by the Tweezer Reprise. Getting out of the venue was a pain in the ass, but we did much better than the night before.
Next up... Camden!!
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