2016-06-25, Wrigley Field - Chicago, IL - Post -Show Discussion

[mistercharlie]

2016-06-25
Wrigley Field
Chicago, IL

I:
Moma Dance, AC/DC Bag, 555, Waiting All Night, Heavy Things, Happy Birthday Richard Glasgow*, 46 Days, I Didn't Know^, Divided Sky, Cavern, Good Times Bad Times

II:
Carini > Tweezer > Fluffhead > Piper > Steam > Wading In The Velvet Sea, Harry Hood > Tweezer Reprise

Encore:
I Am The Walrus




*Dickie Scotland
^Fish introduced as "Moses Heaps"

[mistercharlie]

After seeing the new LED lights for the past two nights on the webcast I have to say that I am a huge non-fan of them. They take up too much of the stage and not only clash with CK5's regular lights, but also limit what Chris can do with the few can lights remaining to him now that that over-sized monstrosity is up there.


On to the music...

Get 1 was good, but nothing jammy. Well played, just not improved upon. Set II made me sad since I was hoping for a Tweezer today at Deer Creek, but I'll take the loss of a Tweezer when it's so abbreviated. And speaking of abbreviated, how about that Hood?

TLHAH

[mbw]

Nah, the lights are sweet.
They may not look great up close to the stage or on tv but from a little farther back like normal people see concerts they are cool.  Plus dude has taken a chill pill from the standard 3.0 crazy flashy stoby constant color changey omg i am hitting every button as fast as i can approach.

[rowjimmy]

Lights? Whatev.

I liked this show.
First set ran the gamut material-wise. All good songs, tho.
Fish flubbed Carvern and they shrugged it off with GTBT.

Second set was great, IMO. No, they didn't go 20minutes deep on any of the jams, but I though what they did was pretty tasty. Trey gave one of, if not the best performance of Fluffhead in 3.0. Low bar? Who cares. Shit was good and well placed.

Hood was short due to curfew, I think.

Encore was ridic.

[mbw]

When fluff started some big giant guy started shoving everyone around him, including me, and yelling 'fluffhead!

A few minutes later pieguy spotted him and introduced me to augs brother.

[shoreline99]

When fluff started some big giant guy started shoving everyone around him, including me, and yelling 'fluffhead!

A few minutes later pieguy spotted him and introduced me to augs brother.

:hereitisyousentimentalbastard

[birdman]

When fluff started some big giant guy started shoving everyone around him, including me, and yelling 'fluffhead!

A few minutes later pieguy spotted him and introduced me to augs brother.

:hereitisyousentimentalbastard

It's funny, when I  read the first sentence, the first thing that popped in my head was big J.
Pretty standard introduction.

[rowjimmy]

Lol

Sounds about right.

[Caravan2001]

 :-D

[August]

That guy.

[PIE-GUY]

I think I cashed in on 5 years of giving Johnny tequila shots last night. He had a flask of fireball that I pretty much crushed for him.

[August]

I think I cashed in on 5 years of giving Johnny tequila shots last night. He had a flask of fireball that I pretty much crushed for him.

His sobriety seems to be going well!

[Marmar]

Trey gave one of, if not the best performance of Fluffhead in 3.0. Low bar? Who cares. Shit was good and well placed.

I have to agree....that fluffhead was tighter than most....guess forgetting how to play it really made them actually re-learn the parts correctly....

Other than that....the only thing I have to say is:

Dear Trey,
While the echo-plex is a rather nifty toy that when used sparingly gives a great effect, one should not rely on the echo-plex in every jam. Try actually playing some melodic lines every now and then....k?....thankx.

Marmar

[pcr3]

Dear Trey,
While the echo-plex is a rather nifty toy that when used sparingly gives a great effect, one should not rely on the echo-plex in every jam. Try actually playing some melodic lines every now and then....k?....thankx.

Marmar

Gonna totally agree with this. Total crutch, and based on how they sound in general right now, it shouldn't be necessary.

[emay]

Thought this run was solid. Nothing too crazy.
Space oddity was the tits.
the twist and tweezer  jams were nice, cant wait to hear them do an extended jam in the same tone as that twist jam, shit was getting dark n crazy
sorry could get up! got in super late friday and was catching up wiht a buddy from high school before the show saturday.
excited for more fresh phish!