07/03 - Super Ball IX - Watkins Glen, NY - Post-Show Discussion and Review

[rowjimmy]

2011-07-03
Super Ball IX
Watkins Glen International
Watkins Glen, NY

Set 1: Soul Shakedown Party, AC/DC Bag, The Curtain > Col. Forbin's Ascent* > Fly Famous Mockingbird, Destiny Unbound, Big Black Furry Creature From Mars > Wilson > Mound, A Song I Heard The Ocean Sing, Time Loves A Hero, Reba** > David Bowie


Set 2: Big Balls^, Down With Disease > No Quarter, Party Time, Ghost, Gotta Jibboo > Light, Waves > What's The Use?, Meatstick, Stealing Time For The Faulty Plan


Encore: Star Spangled Banner^^, Trey thanks crew & fans, First Tube~



*Storage Area narration
**with Whistling
^AC/DC cover. Sung by Fish. First Time Played.
^^a capella
~Fireworks

[guyforget]

most common 3.0 songs not played @ SBIX:

yem, free, r&r, pyite, theme, coil, maze, drowned, taste




tried to be positive all night, but kinda shocked that they ended a festival w/ faulty plan and first tube and without yem or slave particularly...

[PhishPhan]

I thought #Phish delivered this weekend. Not epic or mind-blowing but well planned and executed musically

Couldn't agree more. I still wish I could have made it, regardless after hearing the hate. I will be putting 100% of my effort into trying to make it to the next festival.

[guyforget]

for reference, since this is the last show of the festival to review:


07/01/2011
Super Ball IX
Watkins Glen International
Watkins Glen, NY

Set I:
Possum, Peaches en Regalia, The Moma Dance, Torn and Frayed, NICU, Bathtub Gin, Life on Mars?@,
My Friend My Friend, Wolfman's Brother, Roses are Free, Funky Bitch, Quinn the Eskimo


Set II:
Jam> Crosseyed and Painless -> Chalk Dust Torture, Sand > The Wedge, Mike's Song > Simple*, Bug,
The Horse> Silent In The Morning> Weekapaug Groove, Joy, Character Zero


Encore:
Show of Life


@ Last Time Played 2003-02-15 (175 shows)
* Closing jam included Third Stone From The Sun teases






07/02/2011
Super Ball IX
Watkins Glen International
Watkins Glen, NY



Set One: Tube[3:53], Kill Devil Falls[7:54] > Ocelot[9:22], Lawn Boy[2:31], Divided Sky[15:37], Boogie On Reggae Women[6:37] > Camel Walk[5:25], Cities[5:45] > Poor Heart [2:17] > 46 Days [6:57] > Suskind Hotel^[5:28], When The Circus Comes To Town[4:53], Timber[5:53] > Back On The Train[5:35] > Suzy Greenberg [6:49] > Monkey Man^^[5:25]

Set Two: Runaway Jim[8:44]* > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters[9:25], Axilla I[3:19] > Birds Of A Feather[7:59], Stash[12:23], Sample in a Jar[4:54], Heavy Things[6:39] > Horn[3:41] > It's Ice[7:52] > The Mango Song[8:10] > Rift[6:02] > Scents and Subtle Sounds[9:39], Run Like An Antelope[10:12]

Set Three: Golden Age[13:49] > Prince Caspian[6:22] > Piper[9:58] > Tweezer[11:04] > Julius [7:15] > Backwards Down The Number Line[7:58] > Twist[11:08] > 2001[4:56] > Harry Hood [12:06] > Cavern[4:20] > Golgi Apparatus[4:50] > A Day In The Life[5:17]

Encore: Loving Cup, Tweeprize

Set Four: USA Storage Jam (Ball Square Jam), Sleeping Monkey

Notes:
This was the second of the three-show Super Ball IX festival.
^Phish debut, original.
^^Phish debut, Rolling Stones.
*Included introductions and trophy awards for the winners of the Runaway Jim 5K.
Simpsons signal after Birds Of A Feather

[ceevee]

This show is a good example of why you don't follow No Quarter with Party Time in the last set of a festival weekend (Boy, I bet they won't do that again). Great playing, but seemed to totally change the flow of the set (to my ears at least).

That first set was some inspired stuff, though...as were large chunks of the second.

[jedifunk]

agreed... the dwd > no quarter was really fun, but the party time killed it, and they didn't really get it back till WTU.

there was a massive treybortion during ghost... trey totally lost the plot, and they ripcord'd right out of it.  let down from there on out really. (wtu excluded)

[Declan]

well last night i knew it was sad when i was enjoying the bunny more then the band

[roggae]

I thought this show was really good. No complaints here.

[mopper_smurf]

"Daddy?"
"Yes, dear?"
"Did they play "Big Black Furry Creature From Mars' last night?"
"Yup, they did."
"You owe me two Euros then."

[runawayjimbo]

"Daddy?"
"Yes, dear?"
"Did they play "Big Black Furry Creature From Mars' last night?"
"Yup, they did."
"You owe me two Euros then."

:hereitisyousentimentalbastard :hereitisyousentimentalbastard :hereitisyousentimentalbastard

Was that an actual conversation with your child?

[UncleEbinezer]

I enjoyed listening to the show last night.  I really enjoyed Mound!!

Backyard tour ftw!

[mopper_smurf]

"Daddy?"
"Yes, dear?"
"Did they play "Big Black Furry Creature From Mars' last night?"
"Yup, they did."
"You owe me two Euros then."

:hereitisyousentimentalbastard :hereitisyousentimentalbastard :hereitisyousentimentalbastard

Was that an actual conversation with your child?

Yes, it was. My son is obsessed with BBFCM. He made his class sit through a rather terrible YouTube aud on the interactive whiteboard once. His teacher liked it a lot. She's into heavy metal and hardcore.

[nab]

The Mound, especially the exit solo by Trey, is really very excellent. 

[Gumbo72203]

really weird Phish festival from what I see.

big versions of Gin, Simple, Golden Age, and Reba....  narration in Forbinbird, a return to Albany shows (last set starting "jam" and last With-less Curtain) but then lacking in a Slave and YEM.....   Slave has been their big, pinnacle 'we-end-the-huge-ones-with-this' song, and they don't even play it? 


odd.  cant wait to listen though

[ceevee]

Slave has been their big, pinnacle 'we-end-the-huge-ones-with-this' song, and they don't even play it? 

I was especially surprised by this one's absence, given the general theme/backdrop of Watkins Glen. I kind of expected a Contact as well.

Still, I like to expect the unexpected with this band...and then expect that the unexpected exceeds the expected....