10/20 - Hampton Coliseum - Hampton, VA - Post-Show Discussion and Review

[Marmar]

This is the only night worth listening to. Trey put the whale to rest for the most part which made for interesting playing. Setlist was a lil predictable, but the quality was there.

If you're scoring this one at home: Phish-1, Tour-3......

[emay]

best second set I have seen in a while  :banana:

[barnesy305]

The crowd last night was the best one I've personally witnessed in years, possibly since they've come back.

[Hicks]

Tweezer> Golden Age> Piper> Taking Care of Business is the confirmed real deal.   

Moar plz, k thnx bai. 

[VA $l!m]

glad they pulled out a winner for every1 that made it thru the run.

[fastfingers12]

I planned on listening to this show at work this morning, but left my headphones! I'll have to wait until this evening. Looks solid.

[blatboom]

I just don't understand why that can't play like that every night when they're clearly capable

[mbw]

this tweezer is indeed money.
i was skeptical at first, mostly on treys ability to come up with anything new as he whaled away.
then all of a sudden...
some nasty psychedelic fall phish improv.
well done.

[antelope19]

I just don't understand why that can't play like that every night when they're clearly capable

This

Hell, I would take every other night at this point. 

[sophist]

1st set def has some whale'd out moments (Roses, 46 Days, parts of Divided Sky), but overall pretty good.  A lot tighter in terms of playing than night one and two.  I'm interested to see how this second set sounds, as it's got quite the level of praise on the internets today. 

[Hicks]

I just don't understand why that can't play like that every night when they're clearly capable

Freal, I hate to say it but a set like this just highlights how unsatisfying the first two nights were for me.   

Even here Trey's playing during Sand is basically unlistenable.

I don't get how he can bring the goods for the entire set and then play donkey piss like that. 

[sophist]

That was a Tweezer.  DAMN. 

[mehead]

The Tweezer had a "soundcheck jam" feel to me - if that makes sense.  Totally dug it.  I thought GA sucked up until the jam.  They were sleepwalking through it - I almost skipped it thinking there was no way a decent jam was going to materialize.

[emay]

sunday ticket tree!
more pics to come!

[sophist]

Golden Age is awesome as well. 

Honestly though, they lose me after this. 

I would have much rather seen

Paul & Silas > Tweezer -> Golden Age -> Piper > Slave

Encore:  ADITL > Taking Care of Business

Keep it simple, keep it improv focused.  The first half of the set is some of the better 3.0 playing out there.