07/28 - Austin360 Amphitheater - Austin, TX - Post-Show Discussion

[runawayjimbo]

07-28-2015
Austin360 Amphitheater
Austin, TX

I: Party Time, Free, Halley's Comet, Wolfman's Brother, Possum*, Lawn Boy, Bouncing Around the Room, Water in the Sky, Dirt^, Devotion to a Dream, Sugar Shack, Run Like an Antelope

II: 46 Days -> The Dogs -> 46 Days > Piper > Ghost > Shade, Gotta Jibboo, Waiting All Night, Blaze On, Wading in the Velvet Sea, David Bowie, Suzy Greenberg > Tweezer Reprise

E: Loving Cup

* Page and Trey shoutouts to Trey's "homecoming"
^ LTP 2013-10-25 (60 show gap)

[Caravan2001]

I liked it.  Psyched for tomorrow.

[anthrax]

I liked it.  Psyched for tomorrow.

[PIE-GUY]

I liked it.  Psyched for tomorrow.

[GBL]

I liked it.  Psyched for tomorrow.

[GBL]

I liked it.  Psyched for tomorrow.

Just kidding!

[blatboom]

that's a lot of songs. looks fun though

[rowjimmy]

The show is song-y & has some Trey flubs. It's not terrible though.
He messes on some early bit of Antelope, for example, but then he pulls together some interesting melodic leads on the middle part that are worth it.

Dallass will get smoked.

[mattstick]

The jam/stuff/generic 3.0 ambient space between 46 Days and Piper was my fave.

[Gumbo72203]

So this show had some really fucking fantastic stuff, but also some really meh stuff. 

That 46 Days sandwich was absolutely outstanding.  And the Ghost....   that Ghost had a shot at top-5 of 3.0 status, but they couldn't keep it together.  That power-rock riff theme that Trey came up with was absolutely slamming, and then he looped that higher note over top and it was awesome, but then the whole thing just disintegrated out of nowhere.  They tried to come back to it, but....  it was gone.  It's such a cool riff though. 


I like Shade.  I don't know why.  I'm a sucker for the cycling vocals thing they do.  Fell asleep during the Jibboo jam, and wake up to find a whole lot more songs played that set, haha weird. 


I don't like sets like this though, because they drop all the "big jam songs" but don't actually give them any big jams.  Another show where nothing cracked the 12 minute mark. 

[runawayjimbo]

LST was fun
:shakehead:

[emay]

Havent listened to any of this show yet, doesn't look that good on paper.

Apparently Dirt was for Harris Wittels (parks and rec producer), Mike posted a pic with him in a Harris/Phish shirt

[sophist]

So far, I think the really only consistent thing about this tour is the incredibly shitty first sets.  My god.  At this point, I am kinda tempted to wait in the lot until set break this weekend.   :evil:  :roll: 

This is another one where they gain and lose momentum within a blink of the eye.  I'm left wondering if they are winging it?  And no setlist is written out?  Because on paper, I would just have to think, there is no fucking way all of four of them see this on a page and think its a good idea. 

Again, the playing is fine.  It's just really boring to me.  I don't think there music is interesting enough to play it the same way every time.  Especially the new songs, they aren't good enough for that. 

[JPhishman]

Live for Live Music's recap describes The Bouncing/Water in the Sky combo as, "both enjoyable first set rockers." I believe I'll be getting my recaps elsewhere from now on.

[PIE-GUY]

Live for Live Music's recap describes The Bouncing/Water in the Sky combo as, "both enjoyable first set rockers." I believe I'll be getting my recaps elsewhere from now on.

LOL.

As for the lost momentum, I think Trey is trying to do like the Dead and have "tender" moments with slow emotional tunes. He may be swinging and missing, but that's what he's going for, IMO.