In my opinion, having followed Phish since Halloween 96 in ATL, the last five and a half minutes of Wolfman's Brother are some of the phinest in all of Phishdom. Laugh if thou wilt, but i literally will tear up dancing to that section. absolutely amazing. absolutely.
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Friends made me go to this when I was only planning on going to the fleet center 20th anniversary the next night. so glad they did because I agree with othe reviewers that this was the show of the run. There was a moment in the antelope were trey looked like his feet were stuck to the floor but was moving his body from the waste up like a head banging metal head. It was something special. they really were dialed in and I believe it was because Jeff was there. top notch ripping psychedelia. one of those moments I cherish say yes to. Albany is a place that if they go, you should too.
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chalkdust opener tore the fucking roof off the venue. one of the best opening performances i can remember. it was special.
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Was on shuffle listening to this guyute..have to say that's one of best if not best post first hiatus guyute I've heard. In fact it's a lot better than some of the late pre-hiatus ones.
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Such a classic chalk dust torture followed by on of my fave stashes ever. Just great flow to this forsr set! Even placement of the rare thunderhead just works for me here after one of best 2.0 guyute and before an epic wolfmans.
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Maybe even going back farther ?
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Is that a bug tease at like 4:22 of song?
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Best of the 20th anniversary shows. One of hottest first sets you will find start to finish from 2.0 era that was more known for amazing second set jams(which I love). And this has one of those as well with a stellar-in-any-era 20 min tweezer > 2001with a positively stellar transition seque. This show also features one of the tightest good times bad times in livephish catalogue as well as topshelf CDT, stash, guyute, and amazing wolfmans. And don't shy away from the Holdsworth stuff. People who typically weren't there say it takes away from the show and musically might be slightly true but this IMHO is terribly overblown. After a galactic YEM with tribe chant vocal jam Jeff's part of the set starts out a tiny sloppy but by the end he is actually producing surprisingly productive rhythm fills in between trey and pages main lines. And I will never forget my memory of the end of the show after a couple simple covers Jeff was feeling pretty good I guess and he was maybe feeling like he could play with trey better than he thought and then they go I to Antelope and when trey starts soloing he look on Jeff's face was classsic. It just was like saying quite clearly "holy crap this guy is a guitar god and this is why I'm not in this band anymore "...lol. It seemed liked he was particularly blown away when trey went chromatic and if I remember correctly that was exactly what they argued about and ended his involvement in the band-it was a difference of opinion over treys penchant for chromatic and complicated chord charts etc. But even in antelope he played some admirable rhythm work. It was fun to say the least. Def like I said though this is best of the four shows they did by far IMO. The fleetcenter looks nice on paper but everyone I know that went to both prefers the highlights of this one. Also forgot to say it was snowing badly before during and after this show and as usual the Pepsi arena parkibg garage across the street with the police in the bottom level where you could hear nitrous nonstop and yet that garage was the craziest party scene ice ever seen in. A parking garage! Always like that there. And in an parent nod to the snow the band played a toasty fire to send us off Into the white abyss of a blizzard for the evenings encores. Good memories.
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