Phish @ Festival 8: Setlists
Phish
October 30, 2009
Festival 8
Indio, CA
Set 1: Party Time, Chalk Dust Torture, The Moma Dance, NICU, Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan, Stash, I Didn’t Know, Poor Heart, Cavern, Beauty Of A Broken Heart, Ocelot, Time Turns Elastic
Set 2: Punch You In The Eye, Down With Disease -> Prince Caspian > Wolfman’s Brother -> Piper -> Joy, David Bowie, Harry Hood, Golgi Apparatus
Encore: Character Zero
October 31
Set 1: Sample In A Jar, The Divided Sky, Lawn Boy, Kill Devil Falls, Bathtub Gin, The Squirming Coil, Runaway Jim, Possum, Run Like An Antelope
Set 2: Rocks Off, Rip This Joint, Shake Your Hips, Casino Boogie, Tumbling Dice, Sweet Virginia, Torn & Frayed, Sweet Black Angel, Loving Cup, Happy, Turd On The Run, Ventilator Blues, I Just Want To See His Face, Let It Loose, All Down The Line, Stop Breaking Down, Shine A Light, Soul Survivor
Set 3: Backwards Down The Number Line, Fluffhead, Story of the Ghost, When The Circus Comes, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Suzie Greenberg
Notes: Phish played Exile On Main Street in its entirety for the second set featuring Sharon Jones, David Guy, Tony Jarvis, David Smith & Saundra Williams. Those musicians also joined the band for the encore.
November 1
Acoustic
Set: Water In The Sky, Back On The Train, Brian and Robert, Invisible, Strange Design, Mountains In The Mist, The Curtain With, Army of One, Sleep Again, My Sweet One, Let Me Lie, Bouncing Around The Room, Train Song, Wilson, McGrupp
Encore: Driver, Talk, Secret Smile
Electric
Set 1: AC/DC Bag, Rift, Gotta Jibboo, Heavy Things, Reba, The Wedge, Guelah Papyrus, Undermind, Sparkle, Split Open and Melt
Set 2: Tweezer -> Maze, Free, Sugar Shack, Limb By Limb, Theme From The Bottom, Mike’s Song > 2001 > Light > Slave to the Traffic Light
Encore: Grind, Esther, Tweezer Reprise
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 1:30 pm
I love the new album, it rocks out the gate. The acoustic set was OFF THE HOOK! I was blown away by Mike who was working the bass like a third street hooker. I blogged the acoustic set, review and comment if you like:
http://phishphanphestival8.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 2:51 pm
grow up people – no need for a pissing match over who is a true fan etc. everyone has their reasons for showing up and the only reason you should be concerned with is your own. my first was in 1990 at keene state college – somebody pulled a fire alarm so it was stopped early…
Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 1:20 am
damn there is always someone bitching about something.. just let it go, take the music as you wish, to each his own..
Friday, November 6, 2009 at 2:27 am
Ahhh yes the alarm show in Ohio. I remember that show! Was there and am from Cleveland. Awesome first show.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 12:35 pm
I hate that word; newb. I’ve also heard ‘custy’, but what the hell does that even mean? I’ve been listening to Phish since Lawn Boy came out, but I’ve seen them live only 4 times, and those shows occurred in ’98 and ’99. I couldn’t afford to go to shows and, not only that, there were other things in my life. Sure, I would’ve loved to travel the country from place to place and see them play every night, but I’d get the same enjoyment out of simply traveling, or actually playing music. To me, the people that bitch about the ‘newbs’ actually made the Phish experience a bad one. Furthermore, they were the ones who did all the hardcore drugs, i.e. heroin, meth, crack, and lived in K-holes. Plus, none of those people were there from the beginning, back when the band started. If you actually care about a band and love their music, you would be spreading the word and getting as many people as possible to come to their shows, trade the tapes, and buy their records. What’s love if you can’t share it? To finish my rant, there are lots of Phish songs that aren’t all that good, and personally I wish they dove deeper in compositional writing as they did with Stash, YEM, Guyute, Antelope, Bowie, Reba. Those songs were the perfect blend of written out orchestration and free-form jam. I definitely could do without gems like Gotta Jibboo, Meatstick, and the never-ending loops that Trey did while on auto-pilot before the break-up. Then again, it takes all kinds, and I don’t like to over-analyze things. Especially when it comes to a band and their music. Let them do their thing, they are in their 40′s and you should be glad they are still making music together.
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