Phish San Francisco Setlist and The Skinny: Night One
The second leg of Phish Summer Tour 2012 continued tonight at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, where the band played the first of three consecutive shows at the venue. This evening marked the band’s first visit to the BGCA and their first non-festival gig within city limits since 1998.
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Phish went with the same game plan as Wednesday night’s tour opener by playing it close to the vest improvisationally in the first set before filling the start of the second set with deep exploratory jams. The quartet took both Down With Disease and Tweezer, each extending to the 15-minute mark, out for long spins and inserted many of the spacey elements found in the Long Beach Rock and Roll within tonight’s Tweezer. Surprisingly, Tweezer Reprise was not played, the first time that’s happened since a May 27, 2011 show at Bethel Woods.
Setlist…
Set 1: AC/DC Bag, The Moma Dance, Possum, Corinna, Sand, Halley’s Comet > Funky Bitch >Sample in a Jar, Roses Are Free > My Friend, My Friend, Slave to the Traffic Light
Set 2: Down with Disease > Birds of a Feather, Tweezer > Twist > Wading in the Velvet Sea > Chalk Dust Torture, Joy, Run Like an Antelope, Shine a Light[1]
Encore: First Tube
[1] Contained a brief “Wading in the Velvet Sea” tease.
Notes: ”Shine a Light” contained a brief “Wading in the Velvet Sea” tease. At the beginning of the encore, Page thanked the crowd and mentioned how happy they were to be playing in San Francisco and “this room.”
Here’s The Skinny from Night One of Phish at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium…
- Venue Capacity / Attendance / Type: 7,000 / 7,000 / Indoor Auditorium
- Previous Shows at Venue: Phish Has Never Played The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Before Tonight
- Number Of Songs / Length – First Set: 11 / 8:16PM – 9:34PM (78 Minutes)
- Number Of Songs / Length – Second Set & Encore: 10 / 10:11PM – 11:42PM (91 Minutes)
- Total Number of Songs / Covers / Originals: 21 / 16 / 5
- Biggest Bustout: Wading In The Velvet Sea – LTP 06/20/2012 [14 Shows]
- Debuts: N/A
- Weather: 58° and Sunny at Showtime
- Wardrobe: Trey – Black and Grey Stripped Long-Sleeve Shirt and Jeans / Mike – Black Polo and Jeans / Page – Navy Button-Down Short-Sleeve Shirt and Jeans / Fish – Dress
- Average Song Gap: 4.76
- The Spread: Lawn Boy – 1, Picture of Nectar – 2, Rift – 1, Hoist – 2, Story of the Ghost – 3, Farmhouse – 3, Joy -1, Misc. – 3, Covers – 5
- Longest LivePhish Track / Shortest LivePhish Track: Down With Disease 16:20 / Corinna 5:33
- Audio: Live Phish
Poster…
Scott Bernstein
Scott Bernstein co-founded Hidden Track in October 2006 and was managing editor until taking over as EiC in January 2008. Scotty also writes for JamBase and curates YEMblog.com.
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I remember the last non-Tweeprise show, man. We were in for a treat soon after.
1st day of bethel last year they opened with Tweezer and didnt play Reprise til last song on sunday the last night
How bout tour openerer last year at bethel woods???? No reprise that show…. Am I missing something or just jealous that I am stuck on the couch
I think the Tweeprize rules do not apply if it’s during a multi-night run. Most people had an inkling after night one of Bethel that they would close with Tweeprize on Sunday to bookend the run.
Also like hampton 09
How about the SPAC Hartford Tweezer reprise madness from 2010 . I hope the tweeprize midway through the first set tonight. Thanks for the nonjudgemental show breakdown Scotty B.