Friday, 06/18/2010 The Comcast Theatre, Hartford, CT
Set 1: Fee > Rift, Wolfman’s Brother, Summer of '89, Foam, Possum > The Moma Dance > Julius, Reba[1], Cavern
Set 2: Halley’s Comet > Light -> Billy Breathes, Tweezer > Theme From the Bottom > Harry Hood > Wading in the Velvet Sea, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan
Encore: Sleeping Monkey > Tweezer Reprise, Tweezer Reprise
Notes: debut of “Summer or '89”; Tweezer Reprise played twice to “finish” Hershey show (6/13/10)
I didn’t hear this show yet but looking at that setlist I would say the Stealing Time seems like its it a weird spot. I mean, the second set is filled with lots of pretty songs with the exception of Tweezer, which must have led into a really pretty jam if it segued into Theme.
I guess what i’m saying is that “Stealing Time” seems way too aggressive to wrap up a set like that. You close a set like that with a song like…Curtain…or…Slave…or…Waste…or…Lizards. Or even Joy.
just seems out of place is all.
The setlist says Piss Up A Rope. Show of the tour.
This show destroyed all my concerns from the previous night. It’s currently tied for my favorite 3.0 show w/Portland ME 11/29/09. The best way I can think to say it is that they were firing on all cylinders, really tight & connected, and Trey was wide awake. It was so affirming to just see them own that stage that way. Where on the first night they seemed to be struggling to keep it together, the second was like they were on air, music was flowing like butter. Melted butter bullets of machine gun Trey love, raining upon us from the lofty well lit clouds of euphoric sound emanating from the band, mid-inter-dimensional levitation.
The whale pedal was still in full swing but he was just playing so much better than Thursday night all around that it wasn’t in the way, I felt.
Really great jams IMO too, they just had that sum-greater-than-parts business down pat last night.
Anyway I came away from that show thrilled about the state of Phish once again.
Listening to Set II now. Short but tightly played Halley’s. Light stays Type I but showcases some great communitication/energy. They nailed BB; it’s a perfect mid set breather when played right, sounds great here. Tweezer is the usual straight forward funk, with some cool delay jam elements by trey. Haven’t made it to the Theme yet, but this set is a keeper.
Oh and the Summer of 89 is a fucking rager. My face started melting when he sang the verse about dancing with puppies, lemonade, and sunshine.
The Tweezer jam gets magical. And the Hood is wonderful, love to see how they’re mixing it up. The Hoods I have heard from last summer are much more straightforward sticking to the composition. This one glides off the beaten path a bit more.
^exactly what I’m thinking as i listen to Tweezer and now Hood…the Hood, just wow. Fishman’s contribution on this one might it make the best one i’ve heard yet from 3.0, Mike has been nailing it since Miami at the latest, and Trey and Fish’s playing on this Hartford one have just nailed it. love it, 6/18 has some moments folks
My favorite set of raging ever. The Tweezer > Theme > Hood will be getting many, many rotations from here on out. That whole segment was just HUGE. Classy calls on the BB earlier, and then to go “Hood, Wading” was another classy move. I know some people are “over” Wading because they’ve heard it so many times, but it was a real nice call IMO. Was really pumped to get a Sleeping Monkey for the encore, and then Tweeprise Reprise was just too much - Big Red at his finest.
First set opening up Fee > Rift is just too classic to not feel like your in the 90’s again, and really set off a great vibe for the rest of the show. They were ready to bring the Phishiness big time, as they did last year. Trey just seems to absolutley love Meadows (or “Comcast” ::rolls eyes::), and as Pei so famously said, “Hartford never fails!” Things got thick with Wolfman’s, enetered purgatory with the So89, then re-entered Phishy realms with one of my favorite first set segments ever, bringing a Possum > Moma > Julius, followed up with a divine Reba (first one in 9 shows), and a Cavern cherry-on-the-sundae. I was still so blissed out by the Reba, it took me til halfway into Cavern to even break out of it.
Met so many OKP’ers (Pei, Hank, Cari, Jeff, Doug, Eric, Mary Ann), saw Hank get bossed by the nitrous mafia (sorry Hank lol), and just had one of my all-time favorite expirences, old and new friends alike; couldn’t of asked for more. The show wasn’t too bad either 
High praises…Tweezer was great…loved the billy…summer of 89…not so much…Fee>rift opener extra solid
It’s this guy!
To each his own! I loved the Summer of 89, but still don’t dig on the Billy all that much - despite a beautiful performance.
This show was unreal for sure. Hard to know what to add. This 3.0 shit works for me man.
I love fall of 89 does that count?
Hood is my favorite part of this show. The intro jam features Page messing around on the clav to make things interesting. During Trey’s solo section he burns through this run totally against the slow laid back reggae beat but the contrast sounds really cool.
The actual Hood jam is spectacular though, as far as 3.0 Hoods go. It’s actually thematic and builds to a beautiful crescendo. At the end Trey’s still burning and sneaks that lead in between the DAG ending. But that makes me wonder, if he was enjoying it that much whyd he end it so early?
^because thats what trey does with every 3.0 jam
i swear i hear Mike teasing Foam late in the Tweezer jam, not long before it starts to go ambient… 