07-04-12 Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY

Phish Live Shows
#1

Wednesday, 07/04/2012
Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY

Set 1: Alumni Blues > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues, Head Held High, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, Kill Devil Falls, Bittersweet Motel, The Moma Dance > Gumbo > David Bowie, Alaska, Susskind Hotel, Hold Your Head Up > Purple Rain[1] > Hold Your Head Up, The Star Spangled Banner

Set 2: Boogie On Reggae Woman > Tweezer > Twist > Taste > Quinn the Eskimo > Julius > Rock and Roll > The Horse > Silent in the Morning > Harry Hood > Shine a Light > Show of Life > Slave to the Traffic Light

Encore: Sleeping Monkey[2] > Tweezer Reprise

[1] Alternate lyrics “tucking in the Purple Rain” and “I am Friar Tuck!”
[2] Alternate “Why’d you tuck my monkey on a train” lyrics.

Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon

Notes: Alumni Blues was preceded by a Dave’s Energy Guide tease. Head Held High was played for the first time since October 31, 1998 (356 shows). The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday and Avenu Malkenu were played for the first time since 6/21/09 (136 shows). Bittersweet Motel was played for the first time since 8/2/09 (132 shows). Purple Rain was played for the first time since 7/25/99 (314 shows) and included alternate lyrics “tucking in the Purple Rain” and “I am Friar Tuck!” Sleeping Monkey contained alternate “Why’d you tuck my monkey on a train.”

#2

Was nice to see Alumni and TMWSIY was just gorgeous. I’ll admit that I seriously thought they were gonna go full gamehendge when that started up so early in the first set. Moma>Gumbo>Bowie was a solid combo in the first set and I dug the Purple Rain bustout.

Nice jamming in Tweezer->Twist. With Taste>Quinn>Julius I thought they lost a bit of momentum but the rest of the set just turned out to be pretty executions of some of their better songs.

I’ll give it a 6 o 7. Nothing to complain about but no obvious highlights. I also felt they were taking too much time in between songs in the first set. I like it when they just come out and rip everyone’s face off and such.

EIther way, not too shabby. More couch tour plz or just gtf back to Florida. I am stoned.

#3

Haven’t listened, and I probably won’t get to it for a few days (doing this chronologically, and I’m a bit behind) but looking over the setlist, I kept thinking “oh god, this is just getting better!” until Show Of Life. That is the only blemish on an otherwise INCREDIBLE setlist.

Really, I should probably wait to hear the show before I start going off about it, but what the hell…

#4

during Slave, the full moon, which had disappeared behind clouds for most of the evening, started to to rise above the clouds just as Trey started the jamming. it was insane, like you could not have planned it if you tried and the people who could see it were going nuts. definitely one of those ‘had to be there’ moments.

#5

^nice.

^^I thought Show of Life was pretty nice last night. Its not like they threw it in in the middle of Bowie or something. Well timed, nice execution, good song.

#6

^When did you start smoking???

#7

This looks real good on paper.

#8

Pretty solid show all around! Great setlist in my mind and the SBD sounds really nice!
Really bummed I am not making one show this tour!

#9

That moon finally coming out was great (the stars and moon were not visable all night)!! First set was a blast. Show of Life kinda killed the vibe of the show and no fireworks with tweeprise was weak. Good show but I felt they lost the flow at the end.

#10

I’m guessing now that they’re really trying to pair up Sleeping Monkey and Tweeprise as much as something like The Horse>SITM or like China>Rider for the Dead

not sure what made them choose Monkey in particular, and not that it hasn’t come before Tweeprise for a long time, but now it’s almost not even a question once you get Tweezer what the encore will be

#11

Man i just listened to this show, and i didn’t give it the credit it deserved at the time. I loved the first set at the show, but thought set 2 was lacking. It’s a mighty fine set though. I was just expecting too much because i was in ATL 2010, and was expecting something huge like that. Super solid show all the way thru. And seeing the moon come out during slave was great