08-21-15 MagnaBall Day One

Fri, Aug 21, 2015
Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, NY

Set 1: Simple > The Dogs > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, Free, The Wedge, Mock Song, Roggae > Rift, Bathtub Gin

Set 2: Chalk Dust Torture > Ghost -> Rock and Roll > Harry Hood -> Waste > No Men In No Man’s Land -> Slave to the Traffic Light

Encore: Farmhouse, First Tube

Notes: This show is being webcast via LivePhish. This was the first show of the Magnaball festival. TMWSIY and Avenu Malkenu were played for the first time since July 4, 2012 (124 shows). After Free, Trey asked the crowd to sing Happy Birthday to his daughter, Eliza, who briefly joined him onstage. Mock Song was played for the first time since July 12, 2003 (320 shows), and featured a lyric change to “Clifford, Super, Magnaball.” CDT and Ghost both contained What’s the Use? teases. Hood contained a CTB tease from Mike.

2 thumbs up here. Second set was full of slow, pretty, dreamy jams with a crazy super high energy R&R in the middle to provide contrast. Gin, Chalkdust, Ghost.

TMWSIY is one of the most beautifuly composed songs ever, and they nailed it. My highlight for the night. :thumbup: :clap: