12-28-10 DCU Center, Worcester, MA

[willbreathes]

Tuesday, 12/28/2010
DCU Center, Worcester, MA

Set 1: Kill Devil Falls, My Mind’s Got a Mind of its Own, Alaska[1], She Caught the Katy and Left Me a Mule to Ride, Wolfman’s Brother, Pigtail[2], Stash, Bouncing Around the Room > Rift, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, The Birdwatcher[3]

Set 2: Carini > Backwards Down the Number Line > Back on the Train[4] -> Limb By Limb > The Wedge > Frankie Says > Albuquerque, Harry Hood > Bug

Encore: Shine a Light

[1] Trey used a device that played Sarah Palin quotes.
[2] Debut.
[3] Phish Debut.
[4] Streets of Cairo tease from Trey.

Notes: She Caught the Katy was last performed on July 21, 1998 (323 shows). Trey used a device that played Sarah Palin quotes during Alaska. This show featured the debut of Pigtail and the Phish debut of Birdwatcher. Back on the Train featured Streets of Cairo teases from Trey.

[gamecat]

Nice bust-out with She Caught the Katy.

I like the looks of that second set as well.
Especially the Back on the Train -> LxL > Wedge > Frankie Says

[mafujon]

I love this hood. they are finally taking it to tasty tasty places

[Buster]

Here’s the discussion from the setlist thread:

@16v

leading into Alaska Trey had some sort of digital recorder and was playing what sounded like clips of Sarah Palin

@PardonMe Doug

@piper

Anyfeedback on Pigtails??? You guys are slackin…

I can really decide if I like it because the chorus part (the “unconcious again” part) is pretty bad IMO. It sounds a lot like Heavy Things.

@hosemasterflex

Pigtails was cool, kind of poppy. I dug it. Reminds me a little of songs like The Connection. He said Tom wrote the words and was currently home & not aware they were about to play it, and to cheer for him. Nobody did though, and so the band got very mad at us. I mean, no wait, we all cheered.

Great show. They’re playing real strong, the momentum of the incredibly strong Fall Tour seems to continue. I kinda wish there was less time between tunes though, seems like they’re making up set one as they go. I think there might not have even been a solid setlist for set two on the first night.

But yeah, they are playing so well that if you’re not enjoying it, you probably didn’t dig the song choices is all. My only problems were a few songs in the first show, and then the no-song-at-all moments between songs.

@PardonMe Doug

@hosemasterflex

I kinda wish there was less time between tunes though,

Yeah this is starting to bother me. It’s getting worse as time passes too. It was one of the things I always appreciated about Phish (especially compared to the Dead, who would walk out onstage and then spend 5 minutes tuning their fucking guitars). But now they have committee meetings between every fucking song.

@piper

momentum killer

@The Ubiquitous Smokey

@PardonMe Doug

@hosemasterflex

I kinda wish there was less time between tunes though,

Yeah this is starting to bother me. It’s getting worse as time passes too. It was one of the things I always appreciated about Phish (especially compared to the Dead, who would walk out onstage and then spend 5 minutes tuning their fucking guitars). But now they have committee meetings between every fucking song.

I totally agree.

But it does kind of let them tilt their hat to the vibe of the show. I think they definitely play stuff according to how the energy is flowing on any given night.

@PardonMe Doug

^ Except that in doing so, they simultaneously kill whatever energy they just built with the previous song. I’m listening to last night’s show and they nail the end of this Wolfman’s, but by the time the next tune starts they’re back at ground zero.

[lowspark]

@mafujon

I love this hood.

[ColPhorbin]

Treys voice sounds shot to hell. Hopefully it will recover in the next day or at least get better

[mafujon]

yea it got shot by wolfman’s or so

[Brother]

Mike almost sounds like he was teasing the landlady in hood.

[y0n]

Stash is the highlight I think.

Hood goes to places I’ve never heard it go before, but again fails to peak quite as high as a great Hood will.

[fundirector23]

Well…finally just got home. 12 hours for a 2 1/2 hour flight. Last night’s show, I’ll be honest, was one of those Phish shows I LOVE on the first night of a two night run—this being the second one in two nights! I was looking for a bit more FUNK and a bit more of an explosive Trey before the day off. His voice was shot…he played it very safe in that respect.

Rift was sloppy. Fishman was behind just about the whole song (also was on Wedge). Great Wolfman’s. BDTNL–very solid, absolutely love that tune live. Birdwatcher to end the first set–ouch!!! I thought for sure we were going to get an Antelope right after it, but nope. Hood was the absolute highlight.

Had a great two days with my OKPals–I survived my first Nor’easter!

[clevername]

@fundirector23

Birdwatcher to end the first set–ouch!!!

Are you saying that you thought it was botched or that you just don’t dig the tune?

It was awesome hanging with you in Worcester!

[phishinsky]

@fundirector23

Birdwatcher to end the first set–ouch!!! I thought for sure we were going to get an Antelope right after it, but nope. Hood was the absolute highlight.

Had a great two days with my OKPals–I survived my first Nor’easter!

I thought the Birdwatcher was awesome… I wish I would have been there to see it!!!

[roofnapkin]

@y0nm4n

Stash is the highlight I think.

Hood goes to places I’ve never heard it go before, but again fails to peak quite as high as a great Hood will.

yep. i loved the interplay and direction that jam went for a while but then they brought back the theme and jumped right into the outro lyrics… no climax at all, it was a fizzle ending. i don’t understand why trey doesn’t just take charge once they bring the theme back and just shred the ending like we know he can. frustrating, especially considering the first part of the jam is really on point

[zoot_horn_rollo]

Minor gave this Hood a “best ever” rating, but I agree with the above. It’s well worth a listen for sure; there is some cool interplay at the beginning of the jam section, but it ends with pretty low energy.

[Guelah]

Didn’t they play Alaska at a show when Palin was simultaneously in that town recently?

I wanna say it was either Charlottesville or Charleston.

I was there and remember it being fucking hilarious.

[fundirector23]

@clevername

@fundirector23

Birdwatcher to end the first set–ouch!!!

Are you saying that you thought it was botched or that you just don’t dig the tune?

It was awesome hanging with you in Worcester!

You too man!! I love “Birdwatcher”. The placement just sucked, imo. Still a great show…that Hood was worth coming in itself.

[Brother]

Wow Wolfman’s is ridiculous! Trey annihilates the end, and things go to a new level when Page starts hammering his piano. I keep rewinding it to 5:10. It’s really nothing that jaw dropping, but Trey and Page come to together precisely at the right time to sustain a note together. They really compliment each other throughout. Of course Mike’s delivering the goods here too.

Stash is definitely fierce.

[y0n]

At around the 8:30 mark in Stash the band is heavily touching on another song, but I can’t pinpoint which one, any help?

[hosemasterflex]

I’m downloading from Phishows.com right now in order to help. It’s slow though. I could probably find out faster by going to the car & getting my sbd download, but meh. Too cold out. So like, hang in there & I’ll be along shortly with some speculation.

[Brother]

I think the song you’re hearing is Frankie Says. Page definitely hints at it.