I forgot about those effing glow sticks. Damn I love/hate those things. Right towards the mid-point of the first set I saw Mike get nailed…Mike!..I think it was during “with” section. WTF??
its not the glowsticks, its the tards throwing them at the band.
glowsticks are purdy mmkay?
Only really hard to listed to song of the night is Harry Hood. Shame cause its my favorite too, seems like trey is playing in a different key and time when they were trying to peak. Just didnt work, only compliant from the whole show though.
I think that dude was just pissed that your sign was blocking his.
Sort of a Napolian complex if you ask me! 
Second set looked like a smoke-show.
Everytime I looked back I didn’t see a sign. Was that the “Reba” sign? OK, that makes sense. My bad. Then I saw where you had it and we had them side by side. Double sign power!
Dammit, I just lost a whole long review post. Sigh. 
I had a blast last night! On paper, I don’t know if I would have thought much of this show, but being there made all the difference. I dig the monster jams - Ghost, Bowie, Sky, YEM, Stash, etc - and this show was notably short in that category but it was still awesome.
First set highlights and random thoughts:
I like Ocelot a lot more now, it was actually decently jammed and potential to grow a lot. Paul and Silas was a nice surprise, though bustouts don’t typically make a huge difference to me unless they’re songs I have a particular love for. Page’s new “Windy City” song was good! An odd meter but it works. I’m looking forward to hearing the recordings to get more familiar with this one. Curtain With was HUGE. I love that song… LOVE it… and it was the highlight of the first for me. And it was damn near flawlessly executed, too. Train Song was a lot of fun, one of the better versions I’ve seen. Gumbo was good but SO short! I was hoping for a big jam but alas. Heavy Things was alright, and TTE… is growing on me still, and it made more progress as of last night. I still think it’s a ‘sit down and listen’ song though, so the end-of-set placement is better than a mid-set energy-killer. All in all, the first set was good stuff, could have used more jams or high-energy tunes, but I was fine with just chilling a bit and listening more closely.
Second set thoughts:
BDTNL is getting SWEET. This is one of the first new songs I’ve started to seriously get into live, and the jam did it for me. Carini was a nice surprise and suitably weird. Jibboo kinda made me ‘meh’ at first… but then it turned into a sweet jam! WTF? Alright Phish, you got me, way to have the last laugh. TFTB is probably my favorite off Billy Breathes so it was good to hear it live again. Wilson was cool too. (And I yelled. Oh no.) 2001 was HUGE HUGE HUGE. It wasn’t particularly long but so funky anyway. Just what we needed IMO. I wasn’t crazy about CDT (I’ve just heard it too many times and it’s not that interesting to begin with) but again, I ended up enjoying it more than I thought I would. HOOD was a big one for me, and I thought it came off really well. Coil, omg, wow. PAGE MCCONNELL, people. Listen to that Coil: Page for MVP.
Ahh…finally found a stream.
Just listening to Carini right now smiling ear to ear and remembering the first time I heard this live (Shoreline 10.6.00).
(Cue Flashback)
BTW, sorry I didn’t get to meet up with any of you guys. Logistics were a little hairy with the friends we were meeting in Chi, and then when we got in, our “lawn tickets” that my friend had bought turned out to be seats so far to the side of the stage that they were practically behind it, so we spent pre-show looking for new seats and trying to figure out how to sneak onto the floor. I couldn’t find the Waterwheel table in the limited time I had on setbreak either. Ah well… one of these days I’ll get to party down OKP-style. :o
What song were you holding a sign for?
Rizzound Rizzoom.
Chris, his buddy and I were pretty much dead center (maybe a little more Mike side) about 15 rows back.
I was about right behind that reba sign guy. I was 5 rows or so behind you.
I was wearing a tie dyed simpsons phish shirt
Just got back from toyota park and here is my review
My wife and I arrived in the lot at around three. Very pleasant lot much better vibes than alpine. Toyota park was actually beautiful, especially about a hour before the show started. When kill devil falls began I immediately noticed something was wrong…not with phish but the acoustics were bad with horrible reverb. I couldn’t understand a single word that was being said. I was located perpendicular to the satelite towers and it took me till the end of the first set to understand the consequences of this. So the only song that really sounded clear was heavy things. My wife and I moved to the right of the towers for the second set. The second set was just amazing. The sound was substantially better. The boys were really bringing it and carini was just monsterous and powerful. I began to notice sound difficulties again during the middle of hood, could not hear trey at all and again at the end of coil with page really muffled. The loving cup was a pleasant surprise. Overall good show, i am liistening to it now the soundboard is just great. I also learned a lesson never sit perpendicular to a sound tower, oh well it least phish is kind enough to allow its fans access to there live music. Can’t wait to hear the announcement about the three night stand at msg.
Wow, just pulled this off Live Phish and glanced over some of the comments while it was downloading. Jesus. There are some bitter, miserable fucks out there who for some reason keep going to Phish shows. Two sets full of garbage? No improvisation beyond 3-chord Trey solos? It’s sad, b/c I heard evidence to the contrary, so this poor guy just ruined his own night with all that raging misery fixed in his head.
This was my 10th show, and I will go on record as saying this was in the bottom-5 of my favorite shows attended…HOWEVER, I would never use the word “garbage” or anything like that. I had fun at the show and that counts for something beyond the music.
Geez, people.
NICE, I’m glad I wasn’t the only one feeling that. Page is fucking MIND BLOWING right now. Vocals, playing, presence, everything… he’s all over it. Listen to his singing even on something like Curtain: strong, clear, sure. That Coil ending nailed it, though - the best piano solo I’ve heard in that song, period.
^ Ghost, I hear ya. Last night was probably around my 40th show or so, and it was one of the good ones, but it was different. I liked it for that - the variety, the setlist changeups, the debut Page tune, etc. There are different kinds of Phish shows, and this kind of show gave me the chance to see and appreciate aspects of the band that aren’t generally among my go-to reasons for seeing them. Someone saying “all garbage” and then listing reasons that are just plain wrong (not judgements, like facts that are incoorect) just sounds to me like they decided to hate the experience and then came up with reasons to justify it. Been there, done that… 
listening to this show from a crisp clean soundboard makes me so sad because it didn’t sound like this last night. I think that the reason so many people are disappointed with this show has little to do with what phish had to offer but more with the scene. Toyota park in retrospect is probably the worse venue for a show I have ever seen. How can you expect the boys to leave the beauty of red rocks and the gorge to play with too much inspiration at toyota park. This place is even worse than the old world music theatre. Second the cheap tickets brought out frat boy thugs who were there to get high and drunk and act like fools. There were so many stoned out of there gordes zombies just sitting down during parts which they should have been standing. Third what the fuck were the assholes throwing glowsticks at the band for. Fourth, the size of venue was to big for phish, making tickets availabe for those not truly fans who in a since corrupted the atmosphere. Fifth, although the lot was a little better compared to alpines, If i have to see another pregnant woman smoking a joint, or a parent dragging there sunburned kids around with signs begging for miracles I swear i will call child protective services. These kids look terrified, malnourished and generally abused. I kinda wish that phish as a collective would survey the lots and make more of an effort to protect the innocent who cannot say no to there parents. I love phish and have grown to seperate the lot scum from the band but it is starting to resemble the early nineties dead scene. An underage drug overdose is just a few shows away.
By the way…for anyone here who purchases nitro balloons, the reason you experience the high you feel is because of cerebral vasoconstriction and hypoxia. This basically means you are cutting of blood supply to your brain. Brain cells do not regenerate and if you have an underline undiagnosed congenital birth defect or underline atheroscelrosis of your intracranial blood supply you could suffer a stroke. Just a heads up. There were so many 15/16 year olds sucking on these balloons. So i put up a challenege to phish, protect your fans and patrol the lots. Don’t be nazi’s but run off the nitrous mafia and bring back the days of weed, beer and shrooms. The designer drug market is killing the lot scene.
^Check out this thread, man. It’s about something which was established called F.A.N.S. (Fans against nitrous sellers)
http://user9510.vs.easily.co.uk/ohkeepa/viewtopic.php?t=10123
Weird show! Sorry I missed you guys. I got to the venue kinda late due to traffic and leaving work a little later then planned. I thought the show was pretty well executed, but the setlist was kinda strange.
I wanted to hear the new stuff, so this show was actually pretty good for me. KDF, Ocelot, and the last 5 min of TTE were great. Ocelot was a little slow, but it sounded sweet. Lots of GD comparisons from the people around me.
BDTNL was super awesome. I really dig this tune and I thought the jam was great.
Other Highlights:
Paul and Silas was nice to hear. The vocals were spot on.
The Curtain With was nice to hear, I actually like the song better without the middle section, but at least I hadn’t heard this version live before
Gumbo was too short, but Page killed the ending
Believe it or not, I thought that Heavy Things was the true highlight of Set I. They played the shit out of this song and the crowd ate it up.
Set II was pretty strong. Everything except Hood was well played. Carini blew the roof off, as did Chalkdust, despite how many times they have played this in the last couple of shows.
Hood was absolutely awful. The composed section was pretty decent, but towards the end Trey just totally lost the groove. It sounded like the rest of the band was gelling and he was just off in space somewhere. Very dissonant, ugly stuff. I was happy to hear them redeem themselves with a standard, but well executed Coil. Page ended the show on a sweet note with an amazing solo. Really nice stuff
The Loving Cup was perfect. Exactly what we all wanted/needed
Fun show!