The Fizzle Out

Phish Live Shows
#1

Have a show you love but it fizzles out toward the end?? I know I do.

12/7/97. Yeah, I know, I love this show, but the second set isn’t very interesting after Boogie On. Timber > Wolfman’s -> Boogie On is a scant 23 minutes of decent jamming, then you get a an above average Reba and the rest of the show peters out.

2/28/03. I honestly feel like A LOT of post-hiatus shows open the second set with really great stuff and then fizzle out. This show especially. I pratically never listen to disc 3 of this show, because I find everything after the David Bowie unremarkable. Not bad, per say, just unremarkable.

9/14/00. Absolutely. After the post-CE&P jam, it’s all downhill. Late second set Prince Caspian?? Yuck.

11/26/97. Another show I really like, but after Ya Mar the rest of the show is paint by numbers.

#2

Ahh greg…i was just about to come in here and shound really cool and say 12/7/97…but you stole by thunder…but word. first set=absolute face melt bazaar. second set=meh…occasional highlights but nothign crazy

#3

7/8/03

Limb By Limb is the ultimate setkiller IMO. Although I love Prince Caspian and Bug, they can kill sets too…

Another good example is 8/2/03! Spread it Round, Bug…ouch

Don’t throw anything at me but Frankenstein can make sets MEH…and Loving Cup encores

#4

as far as 8/2/03 at least they had a cool encore with dog log and mango song

#5

Limb is a favorite of mine so it is never a setkiller for me, setkillers for me are when they go into that space where you can’t dance and you just are waiting for a recognizable lick or melody of any sorts

#6

Sidenote…this idea was brought to you by the great combined minds of a few goderators. (ME!)

My initial examples were 2/20/93 and 6/19/04. Both of which are shows I love, but I do feel have endings that prevent them from being “best ever” shows.

#7

IMO, 2/20/93 is not a ‘best show ever’ for me because of the relatively lacklustre quality of the ‘jamming’ - although the teases are fun and unexpected, they just don’t seem on the same page and musical level compared even a summer 93 show…the Reba jam especially is a bit messy…

I’d call the whole FEFY onwards part more of a ‘chill’ session than a ‘fizzle out’…but then again I’m not keen on Sleeping Monkey as a song or a closer…

#8

i would agree with you on some points life. to me, its not a best ever just because its alsmost too insane. i see what what you mean by not a significant amount of jamming. however, from what i remember that reba jam is the absolute siskness

#9

caspian, sleeping monkey ? time to sit down and pack a bowl.

#10

Go listen to the 11/28/97 Limb By Limb. That is a set maker right there!! Seriously the best Limb By Limb ever, and it really sets the tone for the rest of the RAGING, AMAZING set that includes my new favorite Ghost.

#11

I think SASS hurt set II of 8/12/04 even though it was the last song of the set. I wonder why they bothered playing it after doing one of the best versions of it the previous year. And of course, they played it the summer '04 way…without the intro. I freaking hate how they changed it around.

Anyway, they just took it into space and Trey was talking to some tech and just walked off stage leaving some loops. Then they all left one by one.

#12

PRIME example. The “Rock and Roll->Seven Below->Scents and Subtle Sounds” is great. They could have kept the momentum up…but…meh.

#13

12/31/1999.

That second set does nothing for me.

::slight_smile:

#14

actually that does kind of fizzle out with the Wading in the Velvet Sea and Meatstick reprise but you can’t blame them for that!

#15

it’s sooooo boring. yep.

#16

I knew some joker would post “THE SHOW.”

Shame on you, William, for being so predictable.

:stuck_out_tongue:

#17

Somebody mentioned 6/19/04, but I think 6/20 is a better example. After an amazing journey of Seven Below > Ghost -> Twist, what do we get?? A YEM. Weaksauce.

#18

YEM, Weaksauce?..you’re waeksauce

#19

I (::GASP::slight_smile: kinda agree with Greg. It was the song that made me love them, but by the end, I was kinda spent on it.

#20

Uhm I was joking…