Good show all around. Pretty standard, but well played first set. The Stash is probably one of the better ones that I've heard in the 3.0 era. It actually builds up some nice tension, there was some good effort in there. Too many have been pretty boring and flat these days. The second set was a blast.

Was happy to get a Mike's Song set 2 opener...doesn't happen much these days. Unfortunately it doesn't go into a bigger jam that I was hoping for, but it does pack a punch. Simple was short, would have loved for that to go on longer. Oh well, the Ghost has a pretty nice funk jam. To me it sounds like there is a Mind Left Body tease in it, never have seen any mention o that anywhere. Fee outro segued nicely into Makisupa Policeman. I thought the new song My Problem Right There was kinda goofy and fun. Then segue out of the Makisupa Reprise into Slave is nice, and the Slave is a good 3.0 version.

Overall a fun show in a small arena. Would love to go back if they return.

To start things off, the first set is pretty "meh." I personally wasn't into it, not until the lightning/fluffhead started. Just a tame set, that is until fluffhead started and the storm was coming through. The long set break was a party, in the pavilion at least.

When the band came out for the 2nd set, it felt like a different band. ASIHTOS has a nice jam, which featured some nice work from Fishman. The Drowned started off absolutely blazing, and Trey killed it. In an era of a harsh tone and not as dexterous as the past, he really shined. The rest of the set doesn't get out there, but it was a blast.

The two songs that really have any real replay value are the ASIHTOS->Drowned.

Also, the Johnny B. Goode reference in the first set, and the following night at Alpine I was beginning to think they were gonna bust that out by the end of the run. Oh well.

pt is waaayyyy to harsh...

.net is waaaayyyyy to nice...

i need to find a new phish board where people are just honest critics.

This show isn't as tight as some, especially the second set, in which Reba, Foam, YEM and Divided Sky all have mild to semi-significant flubbage. The Possum is fairly blistering, and the Destiny is quite a bit tighter than the last one I listened to (9/22/90). Beyond that, though, I think this show is average at best, including a Bowie that kind of limps and staggers in sections before finishing strong, and the Divided Sky encore (how many DS encores are out there?) where they seem to have lost a lot of energy. Not a bad show, just nothing spectacular. For highlights, I guess I'd say the Bowie and YEM, as well as the announcement from Trey that if you want to learn how to really dance to The Lizards, you need to watch Chevy Chase in European Vacation. Three stars straight up.

After a couple of weeks off, and surpassing Page’s birthday, the boys headed back out to California for their first couple of single set shows at the Laguna Seca Raceway. This seemed like a soundboard quality recording, but it is actually a great audience source. It was very fun to listen to.

A rocking Chalk Dust opens up the affair and Page’s volume is overpowering the mix, which wasn’t bad unless you want to hear Trey. It was high energy from the get go and almost a little rushed as Fish kind of blows the ending. Bouncing was good and pretty standard, also a little rushed. Rift continued the super fast tempos and sad to say the timing was still a bit off during Page’s solo and a little off in Trey’s as well. Stash had a few off notes here and there, but had a good jam. Coil also had a few off spots, but not too bad. Page cleans it up nicely, as usual. Sparkle was good and pretty standard. Cavern was a little messy, as Trey seemed to have trouble with the lyrics again. I’m not sure why he’s been doing so poorly singing this one this year? And I believe this is the first time I’ve heard the end stop for a vacuum solo since 1992. Then the Balls come out to jam briefly as I’m sure there was no way in hell they were going to wait for a huge crowd to shoot baskets. So instead we have a pretty solid YEM. Maybe a few parts were a little loose, but not bad overall. They did kind of blow the ending of Mike’s part going into the vocal jam. Fish had a rough time getting into Jim and they showed a little rust on this one, but the jam was good. Grace was fine, not the best I’ve ever heard, but just fine.

GTBT gets the call for the encore tonight and this one is pretty well played overall.

Well done tonight, though there were some rough moments, I don’t think the casual listener will notice. I’m going with three stars just to bring the average down a bit on this one.

Solid from start to phinish.

This is the fourth and last show at the Field House at UNH, 70th of the tour, and the last show of the tour! I can’t believe the schedule these guys had back in 1993. I think that was 70 shows in about 100 days all over the country! I can only imagine how tired they were as I’ve been listening and trying to play along with any song that I could, they had to do the real work from city to city. This unfortunately is not the best show, its sloppy and disjointed at times. I’m not saying it wasn’t fun, just not the greatest playing I’ve heard. The recording seemed to be from an audience source, and was pretty average for this tour.

Chalk Dust opens up the show in a rocking fashion and was well played and so was Guelah. Rift is still loose in the timing from Fishman; they are not locked in yet. Mound also had some problems with Fish’s drumming and was just ok to me. Stash had some rough spots from Mike and Trey, but had a good jam in the middle, then inexplicably it goes into KUNG! Not sure why, but who cares? Glide was pretty good. My Friend had some off spots in the intro, but the song itself was good. Reba was also good for the most part, no real problems along the way. Trey thanks the crew then Page leads them through the last performance of Satin Doll. Cavern makes for a good closer to this average first set.

Ok, now it seems a few people here think this Bowie is special, but I thought it kind of sucked. First of all, I wouldn’t call it a Jessica jam; it’s just a lot of teasing mostly by Page. There was a lot of screwing around and signals and the actual Bowie song was sloppy, disjointed and all over the place. I believe the proof is in the Have Mercy part, which I feel the band only plays when they screw up. Of course that’s just my opinion. Trey picks up the acoustic again for an ok Horse. Silent was ok, but had some rough spots and I think I even heard bad notes from Page! Ice was also a bit off from Trey’s part and the middle jam was weird. Coil also suffered from bad notes and sloppiness and the ending jam was kind of weird. Then the Balls come out… Mike’s was good and rocking, then the jam turned into Crossroads, after last night’s Harpua had a rough version of it. Hydrogen was ok, and then the top of Weekapaug got cut off from an old edit of some sort. Then the jam turns into a ridiculous Amazing Grace jam? The whole thing was sloppy and not that much fun to hear. I guess you had to be there right? Anyway, it was a weird way to close up the tour for my ears.

AC/DC Bag is the lone encore tonight and was pretty well played.

Sorry folks, but to me there is no way in hell that this is a four star show. I wish I could say better things about this one, but I can’t

Average playing with a strong YEM, but HOLY GTBT BATMAN!!!!!! 4 stars just for that Trey shred fest. WOAH!!!!