Here is the first of several of my "wrapping up" posts for the year. I
tried to not be crazy with them and actually post things of substance 
Part 1:
** = excellent top-to-bottom listening experience and show. One of the absolute best of the year
********* (excess stars of any amount) = HOLY CRAP THIS WAS THE GREATEST
SHOW OF ALL TIME EVERYONE WILL BOW TO THIS SHOW THIS WAS NEXT LEVEL
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH. Classic or near classic.
Summer Tour 1
Summary: Tour 1 of the summer was mostly terrific.
21 shows. 9 shows had "**" and 5 shows had "excess stars". That is 14 absolutely Top Tier gigs with 5 of them deserving, in my opinion, Best-Ever status for the year. Absolutely wonderful tour!
5/27 Bethel **
5/28 Bethel ***********
5/29 Bethel **
5/31 Holmdel **
6/1 Holmdel
6/3 Clarkston
6/4 Cuyahoga Falls *****************
6/5 Cincinnati **
6/7 Mansfield
6/8 Darien Lake
6/10 Camden **
6/11 Columbia
6/12 Columbia **
6/14 Alpharetta **
6/15 Alpharetta *****************
6/17 Charlotte **************************
6/18 Raleigh
6/19 Portsmouth **
7/1 Watkins Glen - Superball
7/2 Watkins Glen - Superball **
7/3 Watkins Glen - Superball **************
Dick's 2011+Misc
Summary:
The Dick's run had 2 classic shows sandwiching a just-ok one. Still a terrific start for the tradition and the 9/2 "Letter S" gig is mandatory listening just for the absurdity of it. It's terrific but 9/4 is EVEN BETTER.
9/14 was a wonderful Type I Greatest Hits show of the best quality.
Just a terrifically good time for a great cause and I swear the extra
emotion is palpable in the performance. Worth checking out.
9/2 Commerce City **
9/3 Commerce City
9/4 Commerce City ***********
9/14 Essex Junction - Flood Benefit **
Summary:
The Dick's run had 2 classic shows sandwiching a just-ok one. Still a terrific start for the tradition and the 9/2 "Letter S" gig is mandatory listening just for the absurdity of it. It's terrific but 9/4 is EVEN BETTER.
9/14 was a wonderful Type I Greatest Hits show of the best quality.
Just a terrifically good time for a great cause and I swear the extra
emotion is palpable in the performance. Worth checking out.9/2 Commerce City **
9/3 Commerce City
9/4 Commerce City ***********
9/14 Essex Junction - Flood Benefit **
In conclusion!!!!
All in all, this was an absolutely wonderful listening experience. I never lost interest or got burnt out and couldn't wait each day to get to the next show!
Summer Tour 1 was loaded with Ripcords all over the place. Thankfully Trey learned how to turn a ripcord into a segue by the later half of the year and they become almost non-existent after Superball.
Another point is that the boys REALLY stepped up their compact-jam (microjam?) game this year. Almost every show had at least a couple top-tier jams, the only problem being that they were so SHORT! 3 to 5 minutes in many cases! Just as jams would take off they would kill them....
Several times (more as the year went on) we had lengthy Type II excursions of the 15+ minute variety. George Rock and Roll, Detroit Disease, 12/30 Piper, etc . On the whole these were all excellent and the guys stretched their jam legs maybe more than is remembered. Awesome stuff.
ON THE WHOLE, this was great. Nuff said. Highly recommended
warewolf95's VERY ABBREVIATED Jams Of The Year for 2011:
5/27 Bethel ** (Insane tour opener. Varied setlist. Terrific segues and jams)
Tweezer
Wolfman's Bro>
Jam>
Walk Away
Stash
Kill Devil Falls (Type II!)
Reggae Woman>
Type II Space>
Waves>
Prince Caspian>
Crosseyed and Painless>
Velvet Sea
Possum
5/28 Bethel *******
Theme From the Bottom (opener!)
Cities
Halley's Comet (Sick jamming!)
Runaway Jim (JAW DROPPING EXPLOSIVE!)
Quinn The Eskimo
Limb By Limb (Dark and fiery!)
Bathtub Gin>
GOLDEN AGE MANTECA JAM>
Bathtub Gin
Down With Disease>
Free>
Number Line (TYPE II!!!)>
Makisupa Policeman (MIKES HOUSE MF'ER!!!!)>
Harry Hood (GRATEST SEGUE EVER)
David Bowie
5/29 Bethel** (INCREDIBLY TIGHT AND FUN AND ROCKING SHOW! VERY STRAIGHTFORWARD BUT SUPER FUN)
AC/DC Bag>
Sample In a Jar
Rift
Ocelot (HOLY CRAP!)
Timber (INSANE)
Suzy Greenberg (HOLY FREAKING CRAP!)
46 Days
Curtis Loew
Antelope (HOLY FREAKING CRAP PART 2)
Mike's Song>
Simple (Quasi Type II!!!)>
Weekapaug Groove
Fluffhead
Joy
2001>
Light
Slave
5/31 Holmdel ** (RAGING TYPE 1 SHOW OF ALL TIME)
Chalkdust Torture (RAGER!)
Roggae (Incredible peaks)
The Moma Dance (RAGER - best song yet!)
Rock and Roll (HOTTER THAN THE FRIGGIN BIG CYPRESS DWD!!!!!)
Sand (HOTTER THAN THE SUN)
Divided Sky (INSANE except for Trey's giant flub)
After Midnight (DANG!)
Possum (HOTTER THAN THE SUN OF THE SUN OF THE SUN)
Drowned (TYPE II AMBIANCE)
Maze (GUITAR RAPE)
Fire (HOLY SH$$)
6/1 Holmdel (Strong performance but lots of ripcording)
First Tube
Stealing Time
Gotta Jibboo
Kill Devil Falls (HOTTEST EVER!)
Split Open and Melt (Very dark and disjointed)
Suzy Greenberg
Tweezer>
NO QUARTER (DEBUT!!!)
Twist>
Ghost> RIPCORD
Number Line (DANG!)
Show of Life
6/3 Clarkston (Good show lacking X Factor. All 1.0 setlist! SET 2 IS MANDATORY!!!)
Funky B
NICU
Mike's Song
Weekapaug Groove
Chalkdust Torture
Down With Disease (25 MINUTES! INCREDIBLE JAMMING!)
>Fluffhead (Incredible version!)
>David Bowie (TERRIFIC JAM!)
Good Times Bad Times
6/4 Cuyahoga Falls (ABSOLUTELY FREAKING INCREDIBLE SHOW POSSIBLY THE BEST OF THE TOUR SO FAR HOLY HELL THIS SHOW IS NEAR PERFECT!!!!!!)**************
Kill Devil Falls
Guyuute
F Your Face
Foam (TERRIFIC!)
Ocelot
Rocket In My Pocket
Back On the Train>
Guelah Papyrus
Tube (SUPER FUNK EXPLOSION!)
Run Like an Antelope
Birds of a Feather
Possum (VERY FUNNY SLOW-DOWN-SPEED-UP VERSION!!!!!)
>Steam
?Piper
>The Lizards
Sneakin Sally>TYPE II 1997 FUNK JAM!!
Harry Hood>
Have Mercy>
Hood Reprise
Slave
6/5/11 Cincinnati** (Absolutely terrific show top to bottom, little sister of 6/4!!!)
AC/DC Bag
Bathtub Gin
Mound
Gotta Jibboo
Reba
Fee
Tweezer>
Free>
Crosseyed>
Light>
Boogie Woman
6/7 Mansfield (Skip set 1, GRAB SET 2!!!)
Possum
Instant Karma
Bowie
Divided Sky
Back On the Train
Rock and Roll>
The Mango Song>
Bug
Pebbles and Marbles
Halley's Comet
Meatstick
Run Like an Antelope
Suzy Greenberg (PAGE'S HOUSE!)
6/8 Darien Lake (Hit or miss, but set 2 is MUST-HEAR.)
Mellow Mood
Wolfman's Brother (INSREDIBLE JAM!)
Ride Captain Ride
Brian and Robert
46 Days (HOLY SCHNIKE!)
Limb By Limb (Tasty Type 1)
Character Zero
Golden Age (PEAKS UPON PEAKS!)
Mike's Song> (NASTY!)
Fast Enough For You>
Weekapaug Groove (SPECTACULAR!)
Theme From the Bottom (TREY'S SOLO!)
Number Line (TREY AGAIN!)
2001/Golden Age/What's The Use (!!!!!!)
Harry Hood
6/10 Camden ** (SET 2 IS ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING! SET 2 IS INCREDIBLE!!)
Weekapaug Groove
Stash (Dark!)
Guyuute
Guelah Papyrus
Scent of a Mule
The Curtain With (BEST EVER?!?!)
Down With Disease (Dark and NASTY Type II)
>Free (SPECTACULAR SEGUE!)
>Possum (ABSOLUTELY FREAKIN INSANE!)
BBFCFM (METAL PANDEMONIUM!!!)
Swept Away
>Steep
>David Bowie (ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING)
Julius
Fluffhead (FLAWLESS!)
>Joy
Bold As Love
6/11 Columbia (Mostly skippable first set, some big set 2 highlights)
Access Me
Wilson (TREY VAN HALEN!!!!)
>Sand (Terrific Type 1, Awesome segue!)
On Your Way Down
Birds of a Feather
Tweezer
Waves (Awesome!)
Chalkdust Torture
Rock and Roll (Type II goodness!)
Piper
>Velvet Sea (Stupendous segue and set placement!)
Stealing Time (RED HOT!)
Suzy Greenberh (WHAT?!)
Show of Life
6/12 Columbia** (RAGING first set!Terrific straighforward 2nd set!!!)
Buried Alive
Lonesome Cowbill Bill
Ha Ha Ha
Divided Sky (Trey flubs a lot but covers GREAT)
Wolfman's Brother (Awesome jamming!)
>Reggae Woman (AMAZING SEGUE)
>Gumbo (SICK!!!!!!!!)
Bathtub Gin (Type I DESTRUCTION)
Jesus Just Left Chicago
Character Zero
Crosseyed and Painless
>Steam
>Light
The Wedge
Alaska
Harry Hood
Number Line (HOLY CRAP!)
SANITY
Makisupa Policeman
First Tube (HOLY HELL!)
6/14 Alpharetta**
DINNER AND A MOVIE!!!!
The Moma Dance
Possum
Fluffhead
Kill Devil Falls
Bathtub Gin (AWESOME JAM!)
Light Up Or Leave Me Alone (Type 1.5 jamming)
Carini (Short but hot)
>Sand (SPECTACULAR TYPE 1)
>Down With Disease (Dark Type II RAGER!)
>Maze (HOLY SPAWN OF HELL DARK MELTDOWN!!!)
>Meatstick
Bug
The Mighty Quinn
6/15 Alpharetta ********* (INSANELY RAGING SHOW!)
Back On the Train
Foam
Water in the Sky (SLOW)
Runaway Jim (FREAKING INCREDIBLE!)
Army of One
Roses are Free
>Timber
Mound
Tweezer
>Julius
David Bowie (SICK!)
Suzy Greenberg (RAGING FUNK! PAGES HOUSE!!!!!!! GREATEST SUZY OF THE YEAR!!!!! INCREDIBLY SICK!!!!)
Gotta Jibboo
Harry Hood
Character Zero
The Birdwatcher
KUNG
Funky B
6/17 Charlotte ****************************************** (TIGHT AS HELL. SHOW OF THE TOUR!!! LOOK AT THAT SETLIST! FORBIN!!! ICCULUS!!! YEM!!! REBA!!! EXCEPTIONAL!!!!)
Mike's Song
I Am Hydrogen
Weekapaug Groove
Bouncing Around the Room
NICU (LEO'S HOUSE!)
>Sample In a Jar (DAT SEGUE DOE!)
COLONEL FORBIN!!!!!!!
>FLY FAMOUS MOCKINGBIRD!!!!
Wolfman's Brother (JAM OF THE SET - RAGING!)
Number Line
>Rock and Roll (TYPE II)
>Ghost (AWESOME. WEEKAPAUG JAMMING!)
>Free
Reba (FLAWLESS! INCREDIBLE! STRAIGHT OUTTA 95!!!)
>ICCULUS. GOSH DANG MOTHER EFFIN ICCULUS!
Bike
>VACCUUM SOLO
Chalkdust Torture
You Enjoy Myself
Wilson (HOLY CRAP!)
Loving Cup
6/18 Raleigh (Inconsistent at times, but out of this world insane when they click. Set 2 is BONKERS. SEGUE FEST!)
Cars Trucks Buses
Guyuute (Awesome segue into the song! RAGING!)
Halley's Comet (AWESOME JAMMING, RIPCORDED.....
>46 Days (That ripcord SUCKED but this is some HOT CHIT!)
Divided Sky (Skip to the final few minutes with Trey losing his mind)
Run Like An Antelope
Twist - short but SWEET. RAGES!
>Rift (GO PAGE GO!)
>Prince Caspian (Quasi Type II!)
>Esther (THAT SEGUE FROM PRINCE!)
BEEN CAUGHT STEALING !!!!!!!!!
Piper (HOLY MT ST HELENS ERUPTION!)
>My Friend My Friend
>Kill Devil Falls
Split Open and Melt
First Tube
6/19 Portsmouth ** (Exceptional close to a spectacular tour! Everything was awesome! Set 1 rages. Set 2 is beautifully quiet when jamming. Perfect balance.)
HARPUA FRIGGIN HARPUA OPENER!!!!
>BROTHER
Down With Disease (Very nice ending signals by Trey!)
>Back On the Train
Funky B (RAGING!)
>Timber (Great Type 1.5 jamming!)
The Wedge
Moma Dance (EXCEPTIONAL!)
THUNDER ROAD!!!! (Tribute to CC)
Tube
Alaska (Great little blues jam)
>David Bowie
Crosseyed and Painless
>Walls of the Cave
>Slave to the Traffic Light (Gorgeous and mellow)
>Fluffhead (FREAKING AMAZING FLAWLESS FLUFF!)
>Sand (FREAKING FANTASTIC!)
Sneakin' Sally
>Light (Short but very pretty jam)
Number Line (Just as pretty as Light. SPECTACULAR VERSION!)
Suzy Greenberg
Julius
7/1 Watkins Glen - SUPERBALL (Great show with lots of highlights, but not really memorable.)
Possum - NUCLEAR BOMB EXPLOSTION
>Peaches En Regalia
Moma Dance - Best version ever?!
Torn and Frayed
NICU - PLAY IT LEO!!!
Bathtub Gin - OUT OF THIS WORLD SPECTACULAR TYPE 1
Life On Mars
My Friend My Friend
Wolfman's Brother - 12 EXPLOSIVE MINUTES OF FUNKY RAGING!
Roses are Free
>Funky B - EXTRA HOT MUSTARD
Quinn The Eskimo - 13 MINUTE MONSTER!
Ambient Jam>
Crosseyed and Painless - Jeezus...Short Type II
>Chalkdust Torture
Sand
MIKE's FRIGGIN SONG HOLY EFFING HELL
Simple - Type II
>Bug - MOST HARDCORE BUG EVER
Weekapaug Groove
Character Zero
Show of Life
7/2 Watkins Glen** - SUPERBALL (Longest show besides Big Cypress. Not much Type II, but everything is played with EXTRA rocket sauce. The jamming, when it does happen, is GREAT. Set 3 is the BIZNESS)
Tube (RAGING!)
Kill Devil Falls (HOTTER THAN THE SUN!)
Ocelot (SPECTACULARLY HOT!)
Divided Sky (PERFECTION)
Reggae Woman (Hot jamming!)
Camel Walk
46 Days (FACE MELTING DESTRUCTION!)
Suskind Hotel (JAM OF THE SET FREAKING AWESOME!)
Timber>
Back on the Train
Suzy Greenberg
MONKEY MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Runaway Jim (5K Race awards!)
McGrupp!!!
Axilla
Birds of a Feather
Stash
It's Ice
Scents and Subtle Sounds (WITH INTRO!)
Run Like an Antelope
Golden Age (FINALLY SOME TYPE II!!)
Prince Caspian (Long Type I!!!)
>Piper (Type II rage)
>Tweezer (Murky Type II madness)
>Julius
Number Line (Chill but gets cooking)
Twist (Awesome Chill latin jamming!!! Dynamic!!)
>2001 (AMAZING SEGUE INTO!)
>Harry Hood
Loving Cup
>Tweeprize
7/2 Watkins Glen - Superball
AMBIENT STORAGE JAM
Too much to explain, but an hour of pure unadulterated Type II, complimented with Sleeping Monkey
7/3 Watkins Glen ********** - Superball (SETLIST INSANITY! SKIP TO SET 2 THOUGH FOR THE BEST OF THE FESTIVAL!!!)
>The Curtain (THAT SEGUE INTO WAS MAGICAL)
COLONEL FORBIN'S ASCENT>
FLY FAMOUS MOCKINGBIRD
DESTINY UNBOUND (Great jamming!!!)
>BBFCFM
Wilson (WOW! Type 1.5 jamming!)
Mound (EXTENDED JAMMING!)
A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing (Short but incredible Type II)
Time Loves a Hero
Reba (Not a good Reba, but the end is interesting. Falls apart after the whistling. Dissolves into Bowie)
David Bowie
BIG BALLS!!!!
Down With Disease (Type 1.5 jamming)
>No Quarter (Finally the X FACTOR KICKS IN. HOLY FREAKING SH!!!!!!)
Party Time (HOLY FREAKING CRAP HOTTEST JAM OF SUPERBALL SO FAR!!!!!!!)
Ghost (Short but sick jamming)
>Gotta Jibboo (HOSE!)
>Light (TERRIFIC TYPE II ADVENTURE!)
>Waves (OUTSTANDING AS WELL! DEEP AMBIANCE)
>What's The Use
>Meatstick
Stealing Time (HOLY FREAKING MACHINE GUN TREY!!!!)
First Tube
8/5 George************************************ (THE RETURN OF TYPE 2! X FACTOR ABOUND! ROCK AND ROLL!!!!!! THE BEST SHOW OF 2011 SO FAR. EASILY.)
Kill Devil Falls
>The Wedge (Very chill and breezy but gets hot)
Bathtub Gin (Very patient and building. Perfect conclusion. Great jamming.)
Cavern
Taste (Wonderfully fluid Trey. Terrific dynamics. Spectacular jam and build up!!!!!!!!)
Roggae (ONE OF THE BEST JAMS OF THE SUMMER!!!!TYPE II AMBIANT CHILL JAMMING!!!!!!!)
Walk Away (WORLD DESTROYING)
Funky B
Roses are Free
David Bowie
ROCK AND ROLL (20 MINUTE TYPE II EXTRAVAGANZA. NO HYPERBOLE, THIS IS THE GREATEST JAM OF 3.0 SO FAR. NO JOKE. NO OVEREXAGGERATION. THEY UNLEASH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL! BIG CYPRESS DARK SPACE AMBIANT GALAXY FUNK. HOLY MOTHER EFFING CRAP.)
>Meatstick
>Reggae Woman
Farmhouse
Julius
Loving Cup
8/6 George ** (INSANE energy out the WAZOO! Almost as good as 8/5. Set is bonkers Segue-fest)
Possum
Moma Dance (Very sick dynamic jamming! INCREIBLE PEAK! HOTTEST MOMA EVER!)
Sample In a Jar (SMASHING with ENERGY! MACHINE GUN TREY)
Limb By Limb (Trey giving unique lines)
Ocelot (Trey on FIRE. Interesting soloing with lots of sustains)
On Your Way Down (Sick bluesiness)
Wolfman's Brother (Lengthy jam! Goes 1.5! FUNKY! Ambiant segue into...)
>Maze
Wilson
Fluffhead (LIFE IS JUST A BUNDLE FULL OF JOY!)
Chalkdust Torture (Wonky!)
>Tweezer (Goes Type II for several glorious minutes)
>Prince Caspian (CHECK THAT SEGUE! Absolutely SOARING version!)
>Sand (FRIGGIN NAILED THAT SEGUE INTO IT! Very nice and JAZZY! RAGING! EXCEPTIONAL SAND!)
>TWEEPRISE (Gets slower and slower before hitting a dead stop and then...)
>Birds of a Feather (BAM out of Tweeprise!)
Waste
>Golden Age (Sick jamming)
>Reba (PEAK CITY)
Run Like an Antelope (TEASE CITY. MACHINE GUN MANIA!!!!!)
Suzy Greenberg
Sanity
Tweeprise 2
8/8 Hollywood (.NET is WRONG! Definitely above average though.)
Down With Disease (Fire right out the gate!)
Possum
Cities (Great funky, too-short jam)
Kill Devil Falls (Great chill jam)
Tube (Short but FUNKY!)
>Back On the Train (Exceptional Type I)
Split Open and Melt (DARK AND EVIL! ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY LISTENING!)
Number Line (Exceptional)
Carini (Gorgeous ambience)
>Crosseyed and Painless (Raging Type 1.5. Goest Type II into...)
>Twist
>Piper (6 minutes of Type II)
>Mike's Song (ABSOLUTELY DESTROYS)
>Joy
>Weekapaug Groove (GO PAGE! SPECTACULAR)>
>50 WAYs TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER
>Groove Reprise
Quinn the Eskimo
8/9 Stateline, NV ** (GET THAT LIGHT! ROCKET MAN!)
Party Time
Oh Kee Pah
AC/DC Bag
>Mellow Mood (VERY nice!)
Rift (Holy hell)
Punch You in the Eye (PERFECTION!!!!!!)
>Meat (Dank...)
David Bowie
46 Days
Gotta Jibboo (FREAKING ROCKS)
>Light (TYPE II OUTER SPACE DARK SLUDGE FUNK. AS GOOD AS GORGE ROCK AND ROLL. OMFG)
>Chalkdust Torture (Unqie Type I, HARRY POTTER!)
>Slave to the Traffic Light
>Free
ROCKET MAN!
Walls of the Cave (Harry Hood didn't do much)
Bug (HOLY CRAP TREY!)
The Squirming Coil
8/10 Stateline, NV (Get Stash, then PROCEED DIRECTLY TO SET 2, HOLY FREAKING CRAP!!!!!!! JAM BONANZA!)
DOGS STOLE THINGS
Poor Heart
Alaska (HOLY FREAKING CRAP!)
It's Ice
>When The Circus Comes (unexpected segue!)
Ya Mar (PLAY IT LEO!)
Stash (Extremely odd DARK jam!!!!!! HIGHLIGHT OF SET)
Funky B (EXTREME! BEYOND AVERAGE HEAT!)
Instant Karma
Down With Disease (Goes Type II but quickly segues...)
>Runaway Jim (PLINKO. FREAKING AWESOME. Type II)
>Ghost (ROCKS TO HIGH HEAVEN! GOES FULL TYPE II. WHALE CALL!)
>Golden Age (WOW!)
>2001
>Sneakin Sally
Guyuute
Velvet Sea
You Enjoy Myself
8/12 San Francisco (Outside Lands Fest) (Terrific straight rock show but not really memorable. RR>Roses is MANDATORY)
Funky B
Moma Dance
Sample In a Jar (Dang!)
Possum (EXTRA ROCKET SAUCE!)
Tweezer (Extra saucy jamming!!!! Astonishing Type I)
>Mound
Suzy Greenberg (GO PAGE GO!)
Mike's Song (HOLY CRAP!)
Weekapaug Groove
Rock and Roll (FIRE)
>Steam (THAT SEGUE! Absolutely spectacular - highlight of show so far)
>Piper (Type II raging jazzy jamming!)
>Roses are Free
Julius (OH MY GOD)
Life on Mars
Birds of a Feather
Fluffhead
Number Line
Chalkdust Torture
8/15 Chicago*********************************************************************************************************************************** (Inconsistent from song to song, but PURE MAGIC. The highlights are better than ANYTHING else in 2011 so far though. Truly an X Factor show! "ELEMENTS" SET. GET WAVES>UNDERMIND>STEAM. GET WAVES>UNDERMIND>STEAM. GET FRIGGIN WAVES>UNDERMIND>STEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Jesus Just Left Chicago
Wolfman's Brother (Sick Type 1.5!!!)
Anything But Me (MOST RECENT VERSION!)
Babylon Baby (Debut)
Reba (Beautiful!)
Alumni>Jimmy Page (ABSOLUTELY INSANE!)
Sand (SPECTACULAR Type I!!!)
>Light (PERFECT segue into. GREAT FUNKY TYPE II)
>Waves (FRIGGIN SPECTACULAR!!!!!! HOLY FREAKING CRAP MOST ROCKING WAVES EVER PLAYED. GOES TYPE II)
>Undermind (THAT INCREDIBLE GENUINE SEGUE FROM WAVES OH MY FREAKING GOD. TYPE II IMMEDIATELY. Dissolves into ambiance)
>Steam (EXCEPTIONAL. BEST STEAM YET!)
>Fire
Camel Walk
Harry Hood (Just for the terrific jam. Song portion is poor)
8/16 Chicago ** (8/15 was a freak accident show. THIS show is a proper example of the REALISTIC best to expect from Phish in 2011. Major compliment to BOTH shows SPECTACULAR SHOW!)
Dinner and a Movie
>Chalkdust Torture (MELTS DOWN BRIEFLY INTO TYPE II IN THE MIDDLE THEN TREY MACHINE GUNS BACK INTO OBVLIVION. INCREDIBLE VERSION!)
Mexican Cousin
Runaway Jim (SPECTACULAR jamming!)
>Foam (EVEN BETTER!)
I Didn't Know (VACUUM SOLO!)
Ocelot (Terrific and patient!)
The Wedge
Limb By Limb (SPECTACULAR! GOES TYPE I.5! INCREDIBLE LXL! GREATEST LXL EVER HOLY HELL!)
LET IT LOOSE
Down With Disease (22 MINUTES. TYPE II! Doesn't come close to 8/15/11 though. If 8/15 didnt exist this would be THE jam of 2011!!!!)
>Twist (SEE ABOVE)
Number Line (Incendiary Type I)
Theme From the Bottom
Golden Age (SUSTAINED NOTE OF THE GODS! Ambient dissolution...)
A Day in the Life
You Enjoy Myself (FUNKY DISCO BASS JAM)
Heavy Things (Odd placement but exceptional Trey solo)
Slave to the Traffic Light (Oh my god!)
Rocky Top (PLAY IT LEO!)
8/17 Chicago (Would've been INCREDIBLE in person. Set 2 is SEGUE HEAVEN. TOTAL PARTY. Not a great listen but as a party its TOP NOTCH!
)
Gumbo (FREAKING PERFECT SPECTACULAR 10/10)
Divided Sky
Alaska
Bathtub Gin
First Tube (HOLY MOTHER EFFING HELL ON FIRE)
Crosseyed and Painless (TYPE II AMBIANCE)
>No Quarter (THAT INCREDIBLE TRANSITION HOLY FREAKING HELL!)
>Timber (THAT SEGUE!, VOL. 2)
>Tweezer
>Piper (CROSSEYED REPRISE!)
>Makisupa Policeman (PAGES HOUSE)
Run Like an Antelope
Tweeprize
9/2 Commerce City** - (Begin straight at Susskind. SET 2 I ONE OF THE BEST OF THE YEAR! BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LETTER "S"!)
SUSKIND HOTEL (SPECTACULAR!)
Stash (DANG! EXCEPTIONAL and dynamic jam! STASH OF THE YEAR!!!!!!)
Sneakin' Sally (FREAKIN SICK. SUPER FUNKY TYPE II.)
>SPARKS (!!!!!!FIRST SINCE 1996!!!!!!!!!)
>Scent of a Mule
Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan (HOLY HELL!)
Shine a Light
The Squirming Coil
Sand (Terrific Type I. HOLY FREAKING CRAP THAT PEAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
>Simple (Gorgeous bliss, deep space Type II ambiance)
>Steam (OUTSTANDING HOLY FREAKING FIRE FROM THE SUN THIS IS SPECTACULAR!)
Soul Shakedown Party
Seven Below (Magical Jam!)
>Suzy Greenberg
>Scents and Subtle Sounds (EXPLOSION.PEAKS UPON PEAKS UPON PEAKS!!!!)
Slave to the Traffic Light (LONGEST SUSTAIN NOTE EVER PLAYED BY HUMANS)
Sanity
Sabotage
9/3 Commerce City (Extremely uneven show. Set 1 is a snooze...Set 2 is pretty good. TWEEZER IS SPECTACULAR. Short but sweet is tonight's theme. Lots of goods in tiny packages. Get set 2)
Ocelot (terrific lengthy jamming)
FAST ENOUGH FOR YOU
Wolfman's Brother (NASTY, DARK, FUNKY! MANDATORY! TREY STRANGLES HIS GUITAR!)
Tweezer (ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE FLAWLESS 1999-type JAM! TOP 10 JAM OF 2011. AS GOOD AS ANYTHING FROM THE GORGE OR CHICAGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
>Golden Age (Short but SOARING! Starts to jam but Trey ripcords into LxL...)
>Limb By Limb (Again, short but SWEET! MAGICAL PEAK!!!)
Kill Devil Falls (11 minutes! Whale siren meltdown!)
>2001
>Light (INCREDIBLE SLOW SEGUE INTO DISEASE REPRISAL!!!!!!!!!!)
>Disease Reprise
Run Like an Antelope
9/4 Commerce City ************* (Absolutely INCREDIBLE First set! A PERFECT first set! Set 2 follows suit. Incredible show!!!)
Maze (OPENER!!!!!)
>Back On the Train (OUTSTANDING AND RAGING!)
>Rift (HOLY CRAP!)
>Bathtub Gin (15 minutes of the greatest Type I jamming ever heard)
The Way It Goes (Gillian Welch)
Halfway to the Moon (BEST VERSION YET!)
Gumbo (PERFECTION)
Halley's Comet (PERFECTION)
>Tube (WTF SEGUE FROM HALLEYS!)
>Timber (SHREDFEST)
>Roses are Free
>Chalkdust Torture (Wacky and Raging)
Rock and Roll (FIRE UPON FIRE UPON FIRE)
>Come Together (BEATLES! Unplanned!)
>Twist (Terrific full-band jamming. Low Rider jam!)
>Piper (TYPE II THERAMIN INSANITY!!!!! OUTER SPACE!)
>Harry Hood
Roggae (GORGEOUS peak!)
Ghost
>GUY FORGET
>Ghost Reprise
Walls of the Cave
Number Line
9/14 Essex Junction ** - Flood Benefit (Not classic, but a terrific A+ straight-forward show. Amazing energy - home area vibes. Just FUN and rock! The entire show was highlight-worthy.)
Chalkdust Torture
The Moma Dance
NICU
Funky B
Sample in a Jar
Cavern
Bathtub Gin (Terrific)
Alaska
Possum (MACHINE GUN TREY!)
Wolfman's Brother (GRAB THIS. FUNKY 1.5 JAM! JAM OF THE SET)
Julius (One of the best of all time. Uniquely dynamic and jammed out. 11 minutes!)
Carini (TYPE 2 EFFECTS SPACE AMBIANCE)
>Down With Disease (Funky Type II FREAKING AWESOME DANCE PARTY!)
>Slave to the Traffic Light (INCREDIBLE SEGUE!!! Sick rager)
>Rock and Roll (RnR indeed! Great Type 2 segue into....)
>Twist
Number Line
>Theme From the Bottom
Character Zero (WACKY! HOLY MELTDOWN INSANITY!)
Loving Cup
12/28 New York City ** (AWESOME SHOW! Not classic but DAMN great! GET THAT CARINI>TWEEZER! FREAKING SICK GIG, YO!)
Free (FIRST EVER FREE OPENER)
Glide
Cities (FULL ON LENGTHY TYPE II SPACE FUNK!!!!!!)
Curtis Loew
Stash (nice and quirky!)
CONTACT (FUNKY!)
Kill Devil Falls (Great chill jam! Builds to hot peak)
Bathtub Gin (Nothing special but still excellent!)
Carini (Evil space into uplifting bliss!!! Spectacular jam!)
>Tweezer (12 incredible plink-filled minutes.TYPE II PARTY!!! Multisectional. Longest 12 minute jam ever)
>My Friend My Friend
>Rock and Roll (JAW DROP! Goes Type II into...)
>NICU (PLAY IT LEO!)
Bouncing Around (CROWD SINGALONG!)
Harry Hood (Thoughtful and patient. Bliss upon bliss!)
Bug (Gorgeous set finish)
Tube
12/29 New York City (Ok but incredibly boring show. Grab Crosseyed and the Mike's Groove)
The Sloth (Opener!)
You Enjoy Myself (SLOT 2!!!)
Back On the Train
Maze
Crosseyed and Painless (Nice short jamming.)
>Simple (Nice bliss!)
>LIFEBOY
Guyuute
Mike's Song (FIRE!)
>CHALKDUST TORTURE!
>I Am Hydrogen
>Weekapaug Groove (GREAT jam)
Character Zero (interesting soloing)
Loving Cup
12/30 New York City (Really great show but not classic, ala Detroit. GET THAT FRIGGIN PIPER HOLY FREAKING HELL!!!)
Punch You in the Eye
Prince Caspian (2nd slot! Great jam!)
>Number Line
Divided Sky
Sand (FIRST SET! Short but HOT!)
Vultures (TERRIFIC!)
Quinn the Eskimo
Piper (15 minutes! Type II spazzed out space funk. Dissolves into ambiance. INSANE WHALE SIREN FUNK AMBIANCE. SOUNDS LIKE 2000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONE OF THE JAMS OF THE YEAR!!!)
>Twist (AWESOME Type I!)
Julius
2001
David Bowie
Squirming Coil
Good Times Bad Times (RIPS!)
12/31 New York City (Freaking AWESOME first set, set 2 shows promise but keeps faltering. Set 3 is just an average 2011 set. Highly disappointing but still a fine gig. Very FUN though!)
AC/DC Bag
>Wolfman's Brother
Scent of a Mule (AWESOME!)
Faulty Plan
Lawn Boy
Gotta Jibboo
Farmhouse (Perfectly placed, beautiful version!)
Pebbles and Marbles (FREAKING AWESOME!)
Ocelot
Fluffhead
Light (TYPE II DEEP SPACE THERAMIN INSANITY!!!!!!)
>Golden Age (AWFUL segue, lol. Gets going then dies... DANG IT!)
>Theme From the Bottom (Much better segue!)
Ghost (Short but sweet)
>Sneakin Sally (Short but sweet, vol. 2)
>46 Days (EXPLODES! TREY HEADBANGING!)
Suzy Greenberg
Cavern
STEAM (FLYING GAG)
Down With Disease (Gag continues, BALLOON INVASION)
>The Wedge
Velvet Seat
Traffic Light
All in all, this was an absolutely wonderful listening experience. I never lost interest or got burnt out and couldn't wait each day to get to the next show!
Summer Tour 1 was loaded with Ripcords all over the place. Thankfully Trey learned how to turn a ripcord into a segue by the later half of the year and they become almost non-existent after Superball.
Another point is that the boys REALLY stepped up their compact-jam (microjam?) game this year. Almost every show had at least a couple top-tier jams, the only problem being that they were so SHORT! 3 to 5 minutes in many cases! Just as jams would take off they would kill them....
Several times (more as the year went on) we had lengthy Type II excursions of the 15+ minute variety. George Rock and Roll, Detroit Disease, 12/30 Piper, etc . On the whole these were all excellent and the guys stretched their jam legs maybe more than is remembered. Awesome stuff.
ON THE WHOLE, this was great. Nuff said. Highly recommended
warewolf95's VERY ABBREVIATED Jams Of The Year for 2011:
5/27 Bethel ** (Insane tour opener. Varied setlist. Terrific segues and jams)
Tweezer
Wolfman's Bro>
Jam>
Walk Away
Stash
Kill Devil Falls (Type II!)
Reggae Woman>
Type II Space>
Waves>
Prince Caspian>
Crosseyed and Painless>
Velvet Sea
Possum
5/28 Bethel *******
Theme From the Bottom (opener!)
Cities
Halley's Comet (Sick jamming!)
Runaway Jim (JAW DROPPING EXPLOSIVE!)
Quinn The Eskimo
Limb By Limb (Dark and fiery!)
Bathtub Gin>
GOLDEN AGE MANTECA JAM>
Bathtub Gin
Down With Disease>
Free>
Number Line (TYPE II!!!)>
Makisupa Policeman (MIKES HOUSE MF'ER!!!!)>
Harry Hood (GRATEST SEGUE EVER)
David Bowie
5/29 Bethel** (INCREDIBLY TIGHT AND FUN AND ROCKING SHOW! VERY STRAIGHTFORWARD BUT SUPER FUN)
AC/DC Bag>
Sample In a Jar
Rift
Ocelot (HOLY CRAP!)
Timber (INSANE)
Suzy Greenberg (HOLY FREAKING CRAP!)
46 Days
Curtis Loew
Antelope (HOLY FREAKING CRAP PART 2)
Mike's Song>
Simple (Quasi Type II!!!)>
Weekapaug Groove
Fluffhead
Joy
2001>
Light
Slave
5/31 Holmdel ** (RAGING TYPE 1 SHOW OF ALL TIME)
Chalkdust Torture (RAGER!)
Roggae (Incredible peaks)
The Moma Dance (RAGER - best song yet!)
Rock and Roll (HOTTER THAN THE FRIGGIN BIG CYPRESS DWD!!!!!)
Sand (HOTTER THAN THE SUN)
Divided Sky (INSANE except for Trey's giant flub)
After Midnight (DANG!)
Possum (HOTTER THAN THE SUN OF THE SUN OF THE SUN)
Drowned (TYPE II AMBIANCE)
Maze (GUITAR RAPE)
Fire (HOLY SH$$)
6/1 Holmdel (Strong performance but lots of ripcording)
First Tube
Stealing Time
Gotta Jibboo
Kill Devil Falls (HOTTEST EVER!)
Split Open and Melt (Very dark and disjointed)
Suzy Greenberg
Tweezer>
NO QUARTER (DEBUT!!!)
Twist>
Ghost> RIPCORD
Number Line (DANG!)
Show of Life
6/3 Clarkston (Good show lacking X Factor. All 1.0 setlist! SET 2 IS MANDATORY!!!)
Funky B
NICU
Mike's Song
Weekapaug Groove
Chalkdust Torture
Down With Disease (25 MINUTES! INCREDIBLE JAMMING!)
>Fluffhead (Incredible version!)
>David Bowie (TERRIFIC JAM!)
Good Times Bad Times
6/4 Cuyahoga Falls (ABSOLUTELY FREAKING INCREDIBLE SHOW POSSIBLY THE BEST OF THE TOUR SO FAR HOLY HELL THIS SHOW IS NEAR PERFECT!!!!!!)**************
Kill Devil Falls
Guyuute
F Your Face
Foam (TERRIFIC!)
Ocelot
Rocket In My Pocket
Back On the Train>
Guelah Papyrus
Tube (SUPER FUNK EXPLOSION!)
Run Like an Antelope
Birds of a Feather
Possum (VERY FUNNY SLOW-DOWN-SPEED-UP VERSION!!!!!)
>Steam
?Piper
>The Lizards
Sneakin Sally>TYPE II 1997 FUNK JAM!!
Harry Hood>
Have Mercy>
Hood Reprise
Slave
6/5/11 Cincinnati** (Absolutely terrific show top to bottom, little sister of 6/4!!!)
AC/DC Bag
Bathtub Gin
Mound
Gotta Jibboo
Reba
Fee
Tweezer>
Free>
Crosseyed>
Light>
Boogie Woman
6/7 Mansfield (Skip set 1, GRAB SET 2!!!)
Possum
Instant Karma
Bowie
Divided Sky
Back On the Train
Rock and Roll>
The Mango Song>
Bug
Pebbles and Marbles
Halley's Comet
Meatstick
Run Like an Antelope
Suzy Greenberg (PAGE'S HOUSE!)
6/8 Darien Lake (Hit or miss, but set 2 is MUST-HEAR.)
Mellow Mood
Wolfman's Brother (INSREDIBLE JAM!)
Ride Captain Ride
Brian and Robert
46 Days (HOLY SCHNIKE!)
Limb By Limb (Tasty Type 1)
Character Zero
Golden Age (PEAKS UPON PEAKS!)
Mike's Song> (NASTY!)
Fast Enough For You>
Weekapaug Groove (SPECTACULAR!)
Theme From the Bottom (TREY'S SOLO!)
Number Line (TREY AGAIN!)
2001/Golden Age/What's The Use (!!!!!!)
Harry Hood
6/10 Camden ** (SET 2 IS ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING! SET 2 IS INCREDIBLE!!)
Weekapaug Groove
Stash (Dark!)
Guyuute
Guelah Papyrus
Scent of a Mule
The Curtain With (BEST EVER?!?!)
Down With Disease (Dark and NASTY Type II)
>Free (SPECTACULAR SEGUE!)
>Possum (ABSOLUTELY FREAKIN INSANE!)
BBFCFM (METAL PANDEMONIUM!!!)
Swept Away
>Steep
>David Bowie (ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING)
Julius
Fluffhead (FLAWLESS!)
>Joy
Bold As Love
6/11 Columbia (Mostly skippable first set, some big set 2 highlights)
Access Me
Wilson (TREY VAN HALEN!!!!)
>Sand (Terrific Type 1, Awesome segue!)
On Your Way Down
Birds of a Feather
Tweezer
Waves (Awesome!)
Chalkdust Torture
Rock and Roll (Type II goodness!)
Piper
>Velvet Sea (Stupendous segue and set placement!)
Stealing Time (RED HOT!)
Suzy Greenberh (WHAT?!)
Show of Life
6/12 Columbia** (RAGING first set!Terrific straighforward 2nd set!!!)
Buried Alive
Lonesome Cowbill Bill
Ha Ha Ha
Divided Sky (Trey flubs a lot but covers GREAT)
Wolfman's Brother (Awesome jamming!)
>Reggae Woman (AMAZING SEGUE)
>Gumbo (SICK!!!!!!!!)
Bathtub Gin (Type I DESTRUCTION)
Jesus Just Left Chicago
Character Zero
Crosseyed and Painless
>Steam
>Light
The Wedge
Alaska
Harry Hood
Number Line (HOLY CRAP!)
SANITY
Makisupa Policeman
First Tube (HOLY HELL!)
6/14 Alpharetta**
DINNER AND A MOVIE!!!!
The Moma Dance
Possum
Fluffhead
Kill Devil Falls
Bathtub Gin (AWESOME JAM!)
Light Up Or Leave Me Alone (Type 1.5 jamming)
Carini (Short but hot)
>Sand (SPECTACULAR TYPE 1)
>Down With Disease (Dark Type II RAGER!)
>Maze (HOLY SPAWN OF HELL DARK MELTDOWN!!!)
>Meatstick
Bug
The Mighty Quinn
6/15 Alpharetta ********* (INSANELY RAGING SHOW!)
Back On the Train
Foam
Water in the Sky (SLOW)
Runaway Jim (FREAKING INCREDIBLE!)
Army of One
Roses are Free
>Timber
Mound
Tweezer
>Julius
David Bowie (SICK!)
Suzy Greenberg (RAGING FUNK! PAGES HOUSE!!!!!!! GREATEST SUZY OF THE YEAR!!!!! INCREDIBLY SICK!!!!)
Gotta Jibboo
Harry Hood
Character Zero
The Birdwatcher
KUNG
Funky B
6/17 Charlotte ****************************************** (TIGHT AS HELL. SHOW OF THE TOUR!!! LOOK AT THAT SETLIST! FORBIN!!! ICCULUS!!! YEM!!! REBA!!! EXCEPTIONAL!!!!)
Mike's Song
I Am Hydrogen
Weekapaug Groove
Bouncing Around the Room
NICU (LEO'S HOUSE!)
>Sample In a Jar (DAT SEGUE DOE!)
COLONEL FORBIN!!!!!!!
>FLY FAMOUS MOCKINGBIRD!!!!
Wolfman's Brother (JAM OF THE SET - RAGING!)
Number Line
>Rock and Roll (TYPE II)
>Ghost (AWESOME. WEEKAPAUG JAMMING!)
>Free
Reba (FLAWLESS! INCREDIBLE! STRAIGHT OUTTA 95!!!)
>ICCULUS. GOSH DANG MOTHER EFFIN ICCULUS!
Bike
>VACCUUM SOLO
Chalkdust Torture
You Enjoy Myself
Wilson (HOLY CRAP!)
Loving Cup
6/18 Raleigh (Inconsistent at times, but out of this world insane when they click. Set 2 is BONKERS. SEGUE FEST!)
Cars Trucks Buses
Guyuute (Awesome segue into the song! RAGING!)
Halley's Comet (AWESOME JAMMING, RIPCORDED.....
>46 Days (That ripcord SUCKED but this is some HOT CHIT!)
Divided Sky (Skip to the final few minutes with Trey losing his mind)
Run Like An Antelope
Twist - short but SWEET. RAGES!
>Rift (GO PAGE GO!)
>Prince Caspian (Quasi Type II!)
>Esther (THAT SEGUE FROM PRINCE!)
BEEN CAUGHT STEALING !!!!!!!!!
Piper (HOLY MT ST HELENS ERUPTION!)
>My Friend My Friend
>Kill Devil Falls
Split Open and Melt
First Tube
6/19 Portsmouth ** (Exceptional close to a spectacular tour! Everything was awesome! Set 1 rages. Set 2 is beautifully quiet when jamming. Perfect balance.)
HARPUA FRIGGIN HARPUA OPENER!!!!
>BROTHER
Down With Disease (Very nice ending signals by Trey!)
>Back On the Train
Funky B (RAGING!)
>Timber (Great Type 1.5 jamming!)
The Wedge
Moma Dance (EXCEPTIONAL!)
THUNDER ROAD!!!! (Tribute to CC)
Tube
Alaska (Great little blues jam)
>David Bowie
Crosseyed and Painless
>Walls of the Cave
>Slave to the Traffic Light (Gorgeous and mellow)
>Fluffhead (FREAKING AMAZING FLAWLESS FLUFF!)
>Sand (FREAKING FANTASTIC!)
Sneakin' Sally
>Light (Short but very pretty jam)
Number Line (Just as pretty as Light. SPECTACULAR VERSION!)
Suzy Greenberg
Julius
7/1 Watkins Glen - SUPERBALL (Great show with lots of highlights, but not really memorable.)
Possum - NUCLEAR BOMB EXPLOSTION
>Peaches En Regalia
Moma Dance - Best version ever?!
Torn and Frayed
NICU - PLAY IT LEO!!!
Bathtub Gin - OUT OF THIS WORLD SPECTACULAR TYPE 1
Life On Mars
My Friend My Friend
Wolfman's Brother - 12 EXPLOSIVE MINUTES OF FUNKY RAGING!
Roses are Free
>Funky B - EXTRA HOT MUSTARD
Quinn The Eskimo - 13 MINUTE MONSTER!
Ambient Jam>
Crosseyed and Painless - Jeezus...Short Type II
>Chalkdust Torture
Sand
MIKE's FRIGGIN SONG HOLY EFFING HELL
Simple - Type II
>Bug - MOST HARDCORE BUG EVER
Weekapaug Groove
Character Zero
Show of Life
7/2 Watkins Glen** - SUPERBALL (Longest show besides Big Cypress. Not much Type II, but everything is played with EXTRA rocket sauce. The jamming, when it does happen, is GREAT. Set 3 is the BIZNESS)
Tube (RAGING!)
Kill Devil Falls (HOTTER THAN THE SUN!)
Ocelot (SPECTACULARLY HOT!)
Divided Sky (PERFECTION)
Reggae Woman (Hot jamming!)
Camel Walk
46 Days (FACE MELTING DESTRUCTION!)
Suskind Hotel (JAM OF THE SET FREAKING AWESOME!)
Timber>
Back on the Train
Suzy Greenberg
MONKEY MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Runaway Jim (5K Race awards!)
McGrupp!!!
Axilla
Birds of a Feather
Stash
It's Ice
Scents and Subtle Sounds (WITH INTRO!)
Run Like an Antelope
Golden Age (FINALLY SOME TYPE II!!)
Prince Caspian (Long Type I!!!)
>Piper (Type II rage)
>Tweezer (Murky Type II madness)
>Julius
Number Line (Chill but gets cooking)
Twist (Awesome Chill latin jamming!!! Dynamic!!)
>2001 (AMAZING SEGUE INTO!)
>Harry Hood
Loving Cup
>Tweeprize
7/2 Watkins Glen - Superball
AMBIENT STORAGE JAM
Too much to explain, but an hour of pure unadulterated Type II, complimented with Sleeping Monkey
7/3 Watkins Glen ********** - Superball (SETLIST INSANITY! SKIP TO SET 2 THOUGH FOR THE BEST OF THE FESTIVAL!!!)
>The Curtain (THAT SEGUE INTO WAS MAGICAL)
COLONEL FORBIN'S ASCENT>
FLY FAMOUS MOCKINGBIRD
DESTINY UNBOUND (Great jamming!!!)
>BBFCFM
Wilson (WOW! Type 1.5 jamming!)
Mound (EXTENDED JAMMING!)
A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing (Short but incredible Type II)
Time Loves a Hero
Reba (Not a good Reba, but the end is interesting. Falls apart after the whistling. Dissolves into Bowie)
David Bowie
BIG BALLS!!!!
Down With Disease (Type 1.5 jamming)
>No Quarter (Finally the X FACTOR KICKS IN. HOLY FREAKING SH!!!!!!)
Party Time (HOLY FREAKING CRAP HOTTEST JAM OF SUPERBALL SO FAR!!!!!!!)
Ghost (Short but sick jamming)
>Gotta Jibboo (HOSE!)
>Light (TERRIFIC TYPE II ADVENTURE!)
>Waves (OUTSTANDING AS WELL! DEEP AMBIANCE)
>What's The Use
>Meatstick
Stealing Time (HOLY FREAKING MACHINE GUN TREY!!!!)
First Tube
8/5 George************************************ (THE RETURN OF TYPE 2! X FACTOR ABOUND! ROCK AND ROLL!!!!!! THE BEST SHOW OF 2011 SO FAR. EASILY.)
Kill Devil Falls
>The Wedge (Very chill and breezy but gets hot)
Bathtub Gin (Very patient and building. Perfect conclusion. Great jamming.)
Cavern
Taste (Wonderfully fluid Trey. Terrific dynamics. Spectacular jam and build up!!!!!!!!)
Roggae (ONE OF THE BEST JAMS OF THE SUMMER!!!!TYPE II AMBIANT CHILL JAMMING!!!!!!!)
Walk Away (WORLD DESTROYING)
Funky B
Roses are Free
David Bowie
ROCK AND ROLL (20 MINUTE TYPE II EXTRAVAGANZA. NO HYPERBOLE, THIS IS THE GREATEST JAM OF 3.0 SO FAR. NO JOKE. NO OVEREXAGGERATION. THEY UNLEASH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL! BIG CYPRESS DARK SPACE AMBIANT GALAXY FUNK. HOLY MOTHER EFFING CRAP.)
>Meatstick
>Reggae Woman
Farmhouse
Julius
Loving Cup
8/6 George ** (INSANE energy out the WAZOO! Almost as good as 8/5. Set is bonkers Segue-fest)
Possum
Moma Dance (Very sick dynamic jamming! INCREIBLE PEAK! HOTTEST MOMA EVER!)
Sample In a Jar (SMASHING with ENERGY! MACHINE GUN TREY)
Limb By Limb (Trey giving unique lines)
Ocelot (Trey on FIRE. Interesting soloing with lots of sustains)
On Your Way Down (Sick bluesiness)
Wolfman's Brother (Lengthy jam! Goes 1.5! FUNKY! Ambiant segue into...)
>Maze
Wilson
Fluffhead (LIFE IS JUST A BUNDLE FULL OF JOY!)
Chalkdust Torture (Wonky!)
>Tweezer (Goes Type II for several glorious minutes)
>Prince Caspian (CHECK THAT SEGUE! Absolutely SOARING version!)
>Sand (FRIGGIN NAILED THAT SEGUE INTO IT! Very nice and JAZZY! RAGING! EXCEPTIONAL SAND!)
>TWEEPRISE (Gets slower and slower before hitting a dead stop and then...)
>Birds of a Feather (BAM out of Tweeprise!)
Waste
>Golden Age (Sick jamming)
>Reba (PEAK CITY)
Run Like an Antelope (TEASE CITY. MACHINE GUN MANIA!!!!!)
Suzy Greenberg
Sanity
Tweeprise 2
8/8 Hollywood (.NET is WRONG! Definitely above average though.)
Down With Disease (Fire right out the gate!)
Possum
Cities (Great funky, too-short jam)
Kill Devil Falls (Great chill jam)
Tube (Short but FUNKY!)
>Back On the Train (Exceptional Type I)
Split Open and Melt (DARK AND EVIL! ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY LISTENING!)
Number Line (Exceptional)
Carini (Gorgeous ambience)
>Crosseyed and Painless (Raging Type 1.5. Goest Type II into...)
>Twist
>Piper (6 minutes of Type II)
>Mike's Song (ABSOLUTELY DESTROYS)
>Joy
>Weekapaug Groove (GO PAGE! SPECTACULAR)>
>50 WAYs TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER
>Groove Reprise
Quinn the Eskimo
8/9 Stateline, NV ** (GET THAT LIGHT! ROCKET MAN!)
Party Time
Oh Kee Pah
AC/DC Bag
>Mellow Mood (VERY nice!)
Rift (Holy hell)
Punch You in the Eye (PERFECTION!!!!!!)
>Meat (Dank...)
David Bowie
46 Days
Gotta Jibboo (FREAKING ROCKS)
>Light (TYPE II OUTER SPACE DARK SLUDGE FUNK. AS GOOD AS GORGE ROCK AND ROLL. OMFG)
>Chalkdust Torture (Unqie Type I, HARRY POTTER!)
>Slave to the Traffic Light
>Free
ROCKET MAN!
Walls of the Cave (Harry Hood didn't do much)
Bug (HOLY CRAP TREY!)
The Squirming Coil
8/10 Stateline, NV (Get Stash, then PROCEED DIRECTLY TO SET 2, HOLY FREAKING CRAP!!!!!!! JAM BONANZA!)
DOGS STOLE THINGS
Poor Heart
Alaska (HOLY FREAKING CRAP!)
It's Ice
>When The Circus Comes (unexpected segue!)
Ya Mar (PLAY IT LEO!)
Stash (Extremely odd DARK jam!!!!!! HIGHLIGHT OF SET)
Funky B (EXTREME! BEYOND AVERAGE HEAT!)
Instant Karma
Down With Disease (Goes Type II but quickly segues...)
>Runaway Jim (PLINKO. FREAKING AWESOME. Type II)
>Ghost (ROCKS TO HIGH HEAVEN! GOES FULL TYPE II. WHALE CALL!)
>Golden Age (WOW!)
>2001
>Sneakin Sally
Guyuute
Velvet Sea
You Enjoy Myself
8/12 San Francisco (Outside Lands Fest) (Terrific straight rock show but not really memorable. RR>Roses is MANDATORY)
Funky B
Moma Dance
Sample In a Jar (Dang!)
Possum (EXTRA ROCKET SAUCE!)
Tweezer (Extra saucy jamming!!!! Astonishing Type I)
>Mound
Suzy Greenberg (GO PAGE GO!)
Mike's Song (HOLY CRAP!)
Weekapaug Groove
Rock and Roll (FIRE)
>Steam (THAT SEGUE! Absolutely spectacular - highlight of show so far)
>Piper (Type II raging jazzy jamming!)
>Roses are Free
Julius (OH MY GOD)
Life on Mars
Birds of a Feather
Fluffhead
Number Line
Chalkdust Torture
8/15 Chicago*********************************************************************************************************************************** (Inconsistent from song to song, but PURE MAGIC. The highlights are better than ANYTHING else in 2011 so far though. Truly an X Factor show! "ELEMENTS" SET. GET WAVES>UNDERMIND>STEAM. GET WAVES>UNDERMIND>STEAM. GET FRIGGIN WAVES>UNDERMIND>STEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Jesus Just Left Chicago
Wolfman's Brother (Sick Type 1.5!!!)
Anything But Me (MOST RECENT VERSION!)
Babylon Baby (Debut)
Reba (Beautiful!)
Alumni>Jimmy Page (ABSOLUTELY INSANE!)
Sand (SPECTACULAR Type I!!!)
>Light (PERFECT segue into. GREAT FUNKY TYPE II)
>Waves (FRIGGIN SPECTACULAR!!!!!! HOLY FREAKING CRAP MOST ROCKING WAVES EVER PLAYED. GOES TYPE II)
>Undermind (THAT INCREDIBLE GENUINE SEGUE FROM WAVES OH MY FREAKING GOD. TYPE II IMMEDIATELY. Dissolves into ambiance)
>Steam (EXCEPTIONAL. BEST STEAM YET!)
>Fire
Camel Walk
Harry Hood (Just for the terrific jam. Song portion is poor)
8/16 Chicago ** (8/15 was a freak accident show. THIS show is a proper example of the REALISTIC best to expect from Phish in 2011. Major compliment to BOTH shows
SPECTACULAR SHOW!)Dinner and a Movie
>Chalkdust Torture (MELTS DOWN BRIEFLY INTO TYPE II IN THE MIDDLE THEN TREY MACHINE GUNS BACK INTO OBVLIVION. INCREDIBLE VERSION!)
Mexican Cousin
Runaway Jim (SPECTACULAR jamming!)
>Foam (EVEN BETTER!)
I Didn't Know (VACUUM SOLO!)
Ocelot (Terrific and patient!)
The Wedge
Limb By Limb (SPECTACULAR! GOES TYPE I.5! INCREDIBLE LXL! GREATEST LXL EVER HOLY HELL!)
LET IT LOOSE
Down With Disease (22 MINUTES. TYPE II! Doesn't come close to 8/15/11 though. If 8/15 didnt exist this would be THE jam of 2011!!!!)
>Twist (SEE ABOVE)
Number Line (Incendiary Type I)
Theme From the Bottom
Golden Age (SUSTAINED NOTE OF THE GODS! Ambient dissolution...)
A Day in the Life
You Enjoy Myself (FUNKY DISCO BASS JAM)
Heavy Things (Odd placement but exceptional Trey solo)
Slave to the Traffic Light (Oh my god!)
Rocky Top (PLAY IT LEO!)
8/17 Chicago (Would've been INCREDIBLE in person. Set 2 is SEGUE HEAVEN. TOTAL PARTY. Not a great listen but as a party its TOP NOTCH!
)Gumbo (FREAKING PERFECT SPECTACULAR 10/10)
Divided Sky
Alaska
Bathtub Gin
First Tube (HOLY MOTHER EFFING HELL ON FIRE)
Crosseyed and Painless (TYPE II AMBIANCE)
>No Quarter (THAT INCREDIBLE TRANSITION HOLY FREAKING HELL!)
>Timber (THAT SEGUE!, VOL. 2)
>Tweezer
>Piper (CROSSEYED REPRISE!)
>Makisupa Policeman (PAGES HOUSE)
Run Like an Antelope
Tweeprize
9/2 Commerce City** - (Begin straight at Susskind. SET 2 I ONE OF THE BEST OF THE YEAR! BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LETTER "S"!)
SUSKIND HOTEL (SPECTACULAR!)
Stash (DANG! EXCEPTIONAL and dynamic jam! STASH OF THE YEAR!!!!!!)
Sneakin' Sally (FREAKIN SICK. SUPER FUNKY TYPE II.)
>SPARKS (!!!!!!FIRST SINCE 1996!!!!!!!!!)
>Scent of a Mule
Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan (HOLY HELL!)
Shine a Light
The Squirming Coil
Sand (Terrific Type I. HOLY FREAKING CRAP THAT PEAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
>Simple (Gorgeous bliss, deep space Type II ambiance)
>Steam (OUTSTANDING HOLY FREAKING FIRE FROM THE SUN THIS IS SPECTACULAR!)
Soul Shakedown Party
Seven Below (Magical Jam!)
>Suzy Greenberg
>Scents and Subtle Sounds (EXPLOSION.PEAKS UPON PEAKS UPON PEAKS!!!!)
Slave to the Traffic Light (LONGEST SUSTAIN NOTE EVER PLAYED BY HUMANS)
Sanity
Sabotage
9/3 Commerce City (Extremely uneven show. Set 1 is a snooze...Set 2 is pretty good. TWEEZER IS SPECTACULAR. Short but sweet is tonight's theme. Lots of goods in tiny packages. Get set 2)
Ocelot (terrific lengthy jamming)
FAST ENOUGH FOR YOU
Wolfman's Brother (NASTY, DARK, FUNKY! MANDATORY! TREY STRANGLES HIS GUITAR!)
Tweezer (ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE FLAWLESS 1999-type JAM! TOP 10 JAM OF 2011. AS GOOD AS ANYTHING FROM THE GORGE OR CHICAGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
>Golden Age (Short but SOARING! Starts to jam but Trey ripcords into LxL...)
>Limb By Limb (Again, short but SWEET! MAGICAL PEAK!!!)
Kill Devil Falls (11 minutes! Whale siren meltdown!)
>2001
>Light (INCREDIBLE SLOW SEGUE INTO DISEASE REPRISAL!!!!!!!!!!)
>Disease Reprise
Run Like an Antelope
9/4 Commerce City ************* (Absolutely INCREDIBLE First set! A PERFECT first set! Set 2 follows suit. Incredible show!!!)
Maze (OPENER!!!!!)
>Back On the Train (OUTSTANDING AND RAGING!)
>Rift (HOLY CRAP!)
>Bathtub Gin (15 minutes of the greatest Type I jamming ever heard)
The Way It Goes (Gillian Welch)
Halfway to the Moon (BEST VERSION YET!)
Gumbo (PERFECTION)
Halley's Comet (PERFECTION)
>Tube (WTF SEGUE FROM HALLEYS!)
>Timber (SHREDFEST)
>Roses are Free
>Chalkdust Torture (Wacky and Raging)
Rock and Roll (FIRE UPON FIRE UPON FIRE)
>Come Together (BEATLES! Unplanned!)
>Twist (Terrific full-band jamming. Low Rider jam!)
>Piper (TYPE II THERAMIN INSANITY!!!!! OUTER SPACE!)
>Harry Hood
Roggae (GORGEOUS peak!)
Ghost
>GUY FORGET
>Ghost Reprise
Walls of the Cave
Number Line
9/14 Essex Junction ** - Flood Benefit (Not classic, but a terrific A+ straight-forward show. Amazing energy - home area vibes. Just FUN and rock! The entire show was highlight-worthy.)
Chalkdust Torture
The Moma Dance
NICU
Funky B
Sample in a Jar
Cavern
Bathtub Gin (Terrific)
Alaska
Possum (MACHINE GUN TREY!)
Wolfman's Brother (GRAB THIS. FUNKY 1.5 JAM! JAM OF THE SET)
Julius (One of the best of all time. Uniquely dynamic and jammed out. 11 minutes!)
Carini (TYPE 2 EFFECTS SPACE AMBIANCE)
>Down With Disease (Funky Type II FREAKING AWESOME DANCE PARTY!)
>Slave to the Traffic Light (INCREDIBLE SEGUE!!! Sick rager)
>Rock and Roll (RnR indeed! Great Type 2 segue into....)
>Twist
Number Line
>Theme From the Bottom
Character Zero (WACKY! HOLY MELTDOWN INSANITY!)
Loving Cup
12/28 New York City ** (AWESOME SHOW! Not classic but DAMN great! GET THAT CARINI>TWEEZER! FREAKING SICK GIG, YO!)
Free (FIRST EVER FREE OPENER)
Glide
Cities (FULL ON LENGTHY TYPE II SPACE FUNK!!!!!!)
Curtis Loew
Stash (nice and quirky!)
CONTACT (FUNKY!)
Kill Devil Falls (Great chill jam! Builds to hot peak)
Bathtub Gin (Nothing special but still excellent!)
Carini (Evil space into uplifting bliss!!! Spectacular jam!)
>Tweezer (12 incredible plink-filled minutes.TYPE II PARTY!!! Multisectional. Longest 12 minute jam ever
)>My Friend My Friend
>Rock and Roll (JAW DROP! Goes Type II into...)
>NICU (PLAY IT LEO!)
Bouncing Around (CROWD SINGALONG!)
Harry Hood (Thoughtful and patient. Bliss upon bliss!)
Bug (Gorgeous set finish)
Tube
12/29 New York City (Ok but incredibly boring show. Grab Crosseyed and the Mike's Groove)
The Sloth (Opener!)
You Enjoy Myself (SLOT 2!!!)
Back On the Train
Maze
Crosseyed and Painless (Nice short jamming.)
>Simple (Nice bliss!)
>LIFEBOY
Guyuute
Mike's Song (FIRE!)
>CHALKDUST TORTURE!
>I Am Hydrogen
>Weekapaug Groove (GREAT jam)
Character Zero (interesting soloing)
Loving Cup
12/30 New York City (Really great show but not classic, ala Detroit. GET THAT FRIGGIN PIPER HOLY FREAKING HELL!!!)
Punch You in the Eye
Prince Caspian (2nd slot! Great jam!)
>Number Line
Divided Sky
Sand (FIRST SET! Short but HOT!)
Vultures (TERRIFIC!)
Quinn the Eskimo
Piper (15 minutes! Type II spazzed out space funk. Dissolves into ambiance. INSANE WHALE SIREN FUNK AMBIANCE. SOUNDS LIKE 2000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONE OF THE JAMS OF THE YEAR!!!)
>Twist (AWESOME Type I!)
Julius
2001
David Bowie
Squirming Coil
Good Times Bad Times (RIPS!)
12/31 New York City (Freaking AWESOME first set, set 2 shows promise but keeps faltering. Set 3 is just an average 2011 set. Highly disappointing but still a fine gig. Very FUN though!)
AC/DC Bag
>Wolfman's Brother
Scent of a Mule (AWESOME!)
Faulty Plan
Lawn Boy
Gotta Jibboo
Farmhouse (Perfectly placed, beautiful version!)
Pebbles and Marbles (FREAKING AWESOME!)
Ocelot
Fluffhead
Light (TYPE II DEEP SPACE THERAMIN INSANITY!!!!!!)
>Golden Age (AWFUL segue, lol. Gets going then dies... DANG IT!)
>Theme From the Bottom (Much better segue!)
Ghost (Short but sweet)
>Sneakin Sally (Short but sweet, vol. 2)
>46 Days (EXPLODES! TREY HEADBANGING!)
Suzy Greenberg
Cavern
STEAM (FLYING GAG)
Down With Disease (Gag continues, BALLOON INVASION)
>The Wedge
Velvet Seat
Traffic Light
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