6/26/19 Bangor
Ok, looking at this setlist, I love it, but I can totally tell this will be a love-it-or-lump-it show for many, I'm sure. 
Set 1
Crowd Control - Not my favorite Phish rocker but I love any Phish rocker, so that's not saying anything Very nice opener, kinda chill in a nicely relaxed way.
Plasma - A solid 9 minutes of funky jamming worth your time.
Wonderful relaxed groove throughout. Not ultra-mindblowing, but a fine
warm-up jam!
Army of One - Get it, Page!!! Good, but talk about awful set placement.
After the good-but-chill CC to open and the sleepy funk of Plasma, now a
slow blues?
Alaska - Alright! Another slow song!
Love Alaska, so I'm just kidding around. Pretty good version, but just
felt like a shorter, weaker 46 Days tonight. Good but not list-worthy.
Kill Devil Falls - THANK CHRIST A FAST SONG, I WAS BEGINNING TO DOZE OFF!!! AND THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Immediately they hit upon that X Factor and the jam is full on Type II
Dark Space jamming, heading lightspeed into a blackhole!!! Raging hot
and night-time dark!! WEIRD AND AWESOME!!!! Has there been another KDF
like this since the times they jammed it out in 2009?!? Full on Type II
awesome-sauce of the highest order. Holy crap, this was unexpected. ALL
TIMER VERSION ALERT!!!!!!!
How Many People Are You -
Aww yea, a Cactus rocker. Heck yes. This is one of my favorite songs
and always love hearing it. I get Who vibes off it for some reason,
anyone else? Incredible version that picks up right where KDF left off.
Type II out the gate, some bass soloing and weird synths. Back into
another verse and then into jamming proper. This kicks all kinds of
tail. Freaking ROCKS!
Petrichor -
EXCELLENT reading of the modern Phish epic. I prefer TTE, but one can't
deny this is a wonderful piece of music. I would love to get
Petrichor'd 
Saw It Again - LETS GET EVIL, GUYS!!!!
SAND - FREAKING GET IT TREY! HOSE! HOSE! HOSE! HOSE! HOSE! HOSE!!!!!!
Plasma was
good, but really, just pretend the set begins with Kill Devil Falls.
From KDF out the set is just one head smasher after another. Holy hell.
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Set 2
Turtle In the Clouds - Still my favorite KV song, but this is not the
strongest I've heard of it. The guys sound slightly hesitant, and while
there's nothing wrong with it, there's nothing worth mentioning about it
either. Sure it was a blast in person.
Gotta Jibboo - Oh no! The general apathy of early set 1 seems to have
returned....TWO of my all-time favorite Phish songs to open the set and
neither do anything at all....sigh... Jibboo is nothing special at all
this night. The studio version has more excitement!! Ok, Trey gets going
by the end, but for the longest time they were just riding the wave and
nothing was happenning. Too little too late when all is said and done. A
fine Jibboo, I guess, but nothing worth mentioning at all.
>Fuego - NOW THIS IS MORE LIKE IT!!!! The energy that
crept into the dying breaths of Jibboo carries over and launches this
one off the pad with a bang! Love the energy. A wonderful 17 minute
journey. No time for the play by play tonight - go check it out now!
>Cities - Oh yeaaaaa, now here we go again! 
This thing gets NASTY!!! They
are going for it and go into full on Type II Dirt Funk land. Dirtier
than a gas station bathroom! Golly this Cities RAGES so hard....Jeez....
>The Final Hurrah - SEGUE OF THE YEAR AWARD. First
it was Fuego, then they went flawlessly into Cities, then Trey started
singing The Final Hurrah and they slllliiiiddddd on into it like a fat
man on a slip and slide. Holy freaking hell that was incredible. A rare
"TRUE" segue!!! Also, the tune kicks tail. Incredible hose peak.
LISTEN
UP BOYS AND GIRLS - GO GRAB THIS FUEGO>CITIES>HURRAH YESTERDAY! IF
I WAS IN THE MOOD TO TYPE I COULD WRITE UP A GRATEFUL DEAD "IDIOT
REVIEW" FOR THIS PERFECT TRILOGY OF INSANE AWESOMENESS. WELL?! WHAT ARE
YOU WAITING FOR?! GO NOW! SAVE YOUR SOUL AND GRAB THIS
TRIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy hell....
>Prince Caspian - Fishman was all set up to keep going into some other land, but Trey
ripcords us into Caspian. A very, very nice Caspian it is though!!!
Great stuff, and it even goes Type II for a beautiful, ambient minute
before falling into Farmhouse...
>Farmhouse - Absolutely
spectacular reading. Extremely dynamic with some absolutely gorgeous
playing quiet enough to whisper over. Beautiful, beautiful, BEAUTIFUL!!
And perfect set placement after Los Trios Amigos (and their buddy Prince
Caspian!) burned the house down!
>Number
Line - Wow, great segue out of Farmhouse! For real! Works great keeping
it chill but slowly building us up to another peak. Never gets
exceptionally hot (thought it is very well played by all) and all in all
isn't list-worthy, but it does set up the following tune PERFECTLY.
>Chalkdust Torture - Number Line was the tee up and this is the connecting bat swing.
This was an example of Perfect Set Placement 101, in my opinion. This
CDT is just loaded with P 'n' V not heard since that Cities!! RAGES
HARD, MAN! It's CDT. It does what CDT does best - smashes you into the
ground. Let's rock, guys!
The
Lizards - The guys sound spent for the first encore and we get just a
"pretty good, nothing special" version of an always-welcome tune. Hey,
I'll take a "just pretty good" Lizards any day of the week.
Suzy
Greenberg - Nothin' like a good old fashioned Suzy to close the show on
a high note. Another nothing special version, but again, a
nothing-special Suzy is still a keeper.
Overall,
while this show was inconsistent from song to song, the 2 "main"
stretches of each set were massive highlights. See the bolded songs
above
I'd rate this show a 3.8-4.0 on the whole, but those highlights were MASSIVE.
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