2012-06-17 Atlantic City, NJ

 6/17/12 Atlantic City

Set 1 -

Brother - An explosive Brother to kick things off with a bang in regards to the Phish family Awesome stuff, always great to hear!!

Runaway Jim - Perfect flow in to this as 2nd song! Gives a great old-school 1-2 punch vibe. Nothing out of the ordinary. It's a fine Jim to keep the energy up!

Dogs Stole Things - AWESOME! Not my favorite song by any means but this was just dripping with energy and enthusiasm. A+ DST!!!! Don't skip!!

Reggae Woman - At the risk of highlighting everything again, I will refrain It's red hot and gets the party STARTED!!!! Its RW and you know exactly what you will be getting! Aw screw it I highlighted it anyways.

>NICU - Great segue and perfect pairing!!! Terrific version! I give in - RW was great but this had a bit more "substance" it felt like. Terrific.

Foam - The ever-elusive-in-3.0 favorite. Awesome! The guys nail it! FANTASTIC!!!

>Wilson - SLAYS

Timber - Awesome to hear as always! This first set is absolutely spectacular so far!!!

Fluffhead - And it gets even better! Friggin Fluff! Yaya!!! Terrific version with everyone nailing all their parts and energy out the wazoo. Killer.

Walls of the Cave - It's 2012, it's WOTC in a set this raging. It's exactly what you expect in the best way possible.

Character Zero - Is CZero. It's just as hot as everything else but not anything special. But it's still awesome



WOW!!! THIS SET KNOCKED ME ON THE FRIGGIN GROUND!!! It's like they came out and grabbed me and just punched me in the face leaving me crawling in the dirt trying to find the teeth busted out of my mouth. Holy moly this was a TERRIFIC first set!!!!!!

 

Set 2

Drowned - Obligatory, eh? It rages. It's awesome. But overall it's a little disapointing - they flirt with some jumbled Type II for a few minutes before kinda killing it. Very unfulfilling!

>2001 - A slower-than-usual and kinda murky groove on this. Eventually Page kicks in on the keys and Trey does some fun Whammy pedaling. Get it Leo! He gets downright nasty! Short, sweet and ticks all the boxes. Not list worthy really though as it's nothing we haven't hear before. But still nice as always.

Reba - FREAKING MAGICAL!!!!!! HOLY CRAP GET IT TREY!!!! Kinda short but that soloing was just....ugh you know...

Roses are Free - Terrific Type I!

Chalkdust Torture - HOLY FREAKING CRAP THIS IS PURE INSANITY!!!!! Very cool outer space outro!!!

>Prince Caspian - Beautiful but extremely short. Interesting to get a segue into...

>Silent In the Morning - Page has trouble at the start syncing his vocals to the music but once it all coalesces we get a very fine version.

Bug - See Roses are Free

A Day In the Life - Maybe a highlight for others but one of my all-time last favorite songs that I am never enthusiastic about hearing.

Down With Disease - Now this is more like it!!! A set-ending DWD (never heard that before!!!) that absolutely SLAYS. Type I explosive raging at its finest. DONT MISS!!!

Gotta Jibboo - Hell yea. Because I'm the only person that loves Jibboo, I have to stand up and rave about another one, no matter how "ordinary"! It's my dute! Very nicely relaxed on this one, kinda like the studio version. VERY slowly the song starts to boil and climaxes with the raging you expect. Awesome.

Quinn The Eskimo - Great as always but nothing special.




All in all, set 1 absolutely DESTROYED while set 2 was very much a mixed bag, imo. Also, what on earth is that late set 2?! The Caspian through ADITL segment just sucked the energy out for me. Bug was great, but did we really need 4 ballads (basically) in a row? No we did not, lol. That's ok as they were all played great and that's just my, like, opinion man. I'm sure this gig was an absolute blast in person. Worth a listen or so.