Phish - 2012 New Year's Run: The "Cliff Notes" highlights

 New Years 2012 shortlist

12/28/12 New York City (Good first set, but skip right to the closing MAGIC Wolfman! WHERE THE F DID THAT COME FROM?!?!?! Second set is one of the best of the year!!!)
Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan
The Moma Dance (RELAXED!)
Tube (AWESOME!)
Kill Devil Falls (FANTASTIC!)
Free
Wolfman's Brother (WHERE DID THIS COME FROM?! FORGET THE REST OF THE SET! THIS IS X FACTOR JAM OF YEAR MAGIC! WTF! ONE OF THE BEST JAMS OF THE YEAR AND OF EARLY 3.0!!!)
Tweezer (EXCELLENT 20 MINUTE JOURNEY! INCREDIBLE!!!)
>Maze (PAGE! PAGE! PAGE! NEXT LEVEL MAZE)
>Twist (INCENDIARY!)
Theme From the Bottom
>Fluffhead (A++++++++)
David Bowie


12/29/12 New York City (Not a great first set. Bad Reba and Velvet Sea. Great highlights, but on the whole not a great show)
Mound
Rock and Roll (A+ Type I!)
Sugar Shack
Limb By Limb
Bathtub Gin (TERRIFIC TYPE I!!!)
Golden Age (EXCELLENT! LITTLE HIDDEN GEM!!!)
>Waves (A+!!! SPIRALS DOWN THE DRAIN!!!!)
Reggae Woman
Suzy Greenberg (PARTY!! COWBELL!!)
Bug
46 Days


12/30/12 New York City (SLEEPY first set. WAKE ME UP!!! Set 2 is great but Disease through the MUST HEAR Carini is what you need!)
Back On the Train (Terrific Type I!!!)
Ocelot (Sleepy. Great peak!)
Ya Mar (A+!!! ALBUM READY VERSION!!!)
Down With Disease (20 MINUTE MUST HEAR TYPE 2 BEAST!!!!)
>Twenty Years Later
>Carini (ANOTHER JAM OF THE YEAR CONTENDER! PURE MAGIC. PURE TYPE II LIKE IT'S 1999!!! MOST OUT-THERE JAM OF THE WHOLE YEAR. ABSOLUTELY A+ 10/10 JAM! WHAT IN THE MOTHER OF WHERE DID THIS COME FROM?!?!??!?!?!)
Number Line (A+!!!)
Julius
Traffic Light (Beautiful!!)
Harry Hood


12/31/12 New York City - The Garden Party. GOLF THEME! (First set is basically skippable but Mike's Groove was great. Second set had great jamming but wasn't perfect. Third set was SO MUCH FRIGGIN FUN!!! YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS WEBCAST!)
Garden Party (Ricky Nelson)
Mike's Song
>Walk Away
>Weekapaug
Birds of a Feather
Ghost
Piper (JAM OF THE SHOW)
Light (A for effort)
2001 (Jammed out!)
You Enjoy Myself (Perfect!)
Party Time
>Kung (!!!)
>Chalkdust Torture (Golfcart racing!!!)
>Tweeprise
>Sand (A+ Type I!!!)
>The Wedge (See jam chart!)
>Fly Like An Eagle
Wilson
Lawn Boy (A CAPELLA! AWESOME!)
Driver
Iron Man (PAGE AS BOB HOPE ON VOCALS!! FREAKING AMAZING! )