7 30 23 New York City #3
Set 1
AC/DC Bag - Killer 12 minute bliss rager. Excellent!!! Jammed pretty decently!! Winds up in hazy aquatic type 2. Great segue into.....
>My Friend My Friend - That segue should not have worked so good!!! This
sucker is a beast. 10 minutes long, it doesnt go ultra dark or ultra
deep, but it rides that Type 1.5 line oh so fine. Absolutely fantastic
little sucker!!
>Bathtub Gin - Only 10 minutes but it rages. Phenomenal segue
outta MyFe that was oh so genuine! Killer peak. Must hear shorter type 1
awesomeness!
Quick aside - the opening trio each showed promise but really felt
like one big whole rather than 3 separate songs or something. You
definitely need to hear the trio TOGETHER for maximum effect. They each
definitely felt "primed" to go deep, but instead we got great segues and
a killer finale with the Gin.
Theme From The Bottom - A funnily botched intro leads to extra
Page soloing. This spurs them on and they turn in the strongest modern
Theme for a while now. Absolutely inspired from start to finish. Love
the extra funky nature of it - porno wah in the verses!!!
Llama - Fast Llama! MORE TERRIFYING THAN MYFE. PSYCHO FACEMELT EXPLOSION!!!!! NUCLEAR BOMB ANNIHILATION!!!!!!
Great and lengthy bit of banter following this - "Have we played that one yet? LETS PLAY IT AGAIN!" *cue Llama intro...* 
Tube - 10 minutes tonight, it is the most inspired playing of the
set so far. Uber-funk deluxe as expected. Does its Tube thing and does
it excellently 
Hardcore wah abuse. Robo bursts. Goes very, very deep inside the relatively brief runtime!!!! Killer peak!!!!! Must hear!!!! Freaking insane!!! SPRAY THAT HOSE !!!! LETS GO!!!!!!!
My god, that was one of the greatest jams of the entire year so far!!!
TUBE ANNIHILATION!!!!!
Golgi Apparatus - Even Golgi is must hear tonight!!! Killer version with so much extra OOMPH to it!!
All in all, an oddly short set, but holy crap if it didnt pack a WOLLOP!!!! Gin, Theme, Tube, Llama, Bag.....all fantastic, next level versions.
That Llama and Tube in particular were just....the folks in Hiroshima aint seen nothing, ok?
Wow....
Set 2
Sigma Oasis - Not the Huntsville epic, this one still gets it going great. This one is just powerful. Only 8 minutes but its got such great strength about it... Just a strong, A+ Type 1 reading
Life Saving Gun - Nearly 13 minutes, you couldnt ask for more
from a debut that most folks never expected! The jam is actually
disappointing. The first six Type 1 minutes of fire are great, but then
they spend the remainder trying to go deep and utterly failing. Trey
just sputters and noodles for like 6 minutes, unsure what to do and not
committing to anything fully.
Bummer!! That jam was NOT good! 
No Men In No Mans Land - 18 minutes behemoth to the rescue!!! And thank god the ridiculousness of set 1 was not in vain, for this No Men EXPLODES!!!!! ITS SPECTACULAR!!! Trey is just annihilating!!!! FIRE FROM THE SKY!!!!!!! GET IT!!! LETS GO!!!!!! Around
6 minutes, the wah creeps in and you can ca hear the jam start to get
dark. By 8 minutes we descend fully into the wormhole...We quickly rise
out and ascend into blissful noodle space. Trey sets loopers and we
spend the next long while grooving slow and easy, but always with
direction. No aimlessness here!!!! At 12 minutes, we move
swiftly back into dark and nasty, grindy funk territory. Slow peak
building from here. At 17 min it dissolves into a reggaeish jam to
close...
MASTERPIECE! JOTY CONTENDER!!!!!! SPECTACULAR TYPE 2 ADVENTURE!!!!!! MUST HEAR!!!!!
Lonely Trip - Perfect out of the groundquaking No Men. Obscenely gorgeous. Pages piano...
Frankie Says - Great to get but nothing special
Gotta Jibboo - Fantastic!!!!! Great chill version that slowly builds to a red hot finale. Must hear!!!
Light - 14 minute killer version to close the set. POWERFUL, red hot, Type 1.5 RAGER!!! KILLER!!!! ABSOLUTELY INSANE AND MAGICAL HOSE PEAK FINALE!!! HOLY FREAKING CRAP!!! HOSE HOSE HOSE HOSE HOSE HOSE!!!!! MUST HEAR !!!!!
Encore:
Suzy Greenberg/Izabella - Suzy kills of course, then Izabella comes
and drops the proverbial atom bomb, proceeding to re-melt our already
melted faces 50 times over. Pure lava!!!!
All in all, if you like your Phish RED HOT, this is the show for
you!!!! For set 2, Life Saving Gun, No Men Odyssey, Light, Jibboo and
Bella are all MUST HEAR!!!
An absolutely DESTRUCTIVE show and certainly my favorite since the two at Star Lake!!!!!!
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