6 22 25 Manchester
Set 1
Classic Jim opener like its 1995 again. Good version that builds to a pretty hot peak.
Oblivion follows and delivers the first standout of the night. A shorter
type 1 reading, everyone is synced up hard, the song sounds great and
the flow is unreal. Very nice Page and Trey soloing and the on-a-dime
switch from major key back to minor at the end is ridiculously choice.
Maybe not must hear, but absolutely worth checking out at least once!
Same goes for The Curtain With. Not much to say. Its played perfectly
and sounds great but also never reaches beyond "average excellent".
The fun continues with a typically roaring Llama. A+ on the song choices tonight! Llama is Llama. It kills.
Man, the setlist awesomeness continues with a super rare Fast Enough For
You! And man it sounds great after Llama. And Id call this must hear
for sure. The song sounds great and Treys solo is stupendous. Perfectly
restrained yet emotional, almost sounding composed. A+
The Wedge is must hear tonight as well! Just a smashing rendition with Trey going off in a big way. Definitely killer.
Pebbles is high energy and compositionally sound but kinda loose
overall. A for effort. They try hard and it is a strong reading but
ultimately nothing special.
Up next is MyFe. Definitely the hottest jam of the set, this is probably
must hear. It just melts. Nothing more, nothing less. Then, outta
friggin nowhere, it descends STRAIGHT INTO HELL!!! Out comes friggin Egg In a Hole! WHAT IN THE F IS GOING ON!!?!?! Plundering the depths for a while we begin to ponder where it all went so wrong..... 
The triple-closer section concludes the show with a SUPER HIGH ENERGY
Fluffhead. Perfect choice! Its shakey compositionally with a few rough
patches but the insane energy (that finale!!!) makes up for it.
All in all, another strong set. It felt a slight step down from
nights 1 and 2 but thats nitpicking. The flow and song selection is
fantastic and this almost feels like a set that couldve happenned in
1993!!
Id say FEFY and MyFe/Egg are the true must hears with special notice to Oblivion and Wedge.
Trey is definitely not having as good a night tonight. Hes just...off a
bit. Kinda sloppy with his playing but not massively so. Just enough to
make you notice. The set was excellent but also had a very noticeable
looseness about it.
Set 2
Nice choice of Axilla to kick it off with a bang! And then into a 20 minute MONSTER of a Tweezer!
Tweezer is an absolute monster in the truest sense. It's a perfect three
act play. The song itself is so ridiculously tight and high energy it's
not even funny. Then the initial jam is so crazy funky even by Tweezer
standards. The first deviation comes when Trey begins doing a really
cool super upbeat kind of melodic jamming on top of the rest of the guys
doing the typical Tweezer funk fest. From there the jam begins to pick
up energy bit by bit for a very long time. The jam slowly just gets
harder and harder and faster and faster and more rocking by the second.
After minutes and minutes of this the jam slowly explodes into the
biggest orgasmic rock and roll peak fest you've ever heard in your life.
Absolute head bangers Paradise!!!! Seriously this has to be the hardest rocking Tweezer ever played I swear to God holy crap. After
having our faces melted 50 times over the jam suddenly shifts into a
very dark and psychedelic kind of area. Page jumps onto the No Quarter
synths and you're sure that we are going to segue into it. Alas it is
not to be in the jam goes into Mercury!!
That freaking Tweezer oh my freaking God that was incredible!!! It
just got better and better and better by the minute!!! X Factor
Magic!!!
Oh so perfectly they launch into the revamped Mercury. 15 minutes long,
this version is very tight and energetic with an excellent major key
melodic rock jam. It's killer and honestly probably must hear.
And then, outta nowhere in the middle of the jam, Trey launches them
back into freaking Tweezer again!! Full-blown tweezer jam for 8
gloriously magical minutes. Split into two even halves, spends the first
half in the filthiest nastiest gnarliest XXX rated porno funk jam a
Tweezer can possibly unleash. Then somehow it shifts into an incredible
1999 style soaring through the heavens ethereal magic bliss type jam
like something out of a version of Sea of Stars. Pure unbridled x
Factor magic, this 8 minutes of jamming goes far deeper and harder than
the entire 20 minute version of Tweezer we had earlier in the set. This
is freaking SICK!!!! 
Eventually the jam reaches a natural conclusion and they pick the
perfect choice of a short Pillow Jets to continue onwards. Good short
version that fits perfectly.
Pillow Jets then morphs back into friggin Tweezer again!! Trey oh so
slowly and perfectly leads them back into it. No ripcord here! And its 13 minutes this time!
Somehow, they top the insanity factor of the last portion of the jam.
Initially the jam plays around in very nice low-key kind of night time
jamming. Funky but introspective. At one point the bottom of the jam
completely falls out and the entire thing goes to near silence aside
from Fishman's continued drum beat. This is some freaking Fukuoka 2000 stuff going on. All hail 2025 Phish!!!! They
proceed to spend a LONG time in this "twinkling twilight zone" area,
slowly introducing synths and loops. Trey doing his best "1997 porno wah
scratch" playing. Completely minimalist but they are building it as
well. Slowly it begins to morph and grow - swirling buzzing bee noises
and Treys pitch shifter....it sounds like a swirling tornado of
craziness!!! Reminds me of the 11/14/97 Slave or something!!! Complete wackiness at its abstract finest!!!!!!
All hail unique jamming! I've never heard another jam like this
out of modern Phish! Where in the corn did this freaking come from?!?! We are in the full-blown outer space screaming seagull vortex from
planet Zongo. Squiggles and robo effects and Loopers out the wazoo.
Bruh. Crap, the Twist from night 1 is nothing compared to this!
Somehow the jam continues to build back towards what you could call
"music", eventually exploding back into a funky Tweezer jam and rage it
to a burning close at last. The set closes with a SMOKING Golgi. Good stuff.
First encore is a heavy and hot Bug. Its not too long but its damn
excellent. Then we get a 4 minute Tweeprize to put the ribbon on top.
All in all....HOLY MOTHER OF ALIEN SPACE BEES!!!! WHAT IN THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY WAS THIS MASTERPIECE OF A SET!!!!!!!!!!
I would honestly say damn near the entire set is truly must hear and needs to be played in whole.
If you combine all 41 minutes of Tweezer plus the nuclear bomb
Tweeprize, that HAS to be the winner for GOAT Tweezer of the modern age.
I mean, it honestly blows away something like the Berkeley 2023 version
which is fantastic.
Set 1 was strong but set 2?! No way SPAC3 tops this. I don't know how any other set this summer could top this.
Good God....
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