I don’t envy the official reviewer of this show. It was, by all accounts, the opposite of what one might think of when they think of a scorcher Phish show. 20 songs across basically 3 sets of music with only one song over 20 minutes. And yet, this shows flow, exploration, patience, and intensity are dialed up to the max.

Set one flow was flawless, with multiple deep moments, stellar playing, a near perfect Mound, and a Ghost peak punctuating the first frame.

Set two gets going right out the gate. Someone in the forum said the one two punch of Bag>CDT felt 30% longer than their actual clocked times. There was a temporal dilation for sure and these two were certainly punching above their weight. Yeah, CDT could have gone longer, but that is basically the Theme of this show, don’t judge a book by its length. Each song went precisely as long as was meant to be.

Which leads us to set 3, because can it be called anything else. No phoning it in here, no one and done, 45 minutes of more rage, creating more proofs for the thesis put forth by the first two frames; length and girth (in this context at least) don’t matter; this of course being Dicks. Its simply the motion of cosmic ocean driving this big boat to the (ether) edge.

My recommendation: carve out the better part of an afternoon, preferably today, and listen to this entire show from front to back. Then, set a recurring calendar invite to revisit it often.