Ideal Phish Concert
I will be attending the final show of the last run of the second leg of the summer tour of the band Phish. I’m a little embarrassed to admit that it’ll be my first Phish show, but- hey!- I’m young! I’ve got years of Phish shows ahead of me…
In choosing my ideal Phish concert, I chose to be realistic, while remaining optimistic. This is my ideal Phish concert, not my dream Phish concert (that would include the band performing “The Mason Williams Phonograph Record” in its entirety with Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain sitting in on a cover of “Stairway to Heaven”).
I consider myself a “Phan,” but not yet a Phish-head (I think that’s how the hierarchy works), so I don’t know statistics off the top of my head, like that “The Divided Sky” has been played at 24.82 % of Phish shows.
After the show has occurred, I’ll update this post and compare my list with reality. So here it is:
UPDATE: 8/18/11. Songs highlighted in green were played. It was an awesome first show. It’s pretty cool to say you saw something that hasn’t happened since 1989 (“Colonel Forbin’s Ascent” opener). “No Quarter” blew my mind – that’s as close as I’ll ever get to seeing Led Zeppelin live.
I’m pretty proud of myself for being able to recognize the set break music because it was really quiet and pretty obscure, but I knew it. It was Chris Thile and Michael Daves’s “Sleep with One Eye Open.”
Set One
1. AC/DC Bag (“Let’s get this show on the road!”)
2. Jesus Just Left Chicago (The show will be in Chicago, after all.)
3. The Divided Sky
4. Ocelot
5. Bouncing Around the Room
6. McGrupp and the Watchful Horsemasters
7. No Quarter
8. Lawn Boy
9. Run Like an Antelope (The first Phish song I ever heard thanks to “The Simpsons.”)
10. Axilla
11. Rock & Roll
Set Two
1. Scent of a Mule
2. Scents and Subtle Sounds (Two “Scent” songs in a row!)
3. Weigh
4. Stash
5. Harpua (Ideally with a little “In-A-Gadda-da-Vida” on Jimmy’s turntable.)
6. Wolfman’s Brother
7. Tweezer Reprise
8. You Enjoy Myself
Encore
1. Loving Cup
2. Free Bird (A capella, of course.)
UPDATE: 7/19/11. I replaced “Mike’s Song” with “No Quarter.”
UPDATE: 8/3/11. It occurred to me that since this is the third night of a three night run, it’s possible “Tweezer” would be played one of the first two nights with “Tweezer Reprise” being left for the third night so in the place of “Tweezer” I added “McGrupp and the Watchful Horsemasters.”
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