Most underrated I’ve ever seen a show…. Maybe people couldn’t quite get their heads wrapped around the extended daytime vibes due to early start? Maybe people viewing online couldn’t really understand the heightened vibes at forest hills, couldn’t appreciate what was happening when trey was conducting the right and left flanks of the crowd during “the pause before the note”, maybe it’s the “Mexico factor” (people down rating what they perceive to be more custy scenes without listening due to expensive tickets).

Whatever the cause, this show is underrated. Having been in Pittsburgh, Bill Graham, Philly this tour, I can objectively say that this should be rated in the top 3 of your without question. No frustration here - who cares? Just a musing and a listening note for future me and you….

As I write this the show is rated a misleading ~4.1 on Phish.net. I don't know what else you need to make it a 5 star show. We got 2 jammed out songs in the first set (Cities and Ether Edge), a 20 minute Ruby Waves which was quite good and a very solid Punch You in the Eye>Ghost>Wave of Hope. The Sneaking Sally in the encore was the icing on the cake. Beyond music, the venue was great, the night was beautiful and the sound was good. 5 stars

Quite simply put, what more could you possibly want out of a summer Phish show? They were exceptionally tight, Fish and Mike were driving the tempo all night, Page was on, and Trey was your favorite guitar player, and probably doubly so tonight! The first set was non-stop banger after banger, and probably was the highlight of this short stint at Forest Hills. Set 2 started with a ferocious Punch You In The Eye, which went right into a great Ghost and a possibly better Wave of Hope, jamming out in the middle and ending strong with Backwards Down the Number Line and Character Zero. As a whole, it was a quality through and through second set that left little of anything to be desired. What about the encore? What is there even to say Sneakin Sally into Wilson into Rocky Top, can you even ask for a better close out to a great 2 days? I genuinely dont think its possible. This is why we Phish ladies and gentlemen! I hope you got to see it too, because it doesn't much better than this!

Forrest Hills Night 2! Dare I say best of the year.
Classic free opener that I have seen 3x this summer to open things up. The cities was fcking exceptional! Dark in the daytime right into a beautiful divided sky. Timber is always welcome followed by the best Esther edge I have seen in a while. Squirming coil cherry on top to a fabulous first set. Punch opener set the tone followed by a ghost that freaked me out and got real weird. Wooks rejoiced as what’s the use sent Forrest hills into outer space. Ruby waves-backwards-czero was a three course Michelin Star meal. What’s a repeat?! hood last night backwards as well today. A return to boulder N1 with a sneak peak sally and Wilson that rocky top that melted all my troubles away!! Onto to SPAC-it’s a marathon not a sprint.

Alright, this was a great Phish show, as they literally have ALL been in Summer of 2025. Last nights show was also pretty much nearly just as good as this one and it has only a 3.8, I think thats decently underrated (it should be in that 4.2 range)

This show has managed to avoid that weird under-rated bias. One thing I can think of that caused the lowerish ratings here at FH were the lack of bustouts - yes lets face it these past 2 nights were Jukebox Phish. Also Im sorry but I do think reviewers at home are harsher on the run because it was such an expensive, custy laced ticket and the shows had a early start time- and like usual a vibe the stream just cant show.

One thing I can say for certain, the crowd, the fandom, is as alive and good spirited as Ive ever seen it - during divided sky that was the most crowd interplay ive seen at a show. -- Basking in the sun in that great city with Phish is almost always a 5 star affair. But lets nitpick the music, because we can.

Free and BOTT were standard, welcome openers - you gotta play BOTT there, everyone and their mother takes the train into these shows. Cities was our first major highlight, in the greatest city in the world, it deserves an A+ version and we got one alright.

Next came that aformentioned divided sky. crowd peaking in unison, so much less chompers than I thought. Ether Edge came and made all the older phans head to pee... will they ever learn? You knew Trey was going to take us to mars when he saw you all leaving. Why do you all hate that song again? Incredible version again, and the older phans raced back to their seats and grooved to that jam I saw it firsthand.

Punch was a great choice for the opener to get all that incredible energy right back. and it was able to be channeled into an incredible duo of jams in Ghost and Wave of Hope , the meat of the show if you will - these were mind melter jams that went far and beyond, the kind of mind blowing stuff that keeps me going back. To have it all sink patiently into WTU was a great moment.

Right back to the jams! You know you gotta ride that ruby wave. Another song that will take you god knows where. In this case, it was me peaking in the beautiful weather to sounds i didnt know existed.

Numberline was powerful. it really was a theme to keep your friends close this week for me and trey echoed that. My entire section, even the older ones, loved heatin numberline.

Getting zeroed at a show is not a punishment. The crowd gave it its ALL, screaming alongside Phish. Peak stadium rock

triple set encore of high energy, dancing madness. A++ Choices.... a city of alleys and prostitutes is there a better song to play than sally? Was there a better song to capture that stadium city energy than wilson?? oh and a rocky top cherry - singalong bliss right there. Sick encore. Did not leave my seat till the end, and screamed my head off for this band. Thank you to the relief pitcher leo as well.
LGM

Thank you so much Phish and every kind soul I met these 2 nights... see you all soon!!!!

Set One: B+
Set Two: B+

Rating: 4.25

(I forgot last nights rating on the review, that was a 4.20 as well in my book)

I skipped Night One—so take this with a grain of salt or a hit of your neighbor’s joint—but what I caught on Night Two was pure magic. The venue? A dream. Big enough to breathe, small enough to feel like the band was playing just for you. Sure, there was the usual chorus of chatter during Set One, but it didn’t bother me. The whole first frame had the energy of a golden-hour backyard rager—loose, sun-drenched, and full of joy.

The high point? Trey—grinning like a kid on the last day of school—sparking the crowd-wide wave during Divided Sky. It was silly. It was sacred. It was why we come. And the Cities? Absolute bliss. A laid-back, urban drift into a beautifully stretched Ether Edge, proving the new stuff can go deep when they let it.

But Set Two—man, Set Two was transcendence. No gimmicks, no marathon jams for the sake of it. Just focused, purposeful exploration. The Wave of Hope > What’s the Use? > Ruby Waves sequence was a revelation—Trey and Page in total dialogue, weaving in and out of each other’s lines like old friends finishing each other’s thoughts. It was tight, it was soaring, and it was alive.

And then, the encore—Rocky Top with 13,000 of us belting every word like it was gospel. Arms around strangers. Smiles from another world. Nights like this remind you: Phish isn’t just a band. It’s a state of mind.

5/5. Still the best show on Earth.