Thanks for reviewing the show! Enjoyed your incorporation of the setting into the write up. Agree that Mohegan makes you feel less cringy as they take your money thanks to the thought and care taken into the design. It’s the perfect tour stop and hope phish looks to incorporate it into other seasonal tours. One slight critic, FWIW, I would leverage the use of smaller chunks of paragraphs. The extended paragraphs took away from the reading experience slightly and it would have enhanced the overall quality out you broke them down.

That being said, I agree completely with the sentiment of the review. Strong first set anchored by Golden Age and some blues driven rock. Set 2’s one two three four and a half punch was like a dream. My thoughts on the mercy’d Piper are this: it stands to reason that creative energy has a half life and so at some point you’ve gotta get tapped out. It’s a stamina thing even for a band that experiments and improvises for a living. The mercy was as much for them as it was for us.

In the end the only complaint I have (cause we always have one right!? LOLZ) is slide the 6 or so minutes of mercy into the Piper (tack three of it into the beginning with a slow build and then bookend it some additional improvisation and leave mercy for the encore.

But hot damn that was a summer scorcher that brought the heat even when the weather didn’t. And it bodes well for tonight.