Listened again on 12/16/2020
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Here we are again. I haven't listened to any of these tracks in over a year. I am returning with my more trained ears to some shows I listened to when I was first getting into shows. The first time I listened to a Phish show was on a plane ride from Nashville to Philadelphia to go on winter break in 2019. I am currently in winter break 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and a HUGE personal Phish adventure. I have been falling more and more in love with the band every day, and for the past 3 weeks as of writing this, I haven't listened to much besides Phish. Its December 16th, and my last.fm says I've scrobbled Phish almost 600 times this month. I am having so much fun chronicling my Phish journey.

Weed helps. Review below. Comments on fav tracks will be updated picks.
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-12/16/2020-

Carini still rips. This version is sick and flows on nicely.

The Curtain is a great track that I paid no attention to back then. This version is super cool.

Now Cities was weird. I like Cities now, and especially knowing its a Talking Heads cover, but back then I was blissfully unaware. Cities as a song is strange, but fun, but really why we love Cities is the jam. Cities composition is groovy and funky, and that makes for some groovy funky jams, which are always welcome to me.

Now Gumbo is one I just said in my Baker's Dozen N5 review that I would like to check out more. The composed section is groovy and cool, and coming in from a groovy and cool Cities, I am not mad at this. Gumbo paved way for a nice jam that went for a good couple minutes in that Gumbo pocket, but then got spacey around 5 minutes in (stayed in that groove pocket, though), and went really weird around 8 minutes. Grooved out in space for the remainder

>Llama which rips right out of the gate and it doesn't let up. Its funny, I knew this song already, kind, because of Rock Band.

Fee was the second song, after Farmhouse, that I turned on after I randomly listened to Phish XM Station one day and enjoyed it. I like this version of Fee. Come to think of it, Fee might actually be the song that brought me to this show. That was probably the reason I didn't appreciate this show. I didn't know how to appreciate jams and jamming that much yet. Especially Phish style. I was looking for quick catchy tunes like Fee. I still like that a lot from Phish, but this show is full of great jamming that I had no idea about back when I started.

Heavy Things was another early favorite. I think I had listened to some of the Farmhouse album at this point, so I was sort of familiar with this song. Again, it was a more catchy pop rock tune. Those songs helped me get into the band and listening to them more. This version is decent and as great as a Heavy Things can be.

SOAMelt goes dark and weird. Type I gorgeousness that started off mellow, and by the 9-11th minute the energy picked up. The underlying groove of SOAMelt never went away, but the experimentation and improvisation was top-notch. Great set closer.

SET II
We open with BOTT. Obviously a nice upbeat track to open up the set. Extremely simple and straightforward Type I that grooves through the BOTT pocket the whole way. Real good, though.

Then it goes into Twist. Composed section is damn good. Love a good Twist. It goes quickly a low-key groove on the Twist foundation. Around 10 minutes in they start going to space and after 6 minutes or so it finally breaks back into Twist. We then enter a second jam that starts with huge fucking alien invasion themes or outer space station type stuff. Like looking for moon ghosts.

Walk Away was super fun before trailing off and jamming some more.

That went into this 2001 section. FUNKY jamming through and through even the main melody parts retain FUNK. It mellowed out and went into the main melody to end it out with a bang.

Encore was Sleep by request. Trey stated he didn't think they'd played it in Japan yet. Then they did "what [they] wanted to do" which was Coil. It was beautiful and a great way to end the show.

This might be my faovrite Phish show I've heard.