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Atlantic City Beach

Atlantic City, NJ, USA

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Top Rated Shows

Highest rated shows at this venue by Phish.net users:

Date Rating
2020-08-14 3 votes 5.0000/5
2022-08-05 785 votes 4.3529/5
2020-08-16 3 votes 4.3333/5
2021-08-15 787 votes 4.1639/5
2022-08-07 571 votes 4.0315/5
2021-08-14 732 votes 3.9344/5
2022-08-06 531 votes 3.9303/5
2021-08-13 706 votes 3.8059/5
2020-08-15 10 votes 3.8000/5

Top Reviews

Highest-rated reviews from shows at this venue:

2022-08-05 by ilzniche 67
When we look back in 20 years at the exact moment of time 21st century Phish peaked, it will start on 8/5/22 during Sigma Oasis and end on the last note of Free. You will never see a better 2 hours of Phish. Perfection This is not '93-'97 Phish, but they are hitting their 2nd prime. This time...
2022-08-05 by PhillyPhilly 22
Religious experience on the Jersey Shore. Phish provided this to us tonight. This is obviously one of the best shows I’ve seen live and one of the best of the current tour, which is saying something because the band has simply been on fire. Shows this tour when the jams were not as long as...
2021-08-15 by jimmysdad 19
A stellar end to a very, very solid run. Very little to complain about all weekend. Set 1: Absolutely fire. Loved the troll job by the band to play the Scents intro and take it right into one of the best Moma’s in recent memory. Type II Moma Dance? Well okay! Transition to Final Hurrah was...
2021-08-14 by yam_ekaj 19
sick show. will address the elephant in the room first: the aborted SaSS. that was definitely an unfortunate moment. the segue in was so sweet and considering how they were playing i thought they would take it deep. trey was obviously just not feeling it. it was a strange moment and the...
2021-08-13 by yam_ekaj 17
enjoyed this show a lot. for a while it was really excellent (IMO) but then took a strange dive during the 4th quarter. first set was sneaky very nice, with great playing in blaze on and wolfmans. wish that sand had a little more meat on it but what can ya do. overall an effective first set...
2022-08-05 by ArmyOfOne 12
Absolutely amazing show!!!!! I’m surprised I see nothing about the Midnight Rider tease at the end of DWD???? In a summer full of heavy hitters this show was ???? From start to finish…just incredible. Free was great icing on this cake and every version this summer has already cemented it as...
2022-08-05 by Museummouth 11
When Sigma blasted off, they were completely on fire for the next 2 hours. Absolutely insane 2nd set with unique jam after jam. The playing was varied and experimental at times and each song I kept thinking “this’ll be the jam of the night for sure,” just to be proven wrong about 4 times....
2021-08-14 by mgolia6 11
A Perfect Game At the setbreak, I texted my buddy, “I hope they hop over the baseline on the way to the dugout. Their pitching a perfect game.” From the get go, Llama in its slow funk half speed rendition woke the crowd. If this is where we are starting. Where the fuck are we gonna end....
2021-08-13 by mgolia6 10
View from the Couch Funky Beach. Phish stepped into the World’s Famous Playground for the first of three shows in Atlantic City. No stranger to a triumvirate of shows in AC, including Two Halloween runs and the Bader field shows, just like in those dim-lit Casino’s, it’s a crapshoot when...
2021-08-15 by naturalmama 9
[b]What’s the frequency, Kenneth?[/b] Phish Atlantic City 2021 culminated more than 24 hours ago, but there’s a tingling in my body that’s just resurged. Although the “Sail away on the Block Island Ferry” jingle initially woke me, it’s this tingling that’s both preventing me from falling back...

Notable Jam Chart Performances

Individual jam chart entries from this venue:

2022-08-05 • Sigma Oasis (21:29) Set 1 Noteworthy
A multi-sectioned monstrosity emerges from the Atlantic City Beach. The jam begins in familiar, but strong territory with excellent melodic interplay. The music grows deeper as Trey and Mike dip into their effects. Shortly after the 14 minute mark, Fishman blasts the band off into hyperspace via a double time tempo change. An aggressive and high energy jam follows, evocative of 2.0 era "Piper"s. The band then cools down into a thick funk segment that -> "Cities." Must hear.
Although Trey is very rough in the opening, he soon recovers, and the version coasts along as per "average-great-normal" until 11:45 of the jam segment when Trey teases "Mr. P.C.," and the jam takes off and eventually reaches a BLISTERING peak. Bass and Drums segment is average-great, and the Vocal Jam is as well, but it's only ~95 seconds long, before (as in other recent versions) a second jam segment begins, in that Fish begins drumming and the others begin playing their instruments in short order, largely mimicking the final measures of the vocal jam during the first few minutes of this second jam segment. This second jam is thrilling, and peaks triumphantly.
2022-08-07 • Tube (12:07) Set 1
Jam begins in its normal uber-funk space with Page pounding the clavinet and Trey outlining with simple but pointed lead guitar playing. The band then hooks up on a riff that leads them into a more contemplative, dark space. The music then shifts into a breezy major key groove very appropriate for the setting. Another shift towards minor key occurs, and the music morphs into a rocking jam that executes a great segue back into the blues shuffle portion of the song.
2022-08-07 • Ocelot (11:10) Set 1
One has argued it's not the wind, but, rather, the trees that create the breeze. Here, Trey as tree, drives an airy, guitar-driven jam that moves effortlessly across sea and sand. Fish, solidly in the pocket, anchors the band as the four take the song for another deceptively simple ride before, as if a wave, breaking for "Fluffhead."
Once again, Trey's newer material serves as springboard for some of the band's most compelling improvisation. Here we get a multi-part jam that moves comfortably between sections and which finds all members of the band communicating and contributing. Listen especially to Fishman and how he drives the musical conversation.
2022-08-06 • Simple (12:42) Set 2
An "Under Pressure" tease shakes things loose, allowing for a wispy, cyclical jam to take hold, which ratchets up moderately before an eerie alien outro possibly setting up a > "2001" but instead > "BDTNL". Quite a nugget of improvisation.
2022-08-06 • Bathtub Gin (17:21) Set 1
Slow fizz ... For a song in such "Heavy Rotation," the band continues to impress. Atop predictably solid, bedrock Fish, Trey works a number of hard rock riffs to inform major play offset by Page, sprite on his piano, the sound becoming, like waves lapping the shore, a gentle sort of echo, as the musicians, Mike included, work their effects. Play briefly cools before a giant blast of sustain (Trey) vaults play into minor madness and a return to the song's classic coda.
2022-08-06 • 555 (6:53) Set 1
Inverts the tonality to major just before 5:00 and soars into a "Norwegian Wood" tease before slipping back to nasty old "555" to conclude.
The trend of pushing familiar songs out of their musical comfort zone in 2022 continues with another nicely extended version of this traditional set closer that goes beyond the normal rock peak, first by heaping on some extra fire, and then with an experimental outro that slowly peters out.
After a delightfully melodic first jam, the band turns to explore the darker realms of "No Man's Land" in a jam awash in loops and echoes that taps into a swirling and growling sonic space until finally resolving in a momentary bliss that decays only to give way to the opening notes of "Tweezer".
2022-08-05 • Free (10:03) Set e
"Free's" second encore and first-ever show-closing appearance comes loaded with heaps of extra synthy spank and filthy wah guitar.
2022-08-05 • Harry Hood (13:45) Set 2
It's all the same notes but a modal shift gives this inspiring jam a different tenor before it reverts back to "Hood" for a smooth finish, and combined with a super synth-funky intro, makes this a version well worth seeking out.
2022-08-05 • Soul Planet (14:52) Set 2
> from "Axilla (Part II)". Mike's bass is thumping as the jam begins. Trey solos over a cool texture provided by Mike and Fish. A slow tempo gradually picks up steam, possibly because of Fish dropping a "Yeah" sample seemingly out of nowhere. The jam comes to a head around 13:00 with Trey and Mike both heavy in their effects arsenals. It melts into almost nothing before > into a big "Down With Disease".
2022-08-05 • Ruby Waves (14:39) Set 2
Ruby emerges from the ether of a big "Down with Disease." This jam gallops along through various vignettes in butter-smooth fashion (including a brief passage of dissonant jamming) before the band lands on a super connected major key rock groove. Trey begins a repeated lick that builds patiently to an absolutely incendiary hose-y peak. Fishman kicks it into an overdrive with a tempo change and the band segues into the "DWD" ending in once again, butter-smooth fashion.
"DWD"'s closing section emerges from the ashes of an incendiary "Ruby Waves", finishing a brilliant segment of music. > an equally inspired "Ghost."


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