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Sphere

Las Vegas, NV, USA

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Top Rated Shows

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

Date Rating
2024-04-21 305 votes 4.5508/5
2024-04-19 241 votes 4.4896/5
2024-04-20 217 votes 4.3548/5
2024-04-18 224 votes 4.3348/5

Top Reviews

Highest-rated reviews from shows at this venue:

2024-04-21 by yam_ekaj 24
Amazing show. Second set contained some truly awe-inspiring jamming. The Disease is an instant-classic, all-time version and is some of the best jamming ive seen. and then after a swelling, mellow beneath a sea of stars, the boys deliver a 20-min bliss-rager Light. like being up 4 runs and...
2024-04-19 by PhillyPhilly 17
Such a wonderful cohesive show musically, but to have that music with the water visuals that were executed so well - GTFO, this was an unreal experience tonight. Axilla jam, and then Gin > Theme > Melt, such great improv in S1. WOH jam peaked for days, WTU was gorgeous. Caspian jamming in the...
2024-04-21 by prepschoolhippie04 9
down with disease, beneath a sea of stars -> 2001 > light is as phenomenal a sequence as ive seen from modern era phish. it doesn't all segue together but even still, this consecutive four song progression from set two of the final night of phish in the sphere is a extraordinary display of range...
2024-04-19 by DiamondE 9
Admittedly the morning after I’m still reeling from this show and need to rewatch and relisten. Relisten specifically without the aid of visuals. Because in the moment some of the jams seemed absolutely stellar. Sound I was ten feet from the rail in front of Mike. The sound was crystal clear...
2024-04-18 by lofus99 8
Well everybody, think we have to add this shows 2nd set to the list of all time psychedelic masterpieces! Never mind that screen action!! Pretty much perfect 2nd set! No filler. Even Fluffhead was dripping. When your slow down song is a jammed out Lifeboy....damn! Paug was not too blazing....but...
2024-04-18 by Fondue 6
Long-winded in-person review coming... now! Awed and Grinning in Sin City This will primarily be about the experience, and a few rando tips rather than the music itself. Dot net does a better job at that than I would anyway! At 6.15pm, my two show-pals and I stroll through the casino...
2024-04-20 by AndrewLarke 5
It was a good show but I don’t think they ever really lifted off. Fuego started a little clunky but was really phenomenal from about the mid point of the jam on. Pillow jets was great, the new album is gonna be the best in years. 2nd set was tight jamming. Average show overall and seemed like...
2024-04-20 by sheikyerbouti 5
Overall night 3 at Sphere was a great show. I think without N1 and N2 fresh in our minds, N3 would be looked at fonder. Set 1 had some clunky setlist choices. Pillow Jets got the jam treatment, and the visuals of going through a forest of trees blasting off like fireworks was amazing. The Pollock...
2024-04-19 by spreaditround 3
PHISH, FRIDAY 04/19/2024 SPHERE Las Vegas, NV SET 1: Free: Cool how they coordinated the pre-show music of a Free jam and then they use that as a launching pad to open with Free. The pace of this one is a good bit faster than most. Like it. Nice peak. Great start to the show! Broadway...
2024-04-21 by ToxicWasteNPurplePaste 2
Incredible show and amazing finish to the 4 night run at Sphere. First set highlights for me included a strong ghost with amazing visuals, and very solid jam. Divided sky was magical and the way the clouds darkened and lightened followed the tension created by the band during the jam....

Notable Jam Chart Performances

Individual jam chart entries from this venue:

2024-04-21 • Down with Disease (34:08) Set 2 Noteworthy
Very exploratory, wide-ranging jam that is rhythmically oriented but, unlike other Sphere (and recent) jams, seems a bit more spacious. The jam easily could've ended (and been a classic) before 25:15, but, from that point on, the band enters some of the run's best improv. Maybe so. Incredible version.
2024-04-21 • Plasma (15:08) Set 1
A supreme version of the song, proper. Early, while chill, everything is ultra crisp, with singular notes, from all, landing like uppercuts. Around 6:40 there is a somewhat familiar shift, patterned play offset by acoustic Page and terrific Fish. A cool sonic surge arrives around 9:50, music just dripping with Mike beneath a series of echoes which, via extended Trey soloing, gels to inform "Plasma's" righteous riff.
2024-04-21 • Ghost (17:01) Set 1
The band neatly avoids some familiar tropes to deliver a version that exists in a sonic space somewhere between exploration and contemplation. On the back of Trey's growling tone, they quickly hit on a fresh progression that colors the jam to come and inspires some swirling group play that looks towards the light briefly before shifting to a more aggressive, rhythmic pulsing approach. Capped off with stiff frothy peaks, this is a tasty version that delivers the goods and a clean return.
2024-04-21 • Light (22:09) Set 2
Jam starts off in typical but inspired fashion, with the band taking a melodic, jazzy/conversational approach highlighted by Fishman and Mike's dynamic, syncopated play. A brief spell of "woos" signals a pivot, as emerging ambience coalesces into a spacey minor key groove. A major key shift then leads to peak-filled anthemic territory, followed by a brief, rhythmic groovy conclusion. > "Ether Edge".
After a composed section punctuated by flourishes from Page, Trey starts the solo with some swelling guitar licks which give way to a funky, groove based jam which goes from deep and murky to a fun, flowing jam that doesn't stray far from the song's structure.
2024-04-20 • Tube (9:42) Set 1
A subtler and more introspective take on improvisation than the consistently exciting groove fest "Tube" tends to bring, the band here sonically 'dims the lights' briefly before building melodically to the more familiar peak and return.
2024-04-20 • Pillow Jets (15:30) Set 1
NYE's "Bag" casts a long shadow; fans of that momentous moment can turn from that script to find, here, more by way of impassioned (improvisational) play. Heavy as a multi-beast's footprints stomped into the Mojave's sand, the band toys with an array of effects to produce something like melody before Trey alights upon a line, a path leading the listener through a grassy path where one sees the forest for its cosmic trove of trees.
2024-04-20 • Steam (12:43) Set 1
At times, calm and tropical, and then moody and fierce, this quality version stretches the boundaries of the normal "Steam" jam without totally leaving the station.
2024-04-20 • Fuego (29:24) Set 2
Smoothly coasts through various stages of effortless, upbeat jamming, becomes grimier as it approaches 20:00, and then turns up the intensity as the jam winds its way to an anthemic conclusion.
2024-04-20 • Stash (14:45) Set 1
Like "Melt," Stash has seemingly assumed a new form (see 8/11/18, 7/10/19, etc.). Like "Melt," many of these jams astonish. (See just about any, recently.) Here, right around 6:50, we see Trey at the apex of his cerebral prowess, fingers and feet in lockstep. Pushed by Page, the friends move through wonderful drums and bass to create a jam that's as pleasant as it is demented, as melodic as it is measured.
"Axilla II"'s improvisational identity is seemingly now fully established, with spacey, effects-heavy playing setting the tone immediately. Using this template as the platform, the band then effortlessly glides between cosmic life-affirming bliss, diverse textural coloring, and hazed-out driving groove rock before returning to the "Axilla II" ending to close.
Comes loaded with extra sauce, a generous dollop of "Dave's Energy Guide", and a schmear of 'type II' flirtation that takes an edgier turn adding some improvisational heft to the otherwise uplifting play we've come to expect from "Theme".
The jam starts out laid-back and chill, like many "Wolfman's" jams do. A few minutes later, things change as effects are employed by the three non-percussionists. Fish keeps things in check with some mastery behind the kit. Trey's piercing guitar brings the jam out of the muck and into an upbeat, fiery ending before winding back around to the song proper.
Retains the song's promise as a set centerpiece. Bending, but not quite breaking new ground, percussive, celebratory play evokes, elementally, "Crosseyed" and "Paug," respectively, hewing that feel-good sound from a score seemingly built to spill into euphoria.
2024-04-18 • Sand (19:21) Set 2
Spends little time in the typical "Sand" zone with an early modulation to major and is soon transformed into a dreamy soundscape awash with synths. Over the next several minutes, the jam is gradually shaped by subtly shifting riffs while maintaining its ethereal heading, until a more grounded peaking section emerges in the final minutes.


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