Copied over from CookiePuss' review from LivePhish.com
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This was the favorite show that I ever attended. The day was beautiful after a few days of rain in Japan. The venue was in the thick of downtown Fukuoka...
The second set is the best of Y2K to my ears, which isn't exactly a colossal achievement, but it's also the most delicate, ethereal, *patient* hour-plus of live Phish. Ever. The jam out of Walk Away sounds like a lonely wounded version of the 'Quadrophonic Topplings' jam at Big Cypress, the segue...
A strong candidate for the greatest two set show not played on 12-31-99. If you dig/have the patience for ethereal, spaceland, glacial, experimental, mind-numblingly together Phish, this show is for you. The first set is totally laid back while also energetic...a very strange vibe surrounds the...
I don't care that it's missing some of my favorite songs; if I were given the opportunity to go back in time and see just one show, there is no question it would be this one.
I bought this show back when the LivePhish series started purely because I thought it would be interesting to listen...
Only if . . . dang . . . gosh . . . if I'd a . . . Oh well.
I can only enjoy the simulacrum. With a solid FOB I picked up about six years ago, I come back to this show more than almost any other in my collection. Why?
One can feel the dissipation, here, yet due to the small venue and...
My favorite Phish show at the moment. Just wanted to note that the 1st set is no slouch either. The relaxed Cities (shades of 97's chilled-out versions), spacey Gumbo (a harbinger of what was to come that night), and extra-mustard Llama, in particular, are highlights.
Anything I could say...
The other reviewers have done an outstanding job of reviewing this show. I just want to say that the second set of this show may be the most beautiful music I've ever heard. Phish has done a lot of great things over the years, but what happened in Fukuoka on this night in June was something truly...
This is, for me, the greatest Phish show of all time, and there are two reasons for that.
First, the music. This show is of a place with the European shows of 97-98. Think Amsterdam, Hamburg, Cologne, Prague, Barcelona. Small venues, intimate settings, and you can absolutely feel that conveyed...
Having some non-phans over for an evening and want to play show audio that people can chill hard to without feeling overwhelmed the vast musical terrain that a band like Phish can cover? This is that show.
The Twist jam is my favorite Phish jam of all time, possibly in my mind only surpassed by the 21+ minutes of jamming proceeding Roses are Free on the second night of the Island Tour. (4/3/98) The jamming within Twist, and the jam after, into Walk Away, is simply beautiful, confident and patient....
-> in from an incredible "Twist" > "Jam" combo. The outro of the typical version morphs into more serene, unprecedented, and intergalactic improvisation. Very gradually, this unique jamming builds some energy, rolling percussion, and blasts off (->) to "2001."
MUST-HEAR 2-part "Twist." Part I ("Twist" 18:01) departs into a beautiful and peaceful groove at 5:30. The tension builds, then recedes back to serene bliss before returning to "Twist." Part II ("Jam" 16:20) begins with eerie and spacey effects, then gradually builds into an intergalactic groove that gets better and better and -> to "Walk Away."
Part II ("Jam") of a MUST-HEAR, 34 minute "Twist" begins with eerie and spacey effects, then gradually builds into an intergalactic groove that gets better and better and -> to "Walk Away."
With a rolling, funky groove that stays close to the standard structure, this is the first truly jammed-out version that sets up nicely for a 35 minute "Twist." Lots of improvisation within a narrow groove.
Jam starts spacey before finding its groove. They ride it out before Mike picks up the pace with Fish quickly responding. Trey plays some heavy rock and roll chords before they segue into "Llama".