After a fun, banjo filled, bass thumping, rain pouring, mud stomping, and just a straight up hoe down weekend, I was forced into going to see some no named band called Phish. Honestly, I was not planning on going to see any Phish shows this summer. I am kind of over the whole Phishing thing and I was fine with never seeing them again. Within the past months a long lost on and off again friendship has been rekindled. I would explain to Laura how at every Phish show I would see Tweezer, or YEM, or Antelope, or Hood and I was sick of seeing those songs at every show. The last show I saw before this one I saw all those songs in one show. Those are the classics, the most popular songs and I was really disappointed. I thought YEM was some epic song that Phish would only play like every 20th show. That if you saw a YEM then you were a lucky guy or girl. However, in the last tour I think they played YEM every other show. What gives? It loses its allure. <\/p>\n
A couple of months ago, Laura and I were chatting it up about music and how Railroad Earth owns the Phish boys and what not. (Go check out the versions of Cold Water<\/em> that each band plays and then make a comment on which one is better.) Laura was explaining to me how she was going to this show and that she was going solo. I started to think about going to this show, but I told her that she better promise me that I don’t see YEM, Tweezer, Harry Hood or Antelope. If you can guarantee me that I do not see any of these songs then I will go. Well, Laura promised me that Trey and Co. would not play any of those songs, so I agreed to go to the show. See Laura has a personal relationship with Trey and gets the setlists sent to her before any of the shows. Trey and her are best friends. Laura also had to promise me that I was going to hear a “Punch You in the Eye” and “Maze.” She did so I agreed to go. <\/p>\n There was only one day between Delfest and this Phish show, so in that one day I was starting to get excited for the show. I wasn’t getting excited because of going to see Phish, but because I was going with Laura. Laura is the ultimate Phish phan. This was going to be my 12th Phish show and this was her 40th show. You can say she is a pro at Phish. I am at about 40 RRE shows, to put it in perspective. Laura talked herself up as being a big fan of Phish and just going all out at shows and I was getting ready to be with her at a show. It was going to be an adventure. Here is the setlist:<\/p>\n Set 1: Chalkdust Torture, Roggae, Punch You in the Eye, The Moma Dance > Rock and Roll, Sand, Tube > The Divided Sky, Character Zero<\/p>\n Set 2: After Midnight > Possum, Drowned > Maze, Dirt, Alaska, You Enjoy Myself<\/p>\n Encore: Fire<\/p>\n I am not really here to review the show. The first set kicked total ass. I got my Punch. I finally could check that one off. Trey butchered Divided Sky though. He just straight up blew it and it just sucked. The rest of the set was perfect. Just great. I finally got my Maze. Laura called that one also. I could check that one off. This new song Alaska was really cool. I never heard it before and was thoroughly impressed with it. And of course, the song that follows me all over the place YEM, but I could handle it since I got such a sweet show. <\/p>\n This was the perfect show for me to go to. There was no way that I could get mad at Phish because of the songs they played. It was a great show and we danced our asses off. I was real happy that I went. I probably won’t be looking to go to any Phish shows; however, Laura if you need someone to go to a show to then I will be there right by your side. I won’t go to a Phish show without Laura because it was so much fun. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After a fun, banjo filled, bass thumping, rain pouring, mud stomping, and just a straight up hoe down weekend, I was forced into going to see some no named band called Phish. Honestly, I was not planning on going to see any Phish shows this summer. I am kind of over the whole Phishing thing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}