Phish - July 18th, 2017
Ervin J. Nutter Center, Wright State University · Dayton · OH
Song length in play order. Tap a point for that song. Swipe the chart to see the rest.
Tonight's unique songs by the era Phish first played them.
- '83-'891
- '90-'946
- '95-'004
- '03-'041
- '09-'142
- '15-'192
The studio home of each song, from phish.net. Covers count as one slice.
- Rift2
- Round Room2
- The Story of the Ghost2
- A Picture of Nectar1
- Billy Breathes1
- Fuego1
- Hoist1
- Joy1
- Lawn Boy1
- Covers4
- No studio album1
Shows since each song's previous appearance. A big number is a bustout.
- 3-54
- 6-159
- 16-501
- 51+ · bustout1
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original13
- Trey Anastasio2
- Frank Zappa1
- Mike Gordon1
Rarer than most - 1 song shelved 50+ shows.
Gap = shows since the song was last played, at the moment it was played.
Trey pushes through a few early miscues to share in Mike's incendiary groove. Via rhythmic shifts in meter and tone, Trey constructs a mellow, effects-enriched jam, which, colored by Page's wraithlike atmospherics, coasts atop Fish's steady beat, before driving the version to a strong conclusion.
Mixing some great new sounds, especially Page, with a fairly familiar jamming pattern, the band succeeds in recycling a formulaic, major mode and upbeat-oriented jam into a warm and very fresh sounding performance with a Trey-led peak.
If Super Bowl LI were a song... it would sound like this. [Excellent, unusual, and highly musical version. As if a malleable substance, Trey employs any number of ideas - and works an array of pitches - to fashion light from an atonal sort of darkness.]
"Wombat"'s second big ride shrugs off some dubious vocals to deliver a hard-charging "Ghost"-esque late night groove that morphs into delicious major key rocking out. Mike's work, in particular, is a joy to behold. Collapses into bubbly ambiance, then > into "Chalk Dust Torture".
Versions phish.net's jam charts single out as noteworthy.
This show featured the Phish debuts of Tuesday and Crazy Sometimes. DWD was unfinished. Trey quoted Waves at the end of Ghost and teased Oye Como Va in Wombat.
Setlist, gaps, jam charts, and notes from phish.net, a project of the non-profit Mockingbird Foundation.