Phish - April 23rd, 2023
Hollywood Bowl · Hollywood · CA
1 Mr. Completely Sandwich: Mr. Completely bookended A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing in Set 2 - the 2nd on record, the first since July 15th, 2003.
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-'895
- '90-'942
- '95-'004
- '03-'042
- '09-'141
- '15-'192
The studio home of each song, from phish.net. Covers count as one slice.
- The Story of the Ghost2
- The White Tape2
- Billy Breathes1
- Hoist1
- Undermind1
- Covers6
- No studio album3
Shows since each song's previous appearance. A big number is a bustout.
- 3-53
- 6-156
- 16-507
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original10
- Trey Anastasio3
- Ghosts of the Forest1
- Led Zeppelin1
- Talking Heads1
Rarer than most - nothing shelved more than 50 shows.
Gap = shows since the song was last played, at the moment it was played.
This first set delight comes out the gate with swingin' swagger. Trey locks the band into Bmin to escape the confines of "Cities" proper and the band develops an incredibly cohesive, melodic, effect-drenched boogie down. After the 12 minute mark, the music takes a hazy, cinematic turn towards patient psychedelia. This then develops into a gorgeous, technicolor dreamscape that crescendos towards anthemic territory before > "Tube."
Another huge version of the once rare song in the catalog. Plucky playing from Trey around 9:30 changes the jam's trajectory. The searching, grimy jam sounds like the background to a noir detective show at times. The tempo gets kicked up towards the end, before eventually > "A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing".
> from "Mr. Completely" comes a completely unhinged jam that immediately dives headfirst into an unrelenting, grinding, grimy groove, and in the blink of an eye flows back -> into "Mr. C". Heavy.
-> from "A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing" to close out the "Mr C" > "ASIHTOS" -> "Mr C" sandwich.
A thumping, relentless version marked by Mike's new bass. Trey plays with loops and gives Mike a run for his money with bass effects of his own before leading things in a more melodic direction over a soft bed of Page's keys and driven, as always, by the "brother" himself. The jam eventually cools and fades, unfinished, on a curl of ambience that breaks for "Ruby Waves".
Versions phish.net's jam charts single out as noteworthy.
Jam, My Soul
Trey teased Super Bad in Wolfman's Brother.
Setlist, gaps, jam charts, and notes from phish.net, a project of the non-profit Mockingbird Foundation.