Phish - July 9th, 2025

Another new version suggests the song's recent resurgence may be no fluke at all. While not breaking new ground, Trey leans, and quite well, into familiar 'shapes' and sounds, before finding, and exploring, a nifty musical phrase which he drives throughout this fun, playful excursion. As the others catch on and play off Trey, direct full-band jamming builds to bring the song to its old-school close, replete with Page's twinkling keys bleeding into beautiful 'silence.'

Ease meets confidence as the four friends create a meld of the delicate and the thunderous ornamented with cascades and flourishes from both Trey and Mike that mark this version for closer listening.

Cool play coasts atop a mellow groove which finds Trey strumming his way into strong, protracted and, at times, melodic soloing. Offset by measured, calibrated play, Page, near the 6:30 mark, pushes for 'brighter' sounds, his synth not so much leading the way as offering direction. Trey plays with this idea before dropping into a lower register, runs through the tune's signature line, and guides the song to a close.

The jam finds itself immediately brimming with ideas simply by using the inertia of its driving rhythmic push. A downshift around the 10 minute mark finds the band in new territories, centered around a hypnotic, repeating bass line. With an unrelenting rhythmic center, an inspired, densely layered slab of music emerges and makes itself at home, before the clarion call of "Percussion Rinse!" signals an end. Excellent.

This is familiar, feel-good Phish. Mike works to nudge the jam in a different direction, but Trey surges forward, pushing the band not to a false, but a near peak. Pleasantly, the jam assumes a new identity past the 12:00 mark, and from here Trey moves through a number of ideas (which becomes fairly interesting full-band play). Enough by way of 'muted' introspection allows for an impassioned "Bowie"-esque "peak," before Trey abruptly returns to close the song

Remarkable for its unrelenting drive, this high-energy bliss bomb is akin to a full-speed highway drive on a hot summer day. Trey makes it known immediately that he'll lead the charge, which he does through a series of peaks, and brief downshifts, all underpinned by the rhythm section's undeterred push. This eventually leads to a sparkling fanfare peak, before the tides recede and > "Lonely Trip".