Phish - July 13th, 2025

The Wolfman surfs in on a van fueled by Trey's slick blues licks laid over a road bed of rhythmic funk that grooves and bumps along a linear trajectory without detours headed straight for peak town and delivering a tight and satisfying package.

"Thread" finally delivers on its initial improvisational promise with a knotty ,urgent exploration. Using its odd meter as a launch point, the jam holds tight to the bar line, with Trey, Mike and Page's effects-laced play creating a dense landscape that grows tenser and slightly dissonant as it moves along. The howling refrain of "You're Alone!" emerges from the morass of sound to close it out.

Leaves the station after a bit of funk, coalescing around a spacey synth section over which Trey solos melodically. The jam then seems poised to return home at 15:00, but relaunches with more rugged riffing before eventually closing strongly with a celebratory peak and the reemergence of the "Tweezer" riff which unravels -> "Ghost".

A spirited, high-energy take that is particularly dominated by Trey and Page's nimble play early on. The syncopated jazz-funk-isms that are familiar to "Golden Age" are particularly tight here and inspired as this feel eventually rides to an anthemic major-key rock out. This then builds to a lovely peak before the "Golden Age" beat barges in to wrap it up.