PHISH
12/28/10
DCU Center
Worcester, MA
I: Kill Devil Falls, My Mind's Got A Mind Of Its Own, Alaska, She Caught the Katy, Wolfman's Brother, Pigtail*, Stash, Bouncing Around the Room, Rift, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Birdwatcher*
II: Carini, Backwards Down the Number Line, Back on the Train > Limb by Limb > Wedge, Frankie Says > Albuquerque, Harry Hood, Bug
E: Shine A Light
* first time played
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We slept most of the day getting much needed rest. Dunkin Donuts came through in the clutch with a box o' joe courtesy of Cory. We said goodbye to Cory and his two friends at the hotey and at this point it was just Jamie and I. We ate at Wendy's and fueled up preparing to make a quick getaway after the show. On Tuesday we found a better spot in the parking garage. For this show we found a vantage point on the Page side where as the night before we were on Fishman side. Phish hit the stage shortly after 8:15 once again. The crowd was a strong showing but not quite sold out.
I could identify the KDF opener from the tuning. That's a song that continues to improve. My Mind was a nice bluegrass interlude between the heavy doses of blues rock in the forms of KDF and Alaska. She Caught the Katy is a rarely played Taj Mahal tune that hadn't seen the light of day since Big Cypress. It was also featured in The Blues Brothers which was fitting with us heading back to Chicago that night. Wolfman's Brother was possibly the highlight of the run. It featured some great full band communication and several amazing peaks of energy. Pigtail was a new Tom/Trey tune that featured a nice repeating vocals of "conscious again". You could sense that Stash was going to played in that slot and this was another in a series of recent great versions. Bouncing is a song that I've always enjoyed. Rift was a nice call. Stealing Time was more blues rock. To end the set they played the Phish debut of the acapella Birdwatcher which was featured on their Joy bonus album, Party Time. This was a better first set than the night before.
The second set began with another of their best tunes currently, Carini. On the fall tour that song was really given the treatment. This rendition though stretched beyond its former self was not as strong as the one I heard in Providence, RI in October. I was a bit disappointed that #Line was another standard version in such a vital slot. Similiar to what they did in Amherst. I really enjoyed the Back on the Train > Limb by Limb > Wedge sequence. "Take the highway...". Frankie Says is a song that I've always enjoyed from The Story of the Ghost. This morphed into the Neil Young cover Albuquerque. Coincidentally this was played in the final show I saw from Phish in 2009 in Cincinnati and this was the case this year in 2010 up in Worcester. Harry Hood was a very strong version in the home state of Hood Milk. Massachusetts native Michael Gordon started a very interesting groove and Anastasio took it the rest of the way until we all felt good about Hood. Bug and its soaring outro solo worked in this slot similiar to the Saturday Alpine Valley show. Shine A Light was encored in nearby Amherst on Fall Tour so I question that choice. They played a one song encore cover by The Rolling Stones each night. Overall this show was better than the night before. After the show concluded I drove us all through the night through Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and finally back in Illinois where I dropped off Jamie at Union Station in downtown Chicago around 3:30 pm and sent him home on the train. Then I made my way to Wicker Park to the Chicagoland Jamband Headquarters at my buddy Steve's apartment.
pictures taken by Dave Vann (phish.com)
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