starting with destiny unbound, the rest of this first set was nearly set 2 energy. The little dissonant descending chord progression funk jam in DU began a huge shift in crowd engagement, the entire lawn seemed focused and dancing, real grimy groove here. 46 days started off very patiently, broken down to a slow dark minor key psych jam that had the crowd anticipating hard, it quickly turned to a super slick major key modulation that had some above average first set major key jamming before heading back to the head. The very welcomed mcgrupp was a first for my whole crew, a lovely rarity that was very nice to hear live for the first time. The wingsuit is for sure above average, the unique jam structure kept people engaged and had some very pretty moments. Meatstick is always a great time and the groove felt a bit tighter than usual. Antelope also started off very patiently, my friend said to me "this antelope is taking his time, grazing" but of course he was running in no time. The fast shreddy line that trey plays to head towards the ending bit seemed to come a bit quicker than usual, but this whole jam was very effective, had some dissonant moments and the peak felt deserved which isn't always the case. I've heard antelopes where fish continues the fast drum part alone after the peak lands, I'd always assumed it was a mistake where fish didn't expect it to end, but in this moment it was clear to me that it's intentional. Had me wondering if this was always the case when he does this, or if he was riffing on the times he did miss the cue. Was my 11th antelope and the first time I'd seen him do this. Overall this set was a huge improvement from the first and second nights. Destiny unbound through antelope had no fucking around whatsoever.

set 2 is honestly pretty incredible. Ghost went through a number of distinctly different ideas before deciding what to run with for the main feature. A bunch of minor to major key modulations, starting with a unique sentimental feeling pretty part, back into some more typical slow minor key ghost moves. A climactic pretty section centered around one of trey's "magically pulled out of my ass" melodies that feels iconic from the first time you hear it, and eventually after several more ideas led to a genuinely HEAVY section that was basically on some stoner/doom metal levels. The crowd was losing their damn minds, saw many people straight up headbanging, several swells of crowd approval.

Soul planet quickly got to Trey's dissonant ring mod mode for a minute, but abandoned the descent into murky swamp world for some more attempts at different ideas. A major key switch that lasted for a majority of this jam contained some real classic feel-good high energy phish. Not the most unique section but was made up for by great execution. When that ended it felt like Trey was headed towards the head, but instead we got about 10 more minutes of improv that varied between some classic minor key phish jamming and some again near murky zones before peaking. Both the ghost and this soul planet took up roughly 30 minute slots and were full-on completely engaging and interesting throughout. There's always gonna be differences in taste between phans, but putting my personal desires aside I can't really ask for much more than a full damn hour of type 2 focused jamming that keeps the entire crowd engaged. It never felt like they were running out of steam, just new idea after new idea until they found somewhere to fully land.

Billy breathes was a first for me so maybe I'm biased, but this composed solo section felt much cleaner than usual, Trey was absolutely on it. The little 4-5-4 bend climax part gave me a huge wave of full body goosebumps, just gorgeous and a nice change after that hour of dead serious phish.

Now here I'm definitely biased because Melt is full stop my favorite phish song. If I could have a full set of phish jamming melt style it would be the best set I've ever seen. They nailed this melt. Constantly introducing new ideas, some straight up harsh noise, each member on their own damn planet, never felt lost in the slightest. Just a perfect melt jam to finally fry my brain for good before this show ends. I want to live in this zone.

Watched the slave encore from the back of the venue so we could be among the first out to watch the tour busses drive by and hopefully get a wave. Didn't get a wave this year but we did see mike and page. Good enough for me!

Straight up one of the best shows I've seen in 73 shows since 2010, don't sleep on this ripper, they delivered big time.