Trey Jagger et al.

Phish - Saturday, 10.31.2009 - Indio, CA (Festival 8 Day 2) - Courtesy of Phish.net

Set 1: Sample in a Jar, The Divided Sky, Lawn Boy, Kill Devil Falls, Bathtub Gin, The Squirming Coil, Runaway Jim > Possum, Run Like an Antelope

Set 2: Rocks Off, Rip This Joint, Shake Your Hips, Casino Boogie, Tumbling Dice, Sweet Virginia, Torn and Frayed, Sweet Black Angel, Loving Cup, Happy, Turd on the Run, Ventilator Blues -> I Just Want To See His Face > Let It Loose, All Down the Line, Stop Breaking Down, Shine a Light, Soul Survivor

Set 3: Backwards Down the Number Line > Fluffhead > Ghost, When the Circus Comes, You Enjoy Myself

Encore: Suzy Greenberg

Notes: This show is part of the three-show Festival 8. Playbills distributed on-site (beginning at 12:30pm PDT) confirm that the second set (the band's "musical costume") will be the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St, of which the band has previously played Loving Cup and Sweet Virginia. After Divided Sky, Trey acknowledged the beauty of the venue and announced that Page would now play a love song to the lawn since it was the first time they had played on grass in a long time. Run Like An Antelope included a bit of lyrical improv in which Trey asked "Been you to have any COIL, man?". Set 2 began with a video highlighting selections of the 99 classic albums displayed and then systematically eliminated on the phish.com web site leading up to the festival. Selections in the montage included snippets from Michael Jackson's "Thriller", T Rex's "Electric Warrior", Metallica's "Master of Puppets", Miles Davis's "A Tribute to Jack Johnson", Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" and The Doors (self titled), among others. The second set was played with Sharon Jones and the Dap King Horns. Trey introduced the horn section after Tumbling Dice and again after the set, before saying "We are the Rolling Stones. See you later." Suzy Greenberg was played with Sharon Jones and horns.

Woohoo. I tuned in to a live webcast of the show and caught the 2nd and 3rd sets of last night's show. Pretty spectacular, and it made up for having to hang out alone with the dogs for Halloween (we did get a TON of trick'or-treaters - Darth Vader was the costume of the year. Huh?). Lots of texts from Ian and Zach; consensus is that Casino Boogie and Ventilator Blues were two sweet new highlights, and "best-ever" versions of Loving Cup and Suzy Greenberg were turned in. The cover as a whole was excellently executed, and the third set was short but very tight. Definitely worth trekking on over to livephish.com for a purchase if you are so inclned.

The video mentioned above was a mash-up of a lot of the albums they had joked about playing. It's of course already on the interwebs:

Cool stuff. If you're interested, the shows today (starting at 12 PST) will be simulcast again here. The first set is a first ever all acoustic set, so that should be interesting.

Oh, and if you missed it, Manu pulled his own Halloween trickery last night. Weird. Have a great All Saint's Day everybody: