We have now entered uncharted territory folks. Whatever it was we witnessed tonight was some new evolution in music and multimedia art the likes of which I’ve never seen.
The absolutely mind-bending fuckery that went down in the 3rd set should’ve come with a warning that any psychological damage as a result of what you’re about to witness is on you if you choose to stick around…
What they achieved with the light projections, both onto and from behind these flowing ribbons was nothing short of magical. It was like they said, “What Sphere? We don’t need no stinking sphere to show you something the likes of which you’ve never seen.”
And this all without mentioning the raging 2 sets of psychedelic madness that left every head in place a melted puddle of goo by the end.
I’ve been seeing this band since ‘95, all the fests through Cypress, many classic shows, and this will stand up as one for the fucking ages. Nuff said.

Tonight was my 379th show. I don’t know how they do it but I’m once again left speechless. What an incredible experience. Truly mind blowing is every sense the imagination. This festival is magical. And we still have two shows left! Thank you for another night I’ll never forget, Phish!!!!!!!!!!!!

Call it attendance bias, but the second set of this show was a fever dream of music. I knew this to some degree before but the last two nights of music make me understand what Jerry was saying when talking about Dark Star… “you don’t need to begin it so much as enter it”… The band welcomes you with a familiar and unassuming NMNML and then guides you along swirling and undulating soundscapes. Ruby waves and pillow jets pass like mile markers along the expansive highway taking you to the origins of life itself. Before we got too comfortable the screeching of our pet cat reminded us we do not want a goldfish. The screeching got louder, more frequent, more frantic, until smoothly dissolving back into No Mans effortlessly like the expert time travelers the band has evolved into. The Fluffhead that followed made me remember back in 2009 when a band I thought I would never see got back together and started a new trajectory of compelling music bringing us to the show last night and what’s to come the next two.

This level of improvisation is astounding and I feel so privileged to be audience to what this band has become.

Oh and the secret set is worth a listen.

Just hearing it now (yeah, other side of the Atlantic) and with increasing amazement - especially that third set. Sounds like the German 70s avant-garde, Can, Neu, Popol Vuh, Ash Ra Temple, Klaus Schulze... all of those combined with smatterings of eery landscape music like from the band Earth... Phish never stops to surprise us. These guys are up to anything-everything!

I think this show is about as good a show as you could possibly expect Phish to play in 2024. If this show just doesn’t do it for you at all, you might as well hang it up and enter into retired jaded vet status.

This show touched on every possible style that Phish has in the arsenal. Free and Tube (with the funk siren!) brought the dance party in full in the first set. Reba with the gorgeous soundscape against the sunset was as beautiful as they can get. The second set was as jammy as they can get with segues all over the place. Divided Sky, Harry Hood, and Fluffhead had perfect placements and gave the crowd a chance to take everything in with the classics of old.

But this show will probably be most remembered for the secret set, which I can say is the best one I’ve ever heard out of all the fests, if only for the sheer diversity of the music played. Typically, these sets hone in on a particular type of sound - the hazy Tower jam, or the drone-esque vibe of the Drive In Jam. This one last night was more like the Tahoe Tweezer, effortlessly floating from style to style every few minutes. This jam singularly captured every style that phish can play in a single jam. There’s really nothing else like it. It’s like a celebration of their entire career.

There’s not much else to say. If this isn’t a five star show, I don’t know what is.

When the 3rd set started, I was perfectly content with watching the visuals and taking in the ambient music, but the turn to straight rock coupled with the intense, morphing imagery took it up to 11. This was one of my favorite attended sets of all time and I give my kudos to all those who planned it and executed it so well.
This is why we read the book.

Incredibly varied show initially highlighted by a masterful Ruby Waves sandwich. But that third set will be one to remember. A seamless collage of all styles of jamming with peaks galore. The band stayed locked in a flowing stream of consciousness; inspired and dynamic all the way through. The visuals were really cool, and adding in the overall vibe, ambience and sound quality of the festival, definitely a night to be grateful for.

This could be the first review I've ever written in 70 shows but this second set deserved it. Was the best set of the weekend by far. We were Mike's side maybe 30 people off the rail with the perfect crew / people around us. I just remember feeling like the people and the air were being pulled towards the stage during a fews jams during the second set, it was the craziest hive mind experience I've ever had seeing Phish. By the end of the set we all were 10 feet closer than where we started and all looked around like we just got teleported into the energy of Phish. We are so lucky to have these guys and get to have these experiences with old friends and new friends.

Somewhere during My Friend My Friend, my buddy's girlfriend started pissing me off with her horrible attitude. Somewhere around Ruby Waves, I ran off by myself and got lost in the crowd. I wasn't going to let anything bring down my mood, and I'm glad I made that move. Ghost > NMINML > Fluffhead was an unbelievable experience. Harry Hood into First Tube to close it out had me buzzing until about 4am. Just an incredible show all around. Everyone in the crowd was on a high walking out of the place that night.

Yeah man. Just: everything about this one hit. By the time the second encore/third set/whatever it was that happened out there went down, it felt like KDF had been years in the past. After running the 5K this morning, I had hoped they wouldn’t throw in a secret set tonight, but whatever, you take Phish whenever and however you can get them. The ambient jam ended up invoking “Caspian” and a few others while simultaneously being entirely unique: the perfect cherry to an indelible night two at Mondegreen.