(Published on the legacy Phish.net site many years ago...)

Man....I tell you....Madison, WI is *THE* place to see Phish. This really cool movie theatre called the Barrymore. WOW!!!!!! WHAT A SHOW!!!!!!!

I was rendered completely speechless after the first set. I'll have to figure out some sort of setlist, something which I can't do right this sec.

First of all, the band is so much tighter than I ever remember them being. They really work together well. They have been working on new jams or something, because they took songs places I've never heard them go before. For example, Trey's solo in Divided Sky. I have NEVER heard him go off as insanely and for as long as he did at that show. He went places I never thought possible! Paige gave quite a contribution too on several tunes. Caverns has been sounding good lately. Oh...and there was a Suzy that never ended with solos and jams (I think I can hear when the jams are written and when they are improvised. I'm not positive, but I feel like I have some sort of sense of it from seeing them so many times.) like I've never heard in my life. I have NEVER danced with such intensity!!

All in all it was a great show. :-)

Decent SBD source available for this show.

The Memories opener is cut from the recording. They follow this up with a pretty standard version of Chalk Dust and Reba for this tour. Nice Sky. During the pause in Guelah Trey welcomes everyone to the Barrymore Theater and offers a warm welcome to everyone there for the Hemp Fest. Trey says “thanks for coming out tonight, we’re right behind ya” Page says “free the weed” lol Tape flip after Sparkle. Unfortunately the beginning of Suzy is cropped. Fun version of Magilla. A smokin’ Bowie closes out set 1! It practically falls off the tracks it gets so chaotic, but they rebound for a smooth landing.

Back to back bluegrass songs to open set 2. A really nice Brother follows suit. Beautiful Foam. Pretty straightforward Stash for this tour. Coil segues into a cool little jam again with a Linus and Lucy jam/tease during Pages solo. Tape flip before Mike’s. Decent Groove to close. Adeline is inaudible to start the first encore. The band comes back out for a second encore offering up inspired versions of Love You and Llama. Jason Colton comes out at the end of the tape to announce that Blues Traveler will be playing there the following week and to urge people to pick up any trash they see on the way out to make it easier on the staff.