Phish: 09/09/2000 Entire Set Two and Encore [VQ: A-, AQ: A-]
Cactus: Mike Gordon 12/11/2011 Playlist [VQ: Varies From B+ - C-, AQ: B]
Set 1: Horizon Line, Only A Dream, I’m Deranged > The Way It Goes, Just A Rose > Voices, River Niger, Don’t Do It > Horizon Line
Set 2: Funky Bitch, Sugar Shack, Hand In My Pocket, Dig Further Down, Crumblin’ Bones, Skin It Back, Hap-Nappy, Won’t Get Fooled Again
Encore: Suzy Greenberg w/ Dude of Life
Trey Anastasio: TAB Albany – Live Phish & Photos by Andy Hill [Hidden Track]
This past Saturday night, the Trey Anastasio Band delivered its best performance of the tour thus far at the Palace Theater in Albany, NY. While official recordings from last year’s shows were not made available through LivePhish.com outside of the TAB at the TAB release, we’re glad to see that Big Red has opted to make the Albany sets available forpurchase and download.
Trey Anastasio: TAB 02/20/2011 Electric and Acoustic Video Playlist [VQ: B+, AQ: B+]
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E890FDE33C933108Punch, AC/DC Bag, Bathtub, Dog Faced Boy, Wilson, Chalkdust, Hey Ya!, Burn That Bridge, Simple Twist Up Dave, Tuesday, Ether Sunday, First Tube, Magilla, Black Dog
Trey Anastasio: Trey Anastasio Band 02/19/2011 Video Playlist [VQ: A-, AQ: A-]
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=87EE6AEF3328CBEBFree, The Wedge, Prince Caspian, BDTNL, Limb By Limb, Stealing Time, Buffalo Bill, Joy, Halley’s, Wading, Black, Valentine, Devil Went Down to Georgia, Money Love and Change, Done Done It, Clint Eastwood, Windora Bug, Birdwatcher, Sand, Drifting, The Way I Feel
Albany: Review – Phish 11/27/2009 [Jambands]
The show was certainly unique, interesting and loaded with quirky asides, although nothing especially earth shattering. And that’s just fine; it was a Phish show right in the middle of a Thanksgiving Phish tour, with all the comfort and ease and sense of tradition that that brings.
Phish: 11/27/2009 Almost Entire Show Playlist [VQ: B+, AQ: A]
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D771394AAA5CEB5BAC/DC Bag, Maze, Driver, My Mind’s Got a Mind of its Own, Gumbo, Bouncing Around the Room > It’s Ice, Timber (Jerry) > Limb By Limb, Cavern, My Friend, My Friend On Your Way Down, Fluffhead, Tomorrow’s Song, The Squirming Coil, I Been Around
Phish: 11/28/2009 Albany II ENTIRE SHOW Playlist [VQ: B+, AQ: A]
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=97AB113DDD4DF477Albany: Phish In Albany – 11/28 Review [JeremyGoodwin]
The band was clearly out to prove it can still swing in the rarefied territory of full-band improvisation that is so melodious and rocking it sounds composed. A one-two wallop of “Seven Below” and “Ghost” filled up the first forty-five minutes of the second set with a handful of jams bringing the energy flow between band and audience into high resolution. Spontaneous waves of elated ovation synchronized with a cascading series of peaks led by guitarist Trey Anastasio, with strong assistance here from Page McConnell on keyboards. (Lighting designer Chris Kuroda, an artist at the top of his field, deserves mention as well.)
Albany: Phish Cover TV on the Radio [Rolling Stone]
Phish have become known for performing unexpected and diverse covers in their two decade-plus career, taking on everything from entire albums — like the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street at this year’s Festival 8 — to songs by artists like Talking Heads, the Velvet Underground, Ween and countless more. This past weekend, Phish added another, more contemporary group to their arsenal, performing TV on the Radio’s Dear Science single “Golden Age” for the crowd at Albany, New York’s Times Union Center on November 27th.
Albany: Review – Phish Kick Out The Jams in Albany [Hidden Track]
Following a fun first set that contained a number of rarities and well-played originals, the band started the second set by jumping into the deep end of the pool – two 20-minute-plus songs that contained more peaks than the Alps. The set started innocently enough with Seven Below. After jamming on the main theme of the tune for a few minutes, drummer Jon Fishman changed the beat he was laying down while the other members of the band went off in different directions as well, leading to a bit of spacey dissonance. I thought the Seven Below jam had just fallen apart and that the quartet were about to end the tune, but I couldn’t have been more wrong.
Albany: The Chalkies – Albany Edition [The Elektron]
Best Debut: Golden Age. This ‘TV on the Radio’ cover got all phished up for it’s debut in Albany. A very danceable track w/ potential for huge jams. We all can hope that this stays in the rotation. Honorable Mention: Tomorrow’s Song
Review: Phish’s Albany Adventure – Night One [Hidden Track]
What made last night’s show so great were all the curveballs thrown at various points in the show. Whether it was dusting off Jimmy Dale Gilmore’s My Mind’s Got a Mind of Its Own, busting TV on the Radio’s Golden Age to the delight of the indie segment of the fanbase or debuting the reggae-tinged original Tomorrow’s Song; the quartet kept fans guessing all night long.
Albany: A Golden Age [Phish Thoughts]
Completely Phishifying the original, the band absolutely annihilated a brand new shining piece of improv that immediately stood out as one of the best jams of tour. I’ve got to imagine Trey picked this one out of the crowd and brought it to the band to practice and practice and practice, because when they unveiled the piece, it translated brilliantly.
Albany: Show Recap – Albany Night On [Coventry]
As soon as I heard the opening notes, I tweet’d… Fluffhead of all Fluffheads to save the show. Boy, was I right. The crowd exploded into a collective orgasm. I had to check my pants to make sure I didn’t not leave any semen streaks. I had not seen that much frenzied and kinetic energy at a show since the first night in Hampton. The crowd were patiently wading through the fluff in the first set until Phish stopped driving in cruise control like your grandmother on the freeway and let it rip like a NASCAR driver. They floored the accelerator for the rest of the show and did not let up.
That’s why I travel long distances to see the Phish.
Albany: Phish Nods to Little Feat, TV on the Radio [Jambands]
In many ways, though, the band’s first set was just a warm-up for what was to come. The Vermont Quartet kicked things off with the popular Rift track “My Friend, My Friend” and proceeded to debut a cover of the indie rock group TV on the Radio’s “Golden Age” (the soul-funk rocker appears on the band’s 2008 release Dear Science). The song remained faithful to TV on the Radio’s arrangement at first, but quickly moved into a short, funky jam.
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