Phall Phish Wrap-Up

Phish 12.3.2009- MSG - A.Hill Photography

It's great to be back. I was a bit under the weather this past week (caused me to miss BoomBox...ooch, ouch, damnit!) and have horribly missed communication with the masses. A wrap up of a fabulous Phish Fall Tour 2009 is totally overdue. The tour received quite critically acclaimed reviews from fans and fellow journalists alike. Set lists remained strong throughout and the few multiple night runs spared us from a "weak" night. I attended both nights in Cincy and had an amazing time. Each night had it's own highlights, was filled with mini-highlights in between and there were points where I felt the night would last forever. Hopefully, "I saw you with a ticket stub in your hand," somewhere, because this was most definately a tour of note.
This fall's tour had those moments of splendidness that we felt in years like 1994 and 1997. A feeling of re-birth that many felt may never occur again. Check out set-lists from each show below and also enjoy the pics sent in from A.Hill Photography and Tim Hara.

Phish 11.20.2009 - US Bank Arena, Cincy, OH - Tim Hara Photography

Setlists compiments of PhantasyTour.com

12/05/09 John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, VA

Set I: AC/DC Bag, Chalkdust Torture, Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan, The Divided Sky, Ya Mar, Sneaking Sally Through the Alley, Old Home Place, Cavern, Funky Bitch, David Bowie, The Wedge, Bold as Love
Set II: Tweezer> Light> Piper, Free, Sweet Virginia, Harry Hood, Suzy Greenberg, Golgi Apparatus, Run Like An Antelope
Encore: Loving Cup, Tweezer Reprise

12/04/09 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Set I: Heavy Things, Possum, Wilson, Kill Devil Falls, Glide, 46 Days, Bouncing Around the Room, Reba, Dinner and a Movie, Guyute, Maze, First Tube
Set II: Scents and Subtle Sounds, Rock and Roll, Seven Below, Twist, Mike's Song> I am Hydrogen> Weekapaug Groove, The Horse> Silent in the Morning, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Shine A Light

12/03/09 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Set I: Punch You in the Eye, Backwards Down The Number Line, Axilla> Taste, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Stash, Lawn Boy, Time Turns Elastic, Back On The Train, Julius
Set II: Down With Disease> Piper, Fluffhead, Cities, Free, Halley's Comet, Also Sprach Zarathustra, David Bowie
Encore: Character Zero

12/02/09 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Set I: AC/DC Bag, Chalkdust Torture, Wolfman's Brother, NICU> Ocelot, Brian and Robert, Poor Heart, Sample in a Jar, Peaches en Regalia1, The Divided Sky, Cavern
Set II: Golgi Apparatus2, Light> Slave to the Traffic Light, Tweezer, Joy, Sparkle, Harry Hood, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Suzy Greenberg, Run Like An Antelope
Encore: A Day in the Life, Tweezer Reprise
1 not played since 9.24.99
2 First time opening second set since 10.22.95; opens first set 11.8% of the time its played

11/29/09 Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME
Set I: Possum1, Down With Disease, Nellie Kane2, Weigh, When the Circus Comes to Town, Kill Devil Falls, Water in the Sky, Stash, Meat, Undermind, Mike's Song> I am Hydrogen> Weekapaug Groove
Set II: The Moma Dance, Rock and Roll> Light> Crimes of the Mind> Pebbles and Marbles> Also Sprach Zarathustra> Golgi Apparatus> Cavern> Run Like An Antelope
Encore: Freebird3, Carini> Waste
1 first time opening show since 9.9.00

2 first time played since 7.1.00
3 first time played since 6.22.00

11/28/09 Pepsi Arena, Albany, NY

Set I: Party Time, Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan, Uncle Pen, Sanity, Foam, Walk Away, NICU, Alaska, Split Open and Melt, Joy, Vultures, Backwards Down The Number Line
Set II: Seven Below> Ghost, Cool it Down> Gotta Jibboo, Let Me Lie, Wolfman's Brother, Julius
Encore: You Enjoy Myself

11/27/09 Pepsi Arena, Albany, NY

Set I: AC/DC Bag, Maze, Driver, My Mind's Got a Mind of its Own, Gumbo, Bouncing Around the Room, It's Ice, Two Versions of Me, Timber (Jerry the Mule), Limb By Limb, Cavern, Light
Set II: My Friend My Friend1, Golden Age, On Your Way Down, Fluffhead, Piper> Tomorrow's Song, Prince Caspian, Harry Hood, Suzy Greenberg, The Squirming Coil, I Been Around
Encore: Fire
1 first time opening second set since 4.13.93

11/25/09 Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA

Set I: Kill Devil Falls, 46 Days, Sugar Shack, Halley's Comet, The Divided Sky, Sleep Again, Ocelot, Train Song, Wilson, Run Like An Antelope
Set II: Birds of a Feather, Farmhouse, Tweezer, You Enjoy Myself, Esther, Time Turns Elastic, Tweezer Reprise
Encore: Oh! Sweet Nuthin'

11/24/09 Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA

Set I: Chalkdust Torture, Bathtub Gin, Cities> Camel Walk1, The Curtain With, The Wedge, The Moma Dance, Reba, Golgi Apparatus, Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan
Set II: Possum> Down With Disease> Twenty Years Later> Harry Hood, The Mango Song> Mike's Song> Simple> Slave to the Traffic Light> Weekapaug Groove
Encore: A Day in the Life
1 Last Played 6/18/2004 (50 Shows)

11/22/09 Onondaga War Memorial Auditorium, Syracuse, NY

Set I: David Bowie, Julius, Sparkle, Kill Devil Falls, Lawn Boy, Heavy Things, Funky Bitch, Sample in a Jar, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Let Me Lie, Beauty of a Broken Heart, Stash
Set II: Drowned> Twist> Piper> Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Tube, Theme from the Bottom, Maze, The Horse> Silent in the Morning, Character Zero, First Tube
Encore: Good Times Bad Times

11/21/09 US Bank Arena, Cincinnati, OH

Set I: Wilson, NICU, Wolfman's Brother, Ocelot, Torn and Frayed, Strange Design, Ginseng Sullivan, Albuquerque, Split Open and Melt, Dirt, Limb By Limb, Run Like An Antelope
Set II: Rock and Roll> Ghost> If I Could> Backwards Down The Number Line, Prince Caspian, Suzy Greenberg, Also Sprach Zarathustra, The Squirming Coil
Encore: Sleeping Monkey, Axilla

11/20/09 US Bank Arena, Cincinnati, OH

Set I: Chalkdust Torture, The Moma Dance, The Divided Sky, Alaska, Water in the Sky, Fast Enough For You, Time Turns Elastic, Gotta Jibboo, Fluffhead
Set II: Punch You in the Eye, Tweezer> Light> Back On The Train> Possum, Slave to the Traffic Light, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Joy, Golgi Apparatus, Tweezer Reprise

11/18/09 Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI

Set I: AC/DC Bag, Foam, Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan, Bouncing Around the Room, Sample in a Jar, Kill Devil Falls, It's Ice, Horn, Mist, Poor Heart, 46 Days, David Bowie
Set II: Runaway Jim, Down With Disease> Free, Waste, Taste, Bug, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Mike's Song> I am Hydrogen> Weekapaug Groove, Cavern
Encore: Character Zero