{"id":702,"date":"2015-08-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2015\/2015\/08\/28\/phish-magnaball-day-3-your-magna-trip-is-short\/"},"modified":"2015-08-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T00:00:00","slug":"phish-magnaball-day-3-your-magna-trip-is-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2015\/2015\/08\/28\/phish-magnaball-day-3-your-magna-trip-is-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Phish Magnaball Day 3: Your Magna Trip is Short"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many Magnaball<\/a> attendees were foggy rather groggy Sunday morning after an epic Saturday of music, so it was good that fans had all day to recover and gather their strength for a final night of revelry with Phish.<\/p>\n

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Sunday\u2019s show started out with a cheer as fans recognized the opening chords to \u201cPunch You in the Eye.\u201d That segued into a rarity, \u201cBuffalo Bill.\u201d The song hasn\u2019t been played since Ohio in June 2012 and the set continued with \u201cA Song I Heard the Ocean Sing,\u201d then \u201cLimb By Limb,” which featured a jam that built to a quick payoff. The melancholy \u201cWaiting All Night\u201d moved into \u201cTheme From the Bottom,\u201d with a beautifully melodic breakdown in the middle. That transitioned into \u201cMaze,\u201d the only song of the night off Rift<\/em>, the album released on vinyl for the first time the previous day. \u201cMaze\u201d built to a frightening frenzy multiple times before breaking back into the dark, sparse end section.<\/p>\n

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The mood lightened with the lyric-heavy \u201cThe Line\u201d while \u201cStash\u201d got everyone dancing with a jam that included some great guitar\/bass interplay and piano builds. \u201cReba\u201d\u2019s nonsensical recipe for disaster was super fun, as always.<\/p>\n

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Band members then sang \u201cI Didn\u2019t Know,\u201d until Trey asked the Little Beast Boy (Fishman) to come forward and play the vacuum and \u201csuck love\u201d at a long list of people Trey read off that the band wanted to thank, ranging from the band\u2019s crew and staff to local officials. The set finished off with a high-energy version of \u201cCharacter Zero\u201d that left the crowd hungry for more.<\/p>\n

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A loud appreciative roar from the crowd accompanied the opening audio segment of \u201cMartian Monster\u201d whose words of blasting off on a voyage of discovery undoubtedly rang so true for so many at Magnaball. An energized but fairly standard jam soon followed before the music shifted towards ambient spacey tones and, soon after, the opening bass notes of \u201cDown with Disease.\u201d As they\u2019ve done regularly this summer, Phish stretched out a second set \u201cDisease\u201d jam into a beautiful one that started out with a slow ambient groove that slowly and surely evolved into a raging rock and roll blissed out jam.<\/p>\n

After reaching an apex and stagnating for a few minutes, the music shifted seamlessly into a far less common song of late, \u201cScents and Subtle Sounds.\u201d Although not played with the full intro section as it was in Philadelphia two weeks prior, this newly revived 2.0 gem ushered in a new wave of beautiful improvisational rock with standout fills from Page on piano and Trey repeating some soaring and beautifully dissonant chords on guitar. The short and power packed jam was not even finished yet as the opening chords to another rarity, \u201cWhat\u2019s the Use?\u201d started up with Fishman still singing along to a petering out \u201cScents and Subtle Sounds.” This along with \u201cDirt\u201d that followed seemed to serve as a chance for everyone to conserve some energy for the stretch run and for some to cross some rarer songs off their lists.<\/p>\n

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The final leg of a magical weekend began with a \u201cMike\u2019s Song\u201d that was played to perfection with Page again shining on the clavinet and Trey unleashing a relentless attach of high octave shock waves courtesy of the Echoplex. While some held their breath for another go round of the second Mike\u2019s jam, instead, the group launched right into \u201cFuego\u201d which brought its signature brand of powerhouse rock to the second set. While the composed section was run through perfectly, it was a fairly short version with no jam as the music immediately shifted gears into \u201cTwist.\u201d One of the true MVPs of this summer tour, \u201cTwist\u201d featured some of the more improvisational moments of the second set as a quick run through of the composed section gave way to a nifty guitar and bass breakdown between Trey and Mike. A quick blues based jam with the whole band involved soon followed which escalated into yet another full on rock barrage replete with \u201cImmigrant Song\u201d vocal teases from Trey and Fishman. Although it may not have been as stretched out or as epic as previous summer \u201cTwist’s,\u201d this version served as a clear example of how effortlessly the band can shift from one musical mode to another. The customary \u201cWeekapaug Groove\u201d that followed was also a prime example of this as some light-hearted toying around with the song\u2019s tempo towards the end of the jam gave way to a reemergence of \u201cMartian Monster\u201d and all the audio samples that come along with it. If it was the band\u2019s intention to pack as much different music and madness as they could into a short “Mike\u2019s Groove,” then they succeeded most admirably.<\/p>\n

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A show and a weekend like this one could only have one fitting encore and the group\u2019s seminal classic \u201cYou Enjoy Myself\u201d fit that bill. This final musical sendoff gave Phish<\/a> one last chance to delight the crowd with its mastery of ambient noise, blissful cohesiveness, trampolines and vocal jamming. At its completion, a majestic fireworks display went off to the right of the stage that left revelers with minds blown and mouths agape. It served as both the final page of a fantastic and memorable Magnaball and the initial call to arms for those fortunate fans ending the summer tour with the annual summer ending party in Colorado in two weeks.<\/p>\n

Setlist via Phish.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Set 1:<\/strong> Punch You in the Eye > Buffalo Bill, A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing > Limb By Limb, Waiting All Night > Theme From the Bottom > Maze, The Line, Stash, Reba, I Didn’t Know[1], Character Zero<\/p>\n

Set 2<\/strong>: Martian Monster > Down with Disease[2] -> Scents and Subtle Sounds[3] -> What’s the Use? > Dirt > Mike’s Song > Fuego > Twist -> Weekapaug Groove[2] -> Martian Monster<\/p>\n

Encore<\/strong>: You Enjoy Myself<\/p>\n

[1] Trey thanked the crew, production staff and local officials.
\n[2] Unfinished.
\n[3] No intro.<\/p>\n