NYS Music 20​19

Author: Thomas McKenna

  • In Focus: Phish Makes Long Awaited Return to Nassau Coliseum

    Phish’s Fall Tour rolled into Long Island on Sunday with an appearance at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, a building they hadn’t played in almost 17 years. While this Sunday show may not have reached the level of the esteemed February, 28, 2003 show, one of the more venerable shows in Phish history and they last time they played here, it still delivered two robust sets of music filled with old classics, bustout covers, intricate jams and a nod to the past. Check out NYS Music’s photo gallery of all the fun below.

    Phish 12/1/19 Nassau Veterans Memorial Colisuem

    Set 1: Ghost > Rift, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > The Wedge, Martian Monster > Timber (Jerry the Mule) > Cool it Down > Roggae > Poor Heart > Tube > Character Zero

    Set 2: Everything’s Right > Down with Disease -> Cities > Carini > Ruby Waves > Twenty Years Later > Backwards Down the Number Line > Say it to Me S.A.N.T.O.S.

    Encore: Roses are Free > Slave to the Traffic Light

  • In Focus: Phish at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, August 30, 2019

    Phish’s first night of the infamous Labor Day Weekend run – August 30, 2019 – proved to be the cure for a weekend plagued with setbacks.

    Phish – Friday, August 30, 2019 – Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO

    Set 1: Can’t Always Listen, Free[1], No Men In No Man’s Land, 555 > Back on the Train > Rift, Steam > Poor Heart > Undermind, Train Song, Wingsuit > Blaze On

    Set 2: Everything’s Right > Mercury > Shade > Light -> Party Time, Sand > What’s the Use? > Harry Hood

    Encore: Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S.

    [1] Lyrics changed to “flea.”

    Can’t Always Listen was performed for the first time since December 30, 2015 (142 shows) and included a Long Tall Glasses tease from Page. Free’s lyrics were changed to “flea” as a reference to an outbreak of plague transferred by fleas to prairie dogs in the Commerce City area. Trey teased NMINML in Back on the Train. Trey teased Tired of Waiting for You In Everything’s Right. As a further nod to the outbreak, Amie by Pure Prairie League was the postshow music.