, attached to 2023-07-19

Review by weewaw

weewaw Fun show, right up until the rain came down and washed it all away... or something something if the thunder don't get you then the lightning will.

This was my first multiday run since Curveball ... I'm sorry, I did not know I was cursed. "Haha, self-own. nice!"
First set was nice, not super blazingly hot weather or even that cloudy. Instrumental openers are nice, Wave of Hope was cool, Back on the Train is one of those songs where it's like "wait, it is good to be back on the train... like, the 'train' is 'going to phish shows' and i'm at a phish show. what narrative resonance"

Started drizzling during the setbreak, they covered up the drums and probably the other things [couldn't say more because my glasses were getting wet and blurry by this point], and there was some ominous lightning in the distance. but, long set breaks are a tradition in the community, it's no big deal. Rain stops after about fifteen minutes, an extra fifteen minutes of getting everything right, and we're back on track. CDT is fire, but the rain is back on course. the dissolve into Oblivion feels kinda directionless, but this is the first time I heard the song so maybe it was actually just designed that way. the jam is groovy. the storm is here. it is raining hard, when Kuroda flashes the crowd with the lights you can see how heavy it is hitting them all. During Wedge it kinda slows for a minute, but then picks up entirely and it is a thunderstorm. Out of key Trey, jokingly lets us know... Apparently people were coming on stage by then to tell them to stop, idk. I'm drenched by this point, trying to jump out all of the energy that I had saved for the second half of the second set, and just enjoying this moment. Gotta love that Scents starts with the full open, like... they clearly knew at this point that it's not getting to go full.
"and if you do it right my friend, the moment never ends...
Everything you Love, Everything you Love..."

When Trey said they had to stop, the lightning and thunder almost synced up, to wit, we were in the center of that storm near a bunch of metal equipment, in the open, with less than an hour before curfew. Bummed it had to go out that way, cause Fish knows that Taylor Swift would have kept playing and they would have let her. "I bet Trey told him to stop because of the Illuminati, dude."

That Scents is unfinished. "Four song second set*, nailed it"
CDT> Oblivion is gonna be a crunch fest on relisten! Hearing what exactly Trey was saying at the end will be funny, because on the lawn it was almost incoherent under the rainfall and thunder and people rushing for cover.

4/Unfinished as a grade.


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