Phish kicked off<\/a> a three-night run at Noblesville, IN\u2019s Ruoff Music Center, the venue better known as Deer Creek, last night. Notably, these shows fall on the exact dates as The Vermont Quartet\u2019s famed three-night stand at Deer Creek in 2000, which took on a festival-like feel\u2013both since they arrived at the end of that summer\u2019s tour and since Phish did not host one of their then-annual weekend camp outs that year.<\/p>\nYesterday\u2019s show got off to a strong improvisational start with an almost 13-minute \u201cBlaze On\u201d that segued into an almost 8-minute \u201cPlasma,\u201d before briefly returning to the end of \u201cBlaze On.\u201d From there, Phish offered strong versions of \u201cRoggae,\u201d \u201cTube,\u201d \u201cWolfman\u2019s Brother,\u201d \u201cLimb By Limb\u201d and \u201cHey Stranger,\u201d pushing \u201cWolfman\u2019s\u201d to almost the 13-minute mark. However, the night\u2019s biggest surprise arrived at the end of the set: So far this tour, Phish have seemingly made a point to play around with their song placements each set and they closed the first half of their show with \u201cBouncing Around the Room\u201d for the first time. Not only that, but the musicians stretched the usually compact tune, one of only a few originals that rarely deviants from its studio recording on stage, to 15 minutes. According to ZZYZX\u2019s Phish Stats page, last night was the 498th time they have played \u201cBouncing,\u201d yet the first time they have jammed it out.<\/p>\n
Keeping that energy going, Phish opened their second set with a strong, improv-forward second set that commenced with a 16-minute \u201cOblivion\u201d which segued into an 18-minute, unfinished \u201cDown with Disease,\u201d a 25-minute \u201cYou Enjoy Myself\u201d and then, finally, \u00a0a rocking \u201cBackwards Down the Number Line.\u201d A standalone \u201cLoving Cup\u201d closed the set, but Phish then returned for an extended, 12-minute \u201cWhat\u2019s Going Through Your Mind\u201d encore and, finally, their first cover of the Osborne Brothers\u2019 bluegrass ditty \u201cRocky Top\u201d of the year.<\/p>\n
Phish will return to Deer Creek this evening.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a look at last night\u2019s setlist via Phish.net<\/p>\n
Friday, July 10, Ruoff Music Center, Noblesville, IN<\/p>\n
Set I: Blaze On -> Plasma -> Blaze On, Roggae, Tube, Wolfman\u2019s Brother, Limb By Limb, Hey Stranger, Bouncing Around the Room<\/p>\n
Set II: Oblivion > Down with Disease[1] > You Enjoy Myself > Backwards Down the Number Line, Loving Cup<\/p>\n
E: What\u2019s Going Through Your Mind, Rocky Top<\/p>\n
[1] Unfinished.<\/p>\n
Down with Disease was unfinished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by Ren\u00e9 Huemer via Phish\u2019s Facebook page Phish kicked off a three-night run at Noblesville, IN\u2019s Ruoff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-521419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}