Wednesday, 06/14/2000
Drum Logos, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka, Japan
Soundcheck: Live and Let Die Jam, 007 Theme Jam, Windora Bug (with alternate “Carini” lyrics), Funky Bitch
Set 1: Carini, The Curtain > Cities[1], Gumbo -> Llama, Fee[2], Heavy Things, Split Open and Melt
Set 2: Back on the Train, Twist > Jam[3] -> Walk Away -> Also Sprach Zarathustra
Encore: Sleep, The Squirming Coil
[1] Trey altered the lyrics in Cities to reference noodles.
[2] Tease of the old Charlie Chan signal lick from Fishman, who played it on the woodblock during one of his breaks.
[3] Segment based on the intro to Ghost.
Notes: Trey altered the lyrics in Cities to reference noodles. Fee included a tease of the old Charlie Chan signal lick from Fishman, who played it on the woodblock during one of his breaks. The jam between Twist and Walk Away included a segment based on the intro to Ghost. Sleep was played by request. This show was officially released as Live Phish 04.
This show was part of the "2000 Summer Japan Tour."
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4 Phish.netters attended.
The second set is the best of Y2K to my ears, which isn't exactly a colossal achievement, but it's also the most delicate, ethereal, *patient* hour-plus of live Phish. Ever. The jam out of Walk Away sounds like a lonely wounded version of the 'Quadrophonic Topplings' jam at Big Cypress, the segue *into* Walk Away seems to stretch out forever, and the 18-minute take on Twist is pure crystalline sweetness. Beneath the washes of ambient sound a storm builds, and the electricity dissipates in an understated but intense 2001. Even GBOTT is infused with energy - and yet the whole set never seems to rise above a whisper. The show plays like a delicate small-venue coda to Big Cypress, albeit with none of that show's anarchic swamplands energy. Get this one.