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In lieu of their typical broadcast, Phish have announced that they will instead be airing three shows from their traditional Labor Day run at Dick’s Sporting Goods Arena. Instead of broadcasting on Tuesday evening, the three shows will air on Labor Day weekend: Friday, Sept 4, Saturday, Sept. 5 and Sunday, Sept. 6.

On Sept. 4, the band will air their Sept. 1, 2017 performance, which was their first show after the legendary Baker’s Dozen run at Madison Square Garden. The band proved that night that they were on fire in 2017, even sans the fanfare of the Dozen run. The show opened with an extended improvisation during “Blaze On”, and contained a five-song second set with exemplary versions of “No Men In No Man’s Land”, “Carini” and “Ghost”, with a “Harry Hood” taboot.

On Sept. 5, Phish will present another Sept. 1 performance, this one from 2012. While this show aired after the legendary “Fuck Your Face” show on Aug. 31, 2012, it packs a serious punch itself, with perhaps the most beloved version of “Light.”

Finally, on Sept. 6, Phish will broadcast their Sept. 6, 2015 show, during which they spelled “Thank You” during the encore. The famed encore began with “Tweezer Reprise.” The band then began “Harpua”, which they used to weave through the rest of the songs to spell the gratitude, including “After Midnight”, “NO2” and “Once In A Lifetime.”

According to the band’s announcement post, “for the dinner component of this Dicks-pectacular, we’ll be offering recipes each night from some of the best chefs in the country. Beyond being known for their incredible talent and innovation, these three chefs have something else in common: they’re all Phish fans. On Friday, Mark Welker and Mike Pyers (the executive pastry chef and culinary director at Eleven Madison Park, respectively) bring us “The Wedge” salad, a red pepper pan pizza and a spiced zucchini cake. On Saturday, Doug Rankin (chef and owner of Los Angeles’ Bar Restaurant offers up a mizuna salad with a (shake your) coconut dressing, grilled eggplant, and a mango clafoutis. And for the Sunday finale, Chef Molly Nickerson (executive chef at Marea) provides a recipe for a whole grilled fish (with a grilled portobello mushroom as a veg alternative) with pan roasted fingerling potatoes, burrata salad with grilled romano beans, and bicerin (chocolate pudding with whipped cream).”

For this week’s broadcast, the band announced The Mockingbird Foundation, which is “a non-profit organization dedicated to improving access to music education for America’s youth.” (Quote via announcement post.) According to the post, “each year, the Foundation awards grants to dozens of music education programs, and funds those grants through a combination of fundraising, publishing, and the curation of Phish.net, one of the earliest Internet fan communities. The Mockingbird Foundation has no salaries, paid staff, office space, or endowment — thus distributing all possible funds to charity.” To make a donation through The Waterwheel Foundation, head to phish.com/waterwheel.

Check out the band’s full post below, and all three full setlists.

Setlists in order of airing, via Phish.net.

Phish
Sept. 1, 2017
Dick’s Sporting Goods Arena, Commerce City, Colo.
Set I: Blaze On, 555, Breath and Burning, Theme From the Bottom > Free, Tube > Roggae > More

Set II: No Men In No Man’s Land > Carini > Ghost > Harry Hood > Cavern

Enc: The Horse > Silent in the Morning > Character Zero

Phish
Sept. 6, 2015
Dick’s Sporting Goods Arena, Commerce City, Colo.
Set I: The Landlady, Free > The Moma Dance > Seven Below > Prince Caspian > Backwards Down the Number Line, The Line, Scent of a Mule[1] > Saw It Again, Halfway to the Moon, The Birdwatcher, Frankenstein[2]

Set II: Wilson > Down with Disease[3] > Carini > Steam > Piper > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Tweezer > The Horse > Silent in the Morning > Slave to the Traffic Light

Enc: Tweezer Reprise, Harpua[4] > After Midnight[5] > NO2[1] > Keyboard Army[5] > Your Pet Cat[6] > Once in a Lifetime > United We Stand[7]

[1] Fish on Marimba Lumina.
[2] Page on keytar.
[3] Unfinished.
[4] Unfinished. Narration included Jimmy being a guy from the east coast coming west and needing an oxygen tank. Trey sucked from an oxygen tank.
[5] Contained Harpua narration.
[6] Contained Harpua narration from Mike about eating Poster Nutbag.
[7] Phish debut.

Phish
Sept. 1, 2012
Dick’s Sporting Goods Arena, Commerce City, Colo.
Set I: Run Like an Antelope, Backwards Down the Number Line > Tweezer -> Fluffhead > Roses Are Free > Funky Bitch > The Moma Dance > When the Circus Comes, Theme From the Bottom > Golgi Apparatus, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan

Set II: Golden Age > Prince Caspian > Light, Boogie On Reggae Woman > The Wedge, The Horse > Silent in the Morning > Mike’s Song > No Quarter > Weekapaug Groove

Enc: Sleeping Monkey > Tweezer Reprise