Phish spiced up their setlist on Friday, Sept. 3, opening their Labor Day Weekend run at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park with a bunch of summer tour debuts as well as some marquee jamming.
Set one opened with “46 Days” and the always-enjoyable “Party Time.”
Not soon after, the band played “Timber (Jerry the Mule)” for the first time this summer.
Other 2021 debuts came just a few songs later with back-to-back “Vultures” and “Pebbles and Marbles.”
As has been the trend this summer, Phish also stretched out a couple of tunes past the 20-minute mark, namely set one’s ending “Carini” and a mid-second set “Chalk Dust Torture.”
The band’s three-part encore also included a 2021 debut – they worked from “Cavern” through “Waste” before playing the summer’s first “Good Times, Bad Times.” Interestingly, this also marked the first-ever “Good Times, Bad Times” at the venue.
Phish’s Labor Day Run will continue through Saturday, Sept. 4 and Sunday, Sept. 5.
Check out the full setlist and clips of each set opener below:
Phish
Sept. 3, 2021
Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, Colo.
Set I: 46 Days, Party Time, Steam, Timber (Jerry the Mule), Yarmouth Road, Foam, Vultures, Pebbles and Marbles, Carini
Set II: Rise/Come Together > A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing > Chalk Dust Torture > Beneath a Sea of Stars Part 1 > Light -> Plasma -> Chalk Dust Torture, Runaway Jim, Slave to the Traffic Light
Enc: Cavern > Waste > Good Times Bad Times
4 Comments comments associated with this post
Bryan
September 10, 2021 at 4:34 pmShow was awesome. So many haters. Much be the old people.
Sad Phan
September 4, 2021 at 1:31 pmIt’s dark times in Phish land between Mike being consistently off, Trey toying with cadence and phrasing and Page just have no gas for vocals, all signs point to Phish & co
Beanieman
September 4, 2021 at 1:02 pmFun show but it had some issues. Mike’s bass sound is muddy as hell. He is lost in the mix. Sound mix problems plagued the first set and the bass is buried for the most part. The band didn’t really start grooving until they busted out Foam. Yarmouth road is still terrible and the guys have never gotten this song to work IMO and should shelve it.
Lots of great jams and inspired playing for sure, but Mike’s new sound isn’t cutting it and the Phish sound has suffered IMO because of it. Where are the bass mids? There was some evidence in he beginning of Slave to the Traffic Light that Mike can still play but it only lasted a couple mins and then he faded into the background again.
I still had a great time. But I miss that punchy bass that cut through the mix and showed off Mike Gordon’s beautiful counterpoint.
willie campbell
September 4, 2021 at 11:24 amBoooooo, all garbage, purely garbage. What happened to these guys, they use to jam, use to be the live band to must see. Now just some slow melody, old man garage band. Ready for them to call it quits.