Phish, photo by Dean Budnick

Phish’s 2025 Summer Tour was an inexhaustible testament to their sustained courage and creativity. Through 23 stops across the country, the foundational jamband continued to embrace fresh challenges and perspectives, taking a left turn from previous 4.0 era runs with a renewed commitment to reinventing the classics and unfolding massive jams. The many unforgettable highlights they dosed out along the journey included record-breaking treatments of “Carini,” “Down with Disease,” “What’s Going Through Your Mind” and “Sand” and the full-set “Tweezer” medley that capped off their tour opening series in New Hampshire and has since been termed “Tweezerfest.” Indeed, night after night, this Summer Tour affirmed that we are living in a golden age of Phish, four decades after they first stepped into the spotlight. 

Though all good things must come to an end, the final performance in Phish’s tour-closing three-night return to Saratoga Springs, N.Y.’s Broadview Stage at SPAC suggested that the best is yet to come. Following exhilarating performances on Friday and Saturday night, the band’s last ride was easily one of the best in the whole outing, channelling all the telepathic communication they’ve built up on the road into a show that was subversive and conceptual without sacrificing energy and focus. One long month after “Tweezerfest” set a high bar for Phish’s latest summer tour, the band bookended a run that consistently exceeded expectations with a full-show exploration of “Tweezer Reprise.”

Phish tore into their 27th SPAC show since 1992 with “Buried Alive,” the hectic 35-year live staple well established as the starting gun for some of the group’s most volatile sets. The band then quickly veered into “Tweezer Reprise,” landing in the second spot as a rare version of the quicker, condensed and key-changed counterpart to the A Picture of Nectar essential that wasn’t following the full song. After stretching out to strange new sounds in the track for 23 minutes, the quartet turned up a 12-minute “Reba”–then returned to “Tweezer Reprise,” establishing the show’s crowd-pleasing central theme. Throughout their two-set tour finale, Phish turned to “Tweezer Reprise” six times for a grand total of 47 minutes. The most notable of these excursions was a 23-minute shapeshifting epic that anchored the second set with an enthralling jam centerpiece.

Beyond “Tweezer Reprise,” Phish’s first set was a heavily segued mix of old favorites like “Funky Bitch,” “46 Days” and “Split Open and Melt,” plus a cover of Ween’s “Roses are Free” and “About to Run,” drawn from Trey Anastasio’s Ghosts of the Forest project which figured heavily into the Summer Tour’s setlists. A high-spirited blast through “Kill Devil Falls” set off the second set, then charged into “Twist” and TV On The Radio’s “Golden Age,” which was a perfectly-segued launchpad into the evening’s largest “Tweezer Reprise.” Following this face-melting improvisation and before the set-closing “Tweezer Reprise,” Phish issued an effortless and infectiously funky cover of Stevie Wonder’s “Boogie On Reggae Woman” and the fan favorite “You Enjoy Myself.” A cheeky encore of “Tweezer” and a 15-minute “Harry Hood” emptied the tank on their run with an unpredictable and unrestrained grand finale.

Phish will return to the stage after a month away for a seven-stop fall series from Sept. 13-21. Find tickets and more information here.

Read on for Sunday’s full setlist.

Phish
Broadview Stage at SPAC – Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
6/28/25

Set I: Buried Alive > Tweezer Reprise > Reba+ -> Tweezer Reprise > Funky Bitch, Roses Are Free -> Tweezer Reprise > 46 Days, About to Run, Split Open and Melt* -> Tweezer Reprise
Set II: Kill Devil Falls[2] > Twist, Golden Age -> Tweezer Reprise -> Boogie On Reggae Woman, You Enjoy Myself -> Tweezer Reprise
Encore: Tweezer, Harry Hood

Notes:
+ Unfinished, no whistling.
* Unfinished.
Reba was unfinished and did not contain the whistling ending. Split Open and Melt and Kill Devil Falls were also unfinished. The last Tweezer Reprise of the first set contained Split Open and Melt teases by Fish. Trey, Mike, and Page teased The Secret of Life (The Dead Milkmen) in Kill Devil Falls. Tweezer, which was played as an encore for the first time, ended abruptly, with Fishman saying “Do you get it?”
Setlist via phish.net.