This is one of the most beautiful Phish sets ever. The midday sun was hot and high at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif. It was the morning after a six-hour, three-set Grand-Halloween-Throwdown, and the third day of the first Phish Festival in five years. Everyone was content and relaxed. Our brains were full on music, and as we listened to the band play, we munched on donuts shaped like the number 8. The only other time I had heard Phish play acoustic was during the Bridge School Benefit in 1998. It's still a sweet memory. This set was even better, with a long and gentle Mountains In The Mist, the treat of a Curtain With,
and the debut of two new songs - Invisible (which has yet to return to the rotation), and Sleep Again. Here is the setlist in its entirety: Water in the Sky, Back on the Train, Brian and Robert, Invisible, Strange Design, Mountains in the Mist, The Curtain With, Army of One, Sleep Again, My Sweet One, Let Me Lie, Bouncing Around the Room, Train Song, Wilson > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters
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