The final night on the first leg of Phish Tour 2009 has just started at Alpine Valley in East Troy, WI. The band opens with “Brother,” and the next text I got said “Strange opener.” I’ll say.

I still haven’t listened to last night yet but I was told the “Maze” was a monster.

Phish @ Alpine Valley, 6/21/09

Setlist:

Set I: Brother, Wolfman’s Brother, Funky Bitch, The Divided Sky, Joy, Back on the Train, Taste, Poor Heart, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenue Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, Time Turns Elastic

Set II: Crosseyed & Painless -> Down with Disease, Bug, Piper, Wading in a Velvet Sea, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Slave to the Traffic Light

Encore: Grind, Frankenstein

That’s all she wrote folks. We’ll be back on the case in a little over a month for Red Rocks!

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Text updates from friends:

set II:
RE: crosseyed
“cross eyed and fucking painless”
“tons of glowsticks”

RE: ->DWD
“holy shit what a segue”
“now we are talking”
“trey is shredding this jam”
“trey ripping it so far. 2nd set monsters. LONG jams”

RE: Bug
“Bug. piss break”
“killed momentum yet once again with bad placement of random and weird songs”

RE: Piper
“It was long but lacking something”
“…want slow build. Piper needs to be re-imagined”

RE: Frankenstein
w/ Page on Keytar, trey on multi-neck guitar, and Mike on “flame-bass”