Phish is about to take the stage at Bonnaroo 2012 and we’re hosting our own little webcast party here at LMB SF HQ. We’ll be doing our best to live-blog along here as well as provide some Twitter commentary as the show goes on, so make sure to follow along @LiveMusicBlog for updates. Here’s the setlist:
Phish @ Bonnaroo 2012
Set I: Down with Disease, Funky Bitch, Moma Dance, Sample in a Jar, Axila I, The Gambler, Possum, Wilson, Tweezer > Free, Backwards Down the Number Line, Cavern
Set II: Golden Age > 2001 > Chalk Dust Torture, Carini > Shafty > Rock and Roll > Alaska, Harry Hood > Light, Character Zero > Rocky Top
Encore: Show of Life, Julius, Tweezer Reprise
Live blog during the show:
8:12pm — triumphant DWD jam setting in
8:13pm — main solo riff returns
8:14pm — Funky Bitch. I called “Moma”
8:16pm — Leo getting funky on this one; he must know he’s on TV…
8:17pm — everyone see Mike express his approval on that one? Page is raging this Bitch…
8:19pm — Loving the new Kuroda lights
8:20pm — Moma Dance. Haha, wow…
8:22pm — Band is really sounding patient these days….diggin’ how they’re using into this one…
8:26pm — Trey hit a rough note there
8:29pm — Someone here on Couch Tour just called a Game Hendge. Heh.
8:34pm — Axila huh? Maybe it’s just a recycled set from the first two shows of the year….either way, it sounds great.
8:35pm — “Hey remember when we were at Madison Square Garden for New Year’s Eve and they f***ed up this song so hard…” “No, I don’t remember that…”
8:37pm — Kenny Rogers just came out!
8:40pm — Couch Tour here is a distraction fest of people just kinda…well…singing along with “Gambler.”
8:42pm — Sounds like a Possum coming…
8:43pm — Pasta! Someone hit a pasta!
8:45pm — Sick Gambler teases, brah8
:47pm — OMG Streets of Cairo. YES. :)
8:50pm — Wilson. Blaring like hell on #couchtour.
8:54pm — Sick. Love that Tweezer came out already…
8:58pm — Looks who’s in the FreeZer?!?!?!
8:59pm — Absolutely unbelievable breakdown
9:01pm — Little Manteca like groove there…
9:03pm — Loving the dude with the bubble machine in the front row
9:05pm — “No haters on couch tour, brah…”
9:06pm — Free
9:08pm — Settling in…
9:13pm — Backwards. “Set’s probably over now right…”
9:14pm — Hilarious singalong here at Couch Tour HQ. We may be having a bit too much fun…
9:18pm — Johming patiently…
9:22pm — Cavern. I’m psyched that they’re playing the hits right now. That set was awesome…
9:25pm — “whatever you do, take care of your shoes…
10:00pm — Set two starts right on time with Golden Age
10:03pm — “Move your body….we got all you need.”
10:04pm — Still nothing from the Band or Beastie Boys…
10:05pm — Loving the new “raindrop” Kuroda sequence…
10:07pm — Proper transition into “2001”… like, really silky…
10:12pm — Really nailing this one….
10:13pm — @PeteLikesPhish calls “Chalkdust” and he’s 100% correct…
10:14pm — Couch Tour isn’t sittin’…
10:17pm — Ripping version here. “Can’t I live while I’m young…”
10:22pm — Lots of air guitar here on couch tour…
10:22pm — Lots more air guitar expected with “Carini”…
10:24pm — YEAH.
10:27pm — Getting some sick tones here…
10:29pm — Wow. Yep. Uh huh.
10:30pm — Band really locking in and then… wow…
10:31pm — SHAFTY.
10:35pm — Couch Tur was super psyched on Shafty. Now “Rock and Roll”…
10:38pm — “It was alright!”
10:42pm — This version is ripping… really tight band tonight…
10:45pm — Couch Tur commentary is ripping hard on Alaska. Got a vote to switch to Alice Cooper….lulz…
10:49pm — I personally like “Alaska”… what?! :)
10:54pm — Even though this “Alaska” is wailing…. someone in our crew just crashed out. #beibered
10:56pm — Where do you go when the lights go out?
11:25pm — Dinner break over…. “Rocky Top” over… now the Encore.
11:31pm — Good and standard “Show of Life” and now “Julius”…
11:39pm — Brown note
