Phish at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, August 2, 2013

Phish
2013-08-02
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
99 Grove St, San Francisco, CA
7:30 PM, Friday, August 2, 2013

[8:07 PM, lights down, band onstage, go!]

1. Free
2. Meat
3. The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony »
4. AC DC Bag
5. Vultures
6. Roggae
7. Sand
8. When the Circus Comes
9. Babylon Baby
10. Reba
11. Halfway to the Moon
12. Golgi Apparatus
    [9:35 PM set ends]

[10:10 PM lights down, pause a minute, go!]

1. Punch You in the Eye »
2. Down With Disease »
3. Prince Caspian »
4. Farmhouse
5. Seven Below »
6. Theme from the Bottom
7. Harry Hood »
8. Stealing Time from the Faulty Plan
9. the Squirming Coil
   [11:39 all off (Page last, after long coda; back in a minute or two, just Page at first)]
    
   Encore
10. Walls of the Cave
    [11:51 PM show ends]

• Trey Anastasio: guitar, lead and harmony vox;
• Jon Fishman: drums, percussion, harmony vox;
• Mike Gordon: bass, lead and harmony vox;
• Page McConnell: keyboards, lead and harmony vox.

As best as I can recall, this was my first Phish show since seeing them at Shoreline around 2000 or so. Why such a break? Mostly because other folks were just way too fanatical, making it relatively hard for a lazy fan like me to get tickets. So anyways, I finally ended up there in the Civic, more or less dead center, about 10 feet from the rail … kinda like the old GD days, no? It was a good spot for dancing, and the crowd scene was remarkably mellow … folks around us were fairly gregarious, and while the post-show floor was a wasteland of spilled drinks and other litter, our area was still pretty clean. The show? I enjoyed it quite a bit. The first set had it's ups and downs, but that's a given, right? And while I didn't recognize a fair chunk of the tunes, they were fun to hear (and guess titles!). Was I ready to go again the next night? Nah, too run down from work and all, but from reports I heard, I guess I shoulda motivated!!