YES YES YES my Shoreline Runaway Jim! Thank you KS.

Wow. The Jim, Halleys & Split just gave me a brain orgasm. Well done Phish!

Incredible choices again! Woo hoo!

Lot of green versions of jams in here. One of the best installments yet.

The 12-1-96 Tweezer is a fantastic choice along with the 11-19-96 Gin -> VOL.

I just listened to the 6-25-00 Split the other day. It's crazy how a potentially "best ever" version of a song can be played during easily the worst show I have ever attended and possibly one of the worst all time.

I thought Trey was going to nod off during Slave, and listening to it, he actually might have.

Really excited that they added the MPP 98' Hood. One of my favorite shows!!

Sad to see that they've definitely moved away from any kind of "theme" with these (the first nine all had one, even if #9's was simply a compilation of past songs/shows from the 2013 summer tour venues), but I'm always stoked for a new one. Looks like it has some gems!

Haven't heard a lot of these so I'm excited to give it a spin. Starting....now.

I Didn't Know wackiness!!

@Zhaph said:

Sad to see that they've definitely moved away from any kind of "theme" with these (the first nine all had one, even if #9's was simply a compilation of past songs/shows from the 2013 summer tour venues), but I'm always stoked for a new one. Looks like it has some gems!

Do you not see the theme of this one, and how it matches most of the previous LBs??

Great additions.... If only there were a different 'venue' in Commerce City....

Of course there is a lot to like, and this is not to take a swipe at fall '97, but what I really loved about the summer is all over this Jim. So much Page on his piano; the subdued - yet scatter-shot - syncopation; Trey shifting pitches with metered patience; his looping less piercing, in no way distracting; the 'quiet' augmenting the playing, rather than any sense of meandering (or a breather); at this point never knowing what would eventually emerge from 'it.'

In many ways the playing is like some of the really cool '04 stuff, only absent the menacing spirit.

One of my favorite things about summer is LB.... seeing what comes out of the capsule. Last year it was the JB 'Tweezer' and 'Nothing.'

Have fun at the shows; it's still such a great time to be into the band.

This is a very well balanced release.

If you have no choice except to get a Fu*kerpants, it might as well be this one from Dick's.

Love the Stash and Gin, plus the early Mike's.

Christmas in July. Thank you Phish.

I'm so pleased with these selection. Much love for Lakewood 95. such a solid show front to back.

Great Hood. The Tweezer is top notch as well. And the Runaway Jim sealed the deal.

Yeah - that Tweezer is a blast. There are a lot of interesting spots in '96 both pre- and post-ball.... I'll go pay more attention to the Hood now.

FYI the link to YEM's 10/14/1995 show goes to the non-Phish show on that day

nice, like that Jim a lot.

and oh my god Raleigh 2000 was so awful. i don't even remember them playing Melt, looking forward to hearing it again.

Maybe the one show I ever heard where Mike seemed like the biggest problem!

I dunno why i get so tickled when people still say "Fuckerpants"

The genesis of the nickname seems to make sense, as people weren't into this random 3 minute songlet that popped up incessantly in 95

But once they expanded it for the first time at Melkweg, it probably should have lost the stigma, no?

I guess I just don't get why it seems less popular than Bug, despite them having relatively identical jams and Bug having lyrics that were probably written the same day as Sand and Jennifer Dances... AKA: The least inspired day Trey ever had where he still wrote 3 songs!
I kid i kid.. Kinda.

I'll always be a Caspian fan. Trey has done some excellent noisy/textural solos in it, and Page is always doing something gorgeous.

MPP 98 is a weird show... I've never been to a show that felt remotely that short. And looking back on it, first set is under an hour and second set is just over an hour..

I always felt like the marathon of MPP 2000 was a makeup for that..Think that show is over an hour longer IIRC

@nichobert said:

I dunno why i get so tickled when people still say "Fuckerpants"

The genesis of the nickname seems to make sense, as people weren't into this random 3 minute songlet that popped up incessantly in 95

But once they expanded it for the first time at Melkweg, it probably should have lost the stigma, no?

I guess I just don't get why it seems less popular than Bug, despite them having relatively identical jams and Bug having lyrics that were probably written the same day as Sand and Jennifer Dances... AKA: The least inspired day Trey ever had where he still wrote 3 songs!
I kid i kid.. Kinda.

I'll always be a Caspian fan. Trey has done some excellent noisy/textural solos in it, and Page is always doing something gorgeous.

I remember someone once wondering why Trey 'treats' Caspian like Wharf Rat. That has resonated with me; where it falls in sets, the tune just seems to lack that emotional oomph.

Like you say, Trey has certainly used the song to make some cool noise. The Darien '00 version is cool in that regard, in that the playing informing the show to that point doesn't dissolve with the introduction of those few chords. And of course this has happened a number of other times as well. Back then I'd get a feeling akin to when I hear BDTNL emerge today. Trey loves both songs, so that is cool. And I like both songs. But I do wish, in the moment, that they'd gone in a different direction.

@Zhaph said:

Sad to see that they've definitely moved away from any kind of "theme" with these (the first nine all had one, even if #9's was simply a compilation of past songs/shows from the 2013 summer tour venues), but I'm always stoked for a new one. Looks like it has some gems!

Couldn't disagree more. Listen again, if you haven't already. If this year's Live Bait is any indication, then we are in for a hot summer. See ya'll at the creek and the post.

Nice deep, long jams in this installment.

Great tracks for running like the proverbial Antelope!

Never heard the Hood in this batch - was skeptical at first, then was rewarded with lovely "soft-loud" 98 bliss.

Looking forward to diving into some of the others, particularly that Melt.