Ranking the 2022 shows you attended

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  • mtrovato328
    mtrovato328 Posts: 18
    LA2>LA1>SD
  • payling
    payling Seattle Posts: 412
    LA 2
    Oak 2
    Oak 1
    LA 1
    SD
    PA
  • BH87446
    BH87446 Posts: 113
    Sacramento was awesome, I was surprised no one else showed up! 😝
  • Foriginal Sin
    Foriginal Sin Scottsdale, AZ Posts: 1,876
    edited May 2022
    Funny about lists. There’s like a 25 greatest shows list floating around, MSG gets lots of love but is there really anything special about those shows? Beside “I was there” And somebody saying show X was great because they played Bee Girl over show y that they played 33 awesome songs is proof. The Campaign show in 2003 sounds fucking amazing, band was tight AF, I wasn’t there and neither was most people that post here so of course it gets ZERO love. 

    One of Phish’s greatest shows was attended by very few people. They were in Salt Lake to a 25% capacity crowd. Night before they played Vegas to a crazy sold out crowd and the show was good, standard show. Next night they play Salt Lake and see nobody is there so they play Dark Side of the Moon front to back in the middle of one of their songs. Fucking Epic. Even the Phish nerds that weren’t there realize that 
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    Chicago 6/29/98, Alpine Valley(EV) 6/13/99, Alpine Valley 10/08/00, Chicago 10/09/00, Phoenix 10/20/00, Orlando 4/12/03, Tampa 4/13/03, San Diego 6/05/03, Vegas 6/06/03, Phoenix 6/07/03, Chicago 6/18/03, Alpine Valley 6/21/03, Orlando 10/08/04, D.C. 10/11/04, Chicago 5/16/06, Chicago 5/17/06, LA 7/12/08, Chicago 8/23/09, Chicago 8/24/09, LA 10/07/09, San Diego 10/09/09 (Front Row Center, Finally), Phoenix(EV) 11/4/11, Wrigley 7/19/13, Phoenix 11/19/13, Denver 10/22/14, Wrigley 8/20/16, Wrigley 8/22/16
  • LL624
    LL624 Posts: 43
    SD, Oak 2 & Fresno.
    Meh…we’ve had much better. Oh well. 
    That first leg deserves a do-over. 
    "Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." --Henry David Thoreau
    "Compassion is the basis of all morality." --Arthur Schopenhauer
  • jammergirl
    jammergirl Posts: 599
    Oak 2, Oak 1, Fresno 

    I thought every show was fantastic in it's own way, I had forgotten how long it's been seeing them in an arena. Besides Ohana, the last two shows I saw them at were in stadiums (Wrigley, Seattle). It helped being in GA, but having that intimacy being so close to the band was so special. Fresno especially being able to see how hard Eddie was battling to get through it, he really gave it his all and I think the crowd did a great job giving the band the enthusiasm to put on a good show. 

    If I may get sappy for a moment, one of the best things about these shows were seeing friends I've made through this band and meeting new ones. After two years of relative isolation it felt almost like getting my old life back. I just want to thank the band for giving us this opportunity for us freaks to all get together in the same place. 
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,910
    1) Oak 1
    2) Oak 2

    Oak 2 had the more interesting setlist, and I'm pretty sure I'd usually whine about a greatest hits setlist.  But something connected that night.  There was this fun and exparatory energy from both the band and audience of using other drummers.   I thought it made for an amazing show.  Maybe it was nearly 4 years since the last pj show, but to me it was super enjoyable.

    Oak 2 was solid and pretty good, but you could tell they struggled more on night 2.  Night 1 had an amazing vibe.. loved it.
  • Red Mosqito
    Red Mosqito Posts: 1,239
    LL624 said:
    SD, Oak 2 & Fresno.
    Meh…we’ve had much better. Oh well. 
    That first leg deserves a do-over. 
    I’ll second that thought knowing full well it’ll never happen.
  • ten474
    ten474 Los Angeles Posts: 186
    LA N2
    Fresno
    OAK N2
    OAK N1
    San Diego
    LA N1
    2000: Los Angeles, San Bernardino
    2003: Irvine, Las Vegas, Santa Barbara
    2006: Los Angeles N1 & N2
    2011: Mexico City
    2013: Wrigley Field, Los Angeles N1 & N2
    2014: Austin City Limits Weekend 1
    2015: Mexico City
    2016: Fenway N1 & N2
    2018: Seattle N1 & N2, Missoula, Boston N1 & N2
    2021: Ohana I, Ohana II
    2022: San Diego, LA N1 & N2, Oakland N1 & N2, Fresno
    2023: St. Paul N1 & N2
    2024: Vancouver N1 & N2, Vegas N1 & N2, Los Angeles N1 & N2, Seattle N1 & N2, Dublin, Manchester, Missoula, Wrigley N2, Boston N1 & N2, Ohana N1 & N2
    2025: Hollywood, FL N1 & N2, Nashville N1 & N2








  • Red Mosqito
    Red Mosqito Posts: 1,239
    Zod said:
    1) Oak 1
    2) Oak 2

    Oak 2 had the more interesting setlist, and I'm pretty sure I'd usually whine about a greatest hits setlist.  But something connected that night.  There was this fun and exparatory energy from both the band and audience of using other drummers.   I thought it made for an amazing show.  Maybe it was nearly 4 years since the last pj show, but to me it was super enjoyable.

    Oak 2 was solid and pretty good, but you could tell they struggled more on night 2.  Night 1 had an amazing vibe.. 
    Completely agree with your assessment on these two nights. The first night I was with a few peeps who were catching their first ever PJ show and they left blown away, and why? Because they got to hear pretty much ALL of the hits they already knew. Now because of that, they’ll start digging into their deeper catalog more.

    OAK N1 wins it because it was the band in their finest hour if you ask me. They were facing some major adversity attempting to play without MFC so they came out swinging with RITFW & Elderly Woman to get the crowd fired up and in to immediately, and they never let that energy waiver from that moment on. It was an amazing and gutty performance with an even more impressive crowd that night. There’s no doubt in my mind that the best crowd of the tours first leg goes to OAK N1, hands down. And if ya don’t believe me, wait until you hear Baba from that night, oh my! 🤩😎🙌🤘


  • huntersthompson
    huntersthompson Posts: 1,034
    BH87446 said:
    Sacramento was awesome, I was surprised no one else showed up! 😝
    toss up between Vegas and Sac for me....although, I was able to get pit tix for Sac and could walk right up to the front...

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