Definitive All-Time Best Ever Performances (Pick One Song)
Which performance of a specific song would you be bold enough to say is unquestionably the best ever rendition? It’s the Phish Hall of fame and you get one vote 🗳️
I’m quite certain that the best version ever of Backwards Down the Number Line is 08-16-09 Saratoga. Not a song known for being a jam vehicle necessarily but this version is something special as it hits the 20+ Min mark and doesn’t waste a beat along the way.
A very peppy Trey makes a giddy ascent during his approach before turning into a gritty, finger clenching journey through a menacing sonic soundscape. Trey is the conductor of a runaway train at the 12:00 minute mark and on, somehow getting it back on track with a universe tearing guitar drone that rips through space time fabric itself and saves all of fucking humanity in a supernova that hits you right in the smacker. You look up to see Fishman giving you a thumbs-up as he flies away w Christ himself on a flying hotdog.Then on the way back up from the ancient cosmic depths, we transition back into human form and materialize from vapor. You can only try to comprehend what just happened and feel like some primitive creature first witnessing the genesis of pure HOSE.
So yeah, check it out 😁 It’s the best ever BDTNL, fight me!
What’s yours?
Which performance of a specific song would you be bold enough to say is unquestionably the best ever rendition? It’s the Phish Hall of fame and you get one vote 🗳️
I’m quite certain that the best version ever of Backwards Down the Number Line is 08-16-09 Saratoga. Not a song known for being a jam vehicle necessarily but this version is something special as it hits the 20+ Min mark and doesn’t waste a beat along the way.
A very peppy Trey makes a giddy ascent during his approach before turning into a gritty, finger clenching journey through a menacing sonic soundscape. Trey is the conductor of a runaway train at the 12:00 minute mark and on, somehow getting it back on track with a universe tearing guitar drone that rips through space time fabric itself and saves all of fucking humanity in a supernova that hits you right in the smacker. You look up to see Fishman giving you a thumbs-up as he flies away w Christ himself on a flying hotdog.Then on the way back up from the ancient cosmic depths, we transition back into human form and materialize from vapor. You can only try to comprehend what just happened and feel like some primitive creature first witnessing the genesis of pure HOSE.
So yeah, check it out 😁 It’s the best ever BDTNL, fight me!
What’s yours?