This was the most EPIC of weekends, everything was perfect-The weather, the mountains, the music, the venue and PALM TREES EVERYWHERE!!!

LISTEN TO ALL OF F8 HERE:
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Here is the rundown with some pics:

Thursday, 10/29/2009 Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA
SOUNDCHECK
Set 1: Water in the Sky, Sleep Again, Let Me Lie, Invisible, Back on the Train, Driver

Set 2: Jam, Undermind -> Devil With a Blue Dress On Jam, Starship Trooper Jam, Gone, Liquid Time

Notes: On this date there were two soundchecks for Festival 8. Water in the Sky through Driver were part of an acoustic soundcheck that took place earlier in the day. Jam through Liquid Time were part of a separate electric soundcheck that occurred in the evening. Water in the Sky was the slow version. The short Devil With a Blue Dress On Jam included the chorus and part of a verse sung by Trey, as well as a Good Golly Miss Molly quote. The Starship Trooper Jam consisted of part of the Würm segment of the song. Before Liquid Time, Trey quoted Fuck Your Face and briefly teased Kids (MGMT); the jam out of Liquid Time dissolved into a vocal jam consisting of the band members and featured a Lengthwise quote from Trey. The electric soundcheck was broadcast on The Bunny (Phish's on-site festival radio), Sirus/XM Radio and the hijacked "Jack FM" radio station, 95.9 in Palm Springs. The acoustic soundcheck was not broadcast and the song order may be incorrect.



Friday, 10/30/2009 Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA

Set 1: Party Time, Chalk Dust Torture, The Moma Dance, NICU, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Stash[1], I Didn't Know, Poor Heart, Cavern, Beauty of a Broken Heart, Ocelot, Time Turns Elastic

Set 2: Punch You In the Eye > Down with Disease -> Prince Caspian -> Wolfman's Brother > Piper > Joy, David Bowie, Harry Hood > Golgi Apparatus

Encore: Character Zero

[1] L.A. Woman tease.

Notes: This show was part of the three-show Festival 8. Stash contained an L.A. Woman tease. During I Didnt Know, Trey announced that Henrietta would, for the first time in human history, suck and blow at the same time, in the shape of a figure 8. During Bowie, Trey said, "I'm gonna give you a little hint about the Halloween album now."



Saturday, 10/31/2009 Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA


Set 1: Sample in a Jar, The Divided Sky, Lawn Boy, Kill Devil Falls, Bathtub Gin, The Squirming Coil, Runaway Jim > Possum, Run Like an Antelope[1]

Set 2: Rocks Off[2] > Rip This Joint[2], Shake Your Hips[2], Casino Boogie[3], Tumbling Dice[4], Sweet Virginia[5], Torn and Frayed[3], Sweet Black Angel[2], Loving Cup[5], Happy[4], Turd on the Run[4], Ventilator Blues[4] -> I Just Want To See His Face[6] > Let It Loose[4], All Down the Line[4], Stop Breaking Down[4], Shine a Light[4], Soul Survivor[4]

Set 3: Backwards Down the Number Line > Fluffhead > Ghost, When the Circus Comes, You Enjoy Myself

Encore: Suzy Greenberg[5]


[1] Lyrics changed to to “Been you to have any Coil?”
[2] Phish debut; Dave Guy on trumpet, David Smith on trombone, and Tony Jarvis on saxophone.
[3] Phish debut.
[4] Phish debut; Sharon Jones and Saundra Williams on backup vocals, Dave Guy on trumpet, David Smith on trombone, and Tony Jarvis on saxophone.
[5] Sharon Jones and Saundra Williams on backup vocals, Dave Guy on trumpet, David Smith on trombone, and Tony Jarvis on saxophone.
[6] Phish debut; Sharon Jones and Saundra Williams on backup vocals.


Notes: This show was part of the three-show Festival 8. Playbills were distributed on-site (beginning at 12:30pm, 8 hours in advance) confirming that the second set (the band's "musical costume") would be the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St. After Divided Sky, Trey acknowledged the beauty of the venue and announced that Page would now play a love song to the lawn since it was the first time they had played on grass in a long time. Antelope's lyrics were changed to  "Been you to have any Coil, man?" (The Coil was an art installation on the venue grounds.) Set 2 began with a video highlighting selections of the 99 classic albums displayed and then systematically eliminated on the phish.com web site leading up to the festival. Selections in the montage included snippets from Michael Jackson's Thriller, T Rex's Electric Warrior, Metallica's Master of Puppets, Miles Davis's A Tribute to Jack Johnson, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and The Doors (self titled), among others. All of the Exile on Main St songs were Phish debuts, except for Loving Cup and Sweet Virginia. All songs in the second set except for Casino Boogie, Torn and Frayed, and I Just Want To See His Face featured Dave Guy on trumpet, David Smith on trombone, and Tony Jarvis on saxophone. Tumbling Dice, Sweet Virginia, and Loving Cup through Soul Survivor also featured Sharon Jones and Saundra Williams on backup vocals. Trey introduced the horn section after Tumbling Dice and again after the completion of the costume, before saying "We are the Rolling Stones. See you later."
Suzy Greenberg was played with Jones, Williams, and the horns.



Sunday, 11/01/2009 Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA

Set 1: Water in the Sky[1], Back on the Train[1], Brian and Robert[1], Invisible[2], Strange Design[1], Mountains in the Mist[1], The Curtain With[1], Army of One[1], Sleep Again[2], My Sweet One[1], Let Me Lie[1], Bouncing Around the Room[1], Train Song[1], Wilson[1], McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters[1]

Encore: Driver[1], Talk[1], Secret Smile[1]

Set 2: AC/DC Bag > Rift, Gotta Jibboo, Heavy Things, Reba[3], The Wedge, Guelah Papyrus, Undermind, Sparkle, Split Open and Melt

Set 3: Tweezer -> Maze, Free, Sugar Shack, Limb By Limb, Theme From the Bottom, Mike's Song > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Light > Slave to the Traffic Light

Encore 2: Grind, Esther, Tweezer Reprise

[1] Acoustic.
[2] Acoustic; Phish debut.
[3] No whistling.


Notes: This show was part of the three-show Festival 8. The first set, which started at noon, was billed as Phish's "first full-length acoustic set" (complete with complimentary coffee and Festival 8 themed donuts). The first set featured Trey and Mike on acoustics, Page solely on piano, and a unique stage setup that had Fishman stage right with Page on the far left. Before Brian and Robert, Trey encouraged the crowd to sit down due to the "mellow" nature of the set; he added that they had never before played to a crowd that was sitting. Whether the crowd should stand up or sit down became a running joke throughout the set, until Trey confessed during Wilson that he only asked the crowd to sit down at the request of the crew and, in fact, he hates telling people what to do (and also hates sitting down). This show marked the Phish debuts of Invisible and Sleep Again. Fishman performed a whistle solo on My Sweet One. The band briefly left the stage after McGrupp, returning to encore with Driver, Talk, and Secret Smile. Reba lacked the whistling ending. Trey took a moment before Tweeprise to thank those who helped put on the festival.




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