Phish @ Telluride, Town Park – Night Two: Setlist and Recap

Phish Summer Tour 2010 rolled on tonight at Town Park in Telluride, CO for the second show at one of the most gorgeous venues in the USA.

[Photo by Eva Nowakowski]

The band went with an unorthodox choice to start, opening with The Squirming Coil for the first time since July 16, 1998 – we’re talking 12 years since that song opened a Phish show. Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan came next followed by the reggae-fied Ya Mar. Timber (Jerry) followed just one day after the anniversary of Jerry Garcia’s death. Coincidence? Probably.

Let Me Lie saw live action eight times in 2009, but it took 23 shows for the Trey ballad to finally hit the Phish stage in 2010. As the cumulus clouds set in so did Divided Sky. The opening set continued with a pair of beloved covers – Walk Away by the James Gang and Ween’s Roses Are Free. Limb By Limb featured an a capella ending again and the quartet ended the first set with Bouncing Around The Room and Run Like An Antelope – just as they did at Thursday night’s show in Berkeley.

Party Time opened the second set and raised the energy from the get go, especially once Mike’s came right after. Another solid Mike’s led into an exploratory cover of Crosseyed & Painless. Following that powerful 1-2-3 combination, the boys brought things down a bit with the pretty I Am Hydrogen before a short but sweet Weekapaug. Destiny Unbound, a tune the band played at their last visit to Telluride in 1991 just 14 shows before shelving it for 12 years, made for quite the treat. After a fiery Carini full of dark droning improv and the evil funk of Free, Heavy Things provided a stark contrast and then You Enjoy Myself ended the set.

• Previously on HT: Phish Telluride – Night One

When the quartet came out for the encore, guitarist Trey Anastasio stepped to the mic and told the story of the band’s first tour through Colorado. He expressed how happy each of the band members were to be playing in Telluride again and then Phish capped the two-show run with Shine a Light. It’s off to the Midwest for Phish as they head to Deer Creek in Noblesville, IN for concerts on Thursday and Friday.