One of the most anticipated weekends of the year for Phish fans is Labor Day and their annual three-night run at Dicks Sporting Park in Commerce Park outside of Denver, CO.
This year’s festivities were nearly sidelined by prairie dogs with the plague in the neighboring Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. While the shows went off without a hitch, camping and vending was canceled. The Phish community didn’t let this obscurity become a footnote, rather plague prairie dog memes and merch have flourished. Phish even got in on the action and kicked off night three with “Stray Dog” but changed the lyrics to “Plague Dog.”
Over the three nights, Phish shared rarities, deep jams, classic tunes, new Kasvot Vaxt and Ghosts of the Forest tunes. They made us laugh, cry and everything in between.
8/30 Setlist
Set 1
01.Can’t Always Listen
02.Free
03.No Men In No Man’s Land
04.555
05.Back On The Train
06.Rift
07.Steam
08.Poor Heart
09.Undermind
10.Train Song
11.Wingsuit
12.Blaze On
Set 2
01.Everything’s Right
02.Mercury
03.Shade
04.Light >
05.Party Time
06.Sand >
07.What’s The Use?
08.Harry Hood
09.Encore
10.Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S.
8/31/2019 Setlist
Set 1
01.The Moma Dance
02.The Final Hurrah
03.Gumbo
04.Access Me
05.Funky Bitch
06.Ghost
07.Tube
08.Mountains in the Mist
09.Drift While You’re Sleeping
Set 2
01.Mikes Song >
02.I Am Hydrogen >
03.Weekapaug Groove >
04.46 Days
05.Set Your Soul Free
06.Down With Disease
07.NICU
08.Bug
09.Wedge
10.Slave To The Traffic Light
11.Encore
12.Brian and Robert
13.Character Zero
9/1 Setlist
Set 1
01.Stray Dog
02.Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan
03.Turtle In The Clouds
04.Wolfman’s Brother
05.Birds Of A Feather
06.We Are Come To Outlive Our Brains >
07.Taste
08.My Friend, My Friend
09.Twenty Years Later
10.Sparkle
11.Crazy Sometimes
12.Bathtub Gin
Set 2
01.Slightness Escape
02.Fuego>
03.Piper>
04.Tweezer>
05.2001>
06.Chalk Dust Torture >
07.Waste
08.Cavern
09.First Tube
10.Encore
11.Horse>
12.Silent In The Morning
13.Life Beyond A Dream
14.Tweezer Reprise
Thanks to Chris King for the recordings – 8/30, 8/31 and 9/1!
Photo credit: phishfromtheroad
