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Drew but The Meters

7 Aug, 7 tweets, 4 min read

Totally slept on the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the '96 Red Rocks run because I was too busy seeing #phish shows which is amazing.

Here is a photo of about a third of my crew from that run. 4 of the 5 of us in this picture were just together in Nashville. #phish

https://twitter.com/drewphish/status/761321393904549888

And my old setlists are too funny not to share again.

Night 1 Setlist Book Highlights:

TREY HAS HAIR
SOAMule above average (not a high bar)

https://twitter.com/drewphish/status/761321393904549888

https://twitter.com/drewphish/status/761540023531540480

Night 2 Setlist Book Highlights:

Not even staying on the lines and absolutely no show notes tells you where this night ended up.

https://twitter.com/drewphish/status/761540023531540480

https://twitter.com/drewphish/status/762066371224141826

Night 3 Setlist Book Highlights:

The word "FAT" appears more than once in the show notes
Trey said Buddy Brown shit in Makisupa
Started raining before Purple Rain (complete with a couple water stains)

https://twitter.com/drewphish/status/762066371224141826

https://twitter.com/drewphish/status/762325282384666624

Night 4 Setlist Book Highlights:

Again incapable of even a single show note. I phoned it in like they did on the encore. Sad.

https://twitter.com/drewphish/status/762325282384666624

@phishcrit

As always follow @phishcrit for excellent write-ups of every show on the 25th anniversary.

Can't recommend Rob's stuff any more highly. Always has some sort of cool angle on things that makes me think.

Follow him if you don't! #phish

Three of the same crew from the above photo almost 25 years to the day later.

All of us over 500 miles from home for a multi-night run just like in 1996.

Wouldn't have it any other way. #phish

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I'm going in for the first time since the gig. Seems like "Everywhere" is the right seeing here.

And loud AF #phish

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But note there's a million directions you can go with all of this.

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