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I feel like this is a really well rounded show. The Divided/Last Step/Blaze On sequence in particular made me feel alive. Jibboo through Twist seemed like a love letter to 1999, with all songs I tend to associate with that year for one reason or another.
I'd place a few bucks on Mercury coming back radically reworked. There's some great ideas in it, you can tell Trey is excited about it, but seems like it needs some alterations before it clicks.
I'm fine with the band overplaying everything they're overplaying. New songs that they are really into are always going to get played to death. There are a lot of Phish songs which still receive a measure of antipathy that is based in the time when those songs were new. Likewise, there are a lot of Phish songs that people ruin for themselves by basing their expectations on a few jammed out versions from 97-04. Then when Roses doesn't have that 4th or 5th jam ever, it's a bummer. I've always found it more fun to fantasize about jams coming from songs and places of songs they haven't come from yet.
I'd rather wish for the first 555 Jam than the first Halley's Comet jam since Bethel 2011.
Absolutely want to see Bouncin's gooey entrails. As far as songs that have never had a jam, I don't think any have as perfect of a place to leave the structure of the song. Either let Trey play the solo and then jam out of the last few measures, or jam out before the solo and let the jam start with the lyrics still ringing out ala Stash. Either way, you're immediately in Oompa Loompa space reminiscent of the 9/17/00 Theme-> Dog Log segue.
As far as the older songs they're playing a lot, they're giving good reasons for that every time they play them. Maybe there aren't a ton of familiar faces in the audience every night so they're more comfortable reaching for a "Birds" or "Wedge". All the songs they're playing a ton that are "Waiting All Night" or older seem to really be inspring the band right now, just not in a way that makes them want to go Type II with it.
I just think this is a great tour. There's a lot of improvisation going on, and on top of that Trey's playing great and that's making the band happy and it's making the non-jam stuff feel really great too.