Apologies in advance for squeezing both Mann shows in here, still processing. These were my second and third shows (three for three for shows I've attended vs missed out on after having a ticket, fucking covid). I wasn't quite ready for my first show (2016, Mann 1) and I suppose that my obsessive listening in the seven years that have passed set me up well for this week. I went in with hopes, some LONGSHOT hopes, and got every single fucking one. Fluffhead and Waste - you gotta be kidding me. I thought it might be easy to get either a Carini or a Hood or Antelope or Disease - maybe one of the four if I was lucky. Really wanted Army Of One and About To Run, but both in one set? Come on. The Well sounded promising on first outing and I'm glad that's the new tune they brought us and it went to places I hoped it would. Even the cool down songs were, for me, all completely right. Some odd placements (Coil) but some surprises (wait, this isn't the end of the set???) I loved the fuck out of night one, the feeling of knowing you're doing it again had me floaty all day before show 2 - and when Mike's came back out of Boogie On I knew special things were gonna happen tonight. I temper expectations as a dude who got into Phish around '14 and lives pretty much for couch tour and watching the vintage stuff. These nights were so indescribably great that here I am trying to find the words. What a special two nights, happy happy oh my friends. The transition into CDT from C+P is the stuff I live for.

...and that Carini. Face melted.