Telluride 1
Our flight from Oakland to Telluride got us to the mountains and sunshine of Colorado in a little less than two hours. After moving on from how much warmer Telluride was than Berkeley we were whisked away to Capella in around 20 minutes. We were sitting on our deck for about 10 minutes or so when we saw the Phish tour buses role by our spot. This makes the second time Kenny has picked the exact place Phish is staying (Hampton being the other). The only real problem we encountered all day was a half an hour wait for the gondola from Mountain Village to Telluride proper, but other than that it was smooth sailing.
We got into the show around 6 and Teri was finally back to a more normal stress level since she had her bracelet on. The boys didn’t come on stage until about 7:25 but there was massive amounts of space for everyone, in fact I’d bet they could have fit 3-4 thousand more people on that field. Town Park is obviously very picturesque and for the record I saw THREE extra tickets within minutes of getting off the gondola. Now I don’t know what they were selling for, but make no mistake there were plenty of extra tickets to be had here.
As for the show it really got jump started with “Camel Walk” (my first since 4/16/04) and the ever expanding “Ocelot” continued the momentum until a splash down in my first “Light Up” since 12/30/99. Maybe the “Light Up” wasn’t on the same level as 7/1/10’s, but it was certainly no slouch either. The rest of the first set closed very strong with “Stash,” “Cavern,” “Wedge,” “Possum” and “Julius.” There really was no let up at all.
The second frame was an all out transition fest that started with a ripping “Sand.” From there it went “Number Line > Tweezer > Boogie On > Piper > Mist.” The real nastiness happened during the “Tweezer > Boogie On > Piper” section with “Piper” really taking the cake. From there “Bowie” was very solid and of course my first ever “Quinn” was the biggest treat of all. We started walking out during “Reprise” to avoid some of the gondola line and that worked out great.
I went to bed early and woke to oxygen therapy followed by a deep tissue massage. So needless to say I am ready to cut loose tonight.
We got into the show around 6 and Teri was finally back to a more normal stress level since she had her bracelet on. The boys didn’t come on stage until about 7:25 but there was massive amounts of space for everyone, in fact I’d bet they could have fit 3-4 thousand more people on that field. Town Park is obviously very picturesque and for the record I saw THREE extra tickets within minutes of getting off the gondola. Now I don’t know what they were selling for, but make no mistake there were plenty of extra tickets to be had here.
As for the show it really got jump started with “Camel Walk” (my first since 4/16/04) and the ever expanding “Ocelot” continued the momentum until a splash down in my first “Light Up” since 12/30/99. Maybe the “Light Up” wasn’t on the same level as 7/1/10’s, but it was certainly no slouch either. The rest of the first set closed very strong with “Stash,” “Cavern,” “Wedge,” “Possum” and “Julius.” There really was no let up at all.
The second frame was an all out transition fest that started with a ripping “Sand.” From there it went “Number Line > Tweezer > Boogie On > Piper > Mist.” The real nastiness happened during the “Tweezer > Boogie On > Piper” section with “Piper” really taking the cake. From there “Bowie” was very solid and of course my first ever “Quinn” was the biggest treat of all. We started walking out during “Reprise” to avoid some of the gondola line and that worked out great.
I went to bed early and woke to oxygen therapy followed by a deep tissue massage. So needless to say I am ready to cut loose tonight.
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