i was there too

Happy 20th anniversary of SPAC 04’ to those who celebrate. Hard to believe it’s been that long, how time flies…

SPAC 04’ were the best shows I’ve ever personally witnessed (and I’ve seen over 100). The jams were long, patient and transcendent. The segues were like butter, and the entire band was completely locked in from start to finish. Normally Trey (obviously) takes center stage during jams and peaks, but when you listen to these jams they’re all going off as one solid unit. Fish is practically falling off his seat during the Piper peak, Mike is playing prime James Jamerson runs, and Page is laying down layers of texture while Trey ties it all together. To me, this was the last hurrah of the 1.0/2.0 eras. The shows Coventry should have been.

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Thanks!!!

A Dong I Turd the Lotion Fling

This show has Cypress level jamming WTF wow

Wow this show is not as sloppy as I remember,

What a time to be 20

Whyd you send my monkey on the train?

it's fucking criminal that Mike is turned down so low

This was quite a day! Thanks guys😁

Thanks Séan!

I heard the ocean sing

Im surprised Leo's Organ didn't burst into flames at 24:00

This show was amazing. This Free has always been the gold standard for me.

The LxL is such a perfect exclamation point on everything that happened in the set leading up to it. Such an underlooked jam . Was my favorite part of the night. I remember thinking that had to be the end of the set and how perfect of an ending it was, and with the cavern that followed, it should have been. Probably the best ASIHTOS played to date as well

My friend My friend Reverse guitar ghosts

Thanks @thecleverrose....by the way, loving the art work here! Can you tell us about the artist?

this is where babies come from

What a weekend... In the midst of such a heavy difficult era... Drugs... Realizing the trajectory of existence...I believe 2004-ish was when there was enough time to get over the shock of 9/11, while simultaneously having enough distance from it to see the trajectory more clearly that the people running shit. This will always equal debauchery, violence, hedonism.... Basically human recklessness. The band and the crowd were both and all partaking in 2004..it wasn't good, it wasn't healthy..... I'm as lucky to be alive as trey is.. but fucking shit....both nights of spac '04 are so e of the best music phish has ever performed. Up there with nye 95, big cypress, Tahoe tweezer, msg nye '19 tweezer, bomb factory fest... Magnaball... It's some of the most incredible improvised music ever performed. I felt then and still do that at the time.. spac was their goodbye to the fans. Thank God it wasn't, but ya know. Jesus what a weekend

I regret skipping 4 phish shows. 9/11 & 9/12 2000, this show and sold my tickets to Nassau 2003

In terms of pure jamming, this is like top of the top of Phish ever.

Got next night to

I was there. Doesn't get much better than this. Paul Languedoc just had this band's sound dialed in like no other. Last of the true analog days.

I was there alone, my friends were getting spun out in the lot. I managed to make every show summer of 04 felt like the end of an era

1:04:20

People saying they're old. This is more than 10 years after my first show. I was at this show and this is one of my favorite jams of all time.

2004 f*%king rocked.

This is freakin' fantastic!

Had these audience bootlegs on chrome sony tapes. Ahhhhh

Had a great time that night from what I remember.

Transcendent ASIHTOS.

Everybody knows the Piper, but the WotC outtro jam in Set 1 is A+ and the ASHITOS and LimbXLimb are outstanding as well. All intensely emotive. A truly euphoric Limb peak. A magical weekend in Saratoga.

Insane yem

This Free will melt faces! Miss those mammoth Free jams!

This is such a great soundboard, a little more crowd noise than usual really inflates the energy of this recording!

one of my all time favorite antelopes....WOW

Back when lot wasn’t full of pussies Long before woke and the dweebs that are out here now

Holy shit that was good. Morning walk ended up lasting till the end

Who the hell thumbs down on this?

Best Disease of all time

This was my first concert ever, i had just finished 8th grade- back when adults allowed that sort of thing.

jumped the rope at set break and got to row 3........what a set!!!

Thanks for posting

17 fucking years already! Wow. One of the best nights I've ever had. The music still holds up.

Is this the best Piper ever?

Got damn that yem was tasty

Should have traded my Coventry tix, lol

41 mins goosebumps..almost a tweezer reprise hose jam...fuck yes! Upstate NY my hometown!