Phish - 2018 Summer Highlights (The first "Phish Highlights" video)

(Originally posted September 2020) The first ever "Phish Highlights" video I ever did, as 2018 was the year I went from being a casual fan since the breakup period, to someone who knows the live catalogue almost front and back. It started out as a 15 minute video with a handful of segments from both tours, but it got blocked because I used SBDs. So I swapped them out with AUDs and realized it would be much better if both summer and fall got their own video. This one for summer is a fun one, but Fall/NYE is the real deal. 0:00 Alpharetta Ghost 8/3/18 (Jam charts: Galaga and Zaxxon battle Space Invaders in the resplendent Echoes of an exploding Dark Star) 2:33 Walnut Creek YEM 8/10/18 (Hottest YEM of the year) 4:35 Walnut Creek Runaway Like a Jimelope Policeman 8/10/18 (My first live experience with a shenanigans style show. You can honestly thank this set for this channel and these videos existing) 5:54 Dick's Down with Disease 9/1/18 (Get it Mike) 6:30 Austin Down with Disease 7/31/18 (2018 had some great minor key grooves) 7:12 Gorge Chalkdust 7/20/18 (Jazz fusiony. Unfortunately the back half of the jam squanders this amazing section. If they kept exploring rather than going for a forced peak, easily jam of the summer) 9:31 Gorge Simple 7/20/18 (This and that section of Chalkdust carry heavy 2015 vibes) 10:17 Gorge Crosseyed 7/22/18 11:05 Gorge Wombat 7/22/18 (One of my favorite type 1s post reunion. Wombat absolutely reaches its full potential here) 15:02 San Francisco Ocelot 7/25/18 (Like the Wombat, also a perfect dark type 1 version of Ocelot. It pretty much ruined every other live Ocelot for me) 17:40 San Francisco Set Your Soul Free 7/25/18 (One of the best type 2s of the summer. Really nice serene groove that eventually turns into funk) 18:25 Walnut Creek NICU 8/10/18 (The 3rd (or 4th if including MPP 14?) jammed out NICU at this point, following 12/14/95 and 10/30/98) 19:18 Gorge Split Open and Melt 7/22/18 (The Gothic Melt. The hero facing his greatest challenge yet. I think this is the exact version of Melt that revolutionized it post-reunion (the 4/21/93 Melt, of 3.0 if you will). Up until summer 18, it was still pretty straightforward, and was basically just like getting a Bowie at the end of a first set. But this version from the Gorge is what started the Melt Renaissance , which as everyone knows, carried HEAVILY into 4.0) 20:21 Alpharetta Carini 8/3/18 (Slow build anthemic bliss) 21:38 Walnut Creek Drowned 8/10/18 (Really nice hosey melodies from Trey) 22:20 Camden Light 8/7/18 (Not Dick's) 22:41 Camden Down with Disease 8/7/18 (Trey's meaty tone sounds like a monster slowly rising out of the sea) 23:57 Inglewood Fuego 7/28/18 (More anthemic bliss!) 25:37 Dick's What's The Use? Effects provided by    / @aavfx