Right before the San Francisco Giants won their third World Series title in five years, Phish kicked off their third and final concert at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Fran. The band paid tribute to the baseball team earlier in the run, playing an instrumental “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” earlier in the run. Tonight, the band quickly busted out their first-ever “We Are The Champions,” the Queen victory classic, right in the middle of “The Moma Dance,” immediately after the team won their final game.
The crowd was surely excited to celebrate both the World Series win and the Phish show. The band played an excellent show to wrap up the run, gearing up for a big three-night run at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV.
Phish: Wed, Oct 29, 2014
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
Set 1: Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, The Moma Dance > We Are the Champions[1] > The Moma Dance > Free, Back on the Train, Yarmouth Road, Strange Design > Taste, The Wedge, The Line, Wolfman’s Brother
Set 2: First Tube > Down with Disease[2] > Theme From the Bottom > Split Open and Melt, Heavy Things > Light -> Possum
Encore: Contact, Meatstick > Character Zero
[1] Phish debut; instrumental and chorus only.
[2] Unfinished.
Notes: The Phish debut of We Are the Champions was played as an instrumental immediately following the San Francisco Giants’ victory in game seven of the World Series. Only the chorus of We Are the Champions was performed. Yarmouth included a We Are the Champions tease from Trey. Following a “let’s go Giants” chant after The Wedge, Page congratulated the Giants, adding that he watched the whole series. Trey told the crowd that Page was a Mets fan and that Page watches every Mets game streamed on his phone with many of them on the organ while the band’s playing. Page said “we can’t be world champions all the time… or ever.” Trey then introduced The Line in honor of losers in sports. Disease was unfinished. Trey quoted All About That Bass in Contact.
[Setlist via Phish.net]