Ahead of a two-night stand at Columbia, Maryland’s Merriweather Post Pavilion and their highly anticipated summer festival, Curveball, in Watkins Glen, New York, Phish headed to Raleigh, North Carolina’s Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek on Friday night. For the wild, heavy-hitting second set, the group dialed in, offering up a double-decker sandwich housing “Run Like An Antelope” within “Runaway Jim” and “Makisupa Policeman” within “Run Like An Antelope”.
Early on in the “Runaway Jim” jam, Phish started heavily teasing “Run Like An Antelope”. Instead of returning to “Runaway Jim”, around two minutes in the song, the band full-on transitioned into “Run Like An Antelope”, earning a huge roar of approval from the crowd. Per Phish.net, this marked the second time that “Runaway Jim” and “Run Like An Antelope” have fallen immediately next to one another, with the other time being in 1997 in Denmark, though the Denmark performance did not see the group jam between the two tunes. Sticking in “Antelope” for a while, eventually, the group transitioned back into “Runaway Jim”, which featured Trey singing “You’re alone”, referencing the “Thread” jam that came earlier in the set.
With a frenetic build, Phish deftly landed in the dubby “Makisupa Police Man”, with Page and Trey grinning ear to ear as they worked through the tune and Page gave a shout-out to “Hindu Kush”. The laidback jam saw Page transition over to the synth before the group came together to finish off the uncompleted “Run Like An Antelope”. Listen to the 18+ minute rollercoaster below:
Runaway Jim → Run Like An Antelope → Runaway Jim → Run Like An Antelope → Makisupa Policeman → Run Like An Antelope
[Video: Phish]
You can read Live For Live Music’s full review from Friday’s Raleigh show here.
Phish has one more night at Merriweather Post Pavilion before they head to Watkins Glen, New York for their 11th music festival, Curveball.
Setlist: Phish | Credit Coastal Union Music Park at Walnut Creek | Raleigh, NC | 8/10/2018
Set I: Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan, Funky Bitch, Ocelot, The Wedge, Wombat, Guelah Papyrus, Birds Of A Feather, Saw It Again, Timber, Limb By Limb, Farmhouse, More
Set Two: Meatstick, Drowned, NICU, Thread, Runaway Jim > Run Like An Antelope > Runaway Jim > Run Like An Antelope > Makisupa Police Man > Run Like An Antelope Reprise, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: A Day In The Life