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Phish original
64 performances since 1994, with 62 analyzed for jam quality. Best version scored 89 on 2024-04-19.
Phish original·debuted 04.16.94·Mullins Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Axilla II"'s improvisational identity is seemingly now fully established, with spacey, effects-heavy playing setting the tone immediately. Using this template as the platform, the band then effortles…
After the initial onset of the typical outro jam, the music begins to gradually descend toward the depths with Trey's delay-drenched whammy sirens and Fishman’s samples setting up a dense soundscape.…
An extended take on the usual outro drifts into a hypnotic haze which Trey cuts through with melodic leads, buoyed by ample synthesizer and "Quadrophonic Toppling" quotes.
Punishing play, typical of the song, cools. Out, then, from the song's familiar closing refrain, Trey shapes his tone, his sound heavy as a stone, and offset by spaceage Page. On-point (somewhat ince…