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On August 14th and 15th, 2010 Phish played their 12th and 13th shows at Alpine Valley Music Theater - all 2-night stands since 2003. "Alpine" as it is affectionately known, is a steeply-sloping amphitheater with a big lawn and raucous crowd perpetually bursting with energy right in the band's faces due to the angles of the place. The angles all aligned on Saturday August 14th - the focus of the Alpine Valley DVD, which will be released in stores and for audio only download nationwide on December 14th.

This box set features the complete August 14th, 2010 performance on 2-DVDs, as well as 2-CDs, and bonus video featuring highlights from the following night, August 15th, 2010, including AC/DC Bag, Divided Sky and Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan. The three-song combination that opened set two of the 15th rounds out the bonus material with Ghost > Theme From The Bottom > Big Black Furry Creature From Mars. Alpine Valley 2010 combines into a four-hour DVD-CD collection of must-see and must-hear release from Phish at their current top form.

The nearly three hours of music was recorded that night using 57 channels of digital multitrack and carefully mixed and mastered in 5.1 Dolby surround and PCM stereo. The video was a 7-camera shoot (16:9 widescreen), recorded and post-edited in High Definition.

The box set is available for pre-order today at Phish Dry Goods.

If you order from Phish Dry Goods you'll receive "Phish: Wisconsin Edition" a free bonus CD compilation from Phish Archives, of past Alpine Valley highlights spanning fourteen years of Phish performances at this venue. In addition, Dry Goods is offering FREE SHIPPING on all orders over $70, which can be applied to the new Alpine DVD.

On August 14th and 15th, 2010 Phish played their 12th and 13th shows at Alpine Valley Music Theater - all 2-night stands since 2003. "Alpine" as it is affectionately known, is a steeply-sloping amphitheater with a big lawn and raucous crowd perpetually bursting with energy right in the band's faces due to the angles of the place. The angles all aligned on Saturday August 14th - the focus of the Alpine Valley DVD, which will be released in stores and for audio only download nationwide on December 14th.

Set One: All Things Ninja, Conduit, Wife Soup > Smell the Mitten, Ringo > Blue Echo > Ringo

Set Two: Mantis > Breathe*, 2nd Self, Wellwishers > Mantis, Pay the Snucka > The Linear > Pay the Snucka

Encore: YYZ

Notes: * dub version; with Technobeam (The New Deal) jam

[setlist source: umphreys.com]

 

Of course, Gordon already has his own ice cream flavor -- Phish Food -- which will be scooped out for free, along with free scoops of Bonnaroo Buzz. Perhaps with a bit of irony, scoops of the company's best-selling flavor, Cherry Garcia, will be available for purchase. Jerry Garcia himself once lived with his bandmates about two blocks up from that exact intersection, on Ashbury, and he was known for performing free shows in the neighborhood -- including shows at that famous corner, where the Ben & Jerry's scoop shop now resides.

Gordon's free show is scheduled for 1PM local time in front of the shop. His ticketed night show, just down the street at the Independent, is sold-out, making this free event all the more... sweet.

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