SET 1: My Friend, My Friend: My Friend, My Friend: Great song, great opener. Nice and sinister, just the way I like it! Raging My Friend. I was a little surprised it was played so well, having not been played in a while (1/2/03). Great My Friend.

Lonesome Cowboy Bill: Another first timer for me! The boys are on a V.U. kick huh? After this, even on the soundboard, you can really hear this guy bellowing for Forbin’s. Comical. Was played for the first time since October 31, 1998 (173 shows).

Scents and Subtle Sounds: Wow. Great Placement. Jammed to high heaven and back. Small but noticeable lyric flub at 4:29. This jam really is not for the faint of heart! I personally enjoyed it throughout but can understand people getting bored with it. I think it takes a lot of balls for the band to go out on a limb with a song that is still in the infancy stage. This tune has already come a very long way since Phoenix! At 21 minutes this jam is really going into some very cool directions. 25.5 sees the jam starting to break down a bit, w/ Fish pounding away. Hard, hard edge here.

You Ain't Goin' Nowhere: Had no idea what this was at the time. Listening to it on disc I cannot say if I have ever heard the Dylan version or the Byrds version either. Nice IT reference! Concert debut.

Spock's Brain: My fourth one oddly enough out of the ten times it has been played. Nice bustout but the flow of the first set (to me) is all disjointed (kind of like this song) at this point. >

Chalk Dust Torture: Now we are talking! Could it be another 7/10/99? Um, not quite. Although this is a very fired up version of Chalkdust. This Chalkdust pretty much steps on your neck and demands attention, high energy and hard rocking. Sweet.

On Your Way Down: Was played for the first time since October 2, 1999 (108 shows). Excellent blues licks by Trey and the vocals by Page are great ? really a nice song to feature Leo’s strong singing capabilities on. Great stage for Page! Plus some downright nasty Trey jamming at the end here.

Fast Enough for You: What can I say, I am a total sucker for this song. It gets be every time, from the first time I heard it live at 8/13/96 I knew this song would be one of my favorite ballads. Smoking solo by Trey here, great FEFY.>

Taste: Another Taste? This tune really needs a break, I think. Fired up Taste, but aren’t they all?

SET 2: Twist: This Twist is a little bit unique though in that it maintains a distinct hard edge to it for the majority of the jam. Far too many Twists I have seen float into an annoying ambient space that does nothing for me. This one though is serious arena rock. Lots of distortion guitar licks from Trey in here. At 12 minutes Page starts incorporating some interesting effects that are soon accompanied by Trey. Again, very unique but not for the faint of heart.

Bug: Nice. Love a good Bug. This is definitely a good if not great one. Really blistering guitar by Trey on this one, arena rock. Really ripping version.

You Enjoy Myself: A lot of discussion before they finally bust out the opening notes. Sounds like someone on stage wanted to save this but who knows. Nirvana segment is super spacey. Page brings crazy funk during the tramps segment, just thick funk. Post tramps, Mike and Page are tearing this bad boy up. Cactus is just laying down some of the sweetest bombs I have ever heard. Meanwhile Trey is picking on some of the sweetest chords. This band is in the zone. From here on out it is Trey just blazing through it all. Mr. Machine Gun Trey at his finest. This was my favorite YEM of the tour, it had everything. Very spacey nirvana segment, the slithery funk and the rock. Don’t count it out yet though, the drums and bass segment were awesome. Mike’s new bass tone takes center stage and he and Fish just lay it down. The vocal jam is absolutely trippy as hell with CK5 just blowing minds left and right. I felt downright violated after this VJ. Sick. Sick.

Walls of the Cave: Interesting and ballsy choice of songs here. Especially since the one they played in Philly on 2/25 was so good. This WOTC is ripping again some serious Trey arena rock going on here - machine gun Trey.

ENCORE: Secret Smile - No. Oh my goodness. Worst encore ever and that’s saying a lot as 2003 was littered with questionable encore selections. I have never heard Phish booed before, but people were booing as loud as possible after S.S. was over.

Replay value: Scents and Subtle Sounds, Chalk Dust Torture, Twist, You Enjoy Myself

Summary: At the time, this show was quite frankly one of my least favorites of the tour. I mean, I was coming off a show that I considered one of the best I had ever seen, and expectations were ridiculous. So, I thought this show was uneven. But over the years, it has grown on me much like 2.20.03. We made our way into the lot and stayed until we got kicked out around 2:30. All I can say is WAWAWAWAWA. Camden is scary. I would grade this show as a 4.4 out of 5.