Phish | 11.18.09 | Detroit

Phish kicked off their 2009 Fall Tour in Detroit this past Wednesday. Check out these stunning photos by Abby Fox.

Setlist:

Set 1: AC/DC Bag, Foam, Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan, Bouncing Around The Room, Sample In A Jar, Kill Devil Falls, It’s Ice, Horn. Mountains In The Mist, Poor Heart, 46 Days, David Bowie

Set 2: Runaway Jim, Down With Disease -> Free, Waste, Taste, Bug, Wading In The Velvet Sea, Mike’s Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Cavern

Encore: Character Zero

Click image for full gallery! Photos by BTJ contributing Photographer Abby Fox

Amid an eye-candy light show, guitarist Trey Anastasio led the group through an array of groovy funk (”Kill Devil Falls”), jazz-laced instrumentals (”Foam”) and bluesy fare (”Stealing Time from the Faulty Plain”), much of it steered into interstellar improv territory by the nimble quartet.

-BRIAN McCOLLUM

Full review at The Detroit Free Press

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