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Best jams of 2012

cphish12 Permalink
Just my opinions had a hard time between the carinis so I put them both in. This has been an awesome year of phish and all these jams(and many more) could be in any order...What is your top ten?

10.Carini 12-30-12 or 6-7-12 (Evil pure evil describes the 12-30-12 while 6-7 is much more melodic use of effects beautiful my left toe sounding)
9. Sand>Ghost 9-2-12(One of the best segues ever...sand is funky, spacy, with good peak. while ghost has a growling funk jam ends in nice space)
8. Light>Weekapaugh Groove 6-23-12(Plinko Bliss and Plinko funk at its finest)
7. Runaway Jim 8-31-12(Funky and has a very beautiful ending very overlooked IMO)
6. Rock and Roll>Ghost 8-15-12(Great improv with many themes a must listen and the ghost is the best of year with a fantastic peak)
5. Chalk Dust Torture 8-31-12(Blissful beautiful and engaging the whole way. sounds like the allmans very melodic)
4. Down with the Disease 12-30-12(Exploratory gets melodic and spacey both great sections with a hellish raging ending)
3. Tweezer 12-28-12 (Beautiful, calm, majestic with a glorious peak)
2. Crosseyed and Painless>Light>Sneakin Sally 8-19-12(The trio of the year tremendous flow awesome segue into sally, exploratory beautiful xeyed, funky page led effects B3 bashing light, peaking sally...awesome)
1. Light 9-1-12(One of greatest jams of all time it speak for itself..legendary, engaging, almost seems composed)
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bryannati Permalink
bryannati You forgot about the Cincy Twist.
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cphish12 Permalink
not the biggest fan of the cincy twist for some reason but i do live 6-28 waves
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InThatWeekapaugGroove Permalink
I would say the 7/6/12 Sally > Ghost deserves a mention here as well as the 6/7/12 Ghost > Boogie and the 6/15/12 Birds were both among the best jams of 2012.
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dkast85 Permalink
dkast85 the 7/6/12 Sally> Ghost is never discussed. Although i see @inthatweekapauggroove has done so.

That is the most unsung star jam of 12.
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ProfPhan Permalink
Not having the Cincy Twist is a blatant fail, and there is no way those two jams from this past weekend even crack the top 10
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MomaDan Permalink
MomaDan OP really liked Dicks and NYE Run. Heres mine, its a contains more of the first leg

10. Alpine Fee
9. Dicks Undermind
8. Cinci Twist
7. 12/28 Tweezer - builds on the Charlotte version, best of 3.0
6. DCU Ghost> Boogie On - Great jams, Boogie On would have been the best ever if they kept that last theme going for a little longer. Still an awesome segment
5. 8/15 Rock and Roll> Ghost
4. AC Birds of a Feather-> BOTT - flawless segue, amazing Birds jam
3. BGCA Crosseyed-> Light-> Sally-> Crosseyed
2. Dicks Light - Saweeet
1. Dicks Sand-> Ghost - Sand=best of 3.0, maybe ever

honorable mention to the Charlotte Tweezer it would have been on the list if not for 12/28
and the AC Billy Breathes left me stunned at the time and still probably my most listened to song of 2012. You can even hear Trey letting off a sigh of relief after nailing the solo
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mjrphishhead Permalink
mjrphishhead Dick's Sand is my number 1.

Waves> Bug from Deer Creek has gotta be on there too.
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Tweezer2001 Permalink
Spac Piper anyone?
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Peezy Permalink
Peezy blossom GA> G?
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Palmer Permalink
Palmer The Phish is a well oiled machine, it just keeps pumping out awesomeness.
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Palmer Permalink
Palmer I'm raging on that DWD/Carini from 12-30.
Light was my all time fav of 2012, with Sand coming close on the top 5 list.
Yes, That SPAC Piper was insane.

Can't list em, they are all very well improvised and magical.
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RovingReporter Permalink
RovingReporter @ProfPhan said:
Not having the Cincy Twist is a blatant fail, and there is no way those two jams from this past weekend even crack the top 10
Mr. D,

I agree that the Cincy Twist should be in there, I disagree with what you said about the two NYE jams on the list. I'd put the Tweezer and Wolfman's high up.

Signed,
Some guy
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phootyjon Permalink
from most recent to not:

12/31/2012
Ghost-> Piper

12/30/2012
DWD-> TYL
Carini

12/29/2012
Golden Age-> Waves

12/28/2012
Wolfmans
Tweezer

9/2/2012
Sand-> Ghost

9/1/2012
Golden Age-> Caspian-> Light

8/31/2012
Carini
Undermind
Runaway Jim
CDT

8/29/2012

8/28/2012
Limb by Limb

8/26/2012
Mike's Groove (worth a listen to the entire sequence)

8/25/2012
CDT-> WTU

8/24/2012
Rock & Roll-> Lizards
Sand> Twist

8/22/2012
Stash
Tweezer

8/19/2012
Crosseyed-> Light-> Sneaking-> Crosseyed

8/18/2012
Simple

8/17/2012

8/15/2012
Rock & Roll-> Ghost

7/8/2012
SOAM-> La Grange
Light-> Twist
Piper

7/7/2012
DWD-> Blister-> DWD
Mike-> Contact-> Weekapaug

7/6/2012
Sally-> Ghost

7/4/2012
Tweezer> Twist> Taste

7/3/2012
Skin it Back
Sand-> Golden Age

7/1/2012
Fee
Light> Ghost

6/30/2012
Reba
Golden Age-> 2001> Light

6/29/2012
WMGGW (personal moment)
DWD

6/28/2012
Curtain With
Tela (this is when my penicillin kicked in)
Mikes-> Groove

6/24/2012
Gin
Golden Age-> Ghost

6/23/2012
Mikes-> Groove

6/22/2012
Saw it Again-> Bowie
Twist

6/20/2012
Mikes-> Groove
Hood-> WTU

6/19/2012
go tuck yourself asshats......
Lengthwise-> Maze

6/17/2012
Drowned-> 2001

6/16/2012
Light-> Manteca-> Light

6/15/2012
BOAF-> BOTT

6/10/2012
Carini-> Shafty

6/8/2012
Roses Are Free
Sand-> Nellie
Mike's-> Groove

6/7/2012
Carini-> Taste
Ghost> Boogie

That's my all inclusive list; top 15s go to (in no particular order):

Dicks Undermind
BGCA Crosseyed-> Light-> Sneaking-> Light
Dicks Sand-> Ghost
Louis Limb
Dicks Carini
DCU Carini
Long Beach Rock & Roll
Dicks Runaway Jim
SPAC Piper
Burgettstown Mike's Groove
SPAC Sneaking-> Ghost
DCU Sand-> Nellie
AC BOAF-> BOTT
AC Light-> Manteca-> Light
JB Sand-> Golden Age

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dealgodown Permalink
dealgodown 6/15 tube
6/22 dwd

are my additions to this ongoing list
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kipmat Permalink
kipmat IDK, I want to listen to the NYE run some more. Before MSG, this was my top 10 for 2012:

1. 9/1 Light
2. 8/15 R&R
3. 8/31 Chalkdust Torture
4. 6/7 Carini
5. 8/28 Limb By Limb
6. 8/31 Runaway Jim
7. 8/31 Undermind
8. 9/2 Sand
9. 8/19 Crosseyed
10. 8/15 Harry Hood
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York_Durden Permalink
York_Durden Tweezer 8/26 Charlotte is very melodic and beautiful.
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StStephen Permalink
StStephen 1. Dick's Light
2. BGCA Crosseyed-> Light-> Sneakin-> Crosseyed
3. Dick's Sand-> Ghost
4. MSG's Carini
5. MSG's Disease
6. Dick's Chalk Dust
7. Dick's Undermind
8. MSG's Tweezer
9. St. Louis' Limb by Limb
10. DCU's Ghost-> Boogie On

Wow this was tough. 2012 was an embarrassment of riches.
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jezmund92 Permalink
Birmingham Rock and Roll gets overlooked too often IMO. Give that one a relisten
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