The August 3rd, 2018 performance kicked off a three-night run at the Georgia amphitheater. Coming in the middle of Phish’s first full summer tour since 2016 (summer 2017 was mostly spent at Madison Square Garden in New York City for the Baker’s Dozen), this whole run showcased some of the best live Phish of the year. Bassist Mike Gordon was just as enamored as the fans with the band’s playing in Alpharetta in August 2018. When he released a playlist of his favorite jams of the 2018 summer tour on LivePhish later that year, four of his six picks came from that sweltering weekend in Georgia and two of them were plucked from this very show—the behemoth first-set “Ghost” and relatively short but undoubtedly sweet “Blaze On” from set two. As Mike noted in a tweet about the list, he had picked those jams because they evoked “a feeling of effortless musical adventuring.” This show was so packed with top-notch jams, in fact, that even Mike’s picks were met with disagreement from many fans (i.e. “How do you pick ‘Blaze On’ when that same set also included 17 minutes worth of ‘Tweezer’ and a 20-minute ‘Carini’ jam?”). 8/3/18 is a monster from start to finish, and we can’t wait to relive the adventure tonight.