How Phish recast Mike's Song: From a loose Set 2 centerpiece to a tight 4.0 gateway.
Audio + setlist data across all 550 performances tracking groove scores, peaks, and tails. The late-90s "loose mode" was a 5-year anomaly, not the steady state.
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From January 1995 to October 1999, Phish jammed Mike's in a loose mode defined by an open pulse, an early peak, and a long post-peak drift. By the end of 1999, they'd abandoned it in favor of a tight ...
