Pro-Shot Video: Phish Shares 24-Minute ‘Set Your Soul Free’ From San Francisco

On Wednesday, Phish opened their second set at San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium with “Set Your Soul Free.” The quartet’s second version of the Trey Anastasio-penned song they debuted a few nights earlier at The Gorge was a psychedelic masterpiece. Phish shared pro-shot video of the 24-minute “Set Your Soul Free” from San Francisco on YouTube.

Here’s how JamBase contributor Parker Harrington described “Set Your Soul Free” in his writeup on Wednesday’s concert:

It didn’t take long for “Set Your Soul Free” to do what Phish seems to do best to start second sets: absolutely go off the rails and ride the song into radical new places. Trippy, psychedelic and luscious grooves flew off of Trey’s guitar as he shifted through different tones and effects until he settled into one sound. The blissful jam seemed effortless and familiar. Page peppered the jam with his signature clavinet sound and other spacey effects all the while with Fishman driving the high-hat and cymbals ferociously while simultaneously keeping some very interesting rhythms. The jam in “Set Your Soul Free” may not have peaked as high as Phish jams often can, but it had texture, “width,” patience and a dose of Phish’s unique funk that has defined some of their best jams. Sprinting past the venerated “20 minute mark” that many use to indicate “long jams,” the beautiful jam segued perfectly into “Twist” as it tempered down and became slightly ambient.

Watch Phish perform “Set Your Soul Free” on July 25 below:

Phish returns to the stage on Tuesday night in Austin.