Ten years from now, when the 20,000 attendees look back at this show, the only thing they’ll really remember is the traffic. “Did you get stuck on Tryon, too, bra? My buddy Moondog’s from the area, we used the Exit 48 shortcut. You got any headies?”

The 251-mile ride from Atlanta to the venue’s Mapquest-suggested exit took exactly three hours and 45 minutes. The remaining three miles to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater was a whole different song, to the tune of two hours and 30 minutes. Hey, Verizon, can you hear me now? Get me out of this goddamn parking lot.

Automotive obstacles aside, there were some solid musical highlights on this night: “Funky Bitch” opener, an extraordinary “Limb By Limb,” a pair of bust-outs (“Drowned” > “Kung”) to kick off the second set, the beginnings of a new, experimental “Harry Hood,” and an a capella rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner.”

Non-musical highlight: This 15-year-old-probably-the-first-stoner-in-his-grade kid in front of us, who managed to snag a pretty cute, mostly likely popular lil’ vixen to accompany him to his first show. Chicks dig the Phish.

– Hensley “Bam Bam” Meulens