If you're anything like me, you didn't have much to do for New Year's Eve. Perhaps there is just something missing... a concert event unlike any other with a band unlike any other, maybe? Perhaps that missing something is the New Year's Eve show put on by Phish?

Yea, it is. But don't worry, just in time for the very eve in question, Phish finally released their famed 1995 show at Madison Square Garden in deluxe 3-CD package form to give all their devoted fans who don't already have it bootlegged a chance to relive or pretend to live the experience in their own home instead of celebrating New Years listening to reggaeton at a bar, a fad that we all hope will pass with the new year.

Of all their many spectacle shows, from all the New Year's Eve shows to their Halloween shows, NYE 1995 has been hailed as one of, if not the best Phish show of all time, and praised by Rolling Stone as one of the best concerts of the 90s. What is left to be said about it? It has a near perfect blend of Phish classics, great cover songs, composition and improvisation as well as a heavy dose of Gamehendge songs, a set of songs from Trey Anastasio's musical opus and a constant favorite of fans.

Their playing and performance is as good as it gets, crisp and disciplined while being loose and free flowing at the same time, as much concerned with the celebration of music as of the holiday. There is an overwhelming and absorbing feeling of divine inspiration, expertly-honed skill and pure wild fun within every note played, especially in the extended improvising and jamming. Every single song performed in this show became the best version of that song up to that point, and many have remained their best versions to this day.

The first set starts and ends with the same adrenaline that is coursing through the fans as well as band on this celebratory evening. If you can get your entire stadium-sized crowd chanting "Hey" by the first minute then you're setting yourself up for a good set, and the funky "Punch You in the Eye" works like a charm for an opener. The "Reba" played on this set is one of the most transcendent experiences in Phish listening where Trey follows his heart and takes the already heavenly song to new levels of grace and beauty. Trey glides on the higher notes of his guitar, sustaining a level of quick-paced note changes and free-flow soaring to building the inspired jam to it's eventual blistering climax.