06-16-95 Walnut Creek Amphitheater

Phish Live Shows
#1

06-16-95 Walnut Creek Amphitheater, Raleigh, NC

Soundcheck: Caravan, Three Little Birds, Free, Funky Bitch, Jam

1: Halley’s Comet-> Down With Disease, Esther, Ya Mar, Cry Baby Cry, It’s Ice, My Mind’s Got a Mind of It’s Own, Dog Faced Boy*, Catapult, Split Open and Melt

2: Runaway Jim-> Free, Carolina, You Enjoy Myself**, The Squirming Coil

E: Bold as Love

*Three “Split Open and Melt” teases/false starts from Fish before “Dog Faced Boy”. **With Boyd Tinsley (Dave Matthews Band) on fiddle for a portion of the jam.

#2

This entire show is unbelievable. It’s got everything. Unique setlist. Crazy jams. Guest appearance. What more could you want in a show. If you haven’t heard this show by all means track it down.

The first standouts are the It’s Ice and the Split. The It’s Ice isn’t real long, but after the Fishman dancing part where the jam moves eerie…Page takes over and has a beautiful solo. I thought it was different in a good way. The Split is just madness. I feel like this song is suppose to be just like this. Chaotic jamming at its best.

The second set standout is obviously the Runaway Jim–>Free and the YEM. Check in at around 30 minutes this is the first Runaway Jim that was really taken out there. The jam is never boring. The first half of the jam is dark stuff. You hear the familiar Jim riff throughout the beginning stages, but is feeled with eerie dark goodness. Page takes in a new direction with the grand piano and you hear Fishman yelling out random things. Weird. It slowly segues its way into Free. Top notch stuff. The YEM is pretty sweet as well. Boyd Tinsley jams for about 3-4 minutes post tramps. It was perfect. Not a real long guest appearance, but just enough to get you grooving. Mike then takes over until the vocal jam. Perfect closer in Coil afterwards.

What can I say? This is a show that appeals to me on every level. These are the shows that you chase after in my opinion.