06-20-95 Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
1: Llama, Spock’s Brain, Ginseng Sullivan, Foam, Bathtub Gin, If I Could, Taste, I Didn’t Know, Split Open and Melt
2: Halley’s Comet, Chalkdust Torture, Prince Caspian, Uncle Pen, Mike’s Song-> Contact, Weekapaug Groove-> HYHU, Cracklin’ Rosie, Highway to Hell
E: Slave to the Traffic Light, Amazing Grace
Listened to this show the other day. Solid stuff. The highlight of the first set is for sure the Split. Similar to 6/16’s version it gets way out there before coming back. The rest of the set is sweet too. Kinda standard, but 95 standard is so crisp and on fire.
The second set is highlighted by the Mike’s Song. Sweet sweet version. 20 minute plus version. It reaches a point where they do sorta a stop-start jam, but it’s so different. It’s all in perfect unison…with a huge hit by Fish…Mike bomb, etc. It reaches a dark dark place. Really cool segue into Contact. The groove sadly ends unfinished as Weekapaug is unfinished seguing into HYHU. Fish played the vacuum and ruined the set!
Powerful Slave for the encore.
This show is defintely worth 2.5 hours of your time, but it’s no 6/16/95.
This show roold! Some nut ran up to the top of the Pav. When you all get there this summer you’ll see how he did it!
Only a few fragments from this day come to memory. I was so green with the band and overwhelmed by everything. Besides the non-bluegrass covers, I knew just two songs - “If I Could” & “Chalkdust” - from a mixtape I had which was mainly Hoist.
I remember laughing at the guy on the roof – and think about the ascent any time I go to Blossom!
How did he get up there? There is a big-ass arch pillar on either side of the pavilion that is not impossible to scale! Much more creative and athletic than running onstage…
This is my kind of first set right here. I love the setlist, not to mention the playing. They should start playing Spock’s Brain at every show for a while. Anyways I love the Foams from this era…so much more energy and technical trickery from Trey. The SOAM is noice too!
I like the Halley’s>Chalk Dust to kick off the second set. Especially this Chalk Dust, which teeters on the verge of getting far away from the Chalk Dust progression before Trey screams back into the guitar solo at the end. The Mike’s is really fucking awesome, but I’d have to disagree with you B, I think the Red Rocks one was better. Just sayin.
The Slave in the encore is great and very melodious.