11-30-96 Arco Arena

Phish Live Shows
#1

11-30-96 Arco Arena, Sacramento, CA

1: Runaway Jim, Punch You in the Eye, All Things Reconsidered, Bouncing Around the Room, Stash, Fluffhead, The Old Home Place*, Uncle Pen*, Prince Caspian, Chalk Dust Torture

2: La Grange, It’s Ice, Glide, Brother^, Contact, Also Sprach Zarathustra-> Timber (Jerry), Taste, Funky Bitch**, Amazing Grace, Amazing Grace Jam#

E: Possum#

*With John McEuen on banjo. ^Sung for Page’s brother, who was to the side of the stage. **With Peter Apfelbaum on tenor sax. #With Peter Apfelbaum on tenor sax and John McEuen on lap slide guitar.

#2

This show is okay, but not the greatest by any means. The highlight I think is the Stash in the first set. Lots of special guests, which I’m not a huge fan of. The guy on tenor sax is pretty cool but that’s kind of the ‘end’ of the second set and they already brought out a banjo player for a few tunes in the first set. Idk just not really my cup of tea. Though, I will say the Amazing Grace jam is pretty neat.

#3

Doug and I have differing opinions on the guest spost. Apfelbaum on sax is a treat to these ears. I started listening at Brother, which has a pretty hot jam, but it’s the Timber where you get a real psychedelic storm of real Phish jamming alongside a sax player who definitely speaks the same language as the boys. Taste continues the heat, Funky Bitch is what it is, and here Doug and I agree the Amazing Grace jam is good. Possum with lap steal is fun. All in all a guest spot worth hearing, I say.