12-17-95 Olympic Center, Lake Placid, NY
1: My Friend My Friend, Poor Heart, A Day in the Life, Run Like an Antelope, The Mango Song, Tube, Stash, Lizards, Chalk Dust Torture*
2: Bouncing Around the Room, Maze, Free, Also Sprach Zarathustra-> Harry Hood, Sparkle, Tweezer**-> Tweezer Reprise
E: Hello My Baby, Runaway Jim
*Trey thanks band and audience for the tour. **Page solo between “Tweezer” and “Tweezer Reprise”.
The Tweezer > Tweezer Reprise is the gem of this show.
The Tweezer jam starts of in straight rocker fashion, but then settling down around the 8 :30 minute mark into some nice dissonant '95 jamming. Page really shines during this whole Tweezer, as he lays down some dark runs across a driving jam from Trey and Fish. The jam stays deep in the darkness pocket for some time, with Fishman laying down some nice staright-foward driving beats, until Page emerges around the the 13 min. mark with a piano solo. The solo is very much like the Coil solo from NYE '95, yet I find this one to be far more interesting. There’s a couple more moments where, also similar to the NYE Coil, Page seems to come to a close only to continue one with a fury of notes and chords, yet instead of going into the more light-hearted runs in the Coil, the solo gets very emotional and deep (I don’t know how else to describe it), with the themes drifiting to o a more serious, darker style which really caught my ear. Page then remerges with the same theme from the NYE Coil, as Trey builds up tension, and then BAM! Trey and Page fire up the Tweeprise as the crowd roars with approval. An amazing section of music, and especially interesting considering how this jam inspired the great Coil solo from the NYE show later that month. Definitely worth a listen (I don’t know how many times they’ve down a straight up Tweezer > Tweezer Reprise).
Indeed, that Tweezer is amazing!
^^nice little write up Sam. That page solo is a stunning piece of beautiful music… i can barely listen with a dry eye. around the 17-19 min mark he plays with a melodic theme and finds the perfect tone that makes you … idk… acutely aware of our nakedness and exposure in this vast universal space. The band played with such… indescribable intensity and fluidity during these shows… phish at the top of their from.
That being said I was listening to set 1 on my drive home. One word: stash. (the antelope aint bad either 
) truth is every song they touch during this time was magic. I like my aud recording because it retains the reverberation of fishman’s thunder and the feel of the music shaking the little arena.
For me the problem, if you could call it that, of seeing phish a few times during this run was that i knew they could never do it better. The experience so deep that there was no need to search for it anymore, it was a gift. I kinda vowed to take that gift and do something with it, find that beauty, that love, that… perfect union in the world, in others, in me. ha, it sounds so stupid now. I’m a fool. but i’ll never stop.
Course i’ve seen phish since these days. it puts things into perspective. but you never forget your wedding day do you?
The only thing I can add to what’s already been said (the Tweezer, the amazing piano solo, and the Stash) would be to mention the Hood. I love this mid-set Hood…it starts off real mellow and pretty and stays that was for a good few minutes. The transition from nice and easy to the peak at the end is so fucking perfect that they get to the end of the song and you didn’t even realize the transition happened. 