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Phish Live Shows
#9

Quit picking Cypress everyone!!

I’d take pretty much any show from '94 or '95 over Cypress.

How about this one!~

06-26-95 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY

1: My Friend My Friend, Don’t You Wanna Go, Bathtub Gin, NICU-> The Sloth, My Mind’s Got a Mind of It’s Own, It’s Ice, Dog Faced Boy, Tela, Possum

2: Down With Disease-> Free-> Poor Heart-> You Enjoy Myself, Strange Design, Run Like An Antelope

E: Sleeping Monkey-> Rocky Top

or this one!

10-07-95 Opera House, Spokane, WA

1: Julius, Gumbo, Fog That Surrounds, Mound, Possum, The Mango Song, Acoustic Army, Wilson, Run Like an Antelope

2: Makisupa Policeman, Cars Trucks Buses, Split Open and Melt, Strange Design, It’s Ice, Contact, Frankenstein, Harry Hood, Sweet Adeline

E: Fire

Or this one!

11-18-95 North Charleston Coliseum, North Charleston, SC

1: Dinner and a Movie, Bouncing Around the Room, Reba, Lawn Boy, Punch You in the Eye, Slave to the Traffic Light, I’m Blue I’m Lonesome*, Sample in a Jar

2: AC/DC Bag, Sparkle, Free, I’m So Tired, You Enjoy Myself**, Contact, Big Black Furry Creature From Mars-> Acoustic Army-> Big Black Furry Creature From Mars, Cavern

E: Won’t You Come Home Bill Bailey#

*Acoustic. **Contained “Brickhouse” tease. #With Jack McConnell, Page’s father.

Or this one!!

04-09-94 Broome County Arena, Binghamton, NY

1: Magilla, Wilson, Rift, Bathtub Gin, Nellie Cane, Julius, Fee, All Things Reconsidered, Stash, The Squirming Coil

2: Sample in a Jar, Reba, Peaches en Regalia-> Big Ball Jam, Demand*-> Mike’s Song-> I Am Hydrogen-> Weekapaug Groove, Tela-> Slave to the Traffic Light, Cavern

E: Amazing Grace, Highway to Hell

*First time played.

Or this one!!

11-22-94 Jesse Auditorium, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

1: Buried Alive, Poor Heart, Horn, Foam, Guyute, I Didn’t Know, Bouncing Around the Room, Down With Disease, Sweet Adeline

2: Funky Bitch, Lawn Train#*, Y-Rushalayim Schel Zahav, Cry Baby Cry, The Curtain, Blackbird, Runaway Jeff, Big Black Furry Creature From Mars, I’m Blue I’m Lonesome, Instrumental, My Long Journey Home, Harry Hood**, Highway to Hell

E: Lizards

*Name unsure, could just be a jam. **By an audience members request. #First time played.

#10

If someone did not see their first show until 2000 or after, Cypress is a fine choice!

#11

Someones gonna say it, so i guess it might as well be me. I’d choose Redrocks 1994.

06-11-94 Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO

1: Wilson, Chalk Dust Torture, You Enjoy Myself, Rift, Down With Disease, It’s Ice, Tela, Stash

2: Also Sprach Zarathustra-> Run Like an Antelope, Fluffhead, Scent of a Mule, Split Open and Melt, The Squirming Coil, Maze, Contact-> Frankenstein

E: Suzy Greenberg

Last “Frankenstein”, 07-26-91.

The show has a perfect setlist with allstar renditions of every song, is located in one of the best outdoor venues, and most importantly, it bleeds energy. It really smokes.

#12

I would go here so I could be the third person in attendance. :stuck_out_tongue:

08-27-88 Food Court - Pennsylvania State University (Mont Alto Campus), Mont Alto, PA

Satin Doll, You Enjoy Myself -> Funky Bitch, Walk Away, Fluffhead*, Mike’s Song, Take the A-Train, Golgi Apparatus**, Tela#

Supposedly two people were in attendence. *Includes yelling of “Pennsylvania Rhode Island!” **Different, jammed-out intro. #Preceded by Trey saying, “Penn State, we love you”; with different structure and lyrics (see 06-20-88).

Seriously I would go here: Never heard the show and was told the music wasn’t that stellar but the scene was memorable.

08-03-91 Amy Skelton’s Larrabee Farm, Auburn, ME

1: Wilson, Foam, Runaway Jim, Guelah Papyrus, Llama, Fee, The Squirming Coil, Poor Heart, The Sloth, The Divided Sky, Golgi Apparatus

2: The Curtain, Reba, Chalk Dust Torture, Bouncing Around the Room, Tweezer, Esther, Cavern, I Didn’t Know, You Enjoy Myself*, Rocky Top

3: Stash, Ya Mar, Fluffhead, Lawn Boy, My Sweet One, Lizards, Buried Alive-> Possum

E: Magilla, Self*, Bitchin’ Again**, Crimes of the Mind**

E: Harry Hood

“I Love Lucy” theme in various places. *With The Dude of Life. **With The Dude of Life and Sophie Dillof.

Or this… I really would’ve liked to see them with the horns:

07-18-91 Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach, NH

1: Chalk Dust Torture, Foam, Runaway Jim, Guelah Papyrus, Suzy Greenberg, Stash, Take the A-Train, Cavern, Mike’s Song-> I Am Hydrogen-> Weekapaug Groove

2: Llama, Reba, Poor Heart, Split Open and Melt, Lizards, The Landlady, I Didn’t Know, Possum

E: Alumni Blues

With Shockra opening. With The Giant Country Horns.

Plus Shockra!!!

#13

I might pick 10-31-94. Was there any show, up to that point, that generated as much hype and pre-show energy? It was known before the show that Phish was going to do an album in its entirety, right?

That’s not a hypothetical, I’m curious to see what anyone in attendance says.

#14

yup. good pick…t’was a magical night! lots of energy in the house before the show. there always was on halloween, but especially this one!

my pick would have to be 8-21-87. love this show!

#15

thats a fantastic pick, will. that was one of the first choices that came to mind when i read the initial post.

07-09-97 Le Transbordeur, Lyon/Villeurbanne, France

1: Punch You in the Eye-> Prince Caspian, Ginseng Sullivan, Split Open and Melt, Dirt, Taste, Sweet Adeline, Harry Hood

2: Down With Disease-> My Soul-> Cars Trucks Buses-> You Enjoy Myself*, Ghost*, Poor Heart*

E: Hello My Baby

*With Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

#16

I guess I’ll sum up a lot of posts into 1 thread: 3/22/93… I was looking for a live version of my fave new song, RIFT, by PHISH…so I checked HIPBOB’s files on the network at school and saw this show in BOLD letters…so i looked and sure enough there was a Rift in the first set… EPIC show, first DL and that REBA has to be the most intense pause>pickup jam of any that i’ve heard.

Then GAMEHENGE ;D… crazy how the first show i hear is the best narration ever…IT’S ICE>LIZARDS makes me shiver still… I HAD NO CLUE WHAT WAS GOING ON, BUT I KNEW I LOVED IT!

side note: My only shows were 8/10/04-8/11/04 GREAT WOODS, unfortunately… “WHO’S GOT MY PHISH!!!”

#17

Just listened to the 8.11.04 Suzy–>DwD today. God I love that Suzy.

8.11 was the best time I had that summer out of 9 shows. Deer Creek and Alpine were lots of fun too though.

#18

Suzy is the highlight of that show, its an awesome rendition. Too bad its the second song of the evening…

#19

Antelope–>2001 is the highlight of the show imo

Suzy is a close second though.

#20

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!! JOHNNY B FISHMAN!!!

just wasted about $3.74 in gas cruising to that Antelope->2001…that show ruined me…would’ve been better off only seeing 8/10…

ha, JK

#21

I might say 10-31-94 as well. I’ve been a Beatle nut all my life, and I used to say things like, “I’d love to hear them play some Beatles”. Then on that night, we knew they were playing an album, and I just couldn’t really get to the show … they left it a surprise, so I couldn’t have known. I did kick myself over missing it a little bit.

I was a lucky lucky guy and got to be at 3-13-92 … let it be known that Mike had the wig on when he came out for set 2. That’s firmly in my memory of that show, and if you’ve seen the wig, perhaps you understand. That was the fourth of four Phish shows I got to see at the Campus Club - I think tickets were $10. And even though it’s the best of the four, the other three were solid shows too. I might like to see one of those again, actually!

#22

10-31-96 i s’pose. talking heads 'n all.

#23
#24

^shut-up, man. Don’t have one I wanna see at the ready that predates my first-ever. Not without exerting energy to think of one.

#25

Fine: Campus Club 11-16-1990. :smiley:

#26

^Don’t mind Gus! He has to be right at least 77 times per hour or his Viagra won’t work!

#27

After dropping a banana peel into the Flux Capacitor, I would set the dial for 11AM, December 31st, 1995. That way I would have enough time to get the doc to help me sneak into the Garden and find some good supplies before show time!

#28

I’d say 3.13.92. my roomate went to that the campus club, I decided not to go because I had no idea who they were. Whoops.
after my first show I’d say 8.7.93 or 12.30.93 or 12.7.97