pulls out tape recorder
Note to self: never party with jeffmcfarland or accompanying parties.
^LOL. I was in a different place back then. And to my credit, he was an undiagnosed epileptic…sometimes it just takes a CK light show to find out.
That’s kewl…pre-existing conditions are allowed!
Star Lake, SPAC, Deer Creek - Huge jams in bold
07/29/03 Post Gazette Pavilion, Burgettstown, PA
Set I: Daniel1, Camel Walk, Gotta Jibboo, Cool it Down, Scent of a Mule, Fee> Timber> When the Circus Comes to Town, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Golgi Apparatus
Set II: Crosseyed and Painless> Thunderhead, Brother, Harpua2> Bittersweet Motel, Harpua2, I Fooled Around and Fell in Love3 4 5> HYHU> Harpua2, David Bowie
Encore: Farmhouse
1 Not played since 2/23/97 or 281 shows
2 Not played since 11/2/98 or 167 shows
3 First time played
4 Fishman on vocals
5 with vacuum solo
06/19/04 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
Set I: Reba, Runaway Jim, NICU> Scents and Subtle Sounds1, Wolfman’s Brother, Walls of the Cave> David Bowie
Set II: Song I Heard The Ocean Sing, Piper2> Gotta Jibboo> Limb By Limb, Cavern
Encore: Wading in the Velvet Sea
1 did not include the introduction found on the album
2 with Tweezer Reprise tease
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06/20/04 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY[/b]
Set I: Rift, Julius, Won’t You Come Home Bill Bailey1, Waves, Gumbo, Water in the Sky, Horn, Poor Heart, Drowned
Set II: Seven Below> Ghost> Twist, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Good Times Bad Times
1 with Dr. Jack McConnell, on vocals & tap dancing (last played 7/3/99)
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07/22/03 Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, IN[/b]
Set I: Punch You in the Eye, Beauty of my Dreams, Gumbo, The Divided Sky, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Carini> Magilla, Possum
Set II: Split Open and Melt> Free> Friday, The Lizards, Walls of the Cave
Encore: Bouncing Around the Room, Frankenstein
^ Forgot about the Split Open and Melt from Deer Creek, definately deserves mention among the best jams
See, I disagree on that one. I think it’s one of the more overrated - if not THE most overrated - jam of PH.
Ironically enough, I was there, and just didn’t get into it.
I dig some stuff from 03’-04’
a bunch of stuff mentioned above is great, i liked some stuff from the alpine shows in 03’
Melt jam from night two = Disease jam from night three.
Coasting through it… not a huge fan, but it was good.
My first show ever - 3/1/03 Greensboro Coliseum. Surprised it hasn’t been mentioned yet.
Set I: Chalk Dust Torture, The Moma Dance, Foam, Lawn Boy, Character Zero > The Divided Sky, Mountains in the Mist, Waves, Sample in a Jar
Set II: Rock and Roll, Wilson > Piper, Also Sprach Zarathustra > Wolfman’s Brother -> Boogie on Reggae Woman, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Run Like an Antelope, Carolina
Encore: First Tube > You Enjoy Myself -> Proud Mary
with another one bites the dust and oye como va teases during piper. also trey flubs the lyrics to YEM - boy, man, shit, shit.
sick,sick show.
^wish i could see it again, given i’d probably only heard about 5/6 of those songs at the time. that was 9th grade. i was am a n00b.
I dont have much but the IT festival from 03’ either.
but I got the entire 03’ cincy run as my first gifted Phish shows 
02/15/03
02/26/03 (EPIC)
02/28/03 (EPIC)
IT
06/19/2004
Are where I would begin. 02/26/03 in particular has been blowing my mind lately, The MOMA and YEM are worth the 10 bucks alone. Ghost is interesting. Really that whole winter tour is pretty awesome… 02/21 is also very good, as are pretty much all of them. 02/24 is my least favorite because BB King unfortunately interrupts the PHISH show that I am always listening for.
Yeah the BB segment in 2/24 isn’t real great. You can definately tell him and Trey are just kind of feeling around and are afraid to step on each others toes. They never really get great interplay going, just trading licks and ideas.
But I really like the rest of that show, the first set before BB comes out (DwD, Corrina!!!, Wolfman’s, and Limb by Limb) and the first four songs of the second set (Halley’s, Hood, Heavy Things, and Twist) are all strong.
Top to Bottom Spring 03’ doesn’t have many weak shows, it definately has some weak segments, but there are also some really memorable highlights too. I think the spring tour had quite a different sound than the rest of the Hiatus. I think they really just wanted to stay tight and clean while they were getting back into the swing of touring again. Lots of the jams are really groove-oriented and rely on subtle building improvisations by all of them at once instead of one of them taking the helm and leading outright.