6/18/94 = best.show.ever.
12/30/97 is no slouch though.
Saturday, 06/18/1994 UIC Pavilion, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
[size=85]Soundcheck: All Things Reconsidered, How Many More Times
Set 1: Wilson, Rift, AC/DC Bag, Maze, The Mango Song, Down with Disease, It’s Ice, Dog Faced Boy, The Divided Sky, Sample in a Jar
Set 2: Peaches en Regalia > David Bowie -> Mind Left Body Jam -> David Bowie, Horn > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Tweezer > Lifeboy, You Enjoy Myself, Chalk Dust Torture
Encore: Bouncing Around the Room, Tweezer Reprise
Notes: Tweezer included Mind Left Body teases. Bowie included Three Blind Mice, Voodoo Child and Purple Haze teases. YEM included Frankenstein, How Many More Times, and Landlady teases, as well as a Monty Python “Spam†vocal jam.[/size]
Tuesday, 12/30/1997 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
[size=85]Set 1: Sneakin’ Sally through the Alley -> Taste, Water in the Sky, Punch You In the Eye, Stash, Chalk Dust Torture, A Day in the Life
Set 2: AC/DC Bag -> McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Harpua > I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) > Harpua, Izabella > Harry Hood -> My Soul, Sleeping Monkey, Guyute
Encore: Carini -> Black-Eyed Katy -> Sneakin’ Sally through the Alley, Frankenstein
Notes: AC/DC Bag included Psycho Killer and Third Stone From the Sun teases. I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) made its Phish debut and was sung by Tom Marshall as part of the “Pentagram Harpua,†which also included a narrative about Lost in Space. Pete Carini made an appearance on-stage during the encore. Frankenstein included a segment with Fishman coming center stage with his vacuum. The encore was unusually long; once the band realized they were going to be fined for playing past midnight, they decided to play well past midnight. Sneakin’ Sally was played for the first time since May 28, 1989 (920 shows).[/size]
6.18 no question. Absolutely fantastic show. Peaches > Mind Left Body > Bowie = 
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Mind Left Bowie
It’s amazing that this is a #1 v #8 match-up, beacuase 12/30/97 has the greatest encore of all time, as well as that HUGE 2nd set Bag opener.
6/18/94 got a touch draw here in RD1. I feel confident though that the Peaches>MLB>Bowie, McGrupp>Tweezer>Lifeboy, YEM 2nd set can fend it off. lest we forget the greatest (IMO) DSky ever played, courtesy of 6/18/94 as well (and possibly the DWD too 
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HUGE =/= good
IMO
It’s long… but not the greatest. Kind of like the Bag.
That’s what she said. 
12/30 is a great fun show, but 6/18 is almost perfection, IMO.
Yeah I really agree with this. This bag is way overhyped IMO. Don’t get me wrong its a great jam, but I often hear it mentioned as a contender with 09.14.99 for best Bag of all time, and it is not even close.
believe the hype 
6/18/94 is a bit overrated. i relistened to it last week after all the hype is was getting on here last week, and still feel the same. not on my top ten at all…dont get me wrong, i think it is a n excellent show, but i have others i prefer…sorry…
I feel the same way about 12.30.97 honestly. I think 12.29 is better.
^ your out of your mind 12/30 is fire
I’d take 12.29.97 over the 30th as well.
These are both overrated…can we start throwing stuff at sam yet?
Agreed. I’ll take 11/21 over this Bag any day…having said that I voted 12/30. Harpua takes it.
never. my ways are always right.
oh and mind left bowie is the greatest piece of phish music that has ever graced the ears of man
Will is absolutely right, huge does not always equal good, see Burgettstown '98 “Jim.” (For me anyway).
i felt like this about Camden Sand for awhile.
Tell me something we don’t know… geez.
F this…
::quits game::