(#3) 12/18/99 Hampton v (#6) 5/7/94 Dallas, TX
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(#3) 12/18/99 Hampton v (#6) 5/7/94 Dallas, TX
Bomb Factory 
Hate on the Tweezfest all you want 
Saturday, 12/18/1999 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA
[size=85]Set 1: Harry Hood, Back at the Chicken Shack, Dog Log, Tube, Heavy Things, Back on the Train, First Tube, The Inlaw Josie Wales, You Enjoy Myself
Set 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Sand, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Possum, Mikeās Song > Simple, Weekapaug Groove -> Buffalo Bill > Weekapaug Groove
Encore: Ya Mar, Sleeping Monkey
Notes: Dog Log was dedicated to Paul Languedoc. Afterwards, the band reprised the song for a few seconds after Trey remarked how much he liked it. 2001 included Do You Feel Like We Do (Peter Frampton) teases; Trey also introduced Fishman as Ć¢ā¬ĖBob MayonnaiseĆ¢ā¬ā¢, likely a reference to Bob Mayo, who played keys on Frampton Comes Alive. Weekapaug included Norwegian Wood and Buffalo Bill teases.[/size]
Saturday, 05/07/1994 The Bomb Factory, Dallas, TX
[size=85]Soundcheck: Jazz Jam, Dog Log (slow reggae version), Blues Jam
Set 1: Llama, Horn -> The Divided Sky, Mound, Fast Enough for You, Scent of a Mule, Split Open and Melt, If I Could, Suzy Greenberg
Set 2: Loving Cup, Sparkle, Tweezer -> Sparks -> Makisupa Policeman -> Digital Delay Loop Jam -> Sweet Emotion Jam -> Walk Away -> Cannonball Jam -> Purple Rain > Hold Your Head Up Jam -> Tweezer Reprise
Encore: Amazing Grace, Sample in a Jar
Notes: Horn ended with a brief, atypical jam. The jam after Walk Away included a Page solo, teases of ItĆ¢ā¬ā¢s Ice and McGrupp, and a Simpsons signal. This show was officially released as Live Phish 18.[/size]
Tweezerfest stinks!
- Cannonball = worst ācoverā ever!
(* besides Smells Like Teen Spirit)
Best YEM ever, braaaahs.
Aside from that, 12/18 is a great all-around show. Nice 2001. Hood opener. Mikeās Groove. Yah.
But I do loves 5/7, so this wasnāt an easy choice.
12/18/99 > 5/7/94 set one > 5/7/94 set two
Not a segue.
Bomb Factory. First live show that really got me into Phish.
5/7/94 is just a more consistent all-around show IMO. 12/18/99ās first set kinda lags for me after Tube up until the YEM. The First Tube is nice as well. Bomb Factoryās 1st set doesnāt really lag in energy or flow, as the Horn fades right into DSky, FEFY has a powerful solo, Split picks it right back up after Scent, same with Suzy after If I Could, which has some powerful emotion as well. I gotta give it to 5/7/94 if Iām comparing first sets. The Hood, Tube & YEM are strong enough to carry it on itās own, but thereās too much time in between for me.
2nd set is the same kinda deal for me. After the 2001 > Sand, the set kinda meanders with standard versions of Horse>Silent & Possum. 5/7/94ās 2nd set just rages front to back (yeah even the sparkle 
).
12/18/99ās encore kicks 5/7/94ās encore in the balls, but overall i gotta give it to 5/7/94 as the better overall Phish show.
BUT NOT BY MUCH (I love that Hampton '99 )
The highlight of the Bomb Factory is the jam after Horn. Iāve listened to the 2nd set from this show twice. Once when I got the tape, and once just after they released it on Livephish. I appreciate the show for what it is during a time when mad segue jams were a new thing for the band. But I never really want to listen to it.
^ Iām in the same boat. All I heard of 5/7/94 for a long while was the 2nd set, which I had a cassette of. When the LivePhish release came out, I instantly liked the 1st set better than the 2nd. I might have listened to the Tweezerfest disc onceā¦
If I was to pick a 1st set out of these two that I like better, it would be 5/7/94. Perhaps skewed by my liking of 12/18/99ās 2nd set (& encore) way better than the other show, I gotta go with Hampton '99 overall. Worthy of an official release, IMO.
But my opinion is the minority - Bomb Factory is currently in the lead!
Bomb Factory, but itās close. Iām a sucker for a great Tweezer.
WTF.
More likeā¦ghey factory.
iāll advance hampton if you guys take back your 12/30/97 votesā¦