(#3) 12/30/93 Portland, ME v (#6) 12/29/97 MSG
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(#3) 12/30/93 Portland, ME v (#6) 12/29/97 MSG
Thursday, 12/30/1993 Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME
[size=85]Soundcheck: Dog Log (x2), Funky Bitch
Set 1: David Bowie, Weigh, The Curtain > Sample in a Jar, Paul and Silas, Colonel Forbin’s Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, Rift, Bathtub Gin, Free Bird
Set 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Mike’s Song -> The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Punch You In the Eye, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Weekapaug Groove > Purple Rain > Hold Your Head Up, Slave to the Traffic Light
Encore: Rocky Top, Good Times Bad Times
Notes: Dream On and Dave’s Energy Guide were both jammed during Bowie. Slave was played in response to a chant from the front row.[/size]
Monday, 12/29/1997 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
[size=85]Soundcheck: Funky Bitch, Jam
Set 1: NICU, Golgi Apparatus, Crossroads, Cars Trucks Buses, Train Song, Theme From the Bottom, Fluffhead, Dirt, Run Like an Antelope
Set 2: Down with Disease -> David Bowie > Possum, Tube, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Good Times Bad Times
Notes: Possum contained a Can’t Turn You Loose jam, which was briefly reprised after the song and teased by Page in YEM. Bowie included Antelope-esque jamming and Tube featured an I Feel the Earth Move tease.[/size]
I’m surprised 12/30/93 isn’t faring so well. I really like that show. The mike’s song-> The horse is classic
Mike’s -> Horse is unbelievable. Then you get a PYITE & McGrupp in the Mike’s Groove?! psssh, come on now.
That Bowie aint too shabby either 
In fact 12/30/93 Bowie > 12/29/97 Bowie
Forbins>Mockingbird > Fluffhead (not a segue)
I’ll give you the YEM > Slave and the Antelope > anything else from 12/30/93 set one.
I just feel like 12/30/93 delivers more musically than 12/29/97
(this of course, you know, is just my opinon)
Damn, I need to ponder this one for a while 
this was an easy choice for me. 12/30/93 gets the nod.
It was an easy choice for me too, but only because I’ve never heard 12/30…which makes me voting seem kind of unfair. Oh well…Whoa POSSSSUMMMM!
Sounds like you need to expose yourself to more 1993 Phish 
12/30. Perhaps a bit of a nostalgic pick, but it is one of those magical shows of yore. 12/29 is in no way a slouch at all, but Portland '93 is something else…
Devin, you need to give the 93 a listen. It is unbelievable.
^ I’ll definitely try to download it and give it a spin this weekend. It’s the only show in this whole bracketbuster I haven’t heard, but I guess my vote is cast already. I really do like the looks of that setlist though.
The Mike’s is one of the definitive Mike’s, and the biggest one they had thrown down up until that point. Trey is a geyser in this jam.