04-17-93 Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI
1: Llama, Foam, Bouncing Around the Room, Stash, It’s Ice, Glide, My Friend My Friend, All Things Reconsidered, Golgi Apparatus, Run Like an Antelope
2: Wilson, Reba, The Landlady, Halley’s Comet-> You Enjoy Myself, Lifeboy, Oh Kee Pa Ceremony-> Suzy Greenberg, Big Ball Jam, The Squirming Coil
E: Sweet Adeline, Big Black Furry Creature From Mars
Thanks to Neck…the Foam was worth the price of admission alone.
It’s all about the BBFCFM.
The next night gives the explanation of why it was so looooooong.
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07-23-93 Jones Beach Music Theater, Wantagh, Long Island, NY
1: Buried Alive-> Rift, Caravan, Nellie Cane, Maze, The Horse-> Silent in the Morning, Punch You in the Eye, Runaway Jim, It’s Ice, Lawn Boy, Cavern
2: Also Sprach Zarathustra-> Poor Heart, Run Like an Antelope, Faht-> My Friend My Friend, Uncle Pen, Big Ball Jam, You Enjoy Myself-> Big Black Furry Creature From Mars-> Chalk Dust Torture, Highway to Hell
E: Amazing Grace, Daniel
First show!
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There’s almost too much bluegrass and too many short-song breathers in this show!!
I love-a the bluegrass… and that 2001 Poor Heart is sick!!
Oh yeah?!
Your first show has too many songs from Undermind in it!
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Undermind wasn’t even out yet!!
That’s how much of a vet I am!!
They did play SASS though. Fuck.
haha. I like bluegrass and all, but only once or twice in a show. 7.23.93 is still pretty sweet.
Nirvana:Mirino Italy 94!
I bought a bootleg of that show many years ago:
http://www.livenirvana.com/digitalnirvana/bootography/reviewad06.html?filename=roma
Great-sounding, but not-so-good show!
My first show album breakdown:
Not on any studio album - 10 songs
SOTG - 1 song
PON - 2 songs
Billy Breathes - 2 songs
Hoist - 1 song
Farmhouse - 2 songs
I’m really having a great time with 93. Last night and this morning I’m in Durham, NH…
05-08-93 UNH Fieldhouse, Durham, NH
1: Chalk Dust Torture, Guelah Papyrus, Rift, Mound, Stash-> Kung-> Stash, Glide, My Friend My Friend, Reba, Satin Doll*, Cavern
2: David Bowie-> Have Mercy-> David Bowie, The Horse-> Silent in the Morning, It’s Ice-> The Squirming Coil-> Big Ball Jam, Mike’s Song-> Crossroads-> Mike’s Song-> I Am Hydrogen-> Weekapaug Groove-> Amazing Grace, Amazing Grace Jam
E: AC/DC Bag
*With introductions and thanks to the crew.
The first set was so tight, and although the jams were not as long and sophisticated as later in their career, I like the tight and concise Phish. It’s very incredible.
I loved the My Friend from the first set. Reminded me of Luann Abrahams (it sounds too much like Dave’s wife, and the subject of the song My Friend My friend). We used to hang on the Phunky Bitch bulletin board together in 98, and exchanged quite a few Emails discussing the scene, people’s reaction to it, and some of my posts to the rmp about attending shows. Great person, and from what I can tell from googling her name, still working in a Harvard musem and library.
I love the transition to Crossroads. Set 2 never left my travel rotation.
12-13-97 Pepsi Arena, Albany, NY
1: Ya Mar, Axilla, Theme From the Bottom, Ginseng Sullivan, Strange Design, Sample in a Jar, Vultures, Tube, Good Times Bad Times
2: NICU, Punch You in the Eye, Ghost, Mike’s Song#-> Llama, When the Circus Comes, Weekapaug Groove-> Catapult-> Weekapaug Groove, Harry Hood*
E: My Soul, The Squirming Coil
J. Willis Pratt and Weird Bionic opened. #During which the band chants, “Bring in the Dude!”, referring not to Steve Pollak but to Trey, as there was apparently a jovial dispute about who the real “Dude of Life” is. Fish calls on Mike to “bring in the Dude” and the band stops and lets Mike play a crazy, effect-laden bass solo. Then Trey asks Fish to let him “bring in the Dude”. Fishman lets him, and bands stops to let Trey play a wah-wah solo. Then Page “brings in the Dude” with the clavinet. Fish doesn’t “bring in the Dude”. *With lights off and a glow stick war.
07-06-98 Lucerna Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic
1: Buried Alive > AC/DC Bag -> Ghost# -> Cities, Limb by Limb, Train Song, Roggae, Maze##, Golgi Apparatus+
2: Julius > Meat, Piper > Makisupa Policeman*, David Bowie > Loving Cup
E: Possum
#Pause/silent jam before segue into “Cities” (jam resumed right where it left off). ##Trey pauses (mid-jam) to thank crowd. +Trey plays the main riff in the wrong key for the first half of the song. *With very mundane drum solo; with lyric “stink kind in my head…stink kind all over my bed”; with solos by both Page and Fish.
I am really enjoying the first four songs, and the rest of the show looks decent but probably won’t hold up to the fantastic start.
BWAHAHAHAHAH
Figured I’d see if this show would pique my interest in listening to more fall '95 shows.
All in all a pretty good looking setlist. That first set especially. I’ll just have to see!
11-29-95 Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, TN
1: AC/DC Bag, Ya Mar, Reba, If I Could, It’s Ice, Theme From the Bottom, Acoustic Army, Fee*, Split Open and Melt
2: Timber (Jerry), Sparkle, Simple, Possum, You Enjoy Myself, Fog That Surrounds**, Heart and Soul#, Poor Heart, I’m Blue I’m Lonesome**, Long Journey Home**, Slave to the Traffic Light**
E: A Day in the Life
*Trey flubs the third verse and rambles on a bit. **With Bela Fleck (Bela Fleck and the Flecktones) on banjo. #Brief.
Phish
November 19, 1987
Hunt’s
Burlington, VT
Source: SBD > Cass/X
Transfer: Yamaha KX-R470 > DSP24 > Wavelab > FLAC16
Thanks to Todd Ahrens for the source tapes!
Transfer, editing, mastering, and FLAC16 by: Marmar- imthemarmar@gmail.com
Set I:
Set II:
Set III:
Show Notes:
12-31-99 Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, FL
1: Runaway Jim+, Funky Bitch, Tube, I Didn’t Know*, Punch You in the Eye, Bouncing Around the Room, Poor Heart, Roggae, Split Open and Melt** -> Catapult, Get Back on the Train, Horn, Guyute, After Midnight*** (1:46)
2: #Meatstick^ -> Auld Lang Syne, Down with Disease -> Llama, Bathtub Gin^^, Heavy Things^^^, ^^^^Twist Around > Prince Caspian > Rock and Roll, You Enjoy Myself%, Crosseyed and Painless, The Inlaw Josie Wales%%, Sand -> Quadrophonic Topplings%%%, Slave to the Traffic Light, Albuquerque, Reba, Axilla, Uncle Pen, David Bowie, My Soul, Drowned -> After Midnight reprise, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Bittersweet Motel, Piper** -> Free, Lawn Boy, Hold Your Head Up > Love You%%%% > Hold Your Head Up, Roses are Free, Bug, $Also Sprach Zarathustra > Wading in the Velvet Sea, Meatstick$$ (7:45)
Set 2 was played from midnight to sunrise, non-stop. +With marshmallow war, lots of balloons, and aerial tortillas. *With Fish on vacuum. **Unfinished. ***First time played; J.J. Cale cover from the album “Naturally” (best known for the Eric Clapton version). #Set begins around 11:35 pm with Father Time on stage pedaling away at a stationary bike, powering a large clock, with the sound of the gears on the PA (possibly a Siket Disc track?). At approximately 11:50 pm, Father Time collapses from exhaustion and the clock stops. At this time, with appropriate sound effects, a large fan boat entered the field from halfway back, stage right. Soon the sides and top of the fan boat were blown off to reveal the band riding in the hot dog from 12-31-94. The hot dog approached the stage as the band threw leis and other goodies into the crowd. Once the hot dog reached the stage, the band disembarked carrying several meatsticks. They fed these to Father Time, reviving him to drive to clock to midnight. ^Instrumental version, with the band picking up the song from a pre-recorded version played during the hot dog ride. ^^With vocal jam, as Trey, Mike, and Page sang the notes as they played them. ^^^Recorded live for ABC’s Millennium coverage; Trey instructed the crowd to chant the word “Cheesecake” after the song (instead of applauding), in an attempt to confuse TV viewers; Trey introduced the band for the recorded footage and offered a message of peace and harmony for the world (“The right lane is for driving. The left lane is for passing. So stay in the right lane unless you’re passing.”). ^^^^Preceded by “Meatstick” tease (possibly as Central Time hit midnight). %With “Cheesecake” vocal jam. %%Trey solo acoustic. %%%With Mike holding up a voice box, repeating the phrase “Quadrophonic Toppling.” %%%%With Fish on vacuum; Fish introduced Page before the song, and Mike and Trey afterwards, and the band as “Phish 2000.” $Preceded by a tease of the “Harry Hood” intro. $$No encore; post-show music was the Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun.”