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Phish Live Shows
#1601

11-18-96 Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, TN

1: Cars Trucks Buses, Timber (Jerry), Poor Heart, Taste, Billy Breathes, Chalk Dust Torture, Guelah Papyrus, Ginseng Sullivan, Reba, Character Zero

2: Also Sprach Zarathustra-> Simple-> Swept Away-> Steep-> Scent of a Mule, Tweezer*, Hello My Baby*, Tweezer Reprise*, Llama*

E: Waste, Johnny B. Goode*

*With Gary Gazaway (“El Buho”, or “The Owl”) on trumpet.

12-02-95 New Haven Coliseum, New Haven, CT

1: Prince Caspian, Runaway Jim, Mound, Guelah Papyrus, Reba, My Sweet One, Free, Fog that Surrounds, Bouncing Around the Room, Possum

2: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Maze, Simple, Faht, Tweezer, A Day in the Life, Golgi Apparatus, The Squirming Coil, Tweezer Reprise

E: Bold as Love

Two more shows I had saved on my comp but never listened to. Both have second set 2 2001 openers and a mid-second set Tweezer.

#1602

10-7-99 Nassau

NICU, My Soul, Dirt, David Bowie, Frankie Says > Possum, When the Circus Comes, Gotta Jiboo, Fluffhead (1:28)

2: Boogie on Reggae Woman, Heavy Things, Tube, Get Back on the Train, Mike’s Song* > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Prince Caspian > Golgi Apparatus > Weekapaug Groove (1:19)

E: Rocky Top, I Am Hydrogen, Julius (0:16)

*With Trey on keys.

Over 3 hours of music that night and love that Tube!

My friend Kenny was real sick as we set off from Michigan to New York but it was well worth it he said after seeing such a fun show. I agree!

#1603

I’m gonna go for the “picking a random show out of the companion” method.

07-05-98 Lucerna Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic

1: Birds of a Feather, Taste, Cavern, Reba, Fee* > Water in the Sky, Lawn Boy, Chalkdust Torture (1:00)

2: Bathtub Gin > The Moma Dance, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters -> Axilla -> Harry Hood, Rocky Top

E: Funky Bitch (2/E 1:07)

*Trey botches the lyrics.

This first set doesn’t do a lot for me, although it does have a Fee -> Jam. I’m just gonna throw on Set 2. I wish these Euro '98 shows weren’t so short. I’ve actually got the DVD going, since I don’t actually have just a c.d. of it. It’s such a tiny venue they’re playing. That would have been a pretty sweet thing to experience in '98. This Gin flows nicely. It actually seems a good bit mellower than the Summer '98 versions that were to come, but they are playing for the room. This jam’s all about Fish! He’s doing some really disjointed and angular shit…something seems off here, but Trey is having a great time up there. He’s pulling out all these funky little moves. This jam has a very Runaway Jim feel to it, in that it is building from a simple riff as opposed to just the full-throttle wailing that '98 Gins are know for. Page keeps noodling a bit on the Clav, but nothing is really working, so he keeps going back to the Grand. Definately a sweet jam into Moma, and Fish takes it there.

Okay…this Moma is probably the highlight of the show. Really dank funky intro. Really greasy…more '97 sounding than '98.

#1604

Did you listen to 7/6, or 7/5?

Both shows look pretty sweet, although I’d rather hear 7/6.

#1605

Sorry…modified it.

#1606

This show freakin’ ROCKS!

08-08-97 The World Music Theatre, Tinley Park, IL

1: Cars Trucks Buses, Gumbo-> Lizards, Dirt, It’s Ice, Water in the Sky, Character Zero

2: Wolfman’s Brother-> Free, Limb By Limb, Loving Cup, Prince Caspian, Chalk Dust Torture

E: Hoochie Coochie Man*#, Messing With The Kid*^

*With Sugar Blue (blues artist) on vocals and harmonica. #A Willie Dixon cover. ^A Junior Wells cover.

#1607

That’s one of the 3 or so '97 shows I don’t have. The setlist does nothing to blow me away, but if you say so, I’ll have to hook it up.

#1608

NO!

I was just kidding.

Coventry/personal experiences aside, I always thought this show went down as one of the worst in recent Phishtory. I might be mistaken. I mean, on paper, it screams “BLEH.”

#1609

I also haven’t heard that show. I’d like to at least hear the Gumbo–>Lizards.

#1610

Going through the Europe '98 tour, and today I’m on…

07-02-98 The Grey Hall - Freetown Christiana, Copenhagen, Denmark

1: Birds of a Feather, Cars Trucks Buses, Theme From the Bottom, Brian and Robert, Meat*, Fikus*, Shafty, Fluffhead, Ginseng Sullivan, Punch You in the Eye, Character Zero

2: Ghost -> Runaway Jim -> Prince Caspian, You Enjoy Myself^

E: Simple

*First time played (original). ^With weird vocal jam; band speaking instead of singing, included a DEA chant.

The setlist isn’t completely accurate for the segues and show notes, but this is a damn good show. A lot of brand new/newish songs. The Ghost and YEM are teh tits.

#1611

I’ve been tempted to stream that show no less than half a dozen times out of sheer curiosness.

Each time, I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I don’t know why.

#1612

Great show

#1613

You have two spare CD players?

( :wink: sorry, seems funny as I type it.)

I’ve been listening to parts of Hampton Comes Alive in my kitchen, but probably won’t listen to the whole thing. I haven’t listened to an entire show in a while, actually … I’m also currently on “Weekapaug Groove” from 12-31-92 in the car, but will probably not finish the set. I put it on for the “GTBT” at the end of set 2 to show my sister how Phish does it.

I guess I’m kind of wrapped up in choosing versions of their non-album stuff for that very time consuming, very fun, very obsessive-compulsive project I’ve got goin on. So I’m jumping around quite a bit.

I’m mentally drooling over the prospect of hearing 4-19-92. Freakin’ show goes:

Set I
Buried Alive, NICU, Stash, Paul and Silas, My Friend My Friend, Reba, Maze, Fee, Chalk Dust Torture, I Didn’t Know, Golgi Apparatus
Set II
The Curtain, Mike’s Song > I am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Silent in the Morning, My Sweet One, Tube, The Mango Song, Llama, Lawn Boy, If I Only Had a Brain, Runaway Jim, E: Sleeping Monkey, Cavern

I haven’t even downloaded it yet. But God help me, I’m gonna listen to that show right in the face.

#1614

At least listen to all of either disc 3 or disc 6 of HCA. You owe yourself that much.

:slight_smile:

#1615

Okay, good point.
:slight_smile:

It’ll prolly be 6. I especially love the Sabatoge & Mango Song.

#1616

03-01-90 Toad’s Place, New Haven, CT

1: Golgi Apparatus, Ya Mar, The Divided Sky, I Didn’t Know, You Enjoy Myself, Possum

2: Lizards, Good Times Bad Times, Foam, Mike’s Song-> I Am Hydrogen-> Weekapaug Groove, Carolina, Slave to the Traffic Light

E: Fire

This sounds very tight so far through Divided Sky. Fishman is spot on.

Trey has already mentioned a few times that they “are not the lead singer from ______,” and I can’t make out what he says.

#1617

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marillion

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#1618

haha! cool!

A british band with a lead singer named Fish.

#1619

HCA disc 6!

Only really heard bits of it this time around, but heard lots of the first few tracks - Sabatoge, Mike’s Song, Simple … And then I kinda caught back up w/Jiggy encore.

#1620

7/10/98 Zeleste, Barcelona, Spain

Set I

Down with Disease, Dogs Stole Things#, The Divided Sky*, Mike’s Song**

Set II

Halley’s Comet -> Jam^, Roggae, Sparkle***, Mike’s Song -> Simple -> Jam -> Weekapaug Groove, Sample in a Jar, Good Times Bad Times

Encore

Brian and Robert, Taste

Show Notes
#Loud PA problems begin in Dogs, though they do finish the song. *Aborted due to PA problems; Page humorously quips “excuse me” after the feedback, and the band joke around a bit. **Aborted due to PA problems. Trey says they are going to give the crew time to fix the PA and that they’ll play an extra long second set to make up for it. ^ Post-Halley’s Jam contains STRONG teases of First Tube, though that song may or may not have been written at this point. ***Aborted due to PA problems. Trey asks the road crew to turn the monitors around to face the audience and just use them as a PA. While they work, Trey, Mike, and Fish each tell musician jokes (“how many guitarists does it take to change a lightbulb?” “What do you call someone who hangs around with musicians?”) Then Trey asks Fish to tell the Prison Joke (see 04-11-91 and 03-24-93), but the sound system is finally ready to go. Trey says, “Let’s try this one again,” and they begin “Mike’s Song.”

This show is one of those “one in a thousand” moments that you’ve really just got to hear. The band’s personality and dedication really shine through, though Trey’s is quite obviously pissed off at the situation. Despite the frustrating technical problems, what little music they played at this show was damn good. In fact, I’m willing to bet that had they played a full show, it’d be in the top one or two of the European mini-tour. The Halley’s Comet jam is must hear, and the amazingly fluid segue sequence of Mike’s -> Simple -> Jam -> Weekapaug is even better. It’s fun to compare this post Simple jam to the upcoming post Simple jam from 7/15 because they’re so different.