The life changer:
08-12-96 Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN
Soundcheck: Punch You in the Eye
1: Ya Mar, Split Open and Melt, Esther, Chalk Dust Torture, Weigh, It’s Ice, Dog Faced Boy, Taste, Oh Kee Pa Ceremony -> Suzy Greenberg
2: Timber (Jerry), Sparkle, Simple, Prince Caspian-> McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Run Like An Antelope, Hello My Baby, Golgi Apparatus, Possum*
E: Sample in a Jar
*With “All Fall Down” and “Simpsons” language.
Anyone in OKP land tally up results yet? I wonder who here has seen the earliest show and what year. Seems the earliest I recall is 93. Do we have any late 80s here? If so, LUCKY BASTARD!
OK! Man I would have LOVED to see a 91 show! Dude’s were SMOKING and SOLID!
I think there was even a couple '90s… wasn’t KevinHose '91 as well? Maybe I am wrong…
And my memory is admittedly terrible, but I swear I remember someone mentioning an '89 show. That would have been some sweetness.
weatherman posted here for a bit, and I’m pretty sure he saw multiple 80’s shows
Kevin’s first show was 12.29.90 I believe.
^That’s true… At the now defunct Campus Club here in Providence. I should have gone too. I was 7 at the time and probably watched Family Matters or some shit that night.
Yeah I wonder if I even knew you in 1990 man.
But yep, my face left my head that night for sure. I was 17 years old.
[size=75]12-29-90 Campus Club, Providence, RI
1: I Didn’t Know, Llama, You Enjoy Myself, Esther, David Bowie, Lawn Boy, Rocky Top, Horn, Oh Kee Pa Ceremony-> Suzy Greenberg
2: Buried Alive, Runaway Jim, Lizards, Cavern, Stash, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Dinner and a Movie, Bouncing Around the Room, Destiny Unbound, Run Like an Antelope
E: Donna Lee, AC/DC Bag [/size]
I remember it like it was yesterday. I hardly remember it, it was a long freakin time ago.
10/??/94 – Thing I remember most is an acoustic cover of Boston’s Foreplay/Long Time, as I can’t recall them ever doing it since (but they probably have).
Anyone here live in the Boca, FL area? I’m down for a week and would love to be hooked up with something kind.
^^You may have been my counselor somewhere in or around 1990, but that’s probably the extent of it
12/8/94 Speckles Theatre San Diego, CA
1: Makisupa Policeman-> Maze, AC/DC Bag, Scent of a Mule, Punch You in the Eye, Simple-> Catapult-> Simple, Lizards, While My Guitar Gently Weeps
2: Possum, My Mind’s Got a Mind of its Own, Axilla [Part II], Reba, Nellie Cane, Sweet Adeline, David Bowie, Golgi Apparatus
E: The Horse-> Silent in the Morning, Rocky Top
Couldn’t get tickets for 12/7/94 and my college roommates were in the 1st row.
Spreckles is an incredible venue for sound.
Great first show as it had lots of classics and the Reba is incredible. One of my favorite mid 90’s Rebas.
Doojer, 7/30/97 is one of my favorite shows (my 10th show). I actually have it it in rotation right now. I’ve seen 20 shows and
I’d put 7/30/97 2nd or 3rd behind 12/6/96 and this show.
Chalkdust was incredible.
Bowie->Cities-> Bowie is a classic as well.
^What happened to that theater?
8/2/03 IT, Limestone, ME
Speckles is still there I think. If not it got plowed for the Gas Lamp Quarter Expansion.
Speckles is too small these days to see Phish as it holds 1,500
06/10/2009. I’m hoping for a Mike’s and a cosmic 2001 to rock the only arena show of the summer. And some huge phunkage.
Not bragging but…
The fist time I saw them was spring of 85, my fresman year at uvm. We were having an end of year party and some of my friends lived on the same floor as Fishman (paterson 4th I think, plenty of stories of him faced on lsd playing drums all night in his dorm room). They said they’d play for free, just looking for any gig at that point I think. Anyway we ended up paying them like $50 to rent the PA. Couldn’t tell you what they played, don’t really remember much about it ( I was pretty f’d i think) other than they weren’t really that good at that point. Saw them plenty in Burlington after that, but never really on purpose. They’d just be playing at bars we’d happen to be at, nectar’s and finbar’s/sam’s (for the longest time i thought the song was “cantaloupe”) mostly. Over the years they steadily got better and when they hit the front in the late 80’s we knew we were onto something special. Saw them there quite a bit. There was a beer shelf on Page’s side where we’d sit and see over the crowd (maybe 300 or so). The first time I knew they were going to be big, really big, was the battery park show in 91 with the giant country horns. Only 1 set but it was incredible, looking out over the lake at sunset listening to this band we’d watched morph into something new and amazing. Anyway just my little tidbit of phish history.
My first show:
http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/ph1991-02-07.asx
I was dragged to it by roommates who thought I needed revitalizing after a tough day at work. Saw this at a local bar and had the best seats in the house. Great setlist too. Main thing was the energy. The sound on this link is not the best by far but what they play and how has magic. Classic early Phish in Vermont. Just listen to the crowd calling out tunes they know. Room full of phamily that night. Needless to say, I’ve been revitalizing myself in this way ever since:)
My first two: It was a very good weekend!
06-23-95 Waterloo Village Music Center, Stanhope, NJ
1: Simple, Chalk Dust Torture, Prince Caspian, Reba, Ginseng Sullivan, Free, Taste, You Enjoy Myself
2: Runaway Jim-> Lizards, The Wedge, Run Like An Antelope, Harpua*-> Waterloo Jam**#-> Llama#, Good Times Bad Times#
E: A Day in the Life
*Unfinished. Poster Nutbag and fight was not told/sung/played. **Based on the Abba song “Waterloo”. #With John Popper on harmonica.
06-24-95 The Mann Music Center, Philadelphia, PA
1: Fee-> Rift, Spock’s Brain, Julius, Glide, Mound, Stash, The Horse-> Silent in the Morning, The Squirming Coil
2: Also Sprach Zarathustra-> Halley’s Comet-> David Bowie, Lifeboy, Suzy Greenberg, Harry Hood, Acoustic Army, Sweet Adeline, Golgi Apparatus
E: Bold As Love
^I had the first set of 6.24.95 in my car for a while last month…I really like it, especially the opening trio. Spock’s Brain is awesome!
i was at both those shows tubescreamer… where you at in jersey?