What was everyone's first show?

Phish Live Shows
#84

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.

#85

^What happened to that theater?

#86

8/2/03 IT, Limestone, ME

#87

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

http://www.spreckels.net/about.html

#88

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.

#89

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.

#90

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:)

#91

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

#92

^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!

#93

i was at both those shows tubescreamer… where you at in jersey?

#94

Your right, I remember being on the lawn for 6/24 and I was so jazzed about the first set…the second set was a bit more up/down but it was a memorable weekend 4 me.

I can’t wait for this summer!

#95

^I was in Chatham back then, in New Providence now. Where r u at?

I remember walking miles to get into Waterloo…endless line of traffic, no parking, but what a relaxing area to see a show.

#96

im in bridgewater…
waterloo …i miss that place.

#97

First show was hartford 12-26-97 i believe. Great second set. Glad to have seen many shows before the hiatus as well. Good times, look forward to this summer.

#98

7-20-99 Molson Amphatheatre
Toronto, ON

1: Chalk Dust Torture, Sample in a Jar, Cars Trucks Buses, The Sloth, The Divided Sky, Waste, Ghost, Wilson, You Enjoy Myself*

2: Twist, The Moma Dance, What’s the Use, Train Song, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Misty Mountain Hop**

E: Guyute, Hello My Baby

Brother just got back from Oswego and got me tickets for my birthday, It was really an amazing show.

#99

3/06/2009

#100

Thought I posted my first show in here already, but I read through and oculdn’t find it. May have been another thread.

3-1-03 Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, NC

Set I: Chalk Dust Torture, The Moma Dance, Foam, Lawn Boy, Character Zero > The Divided Sky, Mountains in the Mist, Waves, Sample in a Jar

Set II: Rock and Roll, Wilson > Piper, Also Sprach Zarathustra > Wolfman’s Brother -> Boogie on Reggae Woman, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Run Like an Antelope, Carolina

Encore: First Tube > You Enjoy Myself -> Proud Mary

Show Notes: Instead of emerging from behind the piano with his own microphone for Lawn Boy, Page came front stage and used Trey’s microphone and stand. The move prompted a raucous response from the crowd. A portion of the Piper jam was based around the chords to Oye Como Va. Trey subseqeuently teased Oye Como Va, as well as Another One Bites the Dust, during YEM. The YEM vocal jam included a Daniel tease. Proud Mary was performed a capella (including renderings of the musical breaks) to conclude the vocal jam. Only one other version of Proud Mary is known

#101

^that is one of my favorite 2003 show. It was an overall solid show and I especially like the piper and 2001

#102

that is sweet that you had your first 2 beers at a pheesh show

#103

yeah my bro raised me up right

Edit: guess I left this outta the first post. He was a freshman in college at Duke and bought me those beers.

Also, we were staying with my parents in a hotel down the road, and they tell me before we leave, “If anyone tries to pass you anything, just say no thanks. You can get arrested just for holding something.” And then my brother says, “Trevor if anyone passes you anything, you better take a hit of it and pass it to me.” They laughed - I think they thought he was kidding.