NUMERO UNO
04-27-91 Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY
1: Sweet Adeline, The Asse Festival, Runaway Jim, Cavern, The Landlady, My Sweet One, Reba, Llama, Lizards, Suzy Greenberg, Stash, Golgi Apparatus
2: The Curtain, Possum, TMWSIY-> Avenu Malkenu-> TMWSIY, Mike’s Song-> I Am Hydrogen-> Weekapaug Groove, Fluffhead, Tweezer, The Squirming Coil, Wipeout, Tweezer Reprise
E: Bouncing Around the Room, Good Times Bad Times
12/30/03
make my funk tha phish funk- i wants to get funked up
5-3-93… 2nd night at Tower theater philly… I think its 5-3 or 5-2, whatever. Feels like… 15 years ago.
10-28-95 The Palace, Detriot, MI
1: AC/DC Bag, Mound, Timber (Jerry), Uncle Pen, Sample in a Jar, Lizards, Billy Breathes, Acoustic Army, Prince Caspian, Run Like an Antelope
2: Maze, Theme From the Bottom-> Scent of a Mule, You Enjoy Myself, Strange Design, Frankenstein, Chalk Dust Torture
E: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
What’s up OKP? This is my first post so I thought it would be appropriate to come w/ my 1st show…
6-22-95 Finger Lakes PAC Canandaigua, NY
1: Sample, Scent, Ha Ha Ha, Divided Sky, Guelah Papyrus, It’s Ice, Strange Design, Maze, Cavern, Sweet Adeline
2: Theme From the Bottom–>Jam–>Tweezer–>My Generation*–>Tweezer Reprise
E: Acoustic Army, While My Guitar Gently Weeps
*-1st time played
pretty wierd first show. a standard first set with a few highlights(Divided, Ice w/vacuum, Maze) followed by a pretty out there second set. I only 1/2 got it at this one.
Welcome redearth.
I’m a big fan of that It’s Ice.
10-22-95 Assembly Hall, Champaign, IL
1: AC/DC Bag, My Mind’s Got a Mind of its Own, The Sloth, Runaway Jim, Weigh, NICU, Fast Enough for You, It’s Ice, Poor Heart, Sample in a Jar, I’m Blue I’m Lonesome, Stash
2: Golgi Apparatus, Possum, Catapult-> The Curtain-> Tweezer-> Makisupa Policeman-> Big Black Furry Creature From Mars, Life on Mars?, Uncle Pen, Slave to the Traffic Light-> Cavern
E: Sweet Adeline, The Squirming Coil
BIG CYPRESS . also was my first jam-band show of any kind. AND my first time taking various psychedelics 
oh and the first time I smoked bud that was seedless !!!
LIFE CHANGING for sure
Cypress was your first Phish show?
Good grief.
08-10-96 Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI
1: My Friend My Friend, Poor Heart, AC/DC Bag, Fee, Reba, I Didn’t Know, The Horse-> Silent in the Morning, Rift, Bathtub Gin*, Cavern
2: Wilson, Down With Disease, Scent of a Mule, Free, Fluffhead, HYHU**-> Whipping Post-> HYHU, Harry Hood, A Day in the Life
E: Contact, Fire
*With “Gypsy Queen” jam. **Extended jam.
Good show. Not great, but good. Def made me a life long fan!
^my fifth show! yay!!
08-10-96 Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI
1: My Friend My Friend, Poor Heart, AC/DC Bag, Fee, Reba, I Didn’t Know, The Horse-> Silent in the Morning, Rift, Bathtub Gin*, Cavern
2: Wilson, Down With Disease, Scent of a Mule, Free, Fluffhead, HYHU**-> Whipping Post-> HYHU, Harry Hood, A Day in the Life
E: Contact, Fire
*With “Gypsy Queen” jam. **Extended jam.
Damn Grabs, I like your taste in first shows! I would agree with your assesment, not a great show, but certainly made me a life long fan. Got me hook, line & sinker! Was your 2nd show at U of I that November? If it t’was, then that’s some freaky shit!
08-13-97 Star Lake Amphitheatre, Burgettstown, PA
1: Amoreena*, Poor Heart, Stash, Water in the Sky, Gumbo#, The Horse-> Silent in the Morning, Beauty of My Dreams, Crosseyed and Painless, Wilson-> Little Drummer Boy, Sweet Adeline
2: Runaway Jim, Ghost-> Izabella, Sleeping Monkey, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Sample in a Jar, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Golgi Apparatus, Frankenstein
E: Theme From the Bottom
*Elton John cover (first time played)
Thanks Phinest! We have the same first and last show. My second show, however, was the AZ show in December of 96. I moved that Fall.
06-19-95 Deer Creek Amphitheatre, Noblesville, IN
1: Theme From the Bottom-> Poor Heart, AC/DC Bag, Tela, Punch You in the Eye, Reba, Strange Design, Rift, Cavern, Run Like An Antelope
2: Simple-> David Bowie, The Mango Song, Loving Cup, Sparkle, You Enjoy Myself, Acoustic Army, Possum
E: A Day in the Life
The Creek was MAYBE half full.
I had a blast.
12/31/96 Fleet Center- Boston, MA
Set I: Axilla, Peaches en Regalia, Punch You in the Eye, Cars Trucks Buses, Stash, The Horse> Silent in the Morning, The Divided Sky, Sample in a Jar, Tweezer Reprise
Set II: Chalkdust Torture, Wilson, Sparkle, Simple> Swept Away> Steep, Harry Hood, Prince Caspian, Character Zero
Set III: Also Sprach Zarathustra> Auld Lang Syne> Down With Disease, Suzy Greenberg, Run Like An Antelope, Bohemian Rhapsody1, Julius1
Encore: Amazing Grace1
1 With Boston Community Choir
A Personal Phistory:
I was in a record store in '95 and bought A Live One on a whim. I 'd never heard their music but heard of Phish. Great first album to listen to because it captured the band’s live energy. I moved out west for college and kind of forgot about Phish for a little while and they didn’t play near my school the whole time. I decided I had to see them live the next time our paths crossed, which ended up being New Years in Boston when I was home visiting for xmas. First shows tend to be one of your favorites, and NYE '96 might still be my favorite Phish show. The band started with Axilla and I was a little confused because I hadn’t heard it before and it seemed like a little too much too soon for me (I still don’t care for Axilla much- this insane rocking intro may have scarred me for life…). Then they play “Peaches”- again another song I was unfamiliar with- at least coming from Phish, but it ROCKED. That’s when it clicked and I entered a state of bliss that lasted quite a long time. Cue the bass intro to PYITE. My chest was about to explode and I really got into the music from then until the end of three great sets and a very epic Queen song, although Page couldn’t come close to hitting the high notes like Freddie Mercury (who can?). The choir was a surprise and they did Bohemian Rhapsody along with Julius, & Amazing Grace together. I think their mikes were off or something because I had a hard time hearing them over the band. I saved one of the balloons with the Phish logo on it that had dropped from the ceiling at midnight and I brought it all the way home- fully inflated- and it stayed full of “Phish air” for a few years! All in all, my Greatest New Year’s…ever.
12/10/92 State Theatre- Kalamazoo, MI
1: Golgi Apparatus, Llama, Foam, Fee, Poor Heart, Split Open and Melt, I Didn’t Know, All Things Reconsidered, Reba, Sweet Adeline, Cavern
2: Rift, Tweezer-> Tela, My Sweet One-> Big Ball Jam, Maze, You Enjoy Myself, HYHU-> Love You-> HYHU, Oh Kee Pa Ceremony-> Suzy Greenberg
E: Bold as Love, Carolina, Tweezer Reprise
*During Suzy Fish stagedived into the mosh pit(for real) and loses his dress. crawls back on stage naked except goggles covering his previously exposed cock and balls with the tattered remains of the dress.
12-06-97 The Palace, Auburn Hills, MI
Soundcheck: Dog Log, AC/DC Bag, Ginseng Sullivan, Black-Eyed Katy
1: Golgi Apparatus, Run Like an Antelope, Train Song, Bathtub Gin-> Foam, Sample in a Jar, Fee, Maze, Cavern
2: Tweezer* -> Izabella** -> Twist -> Piper -> Sleeping Monkey -> Tweezer Reprise
E: Rocky Top
*Trey teases the music from the the segue that comes out of “1983…(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)” (Jimi Hendrix). *With the start/stop funk jam that repeatedly surfaced during the Fall Tour (may have oringinated in the 11-28-97 Worcester “Ghost”).
IZABELLA!!!
Epic first show, bjslick.
Wednesday, February 26, 2003
Worcester Centrum Centre, Worcester, MA
Set I: You Enjoy Myself, Clone, Roggae, Drifting, Blue Skies, The Moma Dance, Final Flight, Maze
Set II: Stash, Ghost -> Low Rider Jam -> Makisupa Policeman -> Ya Mar, Guyute, Waves > Prince Caspian -> Frankenstein > Golgi Apparatus
Encore: Loving Cup
Show Notes: For the first time since November 18, 1989, Phish opened with YEM (albeit preceded by a “Charge!” tease from Trey). The YEM vocal jam included Trey singing pieces Clone. Phish subsequently debuted Clone, as well as three other songs previously only played by various band member side projects: Drifting, Blue Skies, and Final Flight. Stash included a Foam tease. The lyrics to Makiupa referenced the fire at the band’s hotel in Cincinnati a week earlier. Trey expanded Page’s nickname to “Leo Kottke” in Ya Mar. Ya Mar also included a Stash tease. Caspian was unfinished. Golgi included a Frankenstein tease.
Set II was funktastic!