What was everyone's first show?

Phish Live Shows
#41

06-09-95 Red Rocks Ampitheater, Morrison, CO

1: My Friend My Friend, The Divided Sky, Strange Design, Oh Kee Pa Ceremony, AC/DC Bag, Theme From the Bottom, Taste, Sparkle, Run Like an Antelope

2: Split Open and Melt, The Wedge, Scent of a Mule, Cavern, David Bowie, Acoustic Army, Sweet Adeline, Slave to the Traffic Light

E: The Squirming Coil

I had 2 chances to see the band in 94. First was the OJ show, but I didn’t quite get Phish yet. I kind of liked them, but not all that much…DOH!!! Then I could have seen 11/20/94. By then I was way more interested and wanted to check out them out, but had a planned trip to Steamboat Springs so i couldn’t make it. Hung out in Steamboat with some huge phans and finally “got it” in the mountains listening to Reba. I knew I had to see this band ASAP. Got tix for Red Rocks the next year and here I am 75 shows and hundreds of great experiences later.

#42

As weird as it might sound, the song that really got me was “It’s Ice.”

Friday, December 15, 1995
The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA

I: Chalk Dust Torture > Harry Hood > Wilson, Maze > Ha Ha Ha -> Suspicious Minds > HYHU, Cars Trucks Buses, Bouncing Around the Room, Free, Possum

II: Tweezer Reprise > Runaway Jim, It’s Ice > Bathtub Gin > Rotation Jam > Also Sprach Zarathustra > David Bowie, Sweet Adeline

E: Good Times Bad Times > Tweezer Reprise

Show Notes: Possum included Oom Pa Pa, Simpsons and All Fall Down signals. Trey mentioned that he saw his first concert (Jethro Tull) in this very venue.

#43

My life took a turn this evening to say the least…

07/17/03 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Bonner Springs, KS

Set I: Chalkdust Torture, Wolfman’s Brother, Maze, Dirt, Pebbles and Marbles, Strange Design, Back On The Train, The Divided Sky

Set II: Tweezer> Makisupa Policeman1 2 3, Limb By Limb, Anything But Me, Horn, Waves, Cavern> Run Like An Antelope
Encore: Contact> Tweezer Reprise

1 Keyword referenced the arrest of Phish’s head of security.
2 with “Dust in the Wind” teases
3 Following Makisupa, Trey announced that the first person to call Mike’s “Inside In” hotline, and leave a message with the name of the song that the band had just teased, would win a prize.

#44

Monday, July 21, 1997
Virginia Beach Amphitheater, Virginia Beach, VA

Check: Limb by Limb, Twist (several times), Ginseng Sullivan
Set I: Ghost, Dogs Stole Things, Piper, Dirt, Ginseng Sullivan, Bathtub Gin, Character Zero
Set II: Wolfman’s Brother -> Magilla, David Bowie, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Theme From the Bottom -> Jam, Funky Bitch, Slave to the Traffic Light
Encore: Loving Cup
Show Notes: The jam during Bathtub Gin featured Trey jumping up and down in time with a syncopated jam, as well as strong Drowned teases. Near the end of the jam, Trey mentioned how good it was to be back home and named the four newer songs that were played. The beginning of Bowie included a Birdland jam and Wolfman’s included a Bathtub Gin tease. The jam out of Theme, as well as Funky Bitch, featured LeRoi Moore on saxophone. The jam with LeRoi included a segment where he played two saxes, Trey played three guitars, Mike played two basses and the Cracklin’ Rosie cymbals, Fish had four drumsticks and Page was lying across his keyboards playing as many as possible. It was an insane visual experience that can’t be explained either in words or on tape.

#45

5/21/95 Grateful Dead

9/29/95 Phish

#46

Just made it, lucky man.

#47

9/29/95 was my 14th birthday.

#48

11/18/95
N. Charleston Colliseum, South Carolina

I: Dinner and a Movie, Bouncing Around The Room, Reba, Lawnboy,
Punch you in the Eye, Slave to the Traffic Light, Blue and Lonesome
Sample In A Jar

II: AC/DC Bag, Sparkle, Free, I’m So Tired, YEM*, Contact, B.B.F.C.F.M>
Accoustic Army > B.B.F.C.F.M., Cavern

E: Won’t You Come Home Bill Baily*

  • w/ BrickHouse Jam
    ** Sung by Page’s Dad
#49

10-21-95 Pershing Auditorium, Lincoln, NE

1: Tweezer Reprise, Chalk Dust Torture, Guelah Papyrus, Reba, Wilson, Cars Trucks Buses, Kung, Lizards, Strange Design, Acoustic Army, Good Times Bad Times*-> Tweezer Reprise

2: Also Sprach Zarathustra, David Bowie, Lifeboy, Sparkle, You Enjoy Myself, Purple Rain, Harry Hood**, Suzy Greenberg**

E: Highway to Hell

*With “Black or White” (Michael Jackson) tease. **With “Beat It” (Michael Jackson) teases.

#50

^
Hey! That’s an official release!

Good for you.

#51

Freshman in college at UNL and some people came down from colorado for the show I got a ticket outside for free and since then I was hooked (GOD i miss those days)

#52

Sunday, July 12, 1992
Jones Beach, Wantagh, Long Island, NY

Check: Sweet Adeline, Carolina, Sweet Adeline (many times)
Sweet Adeline, Chalk Dust Torture, Bouncing Around the Room, Divided Sky, Fluffhead, Maze, Uncle Pen, Glide -> Vacuum Solo -> Glide, Possum
Show Notes: This show was part of the HORDE tour. Unlike other HORDE shows, though, Phish headlined. The band took the stage wearing papier mache costume masks, which they threw into the crowd after Adeline. Glide was dedicated to David Ullrich, a fan who had recently died of leukemia. Possum featured the secret language, including the Simpsons, All Fall Down, and Oom Pa Pa Signals.

#53

^My first show too. You forgot Popper falling through the tramp. :wink: My mom went with me because I was only 16 and did not drive (I had to keep making bathroom trips…) :wink: She actually had a good time.

#54

2 Vac Solos. One Epic Hood.

04-10-94 Alumni Arena, State University of New York Buffalo, Amherst, NY

1: Runaway Jim, It’s Ice, Sparkle, Split Open and Melt, Esther, Chalk Dust Torture, I Didn’t Know, Scent of a Mule, Down With Disease

2: My Friend My Friend-> Right Back Inside My Heart jam*, Ya Mar, Run Like an Antelope, Fluffhead, Ginseng Sullivan, I Wanna Be Like You, Harry Hood

E: Bouncing Around the Room, Golgi Apparatus

Trey broke his ankle during the soundcheck before this show. *Song by Julie Cruise. Trey sang a few lines and stopped.

#55

Jesus, I can’t imagine how much pain that guy was in. Sprained ankles are bad enough - but a broken ankle? He’s, like, superhuman and stuff.

#56

Sunday, April 17, 1994
Patriot Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

  Set I: Loving Cup, Foam, I Didn't Know, Divided Sky, Mound, Down with Disease -> If I Could, My Sweet One, Cavern
  Set II: David Bowie, Wolfman's Brother, Uncle Pen, The Sloth, Reba, Big Ball Jam, Maze, Contact, Golgi Apparatus
  Encore: Cracklin' Rosie, Bold As Love

KILLER SHOW!

#57

3-06-09. they opened up with…fluff something?

#58

04-18-94 Bob Carpenter Center, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

1: Chalk Dust Torture, Glide-> Poor Heart, Julius, My Friend My Friend, Rift, Split Open and Melt, Dog Faced Boy*, Oh Kee Pa Ceremony-> AC/DC Bag

2: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Sample in a Jar, Sparkle-> Bathtub Gin-> Big Ball Jam, Ya Mar**, Mike’s Song-> TMWSIY-> Avenu Malkenu-> TMWSIY-> Down With Disease-> HYHU-> I Wanna Be Like You-> HYHU, Cavern

E: Good Times Bad Times

*Electric. **Dedicated to Sue.

#59

07-10-94 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY

1: Chalk Dust Torture, Horn, Peaches en Regalia, Rift, Stash, If I Could, My Friend My Friend, Julius, Cavern

2: Sample in a Jar, David Bowie, Glide, Ya Mar, Mike’s Song*-> I Am Hydrogen-> Weekapaug Groove, Bouncing Around the Room, The Squirming Coil, Crimes of the Mind**

E: Golgi Apparatus, Rocky Top

*With “Low Rider” (War) jam. **With the Dude of Life on vocals.

I had actually forgotten about the Dude of Life

#60

10-07-94 Stabler Arena, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

1: My Friend My Friend, Julius, Glide, Poor Heart, The Divided Sky, Guelah Papyrus, Stash, Guyute*, Golgi Apparatus

2: Maze, The Horse-> Silent in the Morning, Reba, Wilson, Scent of a Mule, Tweezer, Lifeboy, My Sweet One, Tweezer Reprise

E: Foreplay#-> Long Time#, Cavern

*First time played (original). #First time played; Trey on acoustic guitar, Mike on banjo, Page on stand-up bass, and Fish on washboard.

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