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Soundcheck: Memories, Destiny Unbound, Blues Jam
SET 1: The Sloth, Paul and Silas, Stash, The Squirming Coil, The Landlady > Fluffhead > Sparkle, It's Ice > I Didn't Know > David Bowie[1]
SET 2: Tube > Divided Sky, Cavern > The Mango Song > Chalk Dust Torture, Take the 'A' Train, You Enjoy Myself, Golgi Apparatus
ENCORE: Sweet Adeline[2], Rocky Top
During the Bowie intro, Trey presented monogrammed bathrobes to the crew for their dedication and hard work, with Chris Kuroda taking a light solo at Trey's request when his name was mentioned. The crowd passed the bathrobes from the stage to the crew. The Bowie intro also featured two Charlie Chan signals and Random Laugh and Simpsons signals. YEM featured a tease of The Christmas Song from Trey and a Frankenstein tease from Page. Sweet Adeline was performed without microphones.
Soundcheck: Dog Log, Fuck Your Face
SET 1: Golgi Apparatus, Chalk Dust Torture, Foam, Wilson > The Landlady > Destiny Unbound, Rhombus Narration > Divided Sky, Tube, I Didn't Know, You Enjoy Myself, Cavern[1]
SET 2: Buried Alive > The Sloth, Uncle Pen, David Bowie, Fee, The Squirming Coil, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg, Take the 'A' Train, Split Open and Melt, Hold Your Head Up > Terrapin > Hold Your Head Up, Memories[2], Llama
This show featured the first Rhombus Narration since April 6, 1990 (212 shows). Cavern contained a Simpsons signal. Memories was performed without microphones. Llama was preceded by a Gamehendge narration. Duke's Place (Duke Ellington) is listed as the encore on the master tape in the archives. The encore is not on the tape, so this may be an inside joke, a comment on the house music played post-show, or reference to Phish's first known performance of the song. The soundcheck's Dog Log contained additional lyrics about Colorado promoter and friend "Dandy" Don Strasburg. Information about the soundcheck and possible encore comes from phish.com.
Soundcheck: Tube, It's Ice
SET 1: Memories, My Sweet One, Chalk Dust Torture, The Mango Song > Buried Alive > Guelah Papyrus, Fluffhead > Brother, Bouncing Around the Room, Harry Hood, Golgi Apparatus
SET 2: Llama, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > Sparkle > It's Ice > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Tela, The Landlady > Destiny Unbound, Take the 'A' Train > Run Like an Antelope
ENCORE: Sweet Adeline[1], Glide, Possum
Before Tela, Trey explained Gamehendge. Sweet Adeline was performed without microphones.
SET 1: Runaway Jim, Wilson > Reba, The Landlady, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > Tela > AC/DC Bag > The Sloth > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
SET 2: Llama, Bathtub Gin, The Squirming Coil > It's Ice > My Sweet One > Jesus Just Left Chicago > Bouncing Around the Room, Hold Your Head Up > Love You > Hold Your Head Up, David Bowie[1]
The first set was almost a complete Gamehendge narration and was the second time the saga was performed live. Forbin's through McGrupp featured narration between the songs. This was the first Gamehendge since March 12, 1988 (442 shows). Reba contained a DEG tease from Trey. After Love You, Trey introduced Fish as "Hankrietta" and "the shortest man in rock and roll." The Bowie intro included a hi-hat “solo” from Fish, while Trey explained how Fish’s hi-hat serves as his escape from reality and joked that if the fans wanted to come to the next gig, they'd be introduced to Fish's ice bell. The Bowie intro also included three Charlie Chan signals and Oom Pa Pa, Simpsons, and Popeye signals (but, notably, the band responded to the Popeye signal by singing a random note, which is the Random Note signal's "secret language"). Carolina was performed without microphones.
SET 1: Suzy Greenberg, Foam, Divided Sky, Bouncing Around the Room, Poor Heart > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > AC/DC Bag > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, Brother, Hold Your Head Up > Terrapin > Hold Your Head Up[1], Golgi Apparatus
SET 2: My Sweet One, Stash, Fee, The Landlady > Destiny Unbound, Harry Hood, I Didn't Know[2], Cavern, The Squirming Coil, Rocky Top
ENCORE: Sweet Adeline[3], Possum[4], Llama
This show featured some great stage banter. Brother was dedicated to “the guy who offered us $10,000 to play a different song.” In the HYHU intro, Fish said “I hate this fucking song,” that the only reason the band plays the song is because he hates it and added “All I have do in this band is say I hate something, and it’ll be done forever.” Trey told the crowd that HYHU is the Henrietta theme precisely because Fish hates it. “It used to be ‘La Bamba,’” he noted, prompting Mike to play a bit of La Bamba. The HYHU outro featured Fish on trombone and later telling the crowd "you paid for this, this is what you bought." Trey said "If you only knew what a nightmare that was for poor Fish, having to listen to that song" and Fish responded with “they just do it out of HATE.” Trey asked who could tell him who wrote that song, and a fan answered correctly. Trey said the fan won the $10,000 the other guy was going to give them to a play a song and Page said the fan won a date with Fish, with Trey adding "and you can guarantee that he'll be late." After Golgi, Trey thanked the crowd, saying "we'll be right back with more songs that Fish hates, more songs that we love, and more songs that people are willing to pay $10,000 to hear." Trey introduced Page as Leon before his piano solos in My Sweet One and Rocky Top. Before Fish's trombone solo in I Didn't Know, Trey mentioned the last time they played in the area (see 4/11/91), they made Fish get up and tell a joke (The Prison Joke) that was "absolutely the stupidest joke ever" and that he (Trey) wasn't going tell the punchline. Trey went on to explain that most people around here thought Fish was a pretty bad joke teller and he wanted to give him a chance to redeem himself. Fish's joke was "Why did the Siamese twins go to England? To let the other one drive for a while." Page also teased HYHU while Trey talked. Adeline was sung from the balcony without microphones to open the encore. Possum contained two Charlie Chan signals as well as Simpsons and Random Laugh signals in its intro and subsequently contained Rock On (David Essex) teases.
SET 1: Cavern, Divided Sky, I Didn't Know, It's Ice, Poor Heart, The Landlady > Destiny Unbound, You Enjoy Myself > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg
SET 2: Brother > Bouncing Around the Room, Eliza, Foam, Reba, The Sloth, The Squirming Coil, My Sweet One, Golgi Apparatus, David Bowie[1]
The David Bowie intro contained Charlie Chan and Simpsons signals. Memories was performed without microphones.
SET 1: Magilla, I Didn't Know, My Sweet One, Take the 'A' Train, Donna Lee
SET 2: Unknown Song, Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?, Contact, Sweet Adeline
For this performance, Trey played a different guitar (not a Languedoc), Mike played his Languedoc bass, Page played a single electric keyboard and Fish a mini drum kit on the porch. I Didn't Know featured Mimi Fishman playing a standard, stand-up, household vacuum. The World is Waiting for the Sunrise and an unknown song were sung and played without the band by Jack and Mary Ellen McConnell on ukuleles (possibly lightly accompanied by Page on keys) prior to Phish's second set. A second unknown song and Bill Bailey featured Jack McConnell joining the band on ukulele and vocals.
SET 1: Cavern[1] > Divided Sky[1], Guelah Papyrus, Poor Heart, Split Open and Melt[1], The Lizards[1], The Landlady[1] > Bouncing Around the Room[1] > Mike's Song[1] > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove[1]
SET 2: Tweezer[1] > I Didn't Know, Runaway Jim, Lawn Boy[2], The Sloth, Esther > AC/DC Bag[1] > Contact[1] > Tweezer Reprise[1]
ENCORE 2: Fee > Suzy Greenberg[3]
This show featured the Giant Country Horns on all songs except Guelah, Poor Heart, Hydrogen, I Didn't Know, Runaway Jim, Sloth, Esther, and Fee. During I Didn't Know, Fish was introduced as "The Sultan of Swat, Henrietta." Lawn Boy featured Carl Gerhard, who was introduced as "Lawn Boy," on trumpet. Gumbo, Touch Me, and Suzy also featured Stevo Nelson on washboard, or, as Trey referred to it, “whatever the hell you call that thing.” Weekapaug included a Bonanza theme tease and Suzy contained an And the Cradle Will Rock... quote from Trey. Fish exposed himself during Touch Me. The Radiators and TR3 were the opening acts.
SET 1: Reba, Llama, The Squirming Coil > Golgi Apparatus, Guelah Papyrus, My Sweet One, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > The Sloth, I Didn't Know[1] > Possum[2]
SET 2: Suzy Greenberg[3], Caravan[3] > Divided Sky[3], Gumbo[3] > Dinner and a Movie[3] > Bouncing Around the Room[3], Split Open and Melt[3], Magilla[3] > Cavern[3] > Run Like an Antelope[3]
SET 3: AC/DC Bag[3] > The Landlady[3], Esther > Chalk Dust Torture, Bathtub Gin[3], Mike's Song[3] > I Am Hydrogen[3] > Weekapaug Groove[3], Hold Your Head Up[3] > Touch Me[4], Harry Hood
ENCORE: Contact[3] > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars[3]
This show featured The Giant Country Horns for all of the second set, all of the third set except for Esther, Chalk Dust, and Hood, and for the encore. The show began with a humorous announcement from Trey that he felt “overdressed” during National Nudist Week. My Sweet One included a tease of the Bonanza theme and Magilla included a Flintstones theme tease. I Didn't Know, in which Fish was introduced as "Hank," and Touch Me featured Fish on trombone. Possum included Charlie Chan and Oom Pa Pa signals as well as a Dave’s Energy Guide tease, while Weekapaug included more DEG teases. Trey introduced the Giant Country Horns at the end of Antelope and during BBFCFM. There was a long wait during HYHU for Fish, who was apparently in the bathroom. Hood included full-band Jeopardy! theme teases. This show ran much longer than scheduled (at one point, when Trey noted that they should wind up the show, a fan urged the band to “fuck the clock”), prompting Trey to beg the crowd to leave in a timely and orderly fashion after the encore.
SET 1: Divided Sky, The Landlady > Chalk Dust Torture > Bouncing Around the Room > You Enjoy Myself, Cavern, The Squirming Coil, Llama
SET 2: The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > AC/DC Bag -> Fee > Foam, Reba, Dinner and a Movie > The Sloth, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, I Didn't Know, Golgi Apparatus
ENCORE: Possum
Mike teased Sweet Emotion during the bass and drums section of YEM and Happy Birthday before The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony for "Josh’s" 20th birthday. Possum contained a Theme from Woody Woodpecker tease. Trey announced that the second set would be their last until the summer, as they were going in to record an album. Technical difficulties necessitated a short break after McGrupp. This show included some humorous stage banter about prep school headmasters and the like.
SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Bouncing Around the Room, Dinner and a Movie > Stash[1], The Lizards, The Landlady > Destiny Unbound[1], Llama[1], Fee > Foam, Runaway Jim
SET 2: David Bowie, Bathtub Gin, Poor Heart > The Curtain > Golgi Apparatus, Magilla[1] > Mike's Song[2] > I Am Hydrogen[3] > Weekapaug Groove, The Squirming Coil > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > AC/DC Bag[1] > Rocky Top[1]
ENCORE: Run Like an Antelope[1]
Stash, Destiny Unbound, Llama, Magilla, Mike's Song, AC/DC Bag, Rocky Top, and Run Like An Antelope featured Dave Grippo on saxophone. Mike’s Song featured The Dude of Life on vocals, who added several verses. Page began Hydrogen on a Casio synthesizer, adding a humorous touch to the last Phish show at The Front.
SET 1: Golgi Apparatus, Rocky Top > Wilson > Divided Sky, Foam, My Sweet One, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > AC/DC Bag > Tela, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Sweet Adeline
SET 2: Possum, Fee, The Landlady, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird[1] > Llama, Uncle Pen, Harry Hood, Cavern
ENCORE: I Didn't Know[2] > David Bowie
This show was part of the University’s Earth Day festival. Divided included a DEG tease from Trey. The Mockingbird narration gave a brief recap of the Gamehendge saga. I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone.
SET 1: Buried Alive > Cavern, Runaway Jim, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, The Landlady, My Sweet One, Esther > Possum[1], I Didn't Know, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
SET 2: Harry Hood, The Sloth, The Squirming Coil, Stash, Uncle Pen, Guelah Papyrus, Bouncing Around the Room > Run Like an Antelope
ENCORE: Reba, Highway to Hell
Possum contained Charlie Chan and Oom Pa Pa signals. Mike teased Heartbreaker in Mike's Song. Hydrogen contained Woody Woodpecker theme teases from Trey. Weekapaug included Divided Sky and Dave's Energy Guide teases from Trey.
SET 1: Carolina, Bouncing Around the Room, The Landlady > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Foam, Fluffhead, Uncle Pen, Stash, The Lizards, David Bowie
SET 2: Runaway Jim, Esther[1] > My Sweet One, The Squirming Coil > Tweezer, Fee, Slave to the Traffic Light, Chalk Dust Torture
Foam (introduced as one of Fish’s favorite songs) was preceded by a HYHU tease while Fish fixed his cymbal. Uncle Pen was introduced as a band favorite and dedicated to a fan in the crowd. Trey repeated the first line of Esther several times, as if he had forgotten the rest of the lyrics. Slave was played for Mike from “the Telluride contingency” and was preceded by Trey’s story about the ‘88 Colorado tour. After Slave, Fish came front and center to the tune of HYHU to tell his infamous “bear story.” Afterwards, Trey referenced the July 30, 1988 Telluride show, where Fish was late. Chalk Dust included Manteca teases.
SET 1: Runaway Jim, Guelah Papyrus, My Sweet One, Tweezer, Esther, Destiny Unbound, Reba, Chalk Dust Torture, Foam, Golgi Apparatus
SET 2: David Bowie[1], The Squirming Coil, The Landlady, Cavern > The Mango Song, Split Open and Melt, Bouncing Around the Room, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg
ENCORE: Jesus Just Left Chicago > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars
David Bowie contained Charlie Chan and Tritone Down signals and was preceded by an Entrance of the Gladiators tease from Trey. Suzy contained a Sailor's Hornpipe tease. Fish teased Cavern prior to Melt.
SET 1: Llama > Bouncing Around the Room, Runaway Jim, The Asse Festival, Dinner and a Movie > You Enjoy Myself, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, The Landlady, Possum
SET 2: Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Gumbo, Foam, Stash[1], Magilla[1], The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg[1], Rocky Top[2], Ya Mar[3], Run Like an Antelope[3]
ENCORE: Lawn Boy[1], Golgi Apparatus
Stash, Magilla, Suzy, and Lawn Boy featured Dave Grippo on saxophone and Rocky Top through Antelope featured Grippo on saxophone and Russell Flanigan on fiddle. Trey teased Buried Alive in Stash.
SET 1: Carolina, AC/DC Bag > The Curtain > Bouncing Around the Room, Tube, Harry Hood, Funky Bitch, The Asse Festival, My Sweet One, David Bowie
SET 2: Golgi Apparatus, Rocky Top, Llama, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Manteca[1] -> Caravan > Runaway Jim, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg, Jesus Just Left Chicago, You Enjoy Myself
ENCORE: Contact > Highway to Hell
The Phish debut of Manteca was played in its entirety over the top of Caravan, which in turn was teased several times during Suzy. Caravan also included a Woody Woodpecker theme tease from Trey and a Manteca quote. Bowie featured brief DEG teases. YEM contained a Flash Light tease from Mike. Contact was played in honor of the venue’s “disco lights.” Highway to Hell contained a Buried Alive tease from Trey.
SET 1: Divided Sky, Uncle Pen, Stash, The Landlady, Destiny Unbound, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > The Asse Festival, The Squirming Coil > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Magilla > La Grange
SET 2: Buried Alive > Bouncing Around the Room > Tweezer, My Sweet One, I Didn't Know > The Lizards > Good Times Bad Times, Golgi Apparatus
ENCORE: Contact
This show was Phish's first public gig in New Jersey and featured many references to the state. Trey started the show by saying he was born and raised in New Jersey. Before Uncle Pen, Trey said that this was sort of a dream come true for him and Page, who grew up in New Jersey, adding it was the first time they'd ever played in the state. Trey said "we'll do a little song here that brings us back to our New Jersey roots here... it's an old Bill Monroe song." Mike added that it was "a song about Pendleton Vandiver, Bill Monroe's uncle. It's true. He's dead." Stash was played by request for "Big Phil" Muller, and was preceded by Fish playing the Charlie Chan signal. Fish said "he wrote it," Trey said "probably because I wrote it," and Mike added "I think it sucks. Essentially." Regarding Stash, Trey said "I collaborated on this song writing the music end of it and the lyrics were written by another native New Jerseyian, Tom Marshall, who isn't here tonight, unfortunately, because he's gotta be at work tomorrow programming computers." Fish added "for his dad" and Trey responded "My dad, he works for my dad. Keeping it all in the family here." Stash and La Grange contained Buried Alive teases. Prior to Landlady, Trey said they were going to play it in honor of their first gig in New Jersey. Mike introduced Destiny Unbound as a song he wrote about his Uncle Pendleton Vandiver. Prior to Buried Alive, Trey asked for a show of hands from the sparse crowd as to how many people in the room were actually from New Jersey and said "we're going to play a song that we wrote that we think captures the spirit of New Jersey," calling it "New Jersey And You, Perfect Together," which is the state's tourism slogan (a joke he later referenced in Golgi and Contact). Trey encouraged the crowd to "sing along when the chorus comes, just like it's a big commercial, because we'll be filming this for the next New Jersey commercial." During I Didn't Know, Trey introduced Fish as "Zero Man" and the song's lyrics were changed to Pardon Me "Zero Man." Before Contact, Trey introduced his dog Marley as "the 5th member of the band who doesn't usually get as much recognition... and we're going to play Marley's favorite song -- at this moment in time."
SET 1: Self, Family Picture, We've Only Just Begun
Phish was the wedding band for the first wedding of Steve Pollak (The Dude of Life). The setlist is incomplete, although according to the groom most of what was played was “just jamming.” We’ve Only Just Begun was (ironically) the wedding song, and was sung by Page.
SET 1: Dinner and a Movie > Bouncing Around the Room, The Sloth, The Landlady, Reba, Ya Mar, Tube, Tweezer[1], Paul and Silas, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Magilla, Run Like an Antelope[2]
ENCORE: Contact
This was a free show. Tweezer included a Heartbreaker tease as well as Charlie Chan and Popeye signals. Antelope contained three Charlie Chan signals and How High the Moon, Oom Pa Pa, and Popeye signals. Contact was dedicated to "Griffin."
SET 1: Dog Log, Uncle Pen, Suzy Greenberg, Suzy Greenberg, Caravan, Alumni Blues > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues, Take the 'A' Train, In a Mellow Tone, Possum, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, Tweezer, Possum, Harry Hood, Rift, Runaway Jim
Soundcheck: Mike's Song, Shaggy Dog, Jam
SET 1: Bathtub Gin, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > AC/DC Bag, Dinner and a Movie > Bouncing Around the Room > Runaway Jim, Uncle Pen, Divided Sky, Lawn Boy > David Bowie
SET 2: Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Foam, Donna Lee, Tweezer, My Sweet One > Reba, Funky Bitch, Sweet Adeline > Possum
ENCORE: La Grange
Trey dedicated Uncle Pen to the death metal band Possessed, calling them "one of the greatest living rock and roll bands" and prompting banter from Fish. Mike teased What I Am before Uncle Pen. Tweezer contained a Woody Woodpecker theme tease from Trey and Possum included teases of Norwegian Wood. La Grange was introduced by Mike as a song by David "The Truth" Grippo.
SET 1: Possum > Bouncing Around the Room, Uncle Pen, Reba, Tweezer, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
SET 2: Fee, Harry Hood, Esther > David Bowie, Terrapin, Jägermeister Song, You Enjoy Myself[1]
Reba was dedicated to Widespread Panic. After Trey thanked Widespread Panic, the band played a brief jam with a Spanish-style feel (for about 30 seconds) before Jägermeister. The management stopped the band in the middle of YEM, so there was no vocal jam. During the tramps jam in YEM, Trey jumped off the stage. The opening act was Widespread Panic.
SET 1: Carolina, Possum, Ya Mar, You Enjoy Myself, Dinner and a Movie > Bouncing Around the Room, Uncle Pen, Divided Sky, Fluffhead > Walk Away, Love You > Hold Your Head Up, The Lizards, Fire
Fluffhead was a birthday dedication to "Sarah." Walk Away featured Trey and Mike on the trampolines. HYHU was played for the first time since March 1, 1989 (167 shows).
SET 1: Divided Sky, Uncle Pen, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg, Possum, I Didn't Know[1], Cavern, My Sweet One, Slave to the Traffic Light > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
SET 2: Dinner and a Movie, Bouncing Around the Room > You Enjoy Myself > Fluffhead, How High the Moon, Esther > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Harry Hood, Fire
ENCORE: Lawn Boy, Golgi Apparatus
This was a free outdoor show, performed on Earth Day. The short break after Suzy was necessary to correct audio problems. Possum contained a Rhapsody in Blue tease from Page. I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone and vacuum. Cavern contained a tease of Another One Bites the Dust from Mike. YEM also contained teases of Another One Bites the Dust and the vocal jam included a quote of the Sabre Dance. Mike used How High the Moon to change his broken bass string. The second set opened with Bouncing teases and a request for Caleb Snyder to retrieve his license, which was awaiting its retrieval on Page’s keyboard. Hood contained an O-o-h Child tease from Trey.
SET 1: Divided Sky, Funky Bitch, You Enjoy Myself, If I Only Had a Brain, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg, Uncle Pen, Possum
SET 2: Golgi Apparatus > Walk Away, The Lizards, Slave to the Traffic Light > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Fee > My Sweet One > Run Like an Antelope
You Enjoy Myself contained Oriental Riff teases from Mike. Trey teased Third Stone From the Sun in Suzy Greenberg, Stairway to Heaven in Slave to the Traffic Light, and Jean Pierre in Weekapaug Groove.
No known setlist
It's unknown whether this show occurred. The March/April 1990 Phish Update says “call hotline” and Trey’s notes said “off.” If a show occurred this day, the setlist is unknown. The source of this information is phish.com.
SET 1: Contact > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > Reba, La Grange, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, The Squirming Coil > The Lizards > Possum
SET 2: Carolina, Roll Like a Cantaloupe, My Sweet One, Bouncing Around the Room, Dinner and a Movie, Take the 'A' Train > The Sloth, Ya Mar, Split Open and Melt, Harpua, Slave to the Traffic Light, AC/DC Bag, David Bowie
ENCORE: Tela
Possum contained Purple Haze teases from Trey and Cantaloupe contained Jean Pierre and Theme from Bonanza teases from Trey. Harpua included a Purple Haze tease and Foxy Lady and Fire quotes. Roll Like a Cantaloupe was played for the first time since July 12, 1988 (202 shows).
Soundcheck: Jessica Jam, Donna Lee, Jazz Jam
SET 1: Foam, My Sweet One, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, Funky Bitch, The Squirming Coil, Bouncing Around the Room, David Bowie, Satin Doll, Rift[1], Possum
SET 2: Reba, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Makisupa Policeman, The Lizards, Fluffhead > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars
This show included the first known version of the original Rift. Reba was preceded by teases of the theme from Jeopardy! and contained a Brady Bunch theme tease from Trey. McGrupp and Fluffhead contained Sailor's Hornpipe teases from Trey. Foxy Lady was teased and quoted before Lizards. Fluffhead was dedicated to Paul Languedoc's head (specifically his new haircut) and was introduced as "Lunkhead." Trey quoted Fire in Big Black Furry Creature from Mars.
SET 1: Suzy Greenberg, Split Open and Melt, Tela > Fluffhead, La Grange, Carolina, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > Communication Breakdown
SET 2: Wilson[1], Run Like an Antelope, Bouncing Around the Room, Caravan, The Squirming Coil > You Enjoy Myself > Bathtub Gin, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
ENCORE: Lawn Boy > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars
It must have been a hot night at The Front, as references were made to a large fan cooling off the crowd. The band even encouraged the audience to take their shirts off; Trey went as far as to promise that Fish would get naked if the audience did! Wilson was performed in a heavy metal style. Trey teased Sailor's Hornpipe in Hydrogen. BBFCFM contained teases of Auld Lang Syne and the Bonanza theme from Trey.
SET 1: I Didn't Know, You Enjoy Myself > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > AC/DC Bag, Auld Lang Syne > Run Like an Antelope, Bathtub Gin, The Lizards, Satin Doll > Highway to Hell
SET 2: Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Ya Mar, Split Open and Melt, Fee > Divided Sky, Golgi Apparatus
ENCORE: Contact
This was the first Phish New Year’s performance. Trey and Mike wore tuxedos and top hats to commemorate the event. Fish came out for I Didn’t Know wearing a top hat and a g-string with tuxedo tails. The opening act was The Ululators.
SET 1: Bathtub Gin, Funky Bitch > Ya Mar, Reba, Divided Sky, My Sweet One > Run Like an Antelope, Lawn Boy, Frankenstein
SET 2: The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > AC/DC Bag > Esther > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg, Split Open and Melt[1], In a Hole, Fee > Possum, Love You, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
ENCORE: I Didn't Know, Golgi Apparatus
Antelope contained a Bonanza theme tease from Trey. Melt contained a Fish drum solo.
SET 1: La Grange, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > You Enjoy Myself > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg, Ya Mar, Foam, Rocky Top > Split Open and Melt[1], Tela > Divided Sky, I Didn't Know > Good Times Bad Times
SET 2: Harry Hood, Reba, Golgi Apparatus, In a Hole, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Who Do? We Do! > AC/DC Bag, My Sweet One, Fee > Possum
ENCORE: Undun[2], Run Like an Antelope, The Lizards
Suzy included Purple Haze teases from Trey. SOAM included an extended drum solo from Fish. Fish explained some of his vacuum parts before launching into a vacuum solo during I Didn’t Know. Members of Ninja Custodian visited the stage before and during the encore, leading to some funny stage banter. Undun was subsequently dedicated to Sofi (likely Sofi Dillof) on her 22nd birthday and the lyrics to the song were changed to reference the event and the Ninja Custodian hijinks. Undun also featured Fish on trombone. Tela was played for the first time since August 27, 1988 (122 shows).
SET 1: Alumni Blues > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Who Do? We Do! > Golgi Apparatus, Harry Hood > The Chase > Wilson > Foam, Ya Mar, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg > Run Like an Antelope
SET 2: AC/DC Bag > My Sweet One > Reba[1], Dinner and a Movie > Bundle of Joy > Possum, You Enjoy Myself > If I Only Had a Brain, Contact, Split Open and Melt, The Lizards
ENCORE: Highway to Hell[2]
Trey teased Purple Haze in Suzy. I'm a Man (Spencer Davis Group) in Antelope, and the Brady Bunch theme in Possum. Trey dedicated the debut performance of Reba to the “Spirit of Nancy.” Reba did not have the whistling ending. This show also marked the first known Phish performance of Highway to Hell.
SET 1: Divided Sky, Run Like an Antelope, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, Fee -> Slave to the Traffic Light, Esther, Suzy Greenberg, You Enjoy Myself[1]
SET 2: Fire, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Bathtub Gin, Sanity[2], Ride Captain Ride, Peaches en Regalia, Take the 'A' Train[3], Possum, Contact[4], Funky (Breakdown)[5] -> The Price of Love[6], Funky Bitch, Split Open and Melt[7], The Mango Song, Harry Hood
SET 3: Jam -> La Grange Jam, The Sloth, Sneakin' Sally Thru the Alley > Ya Mar[8], Jesus Just Left Chicago
Trey dedicated the Divided Sky opener to “the spirit of the pig.” Trey briefly teased TMWSIY before Antelope. This YEM featured the infamous “Poop Vocal Jam,” followed by a set-stopping keg run. Mike’s Song included a tease of the HBO theme song. Sanity was the fast version and dedicated to Eric Larson. 'A' Train featured "Paul," an unknown audience member, on saxophone and included a Dixie tease from Trey. During Contact, Trey wished the crowd "Merry Christmas" several times, quoted Blue Bayou (with slightly altered lyrics) in a falsetto voice and teased Auld Lang Syne at the end of the song. This show featured the first known Phish performance of Funky (Breakdown). Funky (Breakdown) and Price of Love featured guest appearances by Ninja Mike (vocals) and Magoo (guitar). Fish intermittently played trombone and vacuum during the latter. Melt featured a Fish drum solo. The vocal jam at the end of Sneakin' Sally included Changes (David Bowie) and My Sharona (The Knack) quotes. Ya Mar's lyrics included references to wild pigs and Paul.
SET 1: Harry Hood, Foam, Contact, Mike's Song[1] > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Split Open and Melt, Dazed and Confused[2], The Sloth, You Enjoy Myself > Ya Mar, AC/DC Bag > Divided Sky
SET 2: Alumni Blues, Possum
Before Contact, the band announced that the police were towing cars out on Spear Street. This version of Mike’s Song, known also as “Molly’s Song,” included alternate lyrics. This show marked the only known Phish performance of Dazed and Confused. YEM included a Godzilla vocal jam. SOAM was introduced as being “about a pig.” The setlist for set II is unknown except for Chris Kuroda's guest sit-in on vocals for either Alumni Blues or Possum. It is also possible that Kuroda sat in on both songs. There are no recordings of set II in circulation. Some recordings that circulate are mislabeled as The Front. The set II information comes from phish.com.
SET 1: AC/DC Bag, Divided Sky, The Lizards, Run Like an Antelope, Terrapin, You Enjoy Myself, Possum
This show was billed as the Southwest Annual Spring Concert where Phish opened for Canned Heat.
SET 1: I Didn't Know, You Enjoy Myself, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, The Lizards, Divided Sky, Wilson, Peaches en Regalia, Run Like an Antelope, Terrapin[1]
ENCORE: Possum
This show was preceded by an introduction from Dionysian co-founder Ben Hunter. After YEM, Trey acknowledged his grandparents who were in attendance. Prior to McGrupp, Trey said that the band were traveling minstrels from Gamehendge and proceeded to provide a brief Gamehendge narration about each of the four songs they were going to play: McGrupp And The Watchful Hosemasters, The Lizards, "Divided Sky and the Wind Blows High," and "Wilson, Can You Still Have Fun?" Terrapin featured Fish on trombone.
SET 1: Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, If I Only Had a Brain[1], Alumni Blues[2] > Letter to Jimmy Page[3] > Alumni Blues, Golgi Apparatus, Bold As Love, Foam
This show featured the first known Phish performance of If I Only Had a Brain, which featured Fish on trombone. Alumni contained additional lyrics. During the pause in Letter to Jimmy Page, a local band, Eyeburn, traded off punk rock jams. This setlist is incomplete.
SET 1: Autumn Leaves[1], All Blues, Unknown[2], Satin Doll, St. Thomas, Unknown[2], My Favorite Things[1], Take the 'A' Train
SET 2: On Green Dolphin Street[1], Unknown[2], Unknown, Autumn Leaves, Donna Lee, Contact, The Lizards, So What[1], All Of Me[3], Basin Street Blues[3], I Didn't Know[4]
This show was a private party for family and friends at Trey's dad's house. The gig consisted of the band set up in the living room playing jazz. Fish played mostly with brushes. This show featured the first known Phish performances of Autumn Leaves, My Favorite Things, On Green Dolphin Street, So What, All Of Me, and Basin Street Blues. Four unknown jazz standards were also performed. Page's dad, Jack McConnell, sat in with the band on vocals for All Of Me and Basin Street Blues. Fish played a trombone solo during I Didn't Know. Page's parents, the band members' siblings, Andrew Fischbeck, and others were in attendance. Between sets, Trey explained his thesis "The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday", commonly known as ”Gamehendge” (without any musical accompaniment), to the McConnells and others while sitting around talking. The source of this setlist and show notes is phish.com.
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