This is one of the great highlights of the early-90's period before the members of Phish fully figured out how to get beyond their own virtuosity. The second set is as weird and wonderful and funny as its setlist, with a magical Harry Hood near the end; and yes, everything from Tweezer through...
(Published in the second edition of The Phish Companion...)
No review can do justice to this experience, but I'll try. It was my 22nd birthday, and the night of the first Phish.Net gathering, so the atmosphere for me was particularly giddy. But anyone there at the time would have been thrown...
Twenty years ago today, Phish started a rock solid 3-night run (happy birthday Fishman!). Gotta love the .net show notes here -- if *eleven* annotations and a couple dozen lines of descriptions of the show don't indicate this was a wild one (i.e. a typically great early '90s Phish show), I don't...
I always wonder what somebody who's just starting their Phish fandom (or maybe came in through NYE '95 or Hampton/Winston-Salem or even 3.0) would make of this show, maybe the most famous seguefest in the band's long and storied history of seguefests, a show so beloved that it almost justified...
Sorry for the horrible quality of these. My camera, different photographer. I guess they are worth something from a historical perspective:
http://www.pbase.com/sigphotography/2-20-93_roxy
well, hopefully, everyone has heard this show already, but for those that have not, go get the box set! download the shows! anyway, this is possibly the best show they ever played. they brought the thunder this night. rumor has it, the band was in a tiff this evening. i guess they worked it...
Today is the 20 year anniversary of this awesome show. The first set is very well played but no new ground is broken as others have pointed out. The Possum is pretty great though, as Trey is *en fuego*. The second set is where the show makes its mark in the history books... As a brief aside, we'd...
This review will complete my trifecta of 20 year anniversary reviews of the Roxy run. This show isn't quite as nuts as the first two nights but it's definitely solid. Let's recap: in the span of 3 days, Phish had two guest sit-ins (Jimmy Herring and The Reverend), three HYHU > Fishmantics > HYHU...
This was one of my earliest tape (actually, by the time I became a phan--in 1998--we were using CD-Rs or SHN files--Shorten was a lossless precursor the now-standard FLAC) trading acquisitions, and I chose it for 3 reasons: 1. it was available in soundboard quality well before the 2008 release of...
There is little dispute, amongst the archives, this show is a golden nugget. The highest of high quality Harry Hood capped off a show that was riddled with creativity and the fun that is part of the DNA of this band. The show was a make up for an earlier appearance in Atlanta a year earlier (at...
With strong execution throughout, Page's shift to a baby grand is a big plus to the performance sound. The changes in dynamics, from the quiet sections of Clod, to the growing intensity approaching Arrival, demonstrates the band's confidence that they can not only survive, but even excel when performing this opus. Arrival is laid down with a paradigmatic 1993 sense of elan.
Reggae style and other fun throughout the intro, as if to set the table for Page. And Page responds in kind, his playing strong throughout the version, both when soloing or providing fills for Trey.
"Stash" -> "Manteca" -> "Stash" at the close of the jam. The jam itself is also very good, with nice improvisational action throughout, an unusual ending, and a -> to "Lizards."
Directly before "Tweezer" walks away, this supercharged "Reba" jump-starts this historic second set with wild and inventive play, notable for "Woody Woodpecker" teases and syncopated madness.
Great opening section (with a "Straight from the Sewer" rap), and a "Low Rider" jam before a "Walk Away" sandwich! But there's not a lot of "Tweezer" in here. Can't really "rate" it as against others.
Tease-heavy version includes melodic winks at "Tweezer," "Wilson," "Reba," "The Lizards," and "Stash." This version also includes a "MMGAMOIO" sandwich.