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It isn't easy to pick out underrated shows from a year as venerated as 1994, but there are still a few out there. Great Woods was one of only two two-night stands for the band that year (although they played two three-night stands as well), and this show from the second night lives in the shadow of the band's last performance of Gamehenge to date. The SBD from 7/8/94 quickly entered circulation, and was officially released in remastered audio in 2020. While the AUDs from this show are nice (listen to the screams when Trey starts singing the recently-revived Gumbo), I think 7/9/94 would benefit significantly from an official release.

July 1994 is on my short list of favorite months of Phish shows. I suspect Fishman upgraded his drumset over a 2-day break at the end of June, allowing the drums to be more prominent in the band's sound, and spurring Trey towards amazingly aggressive guitar playing. The setlist for this show highlights the strengths of the band’s sound, particularly Maze, DWD, Antelope in the first set. The jump right into SOAMelt from 2001 is also a favorite of mine (foreshadowing the epic Antelope from 7/16/94; did Trey have Tourette's?), and the following Fluffhead is a favorite of @doglogin. All that plus a heavy-metal Tweezer with another great > into an emotional Lifeboy, and an crowd-pleasing Hood/Suzy set-closing combo (which they would reprise at Great Woods the following summer). Not all of the 19 Great Woods Phish shows are good, but this show definitely kicks some Mass.

Thanks to @miguelito for the shout-out in his review above :-) "Thank you! Ain't no better room, thank you! We'd like thank Suzy Greenberg, The Dude Of Life, Looks Too Much Like Dave, and everybody else, especially you... see you next time!”