Ventura Theatre

Ventura, CA, USA

Top Rated Shows

Highest rated shows at this venue by Phish.net users:

Date Rating
1993-03-21 41 votes 3.5366/5

Top Reviews

Highest-rated reviews from shows at this venue:

1993-03-21 by DollarBill 4
The 34th show of the tour is the only Phish show at the Ventura Theatre and the sound gremlins continue for Paul in this forgettable week, so far, in California. The recording though is much better than the last few shows I've heard. Trey's guitar tuning, or lack of, is really starting to get...
1993-03-21 Bill Kingaw by 2
(Published in the second edition of The Phish Companion...) By the spring of 1993, Phish had only played a handful of West Coast shows. So when in March of 1993 they came out west for their biggest tour up to that point in time, my friends and I...
1993-03-21 by MrFoot 2
This was my first California Phish show. I have three states where most of my Phish activities have taken place, New York, Colorado & California. I flew out from Colorado, after seeing Phish at Pikes Peak, Vail & Boulder, to visit my sister. My sister was more of a Madonna, Duran Duran music...
1993-03-21 by TheEmu 1
I think this is pretty much a three star show, but the Harry Hood is flippin' gorgeousness and definitely needs to be added to the Harry Hood jamming chart. On that basis, I'll go ahead and throw this show a bone and give it 4 stars. It's sloppy in places, but overall average-great. Hood is...
1993-03-21 by DarkTsar 1
gave this 3 stars... a solid effort..twas a fun time indeed... central coast phish is ALWAYS welcomed. The Ventura Theater is a funky room with pretty whacky acoustics. Back in those days the band was very raw and full of power! Even a sloppy show, by today's standards, was just so much fun back...
1993-03-21 by s1177375 1
Not my favorite show or year for my favorite band. It is full of amazing frantic fast almost angry sounding jams. I love the contrast for the amazing Hood which is more of a elevator jam as u all know and so it is a nice change in a night of angry energy due to bad renta cop security making the...

Notable Jam Chart Performances

Individual jam chart entries from this venue:

1993-03-21 Split Open and Melt (12:38) Set 1 Noteworthy
Very exploratory jam which veers away from standard "SOAM" and makes a clean break at 7:50 into improvisational, slightly off-kilter playing. Shifts into some good rocking and gets really great as it works its way back to "SOAM."
1993-03-21 Harry Hood (13:15) Set 2 Noteworthy
Beautiful, delicate playing at first. Then at 7:55, there's an incredible section where the power builds in a cool and very unusual way for "Hood." From here, there's a brief settle before launching into a blistering ending.
Nice little melodic outro jam is tacked on with no "Myfe" ending.


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