**This is my fifth of (hopefully) 71 reviews as I listen to the entire winter/spring '93 tour.**
February 7th kicks things up a notch. This show is of a significantly higher caliber than anything else thus far on the tour. Suzy > Buried Alive > Poor Heart is a phenomenally energetic start to...
Heck, this was 20 years ago, some I'm just going by what stands out in my mind from that show.
1) The Story during Mocking Bird is fantastic. I think I was 2nd or 3rd row, totally captivated. I miss those neat, intimate, interactive things Phish used to do. As the review above notes, it...
1993 Spring Tour is truly a watershed era for Phish, when the fanbase was still small. There was an awareness that the band was on the cusp of something big, but hadn't quite reached it yet. Five months later, they're playing sheds and the connection with the audience had changed forerver....
Second and last time at this venue, we have the fifth show of the tour at George Mason. Good recording overall and only a few sound related tweaks from Paul at the board.
First set stars off with good, solid versions of Suzy, Buried Alive and Poor Heart. This was the first Suzy of the New...
This show is ok, not great. Divided Sky is sloppy, Guelah is unfinished after the Asse Festeval going into Rift. Trey mentions St. Pat's day before Glide. Fishman starts Poor Heart only to get cut off by Trey going into The Sloth. The bootleg I heard cuts at the begining of Tweezer.
This show is a hidden gem! Everyone knows about the May, August, and NYE gigs, but the rest of 1993 is kind of amazing, too. This is a prime example.
Set 1 features a major highlight in the form of a Forbin's > Mockingbird narration for the ages. Alternately spellbinding and disturbing, you'll...
After listening to both of the previous reviews & peepin' the youtube link I can certainly say this: dude, what's sloppy is the video of said Divided Sky...I almost barfed from motion sickness.
He's got a point, tho; Sky is kinda sloppy during the parts of the ending crescendo-jam we've all come...
A crazy composed section with a lot of hissing and screaming (affectionately known as the "Baguette" version), breaks for a jam featuring playing both fluid and somewhat jarring. In time, Mike provides a great beat over which Trey creates a cool vibe. The band modulates intensity to inform an exploratory space, within which the musicians coalesce to create a sound supercharged and sonic. Trey then pushes the band through an erratic, but wholly controlled peak.
Really cool version with Trey (5:27) leading the band through extended "DEG"-like play, before (5:52) entering what sounds like "Rift". This, then, into raw and raucous soloing, which brings the version to a customarily strong close.