From: Charlie Dirksen
9/13/90 The Wetlands, NYC, NY (Rvwd 4/95) I think everyone should have this show. It is the first one that Phish played after several months (6/16/90), and so you can actually HEAR them getting more into the groove as you proceed from the Landlady opener through to the Reba (and the DOL tunes). Many new tunes are played at this show: Landlady, Stash, Magilla, Tube, Goin' Down Slow, Minute By Minute, Asse Festival, Buried Alive, and Paul & Silas. Minute by Minute is just hysterical. I wish Tube were played more often!!! This is easily one of my favorite Phish tunes, and the jam in Shaggy Dog is also something I'm fond of... I really wish they would at least incorporate this into something. If the Dead can f@cking bring Unbroken Chain out, the LEAST Phish could do is play Tube more than once a year! Paul & Silas is especially HOT at this show. The MikeS is pretty straightfoward in the opening. The jam is groovy at first. Trey enters the scene harshly, but joins the groove eventually (though ungracefully). This is a better jam segment than 6/16/90 for certain, but it really isn't anything too pretty. Trey often sounds off-key and lame.. he really isn't doing a damn thing to make this a MikeS worth listening to. Everyone else is just hanging in there, strongly, though. Trey is of course the most prominent in the mix. It is too bad that he isn't helping this version out. I hope he was ok. H2 kicks in early at nearly the 6 and a half min point. It is fudged at one point, and therefore completely ruined. H2 isn't a song that can be gracefully maligned. Booooo! Week kicks in at nearly the 9 minute mark. Mike is solid and funky, as usual, in his opening jam, and Trey comes in very fiercely. The jam of this Week is excellent. Both Trey and Mike sound like they have a purpose, and are very animated. Page and Fish are keeping the groove, but Trey is clearly leading it. It is a typically great Weekapaug jam. No teases of other tunes or anything unusual, but Trey is very much alive and in control (everyone is!). Not too long.. this Groove ends at nearly 15 and a half minutes. C- rating. Here's the setlist of this very interesting show (from the HFB): 9/13/90 - Wetlands Preserve, New York, NY I: Landlady, Divided, Foam, Tube, Asse, Antelope, Minute by Minute, Buried, Paul & Silas, Bouncing, Possum II: Mike'S > Hydrogen > Weekapaug, Magilla, Stash, Going Down Slow, OhKePa > DC Bag > Buried > A-Train > Sparks > Reba, Myself*, Done Me Wrong*, The Revolution's Over* E: Lizards, La Grange * w/ the Dude of Life two cents charlie