From: REIS T BARON <03064626S@servax.fiu.edu>
Subject: Belated New Orleans Review w/ COMPLETE setlist:*)
Reply-To: 03064626S@servax.fiu.edu
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 14:49:27 GMT

Howdy All!
     This is Reis again with another show commentary.  This one takes us
to 
Tipitina's in New Orleans.  I'll post it night by night, to spare the
sight of
the people who have already exhausted their eyes from reading all of my
posts 
in the last couple of weeks.  Let's begin with the March 2nd show:
I-Buried Alive/Poor Heart/Stash/Reba/Sparkle/It's Ice/Fee/All Things
Recons./
Chalkdust/Silent in the Morning/I Didn't Know/David Bowie
II-My Friend, My Friend/Uncle Penn/Tweezer/Lizards/Llama/YEM/HYH/Honey
Love Ya/
It's My Life/Loup Garous/Choo Choo/Harry Hood  Enc: Amazing Grace/Golgi/
Tweezer Reprise

The first set was strong, but nothing really out of the ordinary as far as
the 
versions of the songs went.  The Stash was nice, but the solos didn't
extend
further than they had to.  The jam at the end of Reba was one of the best
I've
heard-lots of notes instead of sustaining by Trey.  Page's It's Ice solos
were 
great-lots of ragtime-like jamming (most probably inspired by the
atmosphere).
The Fee was done without the megaphone, apparently due to Trey's voice not 
being in the best shape.  There was no acoustic intro (Horse) to Silent in
the
Morning, but this was a great version nonetheless.  I Didn't Know had the 
washboard solo that featured Tubbs, while being pelted with Mardi Gras
beads,
scraping his stainless steel mamalian protruberances with thimbles, in a
nice,
cajun-sounding rhythm.  The Bowie was sweet, with some funky bass by Mike.
He
tended to be more funky than usual the entire night.
     The second set was amazing.  My Friend, with the beatiful acoustic
intro,
opened the set nicely, and made room for a perfect Uncle Penn.  They seem
to 
have revamped the ending to this one, and it's now, IMHO, their strongest
bluegrass tune.  Tweezer was one of the highlights of the night for me.
At
some points I though I was watching the Meters jam some serious funk.
Fish
seemed to be doing his Russell Baptiste imitation, with killer interplay 
between his snare and hi-hat.  Mike was all over this one as well.  The
backups
in Lizards are so phenominal now.  This one is one of the tightest I've
heard,
and definitely the strongest Gamehenge tune I saw on tour.  The Llama
seemed
exhaustingly fast, but paved the way for a smooth YEM that had some great
piano
soloing-it seemed more than usual.  Sunpie came out for 3 songs.  I
remembered
his name from a conversation with Trey in Tallahassee, and he said that
this 
guy was great.  He was right.  The guy looked like a linebacker for the
Saints,
but had the sweetest voice.  He combined that with some cool sounding
accordian
and at random times throughout the tunes he'd walk up to the mic and laugh
hysterically, but in tune with the solos-pretty funny.  It's My Life was a 
typical 1-4-5 cajun tune, with some simple Trey solos when Sunpie laid
back.  
Loup Garous (pronounced Loo-Garoo), is an old cajun standard about an old 
voodoo fairytale (something about a witch in the swamps that eats live
men).
It was really fun to dance to.  Sunpie offered up some solos on the Tubbs
board
also.  Choo Choo was like the Andrews Sisters meets the Neville
Brothers-good
solos by all.  The definite highlight of the night, though, was Harry
Hood.  Me
and the guy next to me had been yelling for it the whole set, and what an 
amazing version.  The bridge after "Thank you Mr. Miner" was by far the
best
I've heard-great tasty piano licks, and the smoothest sustains from Trey.
Mike
was loving this one.  He was all over it.  They came back out for Amazing
Grace
and left.  I was wondering what happened to #2, when they came back out
and did
an explosive Golgi into a killer extended Tweezer Reprise...wow!  I
freaked.  I
couldn't ask for a better encore.  Tips was a cool, small place, and the
sound
was great.  I was happy to see a show at such a legendary venue,
especially a
Phish show.  So that's the first.  Second night's next....
                                    (*:REIS:*)

Please, we have no regrets!!