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Link Friday, 04/19/1991
Nietzsche’s, Buffalo, NY

Soundcheck: Funky Bitch

Set 1: Dinner and a Movie > Bouncin'Bouncing Around the Room, DividedDivided Sky, Cavern, LizardsThe Lizards, Stash, IDKI Didn't Know, Rocky Top > Mike'sMike's Song > HydrogenI Am Hydrogen > WeekapaugWeekapaug Groove, Sweet Adeline

Set 2: HoodHarry Hood, Fee, CurtainThe Curtain > GolgiGolgi Apparatus, LandladyThe Landlady > DestinyDestiny Unbound, MSOMy Sweet One, CoilThe Squirming Coil > 'A' TrainTake the 'A' Train > AntelopeRun Like an Antelope

Encore: Paul and Silas > BBFCFMBig Black Furry Creature from Mars[1]

[1] Leave it to Beaver theme tease from Mike and a joke from Fishman.

Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon

Notes: BBFCFM contained a Leave it to Beaver theme tease from Mike and a joke from Fishman. The joke basically went: "So there's this guy who's walking down the street, and he sees this dog laying there licking his balls, and he's talking to his friend and says 'boy, I sure wish I could do that,' and the friend says 'don't you think you ought to pet him first?'"

This show was part of the "1991 Winter/Spring Tour."

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oongowa , attached to 1991-04-19 Permalink
oongowa The door guy who worked this show said that this was the MOST packed the Nietzche's had ever been. He said that people started showing up very early and there was a line down the block. My guess is that Nietzche's can hold about 350-400 people at full capacity. Would have been a great place to see them if you could have gotten close to the stage. STILL is a great place to see a show. As per Nietzche's tradition, whenever a band plays there, they sign their names on the ceiling. If you enter the bar and head to the right by the piano and look up you'll see where Phish signed. Well, a good amount of it since they covered some of it up when they installed air conditioning!!! Everyone signed their names, Trey wrote "The Gauze Lives!" and someone (Mike?) drew a little guys head.
Score: 1
fluff , attached to 1991-04-19 Permalink
We got there early and grabbed a spot in the little side balcony close to the stage. Primed on the four song demo circulating at the time, they blew me away with how many more fully realized songs there were.

The energy was intense and raw, listening back to the show, it reminds just how strong they were already. Trey and Paige are casually shooting fire from their finger tips, ripping off huge chunks of music, riding the runaway rock train driven by Mike and Fish.

As another long-time fan Michael Egan likes to say, "Right from the beginning, it didn't matter how big the crowd was, they jammed for thousands." Amen.

John
Score: 0
TheEmu Phish.net Staff , attached to 1991-04-19 Permalink
TheEmu For the critical listener, there is a little bit of everything to pick on about this show. You've got some abbreviated jams (Squirming Coil), some shaky to weak execution (Hydrogen, Antelope) and some really odd flow (Curtain > Golgi? Paul & Silas > BBFCFM?) There are a few decent moments, such as Hood and BBFCFM (couldn't really hear the joke that Fish told, I'll have to go back and listen again) but there are also some works in progress (Destiny) and several cuts in the recording, too (Funky Bitch, Coil). So I'm going with two stars on this, but I want the record to show that I decided to go two stars BEFORE I heard Trey make a crack about Nebraska ("It's a weird country out there. Until you've been to Nebraska...") Hey, we gave you Kool-Aid and Johnny Carson, damn it!
Score: 0

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