I lost my cherry here. My first Phish concert. Mesmerizing!!!! The music was so compelling - when I heard the jams, I was hooked. I was really excited to see everyone having such a great vibe and the guest percussionist really complimented the sound. Unfortunately for me, it is the only Phish concert I have attended, but absolutely love Phish and have been a phan ever since. I am going to see them in Wisconsin in August! I can hardly wait. Anyone have tape of this concert? Let me know.

Love this Mike's they played at this show! A good solid show before Halloween

If nothing else, you must absolutely hear the Mike's Song from this show, an astonishing hybrid of the crazed noisiness of 1995 (and, frankly, 1996) and the laser-focused tight grooves of 1997, with Karl Perazzo riding shotgun and providing a funky backdrop in that beloved Karl Perazzo way of his, a thread in Phish's jamming tapestry that heretofore had not existed. The supreme confidence of this jam, mellifluous at times like so many jams 13 and 14 months later, cannot be overstated - such is the confidence that Trey makes the ill-advised decision to head back into the usual Mike's closing stage, which the band stumbles through pretty badly. Still, the 17 preceding minutes are as good as the band gets (definitely as good ad 1996 gets),, and (if you want to get poetic about it) a remarkable literal transformation from old Phish to new Phish. The rest of the show is fine - Perazzo is Perazzo, and both Weekapaug and Slave are quite nice - but that Mike's is nothing less than a statement of intent and cannot be recommended enough.