Name: Apr 15, 1989 Setlist - Phish.net
Start: 1989-04-15T20:00
Location: Billings Lounge, University of Vermont

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PHISH, SATURDAY 04/15/1989

BILLINGS LOUNGE, UNIVERSITY OF VERMONTBILLINGS LOUNGE, UVM

Burlington, VT

Soundcheck: Time Loves a Hero

SET 1: Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Esther > You Enjoy Myself > Wilson, Peaches en Regalia, On Your Way Down > Alumni Blues^[1] > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues, I Didn't Know^[2], McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters^[3] > Foam, David Bowie

SET 2: Funky Bitch, Golgi Apparatus > Slave to the Traffic Light, The Mango Song, Divided Sky, Split Open and Melt^[4], Suzy Greenberg > Fluffhead > Good Times Bad Times

This show was a benefit for VPIRG. Esther contained a Dixie tease from Trey. Alumni contained additional lyrics. I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone. I Didn't Know and McGrupp included sound effects from an electronic drum machine. Fish played Call to the Post on the woodblock after Slave. A fan identified the song and Trey said he won a date with Fish. SOAM included a drum solo. A recording of the second set circulates with AC/DC Bag and Possum as the encores, but they are from a different source than the rest of the recording, and thus may have been filler. (An early Phish.net setlist from the 1990s, as well as the Phish.com setlist, do not list any encores for this benefit show.)

Overall: 3/5 (8 ratings)

Split Open and Melt

Dixie tease in Esther, Call to the Post tease

Junta 7

The White Tape 5

Stash 2

A Picture of Nectar 1

Lawn Boy 1

The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday 1

Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon

This show was part of the "1989 Tour"

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Show Reviews

2012-02-25 3:11 am, attached to 1989-04-15

Review by TheEmu

Pretty raging Funky Bitch to start off the set (only set II is available). The banter before The Mango Song is pretty hilarious. First claiming that Fish will be using a synthesized drum pad, Trey then encourages Fish to play his new woodblocks. Fish then teases "Call to the Post" which Trey jokes is their newest number, a cover song. When an audience member successfully identifies the tune, Trey awards her/him a date with Fishman. Trey also jokes that Paul purposely put some feedback in the monitors in order to take it out again and look like a great sound guy. Finally, Trey tells the crowd that when dancing to the Mango Song (I didn't know Mango was this old!) that they should only move their legs and hips and NOT their head. Strong Divided Sky, pretty weak start to Melt, but the jam is not bad. The Fluffhead is OK, not great, and I was on my way to two stars for this (sound quality pretty lousy, too), but the Good Times, Bad Times has turned me around. Three stars.

I'm going to give the end of Fluffhead another listen as there is some banter there that seems to suggest either the date of this show is wrong or that Trey didn't know what day it was...

Score: 2