March 21, 1993
17 years ago
Ventura Theatre
Set 1: Maze, Sparkle, The Sloth, The Divided Sky, Esther, All Things Reconsidered, Split Open and Melt, Poor Heart, Punch You In the Eye, Lawn Boy, Possum
Set 2: Loving Cup, My Friend, My Friend, Rift -> Tweezer -> Ya Mar > You Enjoy Myself, My Sweet One, Big Ball Jam, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Llama, Harry Hood, Cavern
Encore: Sleeping Monkey, Sweet Adeline, Tweezer Reprise
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Music: The Doors
Lyrics: Jim Morrison
Original Artist: The Doors
Original Album: Morrison Hotel (1970)
Vocals: Trey
Debut: 1983-12-02
Historian: Mark Toscano
Along with The Who’s “Squeeze Box,” “Roadhouse Blues” is a song that was discovered to have been covered by Phish only many years later, at their first-ever performance on 12/2/83. Jeff, Trey, Mike, and Fish ran through this Doors cover to (aside from some “Happy Birthday” wishes) close the first set of the cafeteria performance. While covers of Motown and ‘70s rock songs may please a college audience now, most 1983 college audiences wanted nothing of the sort. Following the set, it wasn’t Little Feat or the Dead that drifted out of the P.A., but Michael Jackson. And, as many fans know, the band’s playing was eventually drowned out a bit into their second set (during Hendrix’s “Fire”!!) by The Gloved One’s then-hit album, Thriller.
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