This show and the week to follow is probably the best evidence of the counterfactual, "More and/or longer is better." You can listen to and enjoy something that is just a small sample set or a shorter more rich jam.

Why this show, albeit short, is not rated higher is criminal at best and apocalyptic at worse. Anyone that voted this less than 4 stars should be ashamed of themselves.

You need to sit down with 7/3 - 7/10 and apologize to them for not having them in a regular rotation at some point in your phish-go-round.

Runaway Jim is always Runaway Jim.

Stash has a very nice jam where you can hear all of the members contributing in what can only be described at ear porn that suffuses your brain with orgasmic sound waves. Maybe so, maybe not.

Sparkle goes way up tempo between the laughing. While short it is again an example that it doesn't always have to be long to be good. It doesn't branch much from the studio cut but it does seem to be a bit more up tempo.

Taste, wow! First the notes are a bit deceiving Trey stumbles a bit but when I think flubbed lyrics this doesn't come to mind. He recovers it easily and it was a pretty minor hiccup, still getting my favorite line of, "Someone controlled by the phone and TV, 'cause what it's doing to me is fine" in there. But what you really want to listen for is at the 3:15 mark when Carlos Santana joins in and adds to the jam. This is the part that makes this show so incredibly special and why you should all be ashamed.

In my opinion Trey has surpassed Carlos in ability but in 1996? Maybe so, maybe not.

For Llama the transition was flawless. Taste spaces out and llama rolls in to do its thing. Again here the notes are misleading, Trey doesn't so much flub lyrics as just allows Carlos to take over. Carlos proceeds to sort of mumble out the lyrics, but I don't feel like Trey screwed it up he just stepped back and let Carlos. He stops at, "cold steady rain..." I mean surely he could have remembered, "rain coming down" but it feels like he stops and Santana picks up a line or two later. The jamming on this one is worth a listen. It has a steady build up into a lengthy spacey jam with a nice steady drum roll to step it up a bit.