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"Family" has a double-meaning on DBMBs, but Phish has never forgotten the standard definition of the word. All four members of the band had an upper-middle-class upbringing. They relied on their parents during the fledgling years of the band, and gave credit accordingly in the liner notes to Lawn Boy: "This album is dedicated to our families in thanks for their constant love and support". This went directly against the cliche of the rock and roll outsider who was from the wrong side of the tracks. Even when the band members began to display some of the cliche rock and roll behaviors, they continued to try to balance that lifestyle with home and family, rather than abandoning them all together. And at the Hampton '09 reunion shows, they made a point to enforce the "Family only backstage" rule.

Of course Father's Day has been celebrated during Phish 3.0, but Phish 1.0 treated Mother's Day with a notable degree of irreverence. From 1989-1991 the band played the venerable Burlington bar The Front on Mother's Day, with the show on 5/12/91 being one of the silliest Phish shows ever. Playing at the Syracuse Armory on Mother's Day 1992 is hardly a coincidence, as Jon Fishman had grown up in DeWitt, a suburb of Syracuse. To honor this occasion, Jon's mother Mimi is introduced during I Didn't Know to perform the Ceremonial Mother's Day vacuum cleaner solo, along with an amusing story from Jon's childhood. And if you didn't read the show notes, you might think that Mike's own mother really did come on stage to get a hug from her son during the break in Guelah Papyrus!

Fans rave about April '92 because of the prevalence of circulating SBDs from that month, but the AUD of this first set is just fine, and the playing proves that the band got better as the tour went on. Big Red commands the spotlight as usual, expertly navigating his solos over the difficult chord changes in Foam and Rift. The "Dave's Energy Guide" teasing in Tweezer is so serious I thought they were actually going to play the song, and Trey rebounds from an out of tune opening in Divided Sky to blow the ceiling off of the Syracuse Armory during the jam. And of course, this band of Family Men can't resist poking fun at the current anthem of Teen Angst during a typically hilarious Harpua.

Blood is thicker than water/doses/Heady Topper.