1995
January: 26February: 03 | 10 | 24
March: 05
April: 08 | 30
May: 12 | 14 | 16
June: 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 28 | 29 | 30
July: 01 | 02 | 03 | 10 | 13 | 17 | 24 | 28 | 30
September: 03 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30
October: 02 | 03 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 24 | 25 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 31
November: 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 24 | 25 | 28 | 29 | 30
December: 01 | 02 | 04 | 05 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31
SET 1: Punch You in the Eye, The Sloth > Reba[1], The Squirming Coil > Maze, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird[2] > Shine[3] > Fly Famous Mockingbird > Sparkle > Chalk Dust Torture
SET 2: Drowned -> The Lizards, Axilla (Part II) > Runaway Jim, Strange Design, Hello My Baby, Mike's Song -> Digital Delay Loop Jam
SET 3: Auld Lang Syne > Weekapaug Groove[4] > Sea and Sand, You Enjoy Myself, Sanity, Frankenstein
ENCORE: Johnny B. Goode
Reba did not have the whistling ending. The narration in Mockingbird discussed how Phish makes time in the Gamehendge Time Laboratory, which set up the New Year’s Eve stunt. The Phish debut of Shine featured Tom Marshall on vocals. Trey later teased Shine in Runaway Jim. Mike's Song contained a Dave's Energy Guide tease from Page. The second set ended with a Digital Delay Loop Jam out of Mike’s, and the third set opened with the Phish Time Factory machine. All four band members dressed as scientists playing with synths while lights flashed and Van de Graaff generators zapped. Fish was lifted up in a bed as Father Time and was reborn as the Baby New Year. Weekapaug featured Auld Lang Syne, Dreaming (Blondie), and Spooky teases and was unfinished. Mike and Trey teased Can't You Hear Me Knocking in Runaway Jim. This was the first performance of Sanity since June 24, 1994 (148 shows). This show was officially released as New Year's Eve 1995 - Live at Madison Square Garden.
Soundcheck: Blues Jam, Drowned (x2), The Sloth, Funky Bitch
SET 1: Prince Caspian > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Suzy Greenberg > David Bowie, Simple > It's Ice -> Kung -> It's Ice > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Divided Sky, Sample in a Jar
SET 2: Ya Mar, Free > Harry Hood > AC/DC Bag > Lifeboy, Scent of a Mule > Cavern > Run Like an Antelope
ENCORE: A Day in the Life
Trey teased Dave's Energy Guide in Kung. Ya Mar included an Auld Lang Syne tease. Page teased Entrance of the Gladiators in Scent of a Mule and Gimme Some Lovin' in Antelope.
SET 1: My Friend, My Friend > Poor Heart > Down with Disease > Taste That Surrounds > NICU > Stash, Fluffhead, Llama, Sweet Adeline
SET 2: Makisupa Policeman > Cars Trucks Buses, Bathtub Gin -> The Real Me -> Bathtub Gin -> McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars > Jam[1] -> La Grange, Bouncing Around the Room, Fire
ENCORE: Golgi Apparatus
The Jam was a bass duet featuring Mike and his bass instructor, Jim Stinnett, as well a tease of Bach’s 6th Brandenburg Concerto (better known as the theme to Masterpiece Theatre). La Grange made its first appearance since August 14, 1993 (217 shows).
Soundcheck: Jam, Poor Heart, The Old Home Place, Drowned
SET 1: Split Open and Melt, Gumbo > The Curtain > Julius, Guyute, Horn > Rift[1] > Fast Enough for You, Possum
SET 2: Timber (Jerry the Mule) > Theme From the Bottom > Wilson > Buried Alive > Tweezer[2] -> I Didn't Know[3], Uncle Pen, Slave to the Traffic Light
ENCORE: Fee[4] > Tweezer Reprise
The P.A. went out during Rift, causing some giggles when Page sang “and silence contagious in moments like these.” Wilson included a Johnny B. Goode tease. During Tweezer, Mike played part of what would become the Bass Jam on the following evening. I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone. Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone. The soundcheck's Poor Heart was the slow version. Demand was teased before The Old Home Place.
SET 1: My Friend, My Friend > Poor Heart > A Day in the Life > Run Like an Antelope, The Mango Song > Tube > Stash, The Lizards, Chalk Dust Torture
SET 2: Bouncing Around the Room > Maze, Free > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Harry Hood > Sparkle > Tweezer[1] -> Tweezer Reprise
ENCORE: Hello My Baby, Runaway Jim
The transition from Tweezer to Tweezer Reprise included a Page solo.
Soundcheck: Dog Log > Poor Heart, Funky Bitch
SET 1: Buried Alive, AC/DC Bag > Taste That Surrounds, Ya Mar, The Sloth, Divided Sky, Dog Faced Boy, Julius > Suzy Greenberg
SET 2: Sample in a Jar, Reba[1], Scent of a Mule, Cavern > Mike's Song > Simple -> Weekapaug Groove[2] > The Squirming Coil
ENCORE: Fire
Reba did not have the whistling ending. Weekapaug was unfinished.
SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture > Harry Hood > Wilson > Maze > Ha Ha Ha > Suspicious Minds > Hold Your Head Up > Cars Trucks Buses, Bouncing Around the Room, Free > Possum[1]
SET 2: Tweezer Reprise > Runaway Jim > It's Ice > Bathtub Gin -> Rotation Jam -> Mallory[2] > Also Sprach Zarathustra > David Bowie, Sweet Adeline
ENCORE: Good Times Bad Times -> Tweezer Reprise
Trey teased Lazy (Deep Purple) in Chalk Dust. Possum included Oom Pa Pa, Simpsons and All Fall Down signals and a Voodoo Child tease from Trey. Trey mentioned that he saw his first concert (Jethro Tull) in this very venue. Mallory debuted at this show.
Soundcheck: Blues Jam, Free, Strange Design, Funky Bitch, My Sweet One
SET 1: Suzy Greenberg > Llama, Horn > Foam, Makisupa Policeman > Split Open and Melt, Tela, Taste That Surrounds, My Sweet One, Frankenstein
SET 2: The Curtain > Tweezer -> Timber (Jerry the Mule) -> Tweezer -> Keyboard Army, Halley's Comet -> NICU -> Slave to the Traffic Light
ENCORE: Bold As Love
Bold As Love was played for a fan up front with a sign requesting it. A humorous scene ensued when another fan got excited, as if Trey was referring to his Brother sign. Trey remarked that when fans bring signs, it has to be for a song the band wants to play. This show was officially released as Live Phish 01.
Soundcheck: Jam, Poor Heart, Blues Jam
SET 1: Ya Mar, Sample in a Jar > Divided Sky, Lifeboy, Punch You in the Eye, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Run Like an Antelope, I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome[1], The Squirming Coil
SET 2: Free, Sparkle > Down with Disease[2] -> The Lizards > Simple, Runaway Jim
ENCORE: Fire
I'm Blue I'm Lonesome was performed acoustic. Down with Disease was unfinished. The soundcheck's Poor Heart was the slow version.
Soundcheck: Dog Log, The Wedge, work on Theme From the Bottom, Funky Bitch, Poor Heart
SET 1: My Friend, My Friend[1] > Ha Ha Ha, Stash, Prince Caspian, Reba[2], Dog Log, Llama, Dog Log, Tube, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Julius > Cavern
SET 2: The Curtain > David Bowie, The Mango Song > Taste That Surrounds, Scent of a Mule, Harry Hood, Suspicious Minds > Hold Your Head Up, Funky Bitch[3]
ENCORE: While My Guitar Gently Weeps[3]
My Friend did not contain the "Myfe" ending. Prince Caspian was preceded by Trey discussing how Portland was supposed to be Elvis’s last show so this song was for his kid, the prince. Reba did not have the whistling ending. The Dog Logs were part of Trey’s announced “Dog Log” album and were preceded by Trey coaching the audience’s reaction. Dog Log had not been played since August 2, 1993 (219 shows). Tube was played as a thank-you for helping out with the “album.” Funky Bitch and WMGGW featured Warren Haynes on guitar.
Soundcheck: The Old Home Place, Funky Bitch
SET 1: Maze, Theme From the Bottom > NICU > The Sloth > Rift, Bouncing Around the Room, Free, Billy Breathes, Dog Faced Boy, Chalk Dust Torture
SET 2: Timber (Jerry the Mule), Wilson[1] > Gumbo, You Enjoy Myself[2], Lawn Boy, Slave to the Traffic Light > Crossroads, Sweet Adeline
ENCORE: Loving Cup
Wilson and the YEM vocal jam featured quotes from a talking Beavis and Butthead doll. YEM also included a silent jam and a quote of the theme from Shaft.
Soundcheck: Poor Heart (slow)
SET 1: Sample in a Jar, Poor Heart > Simple > Runaway Jim, Fluffhead, It's Ice, Acoustic Army, Prince Caspian, Good Times Bad Times
SET 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Tweezer -> Kung -> Tweezer, Love You > Hold Your Head Up, The Squirming Coil, Tweezer Reprise > Run Like an Antelope
ENCORE: Come Together[1] > A Day in the Life
Good Times Bad Times was dedicated to “the man in the dragon pants,” a.k.a. Jimmy Page. Antelope included a Brady Bunch theme tease. The encore, which included the first ever Phish performance of Come Together, was played in remembrance of John Lennon’s death on December 8, 1980.
Soundcheck: Poor Heart (slow version), Funky Bitch, Run Like an Antelope Jam (x3)
SET 1: The Old Home Place > The Curtain > AC/DC Bag, Demand > Rift, Slave to the Traffic Light, Guyute, Bouncing Around the Room, Possum, Hello My Baby
SET 2: Split Open and Melt, Strange Design > Taste That Surrounds, Reba[1], Julius, Sleeping Monkey > Sparkle > Mike's Song -> Weekapaug Groove[2] -> Digital Delay Loop Jam, Amazing Grace
ENCORE: Uncle Pen
The Melt jam included a tease of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Reba included a Pop Goes the Weasel tease and did not contain the whistling ending. Weekapaug was unfinished. Mike and Fish teased Maze in the Digital Delay Loop Jam. This show was officially released as Niagara Falls.
SET 1: Horn > Chalk Dust Torture, Taste That Surrounds, The Lizards, Free, Esther > David Bowie, I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome[1]
SET 2: Poor Heart > Bathtub Gin -> Keyboard Army, Scent of a Mule > Jam > Lifeboy, Harry Hood, Cavern
ENCORE: Theme From the Bottom, Sweet Adeline
Lizards was dedicated to college basketball commentator Dick Vitale. I’m Blue I’m Lonesome was performed acoustic. Bathtub Gin contained a DEG tease by Trey. Hood contained a tease of The Entertainer (Scott Joplin) from Trey.
SET 1: Julius, Gumbo, Divided Sky, Punch You in the Eye, Stash, My Mind's Got a Mind of its Own, Axilla (Part II), The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Hello My Baby, While My Guitar Gently Weeps
SET 2: Timber (Jerry the Mule) > Sparkle > Ya Mar, Run Like an Antelope, Billy Breathes, Cars Trucks Buses, You Enjoy Myself, Sample in a Jar > Frankenstein
ENCORE: Bouncing Around the Room, Rocky Top
Soundcheck: Funky Bitch (half-speed)
SET 1: Prince Caspian, Runaway Jim, Mound > Guelah Papyrus, Reba[1], My Sweet One, Free, Taste That Surrounds, Bouncing Around the Room, Possum[2]
SET 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Maze > Simple -> Faht[3], Tweezer > A Day in the Life > Golgi Apparatus, The Squirming Coil, Tweezer Reprise
ENCORE: Bold As Love
Reba did not have the whistling ending and Possum included an All Fall Down signal. Faht featured Fish on acoustic guitar. Tweezer contained Take Me to the River teases and Squirming Coil contained a Carol of the Bells tease from Page. This show is available as an archival release on LivePhish.com.
Soundcheck: Buried Alive > Down with Disease, Dog Log, Funky Bitch (half-speed)
SET 1: Buried Alive > Down with Disease > Theme From the Bottom, Poor Heart, Wolfman's Brother[1] > Chalk Dust Torture, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird[2], Stash, Cavern
SET 2: Halley's Comet > Mike's Song -> Weekapaug Groove, The Mango Song > Wilson > Suspicious Minds > Hold Your Head Up, David Bowie -> Catapult[3] -> David Bowie[4]
ENCORE: Suzy Greenberg
Trey flubbed the lyrics to Wolfman’s Brother and remarked that, since he likes them so much, he would sing them again. The narration during Mockingbird referenced chocolate and the rhombus. Weekapaug was played in a different key. Catapult started over the Bowie hi-hat intro, which also featured quotes of Homer Simpson (“mmmm... chocolate”) and a Simpsons signal. This was the first time ever that Mike’s and Weekapaug were played without anything in between them. This show is available as an archival release on LivePhish.com.
Soundcheck: Dog Log, Poor Heart, work on Run Like an Antelope
SET 1: Sample in a Jar > The Curtain > Ha Ha Ha > Julius, NICU > Bathtub Gin, Rift > Fast Enough for You > The Lizards, Fire
SET 2: Cars Trucks Buses > Tweezer -> Makisupa Policeman > Run Like an Antelope > Scent of a Mule, Free, Strange Design, Amazing Grace
ENCORE: Harry Hood
Trey teased Call to the Post in Scent of a Mule. This show is available as an archival release on LivePhish.com.
Soundcheck: work on Taste, Nellie Kane, work on Slave to the Traffic Light
SET 1: AC/DC Bag > Ya Mar, Reba, If I Could > It's Ice > Theme From the Bottom, Acoustic Army, Fee[1] > Split Open and Melt
SET 2: Timber (Jerry the Mule) > Sparkle > Simple > Possum[2], You Enjoy Myself, Taste That Surrounds[3] > Heart and Soul[4] > Poor Heart[3], I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome[3], My Long Journey Home[3], Slave to the Traffic Light[3]
ENCORE: A Day in the Life
Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone and flubbed the third verse, prompting lots of stage banter. Possum contained Simpsons and All Fall Down signals. Taste That Surrounds through Slave featured Béla Fleck on banjo. I'm Blue I'm Lonesome and My Long Journey Home were performed acoustic. Heart and Soul made its Phish debut at this show.
SET 1: Stash, Dinner and a Movie > Bouncing Around the Room > Foam, I Didn't Know, Divided Sky, Guyute, Hello My Baby, Sample in a Jar
SET 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Maze, Suzy Greenberg > Uncle Pen, Free, Hold Your Head Up > Wind Beneath My Wings[1] > Hold Your Head Up, Run Like an Antelope > Contact > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Funky Bitch
ENCORE: The Squirming Coil
Suzy Greenberg included The Rover and 25 or 6 to 4 teases. Wind Beneath My Wings was a Phish debut and dedicated to Col. Bruce Hampton, who sat on stage reading a newspaper during the song.
Soundcheck: Funky Bitch, Dog Log
SET 1: Poor Heart > A Day in the Life > David Bowie, Billy Breathes > Taste That Surrounds, Bouncing Around the Room > Rift, Wolfman's Brother > Runaway Jim
SET 2: Timber (Jerry the Mule) > Kung[1], Mike's Song -> Rotation Jam[2] -> Mike's Song, My Long Journey Home[3], I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome[4], Strange Design > Weekapaug Groove, Harry Hood, Hello My Baby, Poor Heart[5]
ENCORE: Poor Heart Reprise, Fire
The first set Poor Heart was the original version and the second set Poor Heart was the slow, shuffle version. The Poor Heart Reprise to start the encore was even slower, but only a few lines of the song were played. Runaway Jim contained a Nellie Kane tease from Mike. This Kung was performed differently than most; it was sung in a hymn-like fashion somewhat akin to Yerushalayim Shel Zahav. The jam out of Mike’s Song featured the first known Rotation Jam, which also included a segment where each band member was playing one of Page’s keyboards (although it was not Keyboard Army) and included a Smoke on the Water tease. My Long Journey Home and I’m Blue I’m Lonesome were performed acoustic; the latter featured a mandolin solo from Fish. The soundcheck's Funky Bitch was the slow version and contained Poor Heart lyrics.
Soundcheck: Oye Como Va Jam > Dog Log, Rift, Funky Bitch (half-speed), Demand drums
SET 1: The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > AC/DC Bag > The Curtain > Sparkle > Stash, Tela, I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome[1], Maze, Suzy Greenberg
SET 2: Chalk Dust Torture, Theme From the Bottom > Reba[2], Catapult, Scent of a Mule, Bathtub Gin, Acoustic Army, Hold Your Head Up > Bike > Hold Your Head Up, Fee[3] > Julius
ENCORE: Life on Mars?, Rocky Top
I’m Blue I’m Lonesome was performed acoustic and, along with Maze, was dedicated to Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team. Reba did not have the whistling ending. Before Bike, Fish introduced himself as Forrest Gump. Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone.
Soundcheck: Funky Bitch, The Old Home Place
SET 1: Cars Trucks Buses, Wilson > Run Like an Antelope, Fluffhead, Uncle Pen, Cavern > Taste That Surrounds, The Lizards, Sample in a Jar, Sweet Adeline
SET 2: Rift[1], Free -> Llama, Bouncing Around the Room, You Enjoy Myself, Strange Design
ENCORE: Poor Heart[2], Frankenstein
Antelope contained Simple Gifts teases from Trey. Rift was aborted by Trey after he accused Fish of error. Free included No Quarter teases and a Bouncing tease. Poor Heart was performed in the slow, shuffle style.
Soundcheck: Dog Log (x2)
SET 1: Fee[1] > Chalk Dust Torture, Prince Caspian, Divided Sky, My Long Journey Home[2], I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome[2], Guyute, My Friend, My Friend[3] -> Dog Faced Boy > Runaway Jim
SET 2: Simple -> David Bowie -> Take Me to the River[4] -> David Bowie, Glide > Ya Mar, Mike's Song -> Keyboard Army > Hold Your Head Up > Suspicious Minds > Hold Your Head Up, Carolina, A Day in the Life
ENCORE: Good Times Bad Times
Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone. My Long Journey Home and I’m Blue I’m Lonesome were performed acoustic. My Friend did not contain the "Myfe" ending. Take Me to the River, which was incomplete, made its Phish debut in the second set. Trey teased Rock Lobster in the second David Bowie. Mike's Song contained a theme from Mission: Impossible tease by Page. The second Dog Log in the soundcheck was a cappella.
Soundcheck: Dog Log, The Old Home Place, Funky Bitch
SET 1: Makisupa Policeman -> Maze, Poor Heart[1] > Rift > Stash, Strange Design > It's Ice, Hello My Baby, Julius, The Squirming Coil
SET 2: Theme From the Bottom > Also Sprach Zarathustra > The Curtain > Tweezer > Billy Breathes, Scent of a Mule, Harry Hood, Suzy Greenberg
ENCORE: Life on Mars? > Tweezer Reprise
This show included the first performance of the slow arrangement of Poor Heart. Trey teased the James Bond Theme in Stash and Tweezer in Suzy.
SET 1: Dinner and a Movie > Bouncing Around the Room > Reba, Lawn Boy, Punch You in the Eye > Slave to the Traffic Light, I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome[1], Sample in a Jar
SET 2: AC/DC Bag > Sparkle > Free, I'm So Tired, You Enjoy Myself, Contact > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Acoustic Army, Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Cavern
ENCORE: Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?[2]
I’m Blue I’m Lonesome was performed acoustic. Page teased Rhapsody in Blue in Free. YEM included a Brick House jam and lyrics from Trey. Page teased Brick House in Contact. The first Bill Bailey since April 22, 1994 (165 shows) featured accompaniment from Page’s father, Dr. Jack McConnell.
SET 1: Cars Trucks Buses, Runaway Jim, Jam[1], Horn > Mound, Ya Mar, Simple -> Timber (Jerry the Mule) > Guyute, Funky Bitch
SET 2: A Day in the Life > David Bowie, Lifeboy, Uncle Pen, Ha Ha Ha > Harry Hood, Hold Your Head Up > If I Only Had a Brain > Hold Your Head Up, Amazing Grace, Possum[2]
ENCORE: Brown Eyed Girl[3]
A new band/audience chess match started at this show. The opening chess moves were made during a short jam that followed Runaway Jim and featured Trey on percussion. Timber included a brief Mind Left Body tease. Trey teased The Rover at the end of Ha Ha Ha. Possum featured Butch Trucks on drums, while Fish played trombone and Trey’s percussion rack. Possum also included a One Way Out jam. The Phish debut of Brown Eyed Girl featured Jimmy Buffett on vocals.
SET 1: Poor Heart > AC/DC Bag > Fast Enough for You, Rift > Prince Caspian > Sparkle > Split Open and Melt, Sweet Adeline, The Squirming Coil
SET 2: Wilson > Theme From the Bottom > Scent of a Mule > Mike's Song > Life on Mars? > Weekapaug Groove, Fee[1], While My Guitar Gently Weeps
ENCORE: Suzy Greenberg
Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone. The band won the first chess game with the audience.
Soundcheck: Billy Breathes Intro, Billy Breathes, Poor Heart (slow version), Funky Bitch
SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Foam, Billy Breathes, Divided Sky, Esther > Free, Julius, I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome[1], Cavern
SET 2: Maze, Gumbo, Stash -> Manteca -> Stash -> Dog Faced Boy[2] -> Stash, Strange Design, You Enjoy Myself -> Immigrant Song Jam -> You Enjoy Myself
Trey teased Fire (Ohio Players) in Julius. I'm Blue I'm Lonesome was performed acoustic. This fantastic Stash included 25 or 6 to 4, Esther, and Ya Mar teases. Dog Faced Boy was performed over a different arrangement than usual. YEM included Low Rider teases. This show is available as an archival release on LivePhish.com.
Soundcheck: Jazz Jam, Poor Heart, Funky Bitch
SET 1: My Friend, My Friend, Llama, Bouncing Around the Room, Guelah Papyrus, Reba[1], I Didn't Know, Taste That Surrounds, If I Could, Split Open and Melt, Hello My Baby
SET 2: The Curtain > Tweezer > Keyboard Army, Sample in a Jar > Slave to the Traffic Light, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Possum[2] > Tweezer Reprise
ENCORE: Fire
Reba did not have the whistling ending. Possum contained a Simpsons signal as well as Dixie, Woody Woodpecker theme, and Johnny B. Goode teases. The soundcheck's Poor Heart and Funky Bitch were both slow versions, with Funky Bitch containing alternate lyrics.
SET 1: Cars Trucks Buses > Mike's Song > A Day in the Life > Poor Heart > Weekapaug Groove, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Ya Mar, Stash, Amazing Grace[1], Fee[2] > Chalk Dust Torture
SET 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > David Bowie, Suzy Greenberg > Uncle Pen, Fluffhead, Sleeping Monkey > Frankenstein -> Suspicious Minds > Hold Your Head Up, Run Like an Antelope
ENCORE: Acoustic Army, Good Times Bad Times
Trey teased Nellie Kane in Weekapaug. Ya Mar contained Lizards teases from Trey. Amazing Grace was performed without microphones. Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone. GTBT was preceded by a Black or White tease from Trey and subsequently included Heartbreaker teases.
SET 1: Bouncing Around the Room, Runaway Jim, Taste That Surrounds, The Old Home Place, It's Ice, Dog Faced Boy, Maze, Guyute, Cavern
SET 2: Free, Scent of a Mule, You Enjoy Myself -> Crossroads -> You Enjoy Myself, Strange Design, Sparkle > AC/DC Bag, Sweet Adeline
ENCORE: Harry Hood
SET 1: Tweezer Reprise, Divided Sky, Prince Caspian, Punch You in the Eye, Simple > Reba, Tela > Sample in a Jar
SET 2: Theme From the Bottom, Julius, The Lizards, Bathtub Gin -> The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, Life on Mars?, Hello My Baby, The Squirming Coil
ENCORE: Loving Cup
PYITE and Simple contained The Rover teases from Trey. The audience chess move preceded the second set and was followed by a We Are the Champions tease from Trey. Gin featured a Rift tease.
Soundcheck: Guyute, Suzy Greenberg (x2), Jam, Suzy Greenberg, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Jam
SET 1: Icculus, Divided Sky, Wilson > Ya Mar, Sparkle > Free, Guyute, Run Like an Antelope, Harpua[1]
SET 2: I Am the Sea[2], The Real Me[2] > Quadrophenia[2], Cut My Hair[2], The Punk Meets the Godfather[2], I'm One[2], The Dirty Jobs[2] > Helpless Dancer[2], Is It In My Head?[2], I've Had Enough[2], 5:15[2], Sea and Sand[2], Drowned[2], Bell Boy[3], Doctor Jimmy[2] > The Rock[2], Love, Reign O'er Me[2]
SET 3: You Enjoy Myself, Jesus Just Left Chicago[4], A Day in the Life > Suzy Greenberg[5]
ENCORE: My Generation[6]
Harpua included a story from Mike about a dream about raccoons. The Michael Jackson references continued, as Trey teased the audience by saying that Jimmy was listening to the Halloween album while the band played a Beat It tease. Also, the second set was preceded by recorded Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' and Thriller teases from Michael Jackson's Thriller album. The second set "musical costume" was The Who's Quadrophenia and was performed with Dave Grippo on alto saxophone, Don Glasgo on trombone, Joey Sommerville on trumpet and Alan Parshley on French horn. During Bell Boy, crew member Leigh Fordham, clad in a bell boy outfit, sang Keith Moon’s original part. All of the Quadrophenia songs, as well as My Generation, were Phish debuts. YEM was almost 40 minutes long, contained teases from Trey of The Real Me and DEG, a Spooky tease from Page, and was preceded by the audience chess move. The chosen fan, dressed as a Wookiee, cracked under the pressure and could not choose a move on stage, prompting a quote from Fish that “Wookiees can’t play chess.” The Rock was teased after the failed move. Jesus Just Left Chicago featured Grippo on alto saxophone; Suzy Greenberg featured Grippo, Glasgo and Somerville. My Generation was performed acoustic. Before My Generation, the crew set up a Keith Moon replica drum set on stage. After the song, Fish and Trey destroyed the drum set a la The Who. Finally, a stagehand brought out a large plunger. Trey pressed it and set off a huge explosion backstage. This show was officially released as Live Phish 14. In the soundcheck, Suzy Greenberg was performed three times: the first with only Grippo, the second with the band and Grippo, and the third with all of the horns, alternate lyrics, and Bell Boy quotes. The jam through the end of the soundcheck was played with horns.
SET 1: Buried Alive > Poor Heart > Julius, Punch You in the Eye > Cars Trucks Buses > The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Split Open and Melt, NICU > Gumbo, Slave to the Traffic Light, Sweet Adeline
SET 2: Makisupa Policeman -> David Bowie, The Mango Song > It's Ice -> Kung -> It's Ice > Shaggy Dog -> Possum, Lifeboy, Amazing Grace
ENCORE: Funky Bitch
Beat It was teased prior to the start of the first set and in Possum. Shaggy Dog was performed for the first time since May 6, 1992 (361 shows).
Soundcheck: Jam, The Fog That Surrounds, The Old Home Place, The Fog That Surrounds Jam
SET 1: AC/DC Bag > Mound, Timber (Jerry the Mule), Uncle Pen, Sample in a Jar, The Lizards, Billy Breathes, Acoustic Army, Prince Caspian, Run Like an Antelope
SET 2: Maze, Theme From the Bottom > Scent of a Mule, You Enjoy Myself, Strange Design > Frankenstein > Chalk Dust Torture
ENCORE: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
SET 1: Runaway Jim, Fluffhead, Taste That Surrounds, Horn, I Didn't Know, Rift, Stash, Fee -> Suspicious Minds > Hold Your Head Up
SET 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > David Bowie, Dog Faced Boy, Poor Heart > Simple > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Keyboard Army, Bouncing Around the Room, Possum[1]
ENCORE: Life on Mars?
Trey teased Jump Monk in Simple. The Possum intro contained Simpsons, Oom Pa Pa, and All Fall Down signals and Beat It teases.
SET 1: Ya Mar, Sample in a Jar > Divided Sky, The Wedge, Scent of a Mule, Free, Strange Design, My Long Journey Home[1], I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome[1], Chalk Dust Torture
SET 2: Reba[2], Life on Mars?, Cars Trucks Buses, Mike's Song -> Breathe Jam -> Sparkle > Weekapaug Groove, Suzy Greenberg[3] > Crossroads
ENCORE: Fire
My Long Journey Home and I’m Blue I’m Lonesome were performed acoustic. Reba did not have the whistling ending and Suzy was unfinished.
Soundcheck: Dog Log, Taste That Surrounds, Acoustic Army
SET 1: My Friend, My Friend, Paul and Silas, Taste That Surrounds[1], Fee[2] -> Llama, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Demand > Maze, Wolfman's Brother, Acoustic Army, Prince Caspian, Split Open and Melt
SET 2: Julius, Theme From the Bottom, Bouncing Around the Room, You Enjoy Myself -> Sleeping Monkey[3] > Run Like an Antelope, Contact > Cavern
ENCORE: A Day in the Life
Taste That Surrounds made its debut. Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone. The YEM vocal jam included Ha Ha Ha quotes. Sleeping Monkey segued out of the YEM vocal jam and was started a cappella.
Soundcheck: Buffalo Bill, The Old Home Place, Dog Log
SET 1: AC/DC Bag, My Mind's Got a Mind of its Own, The Sloth, Runaway Jim, Weigh > NICU, Fast Enough for You, It's Ice > Poor Heart > Sample in a Jar, I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome[1], Stash
SET 2: Golgi Apparatus, Possum -> Catapult, The Curtain > Tweezer -> Makisupa Policeman -> Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Life on Mars?, Uncle Pen, Slave to the Traffic Light > Cavern
ENCORE: Sweet Adeline, The Squirming Coil
I'm Blue I'm Lonesome was performed acoustic and Stash was preceded by a Simpsons signal. Trey teased Dave's Energy Guide and Sneakin' Sally through the Alley in Possum. During Sweet Adeline the band kept rotating the direction they were facing to sing to the entire crowd.
Soundcheck: Dog Log, Life on Mars? (x3), The Old Home Place
SET 1: Tweezer Reprise, Chalk Dust Torture, Guelah Papyrus, Reba[1], Wilson > Cars Trucks Buses, Kung > The Lizards, Strange Design, Acoustic Army, Good Times Bad Times -> Tweezer Reprise
SET 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > David Bowie, Lifeboy, Sparkle > You Enjoy Myself > Purple Rain > Hold Your Head Up, Harry Hood, Suzy Greenberg
ENCORE: Highway to Hell
Reba did not have the whistling ending. Perhaps responding to fan predictions of a Michael Jackson cover album on Halloween, the band teased Black or White before GTBT as well as Beat It before and in Hood and in Suzy Greenberg. Suzy also included Stairway to Heaven and Tweezer Reprise teases. The soundcheck's Dog Log contained YEM lyrics (Wash Uffizi and drive me to Firenze). This show is available as an archival release on LivePhish.com.
Soundcheck: Amazing Grace (with bagpipes)
SET 1: My Friend, My Friend, Ya Mar, Ha Ha Ha > Divided Sky, Fee[1] > Rift > Free, Hello My Baby, Amazing Grace, Amazing Grace Jam[2]
SET 2: Timber (Jerry the Mule) > Scent of a Mule > Simple > Maze, Gumbo, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, My Long Journey Home[3], I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome[3], Bouncing Around the Room > Run Like an Antelope
ENCORE: Sleeping Monkey, Rocky Top
Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone. The Amazing Grace Jam featured Johnny Bagpipes Johnston on electric bagpipes. The last Amazing Grace with instrumental accompaniment was May 8, 1993 (202 shows). Trey teased the mule duel portion of Scent of a Mule in Antelope. My Long Journey Home and I’m Blue I’m Lonesome were performed acoustic.
SET 1: Cars Trucks Buses, Runaway Jim, Horn, Punch You in the Eye > Esther > Chalk Dust Torture, Theme From the Bottom, Acoustic Army, Split Open and Melt, Billy Breathes, Cavern
SET 2: Frankenstein, Poor Heart > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove[1] > Lawn Boy > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars[1], Kung > Suspicious Minds > Hold Your Head Up, Possum[2]
ENCORE: A Day in the Life
PYITE started with Cavern teases from Fish. Weekapaug contained teases of Dreaming (Blondie) from Trey and Keyboard Army from Page and was unfinished. BBFCFM was also unfinished. Possum contained an All Fall Down signal.
SET 1: Sample in a Jar, Stash, Uncle Pen, AC/DC Bag > Maze, Glide, Sparkle > Free, Strange Design, Amazing Grace[1]
SET 2: Mound > Prince Caspian, The Fog That Surrounds, Suzy Greenberg -> Keyboard Army -> Jam[2]
ENCORE: My Long Journey Home[3], I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome[3]
Amazing Grace was sung first by the band without microphones, and then by audience member “Nathan,” a gospel singer with microphones. The jam out of Keyboard Army featured Medeski, Martin, and Wood, as well as Fish on vacuum and trombone and contained DEG teases from Mike. My Long Journey Home and I’m Blue I’m Lonesome were performed acoustic and without microphones. The opening act was Medeski, Martin, & Wood.
SET 1: Buried Alive > Poor Heart > Slave to the Traffic Light, I Didn't Know, Demand > Llama, Foam, Strange Design, I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome[1], David Bowie
SET 2: Julius, Simple > Tweezer -> The Lizards, Sample in a Jar, Suspicious Minds > Hold Your Head Up, Harry Hood, Tweezer Reprise
ENCORE: Funky Bitch
I'm Blue I'm Lonesome was performed acoustic.
Soundcheck: Dog Log
SET 1: AC/DC Bag, Cars Trucks Buses, Kung > Free, Sparkle > Stash -> Catapult, Acoustic Army, It's Ice > Tela, Runaway Jim
SET 2: Reba[1], Rift, You Enjoy Myself[2], Hello My Baby, Scent of a Mule, Cavern
ENCORE: A Day in the Life
Barracuda was teased by Trey prior to the start of the second set. Reba did not have the whistling ending. YEM featured guests John Medeski, Billy Martin, Chris Wood, and Phish bus driver Dominic Placco on trumpet. Trey played both guitar and mini drum set up front. Mike played bass and some kind of horn at the end of the jam. Fish played vacuum and trombone. Billy Martin played Fish’s drums. Medeski and Page played keyboards and Page did some vocal jamming at the end. Chris Wood played a one-string stand up bass with a bow.
SET 1: Think, Dracula, Henduck, Jelly Belly [1] > Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus?[1], The Lover, Lonely Avenue, Chubb Sub[1]
ENCORE: Crosstown Traffic
SET 1: Ya Mar, Also Sprach Zarathustra > Maze, Billy Breathes, I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome[1], Prince Caspian, Split Open and Melt, Fluffhead, Life on Mars?[2]
SET 2: Tube, Uncle Pen, Theme From the Bottom -> Wilson -> Run Like an Antelope > Keyboard Army, The Lizards, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Sweet Adeline[3], The Squirming Coil
ENCORE: Bold As Love
I’m Blue I’m Lonesome was performed acoustic and, along with Sweet Adeline, without microphones. Life on Mars? made its Phish debut at this show and was dedicated to Sofi. Tube was played for the first time since June 26, 1994 (100 shows). Antelope contained a Low Rider tease by Page.
SET 1: Stash, The Old Home Place > Cavern > Divided Sky, If I Could, The Fog That Surrounds, Acoustic Army, Julius, Sample in a Jar
SET 2: Possum > Bathtub Gin, Mound, Mike's Song -> McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Weekapaug Groove[1] -> Llama, Suzy Greenberg[1] -> Crossroads, Hello My Baby, A Day in the Life
ENCORE: Chalk Dust Torture
Julius contained a Buried Alive tease and Possum contained DEG and Johnny B. Goode teases from Trey. Mike's Song included a theme from Star Trek tease from Page. Weekapaug and Suzy Greenberg were unfinished. Suzy contained Crossroads and Sunshine of Your Love teases. Crossroads was subsequently played for the first time since May 8, 1993 (198 shows).
SET 1: AC/DC Bag, Demand, Sparkle > Wolfman's Brother, Reba[1], I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome[2], Prince Caspian, Uncle Pen, Free
SET 2: Keyboard Army, Cars Trucks Buses, Timber (Jerry the Mule) > Ya Mar, Sample in a Jar, You Enjoy Myself, Suspicious Minds > Hold Your Head Up, Dog Faced Boy, David Bowie, Keyboard Army
ENCORE: Bouncing Around the Room, Rocky Top
Reba did not have the whistling ending and I'm Blue I'm Lonesome was performed acoustic.
SET 1: Julius, Gumbo > The Fog That Surrounds > Mound, Possum, The Mango Song, Acoustic Army, Wilson > Run Like an Antelope
SET 2: Makisupa Policeman, Cars Trucks Buses, Split Open and Melt, Strange Design, It's Ice > Contact > Frankenstein, Harry Hood[1], Sweet Adeline
ENCORE: Fire
Trey briefly played unamplified during Harry Hood, which was unfinished.
SET 1: Ya Mar, Stash, Billy Breathes, Reba[1], I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome[2], Rift > Free, The Lizards, Sample in a Jar
SET 2: Poor Heart > Maze, Theme From the Bottom, NICU > Tweezer > Keyboard Army > Suspicious Minds > Hold Your Head Up, Slave to the Traffic Light
ENCORE: Hello My Baby[3], A Day in the Life
Reba did not have the whistling ending. I’m Blue I’m Lonesome was performed acoustic and without microphones. Hello My Baby was also performed without microphones.
SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Ha Ha Ha, The Fog That Surrounds, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Cars Trucks Buses, Strange Design > Divided Sky, Acoustic Army, Julius > Suzy Greenberg
SET 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Runaway Jim, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > Scent of a Mule > Cavern > David Bowie, Lifeboy, Amazing Grace
ENCORE: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Suzy contained a Julius tease from Trey.
SET 1: Maze, Guelah Papyrus, Foam, Fast Enough for You, I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome[1], Free, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, Sample in a Jar > You Enjoy Myself
SET 2: Timber (Jerry the Mule) > It's Ice > Sparkle > Harry Hood, Billy Breathes, Faht[2], Sweet Adeline, Split Open and Melt, The Squirming Coil
ENCORE: Rocky Top
The opening act was Baby Gramps. I’m Blue I’m Lonesome was performed acoustic and Faht featured Fish on acoustic guitar.
SET 1: Poor Heart, Wolfman's Brother, Rift, Night Moves Jam > Stash, Acoustic Army, The Fog That Surrounds, Theme From the Bottom, Tela > David Bowie
SET 2: Wilson > Cars Trucks Buses, Bathtub Gin, Llama, Simple > Keyboard Army, Slave to the Traffic Light[1], Hello My Baby, The Lizards, Run Like an Antelope
ENCORE: A Day in the Life
The Night Moves Jam in the first set extended the Band/Audience Chess Match. Slave included Fish on vacuum for a portion of the jam. The opening act was Baby Gramps.
SET 1: My Friend, My Friend, Cars Trucks Buses, White Rabbit Jam > Reba, Uncle Pen, Horn, Run Like an Antelope, I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome[1], Sample in a Jar
SET 2: Runaway Jim > The Fog That Surrounds, If I Could > Scent of a Mule, Mike's Song -> Keyboard Army, Weekapaug Groove -> Suspicious Minds[2] > Hold Your Head Up > Cavern
ENCORE: Amazing Grace, Good Times Bad Times
Trey teased Call to the Post before My Friend and Antelope before Horn. This show was the beginning of the Band/Audience Chess Match that continued throughout the fall tour. Page and a tour-head named "Pooh" played a few moves to set up the board during the White Rabbit jam in the first set. Suspicious Minds made its Phish debut. I’m Blue I’m Lonesome was dedicated to Jerry Garcia and was acoustic.
Soundcheck: Jam, Dog Log, Funk Jam > Funky Bitch, Poor Heart
SET 1: AC/DC Bag > Sparkle > Divided Sky, Strange Design, Cars Trucks Buses, You Enjoy Myself, Sweet Adeline, Suzy Greenberg
SET 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Maze, Free, Ya Mar, Split Open and Melt, Billy Breathes, Hold Your Head Up > Cryin'[1] > Hold Your Head Up, A Day in the Life
ENCORE: Chalk Dust Torture
Cryin’ made its Phish debut at this show. In the soundcheck, Dog Log was performed in a funk style and Poor Heart was a cappella.
Soundcheck: Gumbo, All Things Reconsidered, Mound, The Fog That Surrounds, Hello My Baby
SET 1: Cars Trucks Buses, Runaway Jim, Billy Breathes, Scent of a Mule, Stash, Fee[1] -> The Fog That Surrounds, Acoustic Army, Slave to the Traffic Light
SET 2: Theme From the Bottom > Poor Heart, Don't You Want To Go?, Tweezer > Keyboard Army, Amazing Grace, Sample in a Jar, Run Like an Antelope
ENCORE: Fire
Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone. HYHU was teased after Fog That Surrounds.
Soundcheck: Funky Bitch (one and a half times), Jam, The Fog That Surrounds
SET 1: Wolfman's Brother, Rift > Free, It's Ice > I Didn't Know[1], The Fog That Surrounds[2], Strange Design, Chalk Dust Torture, The Squirming Coil
SET 2: Cars Trucks Buses[2], AC/DC Bag, David Bowie, Billy Breathes[2], Keyboard Army[2], Harry Hood[3], Hello My Baby[4], A Day in the Life
ENCORE: Possum
This tour opener brought the first performances of The Fog That Surrounds, Cars Trucks Buses, Billy Breathes, Keyboard Army, and the Phish debut of Hello My Baby (which was dedicated to Pete Schall). I Didn’t Know featured Fish on trombone. Trey teased Slipknot! in David Bowie. Harry Hood was unfinished. Possum contained Johnny B. Goode teases from Trey.
SET 1: Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? [1]
SET 1: Life During Wartime [1], Jones[1], Tangled Up in Blue[1], If You Ask Me[1]
SET 1: Ask the Fish [1], John Hardy[1], Ninety-Nine Years (and One Dark Day)[1]
SET 1: Instrumental, Drum solo, Call My Job, Disco Inferno, Green Onions, Kiss My Black Ass, (When She Wants Good Lovin') My Baby Comes to Me, Unknown, Move With You, Get Down Tonight, Lucille
No known setlist
SET 1: Julius[1]
Phish were the musical guests on The Late Show with David Letterman. Julius was performed with accompaniment from The Late Show Band as well as Dave Grippo on saxophone.
No known setlist
SET 1: My Friend, My Friend[1] > Poor Heart > Run Like an Antelope, Loving Cup, Sparkle > It's Ice, If I Could, Maze, Strange Design, Free > Cavern
SET 2: Timber (Jerry the Mule) > David Bowie -> Johnny B. Goode -> David Bowie, AC/DC Bag > The Lizards[2] > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, A Day in the Life > Possum, The Squirming Coil
ENCORE: Simple, Amazing Grace
My Friend featured Trey using his microphone stand as a slide. During If I Could, a large inflatable moose was tossed around the crowd. It landed in perfect sitting position, facing the audience, on Page’s side of the stage. The Bowie intro contained Timber teases and lyrics. Bowie later contained God of Thunder (Kiss) and Bathtub Gin teases before segueing into Johnny B. Goode and Johnny B. Goode teases from Trey at the end of Bowie. Possum also contained Bathtub Gin and Johnny B. Goode teases. Lizards was aborted after Trey lost track of the lyrics. Fish teased him about needing a teleprompter and Trey started up Big Black Furry Creature from Mars. Plenty of stage antics preceded Amazing Grace; Page threw the pitch pipe into the crowd and Trey pretended to throw Fish’s goggles and, eventually, Fish himself. Trey also picked up a Hacky Sack from the stage and impressed the crowd with his athleticism. Timber returned for its first performance since December 30, 1992 (260 shows) and it was the first complete version since December 1989.
SET 1: Sample in a Jar > Divided Sky, Gumbo, The Curtain > Julius, Camel Walk, Reba[1], I Didn't Know, Rift, While My Guitar Gently Weeps
SET 2: Runaway Jim -> Makisupa Policeman -> Scent of a Mule, Tweezer -> Ha Ha Ha > Sleeping Monkey, Acoustic Army, Slave to the Traffic Light
ENCORE: Halley's Comet > Tweezer Reprise
This was a benefit show for the King Street Youth Center. The band brought back Camel Walk, which hadn’t been played since February 24, 1989 (762 shows). Reba did not have the whistling ending and Trey announced during Makisupa that this was "4:20... Dank."
SET 1: Ya Mar, Llama, If I Could[1] > All Things Reconsidered, It's Ice[2] > Prince Caspian > Split Open and Melt, Bouncing Around the Room > Chalk Dust Torture
SET 2: Wilson > Maze, Theme From the Bottom, Uncle Pen, Stash[3] > Strange Design, Acoustic Army, Harry Hood, Suzy Greenberg
ENCORE: Funky Bitch
If I Could included the variation with a preceding Trey guitar solo. The jam in It’s Ice featured Fish on vacuum. Stash was unfinished. Suzy included Sunshine of Your Love and Smoke on the Water teases. Funky Bitch was dedicated to the tour-heads as an always requested but never played song. Portions of this show were used in Mike Gordon’s 1997 short film Goodwood; the entire gig was simulcast live on Boston’s WBCN 104.1 FM.
Soundcheck: Dog Log
SET 1: AC/DC Bag > Scent of a Mule, Horn, Taste, The Wedge, The Lizards, Mound, Fee[1] -> Run Like an Antelope[2]
SET 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Possum > Ha Ha Ha > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > Mike's Song > Contact > Weekapaug Groove, Amazing Grace, The Squirming Coil
ENCORE: Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Golgi Apparatus
This show featured a visually spectacular Mule, which featured Trey playing guitar with his teeth and Page playing keyboards with his face and feet. Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone. During Antelope, Trey substituted “Suck the deer shit from the side of this hole” for the “high gear of your soul” lyric. Possum included a Dave's Energy Guide tease. Weekapaug included a Divided Sky tease from Trey. Fish introduced Rosie as being about “a lonely man singing to his inflatable love doll.” Parts of this show were used in Mike Gordon’s 1997 short film Goodwood.
SET 1: Runaway Jim > Taste, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Divided Sky, Cavern > Rift > Simple > Split Open and Melt, Carolina
SET 2: Free -> David Bowie, Strange Design, You Enjoy Myself, Acoustic Army, A Day in the Life
ENCORE: Theme From the Bottom
Runaway Jim contained a Cannonball tease.
Soundcheck: Sweet Home Alabama, Jam, Ginseng Sullivan, Red River Valley Jam, Dog Log (slow)
SET 1: Axilla (Part II) > Foam, Fast Enough for You, Reba[1], Punch You in the Eye, Stash, Fluffhead > Chalk Dust Torture
SET 2: Sample in a Jar, Poor Heart > Tweezer -> Dave's Energy Guide -> Tweezer > Gumbo > Sparkle > Suzy Greenberg, Harry Hood, Tweezer Reprise
Ha Ha Ha was teased before the start of the first set. Reba did not have the whistling ending. Dave's Energy Guide was played for the first time since March 8, 1991 (481 shows). The second Tweezer included a Cannonball jam with quotes from Trey.
Soundcheck: Time Loves A Hero > Dog Log/Time Loves A Hero mashup, Nellie Kane, Santana Instrumental, Rocky Mountain Way
SET 1: My Friend, My Friend, Don't You Want To Go?, Bathtub Gin, NICU > The Sloth, My Mind's Got a Mind of its Own, It's Ice > Dog Faced Boy > Tela > Possum
SET 2: Down with Disease[1] -> Free > Poor Heart > You Enjoy Myself, Strange Design > Run Like an Antelope
ENCORE: Sleeping Monkey > Rocky Top
My Friend started with a Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 tease from Trey. Trey teased and quoted Long Tall Glasses in Bathtub Gin. Possum contained a Heartbreaker tease and YEM contained Immigrant Song teases from Trey. Down with Disease was unfinished. This show is available as an archival release on LivePhish.com.
SET 1: Ya Mar > AC/DC Bag > Taste > Theme From the Bottom, If I Could > Sparkle > Divided Sky, I Didn't Know, Split Open and Melt
SET 2: Maze > Sample in a Jar, Scent of a Mule, Mike's Song -> Why Don't We Do It in the Road? > Hold Your Head Up > Jam -> Weekapaug Groove, Amazing Grace, Cavern
ENCORE: Bouncing Around the Room, Slave to the Traffic Light
During I Didn’t Know, Trey introduced Fish as “Cedric Harris.” The Maze intro included Taps teases from Trey and Weekapaug contained teases of Mainstreet and Dreaming (Blondie).
SET 1: Fee[1] > Rift, Spock's Brain, Julius, Glide, Mound, Stash, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, The Squirming Coil
SET 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Halley's Comet > David Bowie, Lifeboy, Suzy Greenberg, Harry Hood, Acoustic Army, Sweet Adeline, Golgi Apparatus
ENCORE: Bold As Love
Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone. Suzy contained a Lifeboy tease from Trey. After Acoustic Army, Trey thanked the crowd for being so quiet. The band then proceeded to don surgical masks for Adeline. The masks were provided by a fan in the front – Trey thanked him for the “hats.” The encore was preceded by Random Note and Simpsons signals.
Soundcheck: Blues Jam > Goin' Down Slow > Heartbreaker, Nellie Kane, My Sweet One > My Sweet One Refrain Medley > Ring of Fire, Acoustic Army
SET 1: Simple > Chalk Dust Torture, Prince Caspian, Reba[1], Ginseng Sullivan > Free > Taste, You Enjoy Myself
SET 2: Runaway Jim -> The Lizards, The Wedge, Run Like an Antelope, Harpua[2] -> Jam[3] -> Llama[3], Good Times Bad Times[3]
ENCORE: A Day in the Life
Reba did not have the whistling ending. Harpua was unfinished; Jimmy played an Abba record (which led to a verse of Abba’s Waterloo), decided that he hated Abba and thought that maybe a little rocking harmonica would tighten it up. John Popper then came out for to play harmonica on a jam that led into Llama. Llama and GTBT also featured John Popper on harmonica. It's Magic was part of the soundcheck's My Sweet One Refrain Medley.
Soundcheck: Funky Bitch, Ginseng Sullivan, Dog Log, Shaggy Dog > Jam, Acoustic Army
SET 1: Sample in a Jar, Scent of a Mule, Ha Ha Ha > Divided Sky, Guelah Papyrus, It's Ice, Strange Design, Maze, Cavern, Sweet Adeline
SET 2: Theme From the Bottom -> Jam -> Tweezer[1] -> Tweezer Reprise
Maze included a brief Lazy tease. This 40-minute Tweezer, which is known as “The Fleezer,” contained a My Generation jam, Rift teases from Mike, and, at one point, a Fish vacuum accompaniment. In the soundcheck, Funky Bitch was performed as the blues version and Dog Log ended with the AC/DC Bag intro.
Soundcheck: Funky Bitch, Ginseng Sullivan, My Generation, Daniel Saw the Stone > Rock Lobster, Horn, Blues Jam
SET 1: Llama, Spock's Brain, Ginseng Sullivan > Foam, Bathtub Gin, If I Could, Taste, I Didn't Know, Split Open and Melt
SET 2: Halley's Comet > Chalk Dust Torture, Prince Caspian, Uncle Pen, Mike's Song -> Contact > Weekapaug Groove > Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Highway to Hell
ENCORE: Slave to the Traffic Light, Amazing Grace
The soundcheck's My Generation was performed acoustic. Bathtub Gin contained Long Tall Glasses teases from Trey. This show is available as an archival release on LivePhish.com.
SET 1: Theme From the Bottom > Poor Heart, AC/DC Bag > Tela, Punch You in the Eye, Reba, Strange Design, Rift > Cavern > Run Like an Antelope
SET 2: Simple -> David Bowie, The Mango Song, Loving Cup, Sparkle > You Enjoy Myself, Acoustic Army, Possum
ENCORE: A Day in the Life
Trey teased Call to the Post in Reba and Mind Left Body Jam in Bowie. This show is available as an archival release on LivePhish.com.
Soundcheck: Johnny B. Goode
SET 1: Divided Sky, Suzy Greenberg, Taste, Fee[1] -> Uncle Pen, Julius, Lawn Boy, The Curtain -> Stash
SET 2: Wilson > Maze, Mound > Tweezer -> Johnny B. Goode[2] -> Tweezer -> McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Acoustic Army, Sweet Adeline, Harry Hood, Sample in a Jar
ENCORE: Three Little Birds[3]
Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone. Johnny B. Goode and Three Little Birds made their Phish debuts at this show, the latter with a guest appearance by LeRoi Moore and Dave Matthews. Tweezer included a tease of A Live One’s Montana.
Soundcheck: Caravan, Three Little Birds, Free, Funky Bitch, Jam
SET 1: Halley's Comet > Down with Disease > Esther > Ya Mar, Cry Baby Cry, It's Ice > My Mind's Got a Mind of its Own, Dog Faced Boy -> Catapult > Split Open and Melt
SET 2: Runaway Jim -> Free, Carolina, You Enjoy Myself[1], The Squirming Coil
ENCORE: Bold As Love
Halley's Comet was preceded by "Charge!" teases from Trey. Dog Faced Boy was preceded by several false starts of Split Open And Melt by Fish. YEM featured Boyd Tinsley on fiddle for a portion of the jam. The YEM vocal jam contained a Lovin' You (Minnie Riperton) quote from Fish.
Soundcheck: Funky Bitch, The Old Home Place, Julius
SET 1: My Friend, My Friend > Sparkle > AC/DC Bag, The Old Home Place, Taste, The Wedge, Stash[1] -> I Didn't Know[2], Fluffhead, Run Like an Antelope
SET 2: My Sweet One, Ha Ha Ha > David Bowie[3], Strange Design > Theme From the Bottom, Scent of a Mule, Acoustic Army, Slave to the Traffic Light
ENCORE: Bouncing Around the Room, Frankenstein
Stash was unfinished and melted into I Didn’t Know, which was performed in an eerie, slower fashion and featured Fish on trombone, Mike on electric drill for the first time, and Trey on megaphone. Antelope contained a Voodoo Child tease from Trey. Bowie included some odd chanting, including the phrase “Send me on my way” (although not in a manner similar to the Rusted Root song of the same name).
Soundcheck: Jam, Jam > Honky Tonk Woman, The Old Home Place, Funky Bitch, Rift, Prince Caspian
SET 1: Don't You Want To Go?, Gumbo > NICU, Mound, Cavern > Possum, All Things Reconsidered, Amazing Grace[1], The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Spock's Brain > Split Open and Melt
SET 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Poor Heart > Tweezer[2], Acoustic Army, While My Guitar Gently Weeps
ENCORE: Simple[3], Rocky Top > Tweezer Reprise
Don’t You Wanna Go was preceded by a Stairway to Heaven tease. Trey teased Jean Pierre in Possum. This 50+ minute Tweezer included a brief Gypsy Queen jam, a Digital Delay Loop Jam with whistling, and an Also Sprach Zarathustra tease from Trey. Simple contained a Jump Monk tease from Trey and was performed with an a cappella ending instead of a jam, akin to the A Live One version from December 8, 1994. Amazing Grace was performed without microphones. In the soundcheck, Funky Bitch was peformed as a slow version and Rift was played as an instrumental. This show is available as an archival release on LivePhish.com.
Soundcheck: Blues Jam, Jam, The Old Home Place, Taste, Shaggy Dog
SET 1: Runaway Jim > Foam, Bouncing Around the Room, Stash, Strange Design > Taste, Reba[1], Hold Your Head Up > Terrapin > Hold Your Head Up, Sparkle > Chalk Dust Torture
SET 2: David Bowie, The Lizards, Axilla (Part II) > Theme From the Bottom, Acoustic Army, Harry Hood, Golgi Apparatus
ENCORE: Sweet Adeline[2], Julius
Reba did not have the whistling ending. Chalk Dust contained Purple Haze and DEG teases. This version of Golgi, according to Trey, was the “jazz version.” Sweet Adeline was performed without microphones as Trey jokingly tried to break the record for the largest venue played without mics.
Soundcheck: Cry Baby Cry
SET 1: Makisupa Policeman -> Llama, Prince Caspian > It's Ice > Free > Rift, You Enjoy Myself -> Hold Your Head Up[1] > Lonesome Cowboy Bill > Hold Your Head Up, Suzy Greenberg
SET 2: Maze, Fee[2] > Uncle Pen, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Amazing Grace, Sample in a Jar
ENCORE: A Day in the Life[3]
This show marked the first Phish performance of A Day in the Life. YEM segued into a HYHU vocal jam. Page teased Fanfare for the Common Man several times before Lonesome Cowboy Bill. Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone.
Soundcheck: Acoustic Army (x2), Jam, Taste, Cry Baby Cry
SET 1: My Friend, My Friend, Divided Sky, Strange Design > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > AC/DC Bag > Theme From the Bottom, Taste, Sparkle > Run Like an Antelope
SET 2: Split Open and Melt, The Wedge, Scent of a Mule, Cavern > David Bowie, Acoustic Army, Sweet Adeline, Slave to the Traffic Light
ENCORE: The Squirming Coil
Part of the soundcheck's jam consisted of 25 or 6 to 4.
Soundcheck: Prince Caspian, Mound, Wishing Well, The Asse Festival, Jam
SET 1: Don't You Want To Go?, Ha Ha Ha > Runaway Jim > Guelah Papyrus, Mound, Fast Enough for You, Reba[1], Prince Caspian[2], Chalk Dust Torture
SET 2: Simple > Rift > Free > Bouncing Around the Room > Tweezer -> Lifeboy > Poor Heart > Julius
ENCORE: Good Times Bad Times
Runaway Jim contained Third Stone from the Sun teases. Reba did not have the whistling ending. This show marked the debut of Prince Caspian. Page teased The Sabre Dance in Tweezer. This gig was originally scheduled for the outdoor Wolf Mountain Amphitheatre in Park City; due to a late spring snowstorm, the day before the show took place it was moved to the indoor Delta Center.
Soundcheck: The Wedge, Weigh
SET 1: Possum, Weigh, Taste[1], Strange Design, Stash, If I Could > Scent of a Mule, The Wedge, Funky Bitch, Slave to the Traffic Light
SET 2: Ha Ha Ha > Maze, Spock's Brain, Theme From the Bottom, Hold Your Head Up > Lonesome Cowboy Bill[2] > Hold Your Head Up, Acoustic Army[1], Sample in a Jar, Harry Hood, Suzy Greenberg
ENCORE: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
This show marked the debuts of Taste and Acoustic Army. Trey teased Lazy in Possum. The Wedge was played for the first time since August 20, 1993 (136 shows). Lonesome Cowboy Bill featured Fish on trombone. Suzy included an Entrance of the Gladiators tease from Trey.
Soundcheck: Tweezer -> I’ll Come Running -> Tweezer Reprise
SET 1: Don't You Want To Go?[1], Ha Ha Ha[2] > Spock's Brain[2], Strange Design[2], Reba[3], Theme From the Bottom[2], Hold Your Head Up > Lonesome Cowboy Bill[1] > Hold Your Head Up, Free[2], Glide II[2] > You Enjoy Myself, Sweet Adeline, Sample in a Jar
ENCORE: I'll Come Running[1] -> Gloria[1]
This was a Voters for Choice benefit concert that also featured Jennifer Trynin and Emergency Broadcast Network. During the pre-show introduction, host Gloria Steinem promised Phish fans more new music in one night than ever before. The band proceeded to deliver the first public performances of Ha Ha Ha, Spock's Brain, Strange Design, Theme From the Bottom, Free, and Glide II. Don’t You Want To Go?, Lonesome Cowboy Bill, I’ll Come Running, and Gloria also made their first Phish public performances at this show. Reba did not have the whistling ending. Fish introduced the new songs that had been played before Lonesome Cowboy Bill. Fish explained that they didn't really have a name for the song after Ha Ha Ha and Trey added that since it was a Voters For Choice Benefit, they'd give the crowd four choices and let it vote on the title: The Plane, The First Single, Israel, and Spock's Brain. Page subsequently teased the theme from Star Trek as the crowd voted for Spock's with Trey subsequently explaining the song's origin. Prior to Adeline, the crowd sang Happy Birthday to Page.
SET 1: Jam, Don't You Want To Go?, Spock's Brain, Theme From the Bottom, Ha Ha Ha, Taste, Free, Strange Design, Glide II, Lonesome Cowboy Bill, I'll Come Running
This “show” was a small, private tune-up for the Lowell show and summer tour.
No known setlist
SET 1: Astro Nation (Of the United World in Outer Space) [1], Neverness[1], Saturn[1], Face the Music[1], Beans and Rice[1], Neon Art[1], Champions[1], Dancing Shadows[1], Pathology[1], Earthrite[1]
SET 1: Rogue Hair, Cherry Pickin’ Frog, Display of Grace, Rose Hill, Cut the Wave, Trina's Odyssey, Everything is Everything, Self, Big Heart > Pelican Jig, Happy Birthday, Intestinal Fortitude, Pumpkins
SET 2: Cabin Fever > Attack of the Rodeo Clown, Route 89, Make You My Bitch, The Bus, Sea Captain, Chooch DeLuke, Leading the Elephants, Stevie's Crib, Go-Kart, Llama
ENCORE: Weekapaug Groove Jam [1], Self[1]
SET 1: Abdul's [1], Pachysandra[1], Time Reel[1], Ballad For Gordon[1], Monkey Wrench[1], Blackberry Blossom[1]
SET 2: Blue Monk[1], Touch and Go[1], Happy Landings[1], Abdul's[1], St. Thomas[1]
SET 1: All Along the Watchtower [1]
SET 1: Drum Blessing [1] > Second Line[1], Neverness[1] > Echoes of the Boat People[1], Saturn[1], Beans and Rice[1], Celebration[1]
SET 2: Angels and Demons at Play [2] > Made a Mistake[2], I'll Wait For You[2] > Dancing Shadows[2] > Pathology[2], Seven for Neon[2], Baby Baby[2], Champions[2], Shadow World[2]
SET 1: Unknown [1], Champions[1], Enlightenment[1], Second Line[1], Carefree[1], Face the Music[1]
SET 2: Echoes of the Boat People[1], Marie Laveau[1], 3-22-93[1], Saturn[1], Neverness[1]
ENCORE: Earthrite[1]
SET 1: Seek Up, #36, Dancing Nancies, The Best of What’s Around, Rhyme and Reason, Jimi Thing [1], Recently[1], Water Into Wine[1], Ants Marching[1]
ENCORE: Nature intro, Tripping Billies
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