Name: Jun 16, 1994 Setlist - Phish.net
Start: 1994-06-16T20:00
Location: State Theatre

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PHISH, THURSDAY 06/16/1994

Soundcheck: Gumbo (x3)

SET 1: Bouncing Around the Room, Rift, Julius, Fee^[1] -> Maze, Gumbo > The Curtain > Dog Faced Boy, Stash, The Squirming Coil

SET 2: Suzy Greenberg, Run Like an Antelope, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird -> Kung -> Fly Famous Mockingbird, Big Ball Jam, Down with Disease^[2] -> Contact > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars^[2] -> Purple Rain > Hold Your Head Up, Golgi Apparatus

ENCORE: Ginseng Sullivan^[3], Amazing Grace^[4], Good Times Bad Times

Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone. Gumbo was played for the first time since April 21, 1993 (104 shows). Stash contained a brief Dave’s Energy Guide jam. Disease was preceded by a Bowie tease, subsequently contained a Swingtown tease, and was unfinished. BBFCFM was unfinished. Ginseng Sullivan was performed acoustic and without amplification. Amazing Grace was performed without amplification and was dedicated to David “ZZYZX” Steinberg. GTBT included Heartbreaker teases.

Overall: 4.226/5 (53 ratings)

Maze, Gumbo, Stash, Run Like an Antelope, Down with Disease

Dave's Energy Guide jam in Stash, Swingtown tease in Down with Disease, Heartbreaker tease in Good Times Bad Times, David Bowie tease

Stash 5

Hoist 3

Lawn Boy 3

Junta 3

Rift 2

The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday 2

A Picture of Nectar 1

The White Tape 1

Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon

This show was part of the "1994 Summer Tour"

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Show Reviews

2014-07-12 7:10 pm, attached to 1994-06-16

Review by MrStevietRI

I (at some point, circa 1999) possessed a really crisp recording of this show, and I must say I'm surprised that no one has singled out this particular Antelope as noteworthy. Trey immediately takes complete control after the vocals and steers into a very haunting melody, slowly dissecting and tearing away the subtleties of his ever so beautifully lyrical guitar style, and the music is like light speed in slow motion, drifting in space while Fishman furiously implies the savage and sweet funk of the rhythm, and when Trey finally hits that resolution, that return to the theme he's been teasing for 3 or 4 minutes (I thought of these as his Thelonious Monk solos), its like a complete shock to the soul, tear-jerking every time. From there to the finish Trey just wails and wails, and when he sets the gearshift for high gear, he is SCREAMING into the microphone, equally jolted at listening to what they'd just played.
The rest of the set was equally awesome, the hysterical Kung chant perfectly arising within an awesome FFM. Purple Rain found Fishman talking about Prince's hometown of Minneapolis. I also seem to remember the unfinished DWD>Contact being sublime, and the BBFCFM almost scarily leaping out of the end of Contact. Ah, the old days, never to be heard again.

Score: 3

2013-11-06 5:52 pm, attached to 1994-06-16

Review by BarryAlive

I think this is my first review! Just noticed there are no reviews for it, and I was there.

Jam-wise, there wasn't anything too crazy or out of the box that makes this show stand out in the middle of what was an amazing tour. (...that may be a little overshadowed by the following Fall shows.) It was almost a straight-up greatest hits set. And although there was nothing terribly adventurous about either set, both were tightly executed, and the energy was through the roof. The fellas were really having a great time, and it showed. I'm not going to over-hype it, since I know there are way better go-to '94 shows than this... But I will say that if you do decide to check it out, you'll be hard-pressed to find fault with anything laid down in Minneapolis this warm and breezy June evening.

Note: This show is in circulation, usually labelled "SBD." This is definitely NOT a board recording. If anyone knows if a board exists, please feel free to let me know- would love to hear it!

Score: 3