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SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Bouncing Around the Room, Poor Heart > Guelah Papyrus, Reba, Foam, Horn, Split Open and Melt, Esther > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove[1]
SET 2: Wilson > Harry Hood, It's Ice, The Mango Song, Uncle Pen, Tweezer -> The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Runaway Jim
ENCORE: Memories[2], Sweet Adeline[2], Golgi Apparatus
This show was a benefit for James Bay, with proceeds benefiting organizations fighting the James Bay hydroelectric projects. Reba contained a Dave's Energy Guide tease from Trey. Weekapaug included Charlie Chan and Simpsons signals and On Broadway teases. Hood contained a Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered tease from Trey. Memories and Sweet Adeline were performed without microphones.
SET 1: Buried Alive > Possum, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > Sparkle, Stash, Paul and Silas > Bathtub Gin, The Squirming Coil > Llama, You Enjoy Myself
SET 2: Golgi Apparatus > It's Ice > My Sweet One > Run Like an Antelope, Tela, The Landlady, Hold Your Head Up > Bike[1] > Hold Your Head Up, Cavern[2]
Possum included a Rhapsody in Blue tease from Trey. Before YEM, Trey announced that the second set would feature a special guest on guitar who has influenced Trey for years. The “special guest” turned out to be Fish, who added some atrocious fretless guitar stylings to Bike. Cavern, Magilla and Brother featured Carl Gerhard on trumpet, who teased the Flintstones theme during Magilla.
SET 1: Uncle Pen, Foam, Runaway Jim, Fee > Sparkle, Brother, Horn > Chalk Dust Torture, Hold Your Head Up > Love You > Hold Your Head Up, Wilson > Divided Sky
SET 2: Tube, My Sweet One > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, The Mango Song, The Sloth, Reba, Dinner and a Movie > Cavern > David Bowie[1]
Before Wilson, Trey brought a fan named "Wesley" on-stage and wished him a happy birthday. Trey proceeded to dedicate the song to him. Weekapaug contained Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered (Rogers and Hart) and Divided Sky teases from Trey. The Bowie intro contained two Charlie Chan signals as well as Simpsons and Oom Pa Pa signals.
SET 1: The Landlady, Uncle Pen, Wilson[1] > Runaway Jim, It's Ice > Sparkle > Fluffhead, Foam, Stash, Ya Mar, Cavern
SET 2: Tube > My Sweet One[1] > Bathtub Gin, Brother[1], You Enjoy Myself[2], Horn > Chalk Dust Torture, Hold Your Head Up > Terrapin > Hold Your Head Up, Llama
Wilson, My Sweet One, Brother, and the YEM vocal jam contained Mrs. Pizza Shit references. YEM was preceded by introductions of lots of friends and family, and was halted and restarted by Trey so that he can confirm that Phish had indeed changed their name to “Mrs. Pizza Shit.” YEM contained a Brady Bunch theme tease from Mike. The subsequent vocal jam contained William Tell Overture quotes. At one point during the show, Trey even grabbed a slice of pizza from a passing waitress and used it to strum the guitar. Sanity was teased before and during Terrapin.
SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture[1], Sparkle, Cavern, The Curtain > Split Open and Melt, The Squirming Coil, My Sweet One > Guelah Papyrus, Rhombus Narration > Divided Sky, Lawn Boy, Golgi Apparatus
SET 2: Llama[1] > Bathtub Gin, Poor Heart[1], Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Eliza, Tube, The Landlady > Destiny Unbound, Harry Hood[1], Hold Your Head Up > Love You > Hold Your Head Up, Bouncing Around the Room > Possum[2]
ENCORE: Highway to Hell, Suzy Greenberg
Prior to the start of the show, Trey teased We Wish You a Merry Christmas and Fish announced that Phish had changed their name to Mrs. Pizza Shit. Chalk Dust, Llama, Poor Heart, Harry Hood, and the conclusion of both sets (as well as the start of the second set) all featured references to Mrs. Pizza Shit. Poor Heart and Hood also had bandmembers calling each other "Mrs. Pizza Shit." Page teased Blue Monk during the Rhombus Narration. In Lawn Boy, Page referred to Trey as "Lawn Boy" prior to him taking a guitar solo. Before Love You, Fish apologized for not wearing his Zero Man outfit, explaining that he didn't have his jock strap with him. He said that the last time he was there some girl said "Hey you can see his balls!" and so that was it for Zero Man without the jock strap. Possum contained two Charlie Chan signals and Simpsons and Popeye signals (but, notably, the band responded to the Popeye signal by singing a random note, which is the Random Note signal's "secret language").
SET 1: Wilson > Uncle Pen, Llama, Reba, Foam, Tube > Sparkle, Brother, The Mango Song, Golgi Apparatus > Runaway Jim
SET 2: Dinner and a Movie > Roll Like a Cantaloupe, Fee, Paul and Silas > It's Ice > Glide > Tweezer > Take the 'A' Train[1] > Hold Your Head Up > If I Only Had a Brain > Hold Your Head Up > The Lizards, Tweezer Reprise
ENCORE: Bouncing Around the Room, Good Times Bad Times
ENCORE 2: You Enjoy Myself[2]
Brother was dedicated to Trey’s sister, Kristy. Dinner and a Movie, Cantaloupe, and Tweezer contained Smells Like Teen Spirit quotes. Cantaloupe was played for the first time since March 11, 1990 (225 shows). ‘A’ Train included Frosty the Snowman and We Wish You a Merry Christmas teases and a Charlie Chan signal at the end. The YEM vocal jam was based on "chicken sandwich" and burgers.
SET 1: The Landlady > Runaway Jim, It's Ice > Sparkle, Chalk Dust Torture, Esther > Cavern > Rhombus Narration > Divided Sky, I Didn't Know, You Enjoy Myself
SET 2: David Bowie[1], Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, Golgi Apparatus, Bathtub Gin, The Squirming Coil > Llama, Hold Your Head Up > Terrapin[2] > Hold Your Head Up, Possum
ENCORE: Horn, My Sweet One, Sweet Adeline[3]
Terrapin was announced as the “restrained version” and Fish as the “Master of Restraint.” In response, Fish sang only one out of every few words to the song. Trey also clarified during the show that Colonel Forbin is not to be mistaken for Colonel (Bruce) Hampton. Bowie was preceded by a Funk #49 tease. The Bowie intro included HYHU teases, four Charlie Chan signals and Popeye, Simpsons, Oom Pa Pa, and Random Laugh signals. The band responded to the Popeye signal by singing a random note, which is the Random Note signal's "secret language." Trey teased Dave's Energy Guide in Possum. Sweet Adeline was performed without microphones.
Soundcheck: All Things Reconsidered, Funky Bitch, Dog Log
SET 1: Buried Alive > Golgi Apparatus, Uncle Pen, Brother > Bouncing Around the Room, Tube > The Sloth, Harry Hood, Fee > Foam, Llama
SET 2: Dinner and a Movie > Stash, The Squirming Coil, Paul and Silas > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Guelah Papyrus, Chalk Dust Torture, Magilla[1] > Cavern > Hold Your Head Up > Love You[2] > Hold Your Head Up, Run Like an Antelope[3]
ENCORE: Ya Mar, Big Black Furry Creature from Mars
ENCORE 2: Split Open and Melt, Memories[4]
Trey teased Possum before the second set opener. Love You featured band introductions. Antelope included a Dixie tease from Trey, a foul-up near the end when Fish attempted to end the song too early, and Charlie Chan and Simpsons signals during the final rave-up. BBFCFM contained a Brady Bunch theme tease from Mike. Memories was performed without microphones.
Soundcheck: Dog Log, Fuck Your Face
SET 1: Golgi Apparatus, Chalk Dust Torture, Foam, Wilson > The Landlady > Destiny Unbound, Rhombus Narration > Divided Sky, Tube, I Didn't Know, You Enjoy Myself, Cavern[1]
SET 2: Buried Alive > The Sloth, Uncle Pen, David Bowie, Fee, The Squirming Coil, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg, Take the 'A' Train, Split Open and Melt, Hold Your Head Up > Terrapin > Hold Your Head Up, Memories[2], Llama
This show featured the first Rhombus Narration since April 6, 1990 (212 shows). Cavern contained a Simpsons signal. Memories was performed without microphones. Llama was preceded by a Gamehendge narration. Duke's Place (Duke Ellington) is listed as the encore on the master tape in the archives. The encore is not on the tape, so this may be an inside joke, a comment on the house music played post-show, or reference to Phish's first known performance of the song. The soundcheck's Dog Log contained additional lyrics about Colorado promoter and friend "Dandy" Don Strasburg. Information about the soundcheck and possible encore comes from phish.com.
SET 1: The Curtain > Runaway Jim, Foam, Sparkle, Llama, Reba, Tube > You Enjoy Myself, Horn, Brother, Sweet Adeline[1]
SET 2: Chalk Dust Torture, Fluffhead > Poor Heart > It's Ice > Tweezer > Tela, The Landlady, Hold Your Head Up[2] > Terrapin > Hold Your Head Up, My Sweet One[3] > Tweezer Reprise
Trey and Mike teased Curtain several times before the start of the show. Before Sparkle, Trey thanked the Atlanta, GA crowd for their general attentiveness, noting that Artis the Spoonman always said: “the best thing you can give to another person is your attention.” Mike welcomed his cousins who were in attendance. Sweet Adeline was performed without microphones. Tweezer contained several quick Band on the Run teases from Trey. The HYHU preceding Terrapin featured Trey and Page singing “Henrietta” vocals. My Sweet One was first sung as a gospel tune, without drums and with Fish singing lead, and then done again normally. Possum featured a Rhapsody in Blue tease from Trey, two Charlie Chan signals and a Simpsons signal.
Soundcheck: Family Picture, T.V. Show, Crimes Of The Mind, Camel Walk, Blues Jam
SET 1: Tube, The Landlady > Dinner and a Movie > Stash, Paul and Silas > Divided Sky, Guelah Papyrus, The Mango Song, Brother, Eliza, Golgi Apparatus
SET 2: The Sloth, Sparkle, Split Open and Melt, The Squirming Coil, I Didn't Know, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove[1], Jesus Just Left Chicago > Jam > Self[2], T.V. Show[3], Family Picture[3], Crimes of the Mind[2]
ENCORE: Fee > Suzy Greenberg
Divided Sky contained a tease of Dixie. Self through Crimes of the Mind (including the Phish debuts of T.V. Show and Family Picture) featured The Dude of Life. Paul and Silas was dedicated to “Jason” on his birthday. Weekapaug included Charlie Chan and Simpsons signals and an adventurous, off-center jam segment culminating with Trey chanting “a slice of pizza!” and “a bucket of lard!” The final chorus was even sung as “I’m sharing in a bucket of lard.” During the soundcheck, The Dude of Life joined the band for Family Picture, T.V. Show, and Crimes of the Mind, and Camel Walk contained a Stash tease from Trey. This show was not at the College Station Theater; that show was on March 8, 1991.
SET 1: Memories[1], Chalk Dust Torture, Foam, Sparkle > Cavern, It's Ice > You Enjoy Myself, The Landlady > Runaway Jim, I Didn't Know, Llama
SET 2: Brother > Bouncing Around the Room, My Sweet One > Reba, Tube > Horn > David Bowie[2], Take the 'A' Train[3], Hold Your Head Up Jam[3] -> Love You[4] > Hold Your Head Up, Possum[5]
Memories was performed without microphones. Bowie through Love You featured members of The Aquarium Rescue Unit. Reba and Bowie contained DEG teases. Bowie also included a Heartbreaker tease from Mike. A Train contained an Entrance of the Gladiators tease from Col. Bruce Hampton while he was scatting and a Dixie tease from Trey. Hampton also briefly scatted in the first HYHU. Possum contained Barney Miller theme and I Can't Turn You Loose teases in the intro and four Charlie Chan signals and Simpsons, Oom Pa Pa, Random Laugh, and Key Change signals. Love You featured Fish on trombone. Rocky Top was announced as the ARU’s favorite song. The second set of this show was remastered and released as part of the archival New Orleans Relief Download release to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans Relief is available at LivePhish.com with all proceeds benefiting the Tipitina's Foundation and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation. The Aquarium Rescue Unit was the opening act.
No known setlist
This show, with Aquarium Rescue Unit scheduled to open, was canceled. Some sources indicate that it was due to a problem with the venue’s roof.
Soundcheck: Sweet Jane, Sweet Jane Vocal Jam, Gimme Three Steps, Rocket Man
SET 1: Suzy Greenberg, The Curtain > Llama, Reba, Paul and Silas, Foam > Bouncing Around the Room, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > Possum
SET 2: Golgi Apparatus, Run Like an Antelope, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, Sparkle, Guelah Papyrus, Walk Away, The Landlady, Runaway Jim, You Enjoy Myself[1]
The YEM vocal jam included the themes “Big Poop Slide” and “Step in the Pile.”
SET 1: AC/DC Bag > Sparkle, The Landlady > Destiny Unbound, The Squirming Coil, Split Open and Melt, Fluffhead > Uncle Pen, Tube, Divided Sky, Sweet Adeline[1]
SET 2: Tweezer, My Sweet One > It's Ice > Chalk Dust Torture, Eliza > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Take the 'A' Train > Tela, Cavern, Poor Heart > Tweezer Reprise
ENCORE: Hold Your Head Up > Love You > Pusherman Jam, Stash
Divided Sky was dedicated to Sun Ra. 'A' Train contained Dixie teases from Trey. Tweezer included Wait quotes from Trey. After Pusherman (Curtis Mayfield), Trey explained that Hold Your Head Up became the Henrietta theme (prompting teases of HYHU by Page and Mike) because Fish hates that song more than any song ever written except La Bamba (which was then also teased by Page and Mike); the Pusherman theme was offered because Fish likes that song. Trey noted that Stash was a request from some friends of theirs on the phish.net. Trey explained phish.net and that the band was honoring requests.
SET 1: Memories[1], Brother, Ya Mar, The Sloth > Chalk Dust Torture, Sparkle, Foam, Bathtub Gin, Paul and Silas, You Enjoy Myself[2], Runaway Jim
SET 2: The Landlady, Costume Contest, Wait[3] -> Llama, Fee -> Wait -> My Sweet One > Wait -> David Bowie[4], Horn, Dinner and a Movie, Tube > I Didn't Know[5], Harry Hood
Memories was performed without microphones. The vocal jam in YEM repeated "a slice of pizza". During the costume contest, there was a brief full-band tease and quote of Jesus Just Left Chicago, inspired by a fan in a Jesus costume (with a cross on his back!). The first round of the contest closed with a rendition of I Can't Turn You Loose. After each unsuccessful entrant was eliminated, Trey forced them to stage-dive. HYHU was also played briefly during the contest. First prize - free admission to all Phish shows for one year - was shared by The Bergen County Woman Cop and Captain Bong Hit. This show marked the first appearance of Wait, which was played three times during the show. During the final Wait, before Bowie, the audience was chanting “Fuck you!” in response. Bowie contained two Charlie Chan signals and Random Laugh and Oom Pa Pa signals during the jam. I Didn’t Know featured a vacuum solo by “Showboat Gertrude,” which continued well into the final verse of the song.
SET 1: My Sweet One, Foam, Runaway Jim, Cavern, Sparkle, Brother, The Lizards, Possum
SET 2: Tube > Divided Sky, Horn, Poor Heart, Run Like an Antelope, Lawn Boy > Wilson > The Landlady > Bouncing Around the Room > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
ENCORE: Jam[1] > Hold Your Head Up[1], Fire
A complete recording of this show does not circulate, and so the setlist is unconfirmed. In the "jam" that is believed to have started the encore and HYHU, Fish played guitar. Before HYHU concluded, Fish and Page told jokes. Fire was dedicated to “Ralph.”
SET 1: The Curtain > Runaway Jim, Cavern, Poor Heart > Reba, I Didn't Know[1], Tube > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Foam, Fee -> David Bowie[2]
SET 2: Divided Sky > Wilson > Dinner and a Movie > Stash, Paul and Silas > Bathtub Gin[3], You Enjoy Myself, The Squirming Coil, Harpua, Hold Your Head Up > Whipping Post[4] > Hold Your Head Up, Highway to Hell
I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone. The Bowie intro contained two Charlie Chan signals as well as Oom Pa Pa and Simpsons signals. The lyrics to Gin were altered to reference a hot tub, referencing some friends who had partied at the hotel hot tub earlier that day. Harpua included On Top of Old Smokey teases from Mike. La Bamba was teased in the first HYHU and after the second HYHU. Whipping Post (first since November 26, 1990, or 111 shows) featured Fish on vocals, his hilariously inept debut on fretless guitar, and a Take Me Out to the Ballgame tease from Fish.
Soundcheck: Tube, It's Ice
SET 1: Memories, My Sweet One, Chalk Dust Torture, The Mango Song > Buried Alive > Guelah Papyrus, Fluffhead > Brother, Bouncing Around the Room, Harry Hood, Golgi Apparatus
SET 2: Llama, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > Sparkle > It's Ice > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Tela, The Landlady > Destiny Unbound, Take the 'A' Train > Run Like an Antelope
ENCORE: Sweet Adeline[1], Glide, Possum
Before Tela, Trey explained Gamehendge. Sweet Adeline was performed without microphones.
SET 1: Cavern, The Landlady, Reba, Poor Heart, Tube, Fee, Divided Sky, Llama, You Enjoy Myself > Setting Sail
SET 2: Dinner and a Movie, Runaway Jim, Foam, Horn, Sparkle, Tweezer, The Squirming Coil, I Didn't Know, Paul and Silas, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Tweezer Reprise
Trey shaved his head and beard the day before this show and was apparently the butt of several jokes from friends and fans. The vocal jam in You Enjoy Myself was based on The Ocean (Led Zeppelin) and eventually developed into Fish singing Setting Sail while the rest of the band scatted and laughed.
Soundcheck: Memories, Tube
SET 1: The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg, Foam, Poor Heart, Stash, Ya Mar, Divided Sky, I Didn't Know[1], The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > David Bowie[2]
SET 2: Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, The Lizards, Uncle Pen, Tube, Slave to the Traffic Light > Dinner and a Movie > Bouncing Around the Room, Hold Your Head Up > Terrapin > Hold Your Head Up, Possum
ENCORE: Memories[3], Sweet Adeline[3], Rocky Top
Before the first set, Trey introduced Mike as “Lou Reed.” After Foam, Trey mentioned how happy he was to be playing at Prescott College, which, he announced, is very similar to Goddard. I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone. The Bowie intro contained three Charlie Chan signals as well as Oom Pa Pa, Simpsons, and Random Laugh signals. Bowie subsequently contained another Charlie Chan signal and a Tritone Down signal during the jam and maniacal screaming from Trey and Mike during the end segment. After Bowie, Trey introduced “Fern,” who read poetry during the setbreak. Fish was introduced as “Showboat Gertrude” before Terrapin; he explained that the name is derived from that of the Indian singer Shobha Gurtu. Tube was played for the first time since November 16, 1990 (111 shows). Memories and Sweet Adeline were performed without microphones.
Soundcheck: Band/Crew Football Theme Song, Tube
SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Reba, The Landlady > Destiny Unbound, Paul and Silas > It's Ice > Horn, Llama, Bouncing Around the Room, Runaway Jim, Cavern
SET 2: Brother, The Squirming Coil > Sparkle, Golgi Apparatus, The Mango Song, Split Open and Melt, Hold Your Head Up > Love You > Hold Your Head Up, Fee > You Enjoy Myself > Possum
ENCORE: Take the 'A' Train
SET 1: The Landlady > Suzy Greenberg > It's Ice > Runaway Jim, Foam, Chalk Dust Torture > Bouncing Around the Room, My Sweet One[1], Stash, Golgi Apparatus
SET 2: Llama, Bathtub Gin, Sparkle > Tweezer > Horn, Poor Heart, You Enjoy Myself, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Hold Your Head Up > Terrapin[2] > Hold Your Head Up, Harry Hood
ENCORE: Good Times Bad Times
After a false start to the song, the first verse of My Sweet One was performed a cappella. The entire song was subsequently performed in its usual rendition. During Terrapin, Mimi Fishman substituted for Fish on vacuum. She was announced as “Showboat Gertrude’s Mother.”
SET 1: Runaway Jim, Foam, Paul and Silas, Reba, Wilson > Llama, The Lizards, Sweet Adeline[1], Run Like an Antelope
SET 2: Brother, Uncle Pen, Guelah Papyrus, Dinner and a Movie > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, I Didn't Know, Fee > Split Open and Melt, My Sweet One, Cavern
ENCORE 2: The Squirming Coil
Trey said he wrote Foam under Ernie Stires's wing and that Ernie taught him to write in that particular style. He dedicated Foam to Ernie's two children Ernie and Liz (both in attendance) and to Ernie as well. Adeline was performed without microphones. Brother was dedicated to Page's brother and Mike's brother (who were standing somewhere in the room), with Trey joking that it was "written to sort of describe their personalities... sort of a combination of the two." Guelah was introduced as a song "about a mother." He explained that this was about Dave's (Dave Abrahams's) mother, Guelah, who used to come in when he and Dave were writing songs and that when "things were getting fun," she would knock on and open the door and pull Dave out into the hall, hence the line "and through the bedroom door intrude a fretful frown and spoiled the mood. And though I never really stand that tall, she tilt my frame, she watched me fall." Fish was introduced during I Didn't Know as "Filling in for Showboat Gertrude... Zero Man!" Walk Away was played for the first time since October 20, 1990 (123 shows). Mo' Better Blues was teased prior to Squirming Coil.
SET 1: Memories[1], The Landlady > Bouncing Around the Room > Divided Sky, Cavern, Poor Heart, Stash, Esther > Chalk Dust Torture, Golgi Apparatus
SET 2: The Curtain > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg > David Bowie, Lawn Boy > Fluffhead > You Enjoy Myself, Love You, Possum
Memories was performed without microphones. Page teased Low Rider in Fluffhead.
Soundcheck: It's Ice Jam, Funky Bitch, My Sweet One, It’s Ice
SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Foam, The Squirming Coil > Split Open and Melt, Sparkle, Reba, The Landlady > Destiny Unbound, You Enjoy Myself, Rocky Top
SET 2: Brother, Bouncing Around the Room > Runaway Jim, Guelah Papyrus, Poor Heart > Llama, Horn, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg > Hold Your Head Up > Terrapin > Hold Your Head Up, Funky Bitch, Golgi Apparatus
ENCORE: Memories[1], Harry Hood
YEM contained a Take Me Out to the Ball Game tease from Trey. Suzy contained a Spider-Man theme tease and a T.V. Show (The Dude of Life) quote from Trey. Memories was performed without microphones. Harry Hood contained a Dave’s Energy Guide tease from Trey. Small Fish was the opening act. The soundcheck's My Sweet One was performed a cappella.
SET 1: Runaway Jim, Wilson > Reba, The Landlady, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > Tela > AC/DC Bag > The Sloth > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
SET 2: Llama, Bathtub Gin, The Squirming Coil > It's Ice > My Sweet One > Jesus Just Left Chicago > Bouncing Around the Room, Hold Your Head Up > Love You > Hold Your Head Up, David Bowie[1]
The first set was almost a complete Gamehendge narration and was the second time the saga was performed live. Forbin's through McGrupp featured narration between the songs. This was the first Gamehendge since March 12, 1988 (442 shows). Reba contained a DEG tease from Trey. After Love You, Trey introduced Fish as "Hankrietta" and "the shortest man in rock and roll." The Bowie intro included a hi-hat “solo” from Fish, while Trey explained how Fish’s hi-hat serves as his escape from reality and joked that if the fans wanted to come to the next gig, they'd be introduced to Fish's ice bell. The Bowie intro also included three Charlie Chan signals and Oom Pa Pa, Simpsons, and Popeye signals (but, notably, the band responded to the Popeye signal by singing a random note, which is the Random Note signal's "secret language"). Carolina was performed without microphones.
SET 1: Buried Alive > Possum, Foam, My Sweet One, Stash, Esther > Divided Sky, Guelah Papyrus, You Enjoy Myself
SET 2: Tweezer > Uncle Pen, Fluffhead > Chalk Dust Torture, Take the 'A' Train, Dinner and a Movie > Brother[1], Hold Your Head Up > If I Only Had a Brain[2] > Hold Your Head Up[1], Harry Hood[1], Tweezer Reprise[1]
ENCORE: Lawn Boy[1] > Rocky Top[1]
ENCORE 2: Contact, Golgi Apparatus
This show featured a guest appearance by Artis the Spoonman for Brother and from Brain through Rocky Top. Also, someone (perhaps Trey) played a strange pipe or flute during Brain.
SET 1: The Landlady, My Sweet One, Divided Sky, Guelah Papyrus, Chalk Dust Torture[1], You Enjoy Myself[2], The Lizards, Llama, Bouncing Around the Room > Runaway Jim
SET 2: The Curtain > Cavern, Foam, David Bowie[3], The Mango Song, The Sloth, Poor Heart, Magilla, Possum
ENCORE: Sweet Adeline[4], Big Black Furry Creature from Mars
Chalk Dust contained Charlie Chan and Simpsons signals and the David Bowie intro contained two Charlie Chan signals as well as Simpsons and Oom Pa Pa signals. There was also a quick Dave's Energy Guide tease by Trey near the end of the song. The YEM vocal jam was based on "pubic hair in your coke," a reference to the day's earlier testimony by Anita Hill in the Clarence Thomas hearings. Adeline was performed without microphones.
SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Foam, Paul and Silas > Split Open and Melt > Bouncing Around the Room, The Landlady, Runaway Jim, It's Ice > Eliza > Llama[1], Memories[2], Golgi Apparatus
SET 2: Brother, Reba, Poor Heart, Cavern > Run Like an Antelope, I Didn't Know, Sparkle > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg, Fee > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
ENCORE: The Squirming Coil, Fire
Llama contained multiple false starts. Memories was performed without microphones. Antelope contained Take Me Out to the Ballgame teases by Trey. Copies of this show typically circulated with Alumni Blues and Lizards filler (from an unknown show) at the end of set I.
SET 1: Suzy Greenberg, Foam, Divided Sky, Bouncing Around the Room, Poor Heart > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > AC/DC Bag > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, Brother, Hold Your Head Up > Terrapin > Hold Your Head Up[1], Golgi Apparatus
SET 2: My Sweet One, Stash, Fee, The Landlady > Destiny Unbound, Harry Hood, I Didn't Know[2], Cavern, The Squirming Coil, Rocky Top
ENCORE: Sweet Adeline[3], Possum[4], Llama
This show featured some great stage banter. Brother was dedicated to “the guy who offered us $10,000 to play a different song.” In the HYHU intro, Fish said “I hate this fucking song,” that the only reason the band plays the song is because he hates it and added “All I have do in this band is say I hate something, and it’ll be done forever.” Trey told the crowd that HYHU is the Henrietta theme precisely because Fish hates it. “It used to be ‘La Bamba,’” he noted, prompting Mike to play a bit of La Bamba. The HYHU outro featured Fish on trombone and later telling the crowd "you paid for this, this is what you bought." Trey said "If you only knew what a nightmare that was for poor Fish, having to listen to that song" and Fish responded with “they just do it out of HATE.” Trey asked who could tell him who wrote that song, and a fan answered correctly. Trey said the fan won the $10,000 the other guy was going to give them to a play a song and Page said the fan won a date with Fish, with Trey adding "and you can guarantee that he'll be late." After Golgi, Trey thanked the crowd, saying "we'll be right back with more songs that Fish hates, more songs that we love, and more songs that people are willing to pay $10,000 to hear." Trey introduced Page as Leon before his piano solos in My Sweet One and Rocky Top. Before Fish's trombone solo in I Didn't Know, Trey mentioned the last time they played in the area (see 4/11/91), they made Fish get up and tell a joke (The Prison Joke) that was "absolutely the stupidest joke ever" and that he (Trey) wasn't going tell the punchline. Trey went on to explain that most people around here thought Fish was a pretty bad joke teller and he wanted to give him a chance to redeem himself. Fish's joke was "Why did the Siamese twins go to England? To let the other one drive for a while." Page also teased HYHU while Trey talked. Adeline was sung from the balcony without microphones to open the encore. Possum contained two Charlie Chan signals as well as Simpsons and Random Laugh signals in its intro and subsequently contained Rock On (David Essex) teases.
SET 1: Memories[1], Chalk Dust Torture, Reba, Poor Heart > Cavern > Divided Sky, Guelah Papyrus, Sparkle, Suzy Greenberg, Magilla > David Bowie
SET 2: My Sweet One, Brother, Bouncing Around the Room, Foam, Runaway Jim, Lawn Boy > Stash, The Squirming Coil, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
ENCORE: Sweet Adeline[1], Golgi Apparatus, Rocky Top
ENCORE 2: Hold Your Head Up > Love You > Hold Your Head Up, Llama
Memories and Adeline were performed without microphones. During the pause in Guelah, Trey welcomed everyone to the Hemp Festival (“Free the weed!” Mike exclaimed). Magilla contained a Wedding March tease from Trey. After Runaway Jim, Trey introduced “a very famous person” in the audience, John Basili. “Stephen King was at a gig recently,” he noted, “but this is much more exciting.” Coil contained a Linus and Lucy tease.
SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Foam, Uncle Pen, It's Ice, Bouncing Around the Room, Llama, Fee > Divided Sky, Cavern, Possum
SET 2: Paul and Silas, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Esther > The Landlady > Destiny Unbound, Buried Alive > The Squirming Coil[1] -> Tweezer, Memories[2]
ENCORE: Hold Your Head Up > Terrapin > Hold Your Head Up, Tweezer Reprise
Possum contained Wedding March teases from Trey. Yours Is No Disgrace was teased by Trey before Paul and Silas. Coil featured an interesting Dixieland-style jam outro that segued into a dissonant and intense Tweezer. Memories was performed without microphones.
SET 1: Llama, Foam, The Squirming Coil, Poor Heart > Cavern > Reba, Brother, Bouncing Around the Room, Chalk Dust Torture[1], Golgi Apparatus
SET 2: The Landlady, You Enjoy Myself, My Sweet One > Guelah Papyrus, Runaway Jim, Lawn Boy, Stash, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg, Memories[2], Possum
ENCORE: I Didn't Know, Rocky Top
Chalk Dust contained Charlie Chan and Simpsons signals. Memories was performed without microphones. Possum contained a Rhapsody in Blue tease from Trey.
SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Foam, Fee, Paul and Silas, Stash, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > Sparkle, Take the 'A' Train, Llama
SET 2: Possum[1], Cavern, The Mango Song > Tweezer > My Sweet One, Horn, The Landlady > The Lizards, Tweezer Reprise, Happy Birthday to You[2], Love You > Hold Your Head Up
ENCORE: Good Times Bad Times
Possum contained two Charlie Chan signals and Simpsons and Clapping signals. Happy Birthday was performed by Trey (on drums), Page, and Mike and was sung by Fish and the crowd. At the beginning of Love You, Fish said "It's the birthday boy's choice" and Trey responded "It's my birthday and I want to hear Honey Love You."
SET 1: Cavern, Divided Sky, I Didn't Know, It's Ice, Poor Heart, The Landlady > Destiny Unbound, You Enjoy Myself > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg
SET 2: Brother > Bouncing Around the Room, Eliza, Foam, Reba, The Sloth, The Squirming Coil, My Sweet One, Golgi Apparatus, David Bowie[1]
The David Bowie intro contained Charlie Chan and Simpsons signals. Memories was performed without microphones.
SET 1: The Landlady > Bouncing Around the Room > Chalk Dust Torture, The Squirming Coil > My Sweet One, Stash, Eliza > Foam > Brother, Golgi Apparatus, Memories[1]
SET 2: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Sparkle, Cavern > Run Like an Antelope[2], Lawn Boy > The Lizards, Poor Heart, Magilla, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
ENCORE: Contact > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars
Memories was performed without microphones. Before Llama, an award was presented for longest distance traveled for any Phish gig to Henry Petras, who traveled to Amy’s Farm from Palo Alto, California. During Weekapaug, Trey soloed while riding through the crowd on rollerblades. BBFCFM featured I Love Lucy theme teases and Antelope featured a Simpsons signal (without the "D'oh" response). After Brother, Trey wished a happy birthday to “Dmitri.”
SET 1: Runaway Jim[1], Cavern > Reba, Buried Alive > Esther > Tweezer, Paul and Silas, It's Ice, I Didn't Know, Llama
SET 2: Possum, Tela > Sparkle, Split Open and Melt, The Mango Song, Dinner and a Movie > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg, You Enjoy Myself[2] > Tweezer Reprise
This show marked the first performance of Glide. The final verse of Runaway Jim was omitted. Trey teased portions of Esther during the Buried Alive jam segment. The second set was preceded by an announcement that cars blocking the alley outside would be towed. It led to some humorous vocal interplay among the band members. Before his vacuum solo in I Didn’t Know, Fish was introduced as “The Earl of Sandwich.” The start of the YEM vocal jam contained many Homer Simpson "D'ohs." Fish quoted Setting Sail at the end of the vocal jam.
SET 1: Llama, Bouncing Around the Room, Divided Sky, Fee, It's Ice, My Sweet One > Guelah Papyrus, The Lizards, Foam, David Bowie[1]
SET 2: Golgi Apparatus, The Squirming Coil, Brother, Sparkle, The Landlady > Destiny Unbound, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Lawn Boy > Chalk Dust Torture
ENCORE: Memories[2], Poor Heart, Sweet Adeline[2]
During Bowie, Fish filled in with chants of “Dr. Seuss” in counterpoint to the lyrics. Memories and Sweet Adeline were performed without microphones.
SET 1: Brother[1], Poor Heart > Foam, Llama, Tela > My Sweet One, It's Ice[1], The Landlady, Reba[2], Eliza > Possum[3]
SET 2: The Squirming Coil, Stash, Sparkle[1], Cavern[4], Jesus Just Left Chicago[4], Runaway Jim, You Enjoy Myself, Chalk Dust Torture[5]
ENCORE: All Things Reconsidered[1], Big Black Furry Creature from Mars
This show marked the first performances of Brother, It’s Ice, Sparkle, and All Things Reconsidered. Reba contained two Simpsons signals (without the "D'oh" response) and Possum had a Rhapsody in Blue tease from Trey and Charlie Chan and Simpsons signals. Chalk Dust contained four Charlie Chan signals and Key Change, Tritone Down, Clapping, and Random Laugh signals. Cavern and Jesus Just Left Chicago featured Carl Gerhard on trumpet.
SET 1: Magilla, I Didn't Know, My Sweet One, Take the 'A' Train, Donna Lee
SET 2: Unknown Song, Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?, Contact, Sweet Adeline
For this performance, Trey played a different guitar (not a Languedoc), Mike played his Languedoc bass, Page played a single electric keyboard and Fish a mini drum kit on the porch. I Didn't Know featured Mimi Fishman playing a standard, stand-up, household vacuum. The World is Waiting for the Sunrise and an unknown song were sung and played without the band by Jack and Mary Ellen McConnell on ukuleles (possibly lightly accompanied by Page on keys) prior to Phish's second set. A second unknown song and Bill Bailey featured Jack McConnell joining the band on ukulele and vocals.
Soundcheck: Poor Heart, Crimes of the Mind (with The Dude of Life), Bitchin' Again (with The Dude of Life)
SET 1: Wilson > Foam, Runaway Jim, Guelah Papyrus, Llama, Fee, The Squirming Coil > Poor Heart > The Sloth, Divided Sky, Golgi Apparatus
SET 2: The Curtain > Reba > Chalk Dust Torture, Bouncing Around the Room > Tweezer > Esther > Cavern, I Didn't Know, You Enjoy Myself[1], Rocky Top
SET 3: Stash, Ya Mar, Fluffhead > Lawn Boy > My Sweet One, The Lizards, Buried Alive[2] > Possum
ENCORE: Magilla, Self[3], Bitchin' Again[4], Crimes of the Mind[5]
ENCORE 2: Harry Hood
This was a free show. YEM and Possum featured I Love Lucy theme teases. YEM also featured an infamous "no gerbils in your bottom" vocal jam. The theme from Rawhide was also quoted in the vocal jam. Buried Alive featured Jamie Janover on didgeridoo. Self, Bitchin' Again, and Crimes of the Mind (the last two Phish debuts) featured The Dude of Life, and Bitchin' Again also featured Sofi Dillof. Self was played for the first time since September 13, 1990 (121 shows). Mike and Fish teased Shoeless Joe before set three and the encore. Trey teased Rhythm-A-Ning in Magilla.
SET 1: Llama, Foam, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg[1], Cavern[1], Flat Fee[1], Poor Heart[1], Stash[1], The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu[1] > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, Possum[2], I Didn't Know, The Landlady[1], Mike's Song[1] > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove[1]
ENCORE: Touch Me[1]
ENCORE 2: Contact[1]
This one-set show, opening for The Aquarium Rescue Unit, concluded the summer "Horns Tour." It featured the Giant Country Horns on Suzy through Stash, Avenu Malkenu, Possum, Landlady, Mike's, Weekapaug, and the encore. Suzy contained a Sailor's Hornpipe tease from Trey. During I Didn't Know, Fish was introduced as Willard Scott. Possum contained Charlie Chan and Oom Pa Pa signals.
SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Reba, My Sweet One, Foam, Suzy Greenberg[1], Cavern[1], The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu[1] > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Buried Alive[1] > Bouncing Around the Room[1], The Landlady[1], Golgi Apparatus[1]
SET 2: Stash[1], Dinner and a Movie[1], You Enjoy Myself[1], Flat Fee[1], Funky Bitch[1], The Squirming Coil > Tweezer[1], Sweet Adeline[2], The Lizards[1], Happy Birthday to You[3] > Tweezer Reprise[4]
ENCORE: Lawn Boy[5], Frankenstein[1]
ENCORE 2: Split Open and Melt[1]
This show featured the Giant Country Horns on Suzy, Cavern, Avenu, Buried Alive through Funky Bitch, Tweezer, and Lizards through Melt. The Horns were introduced after Landlady. Stash was dedicated to a fan. YEM included a Chameleon tease by the Horns and Manteca quotes in the vocal jam. Sweet Adeline was performed without microphones. After Lizards, the band sang Happy Birthday to Chris Kuroda and played a short Happy Birthday jam with the horns. Tweezer Reprise started as Tweezer. In between Frankenstein and Melt, the Horns introduced the members of Phish. Page teased HYHU when Fish was introduced. Melt included a Munsters theme tease from Trey. The Aquarium Rescue Unit was the opening act.
SET 1: My Sweet One, The Sloth > Foam, Suzy Greenberg[1] > Divided Sky[1], Flat Fee[1], AC/DC Bag[1], Sweet Adeline[2], Cavern[1] > Run Like an Antelope[1]
SET 2: The Landlady[1], Golgi Apparatus[1], The Squirming Coil > Llama, Poor Heart[1] > Jesus Just Left Chicago[1] > The Lizards[1], Gumbo[1], Touch Me[1], Magilla[1] > Mike's Song[1] > I Am Hydrogen[1] > Weekapaug Groove[1]
ENCORE: Split Open and Melt[1]
This show featured the Giant Country Horns from Suzy through AC/DC Bag, Cavern through Golgi, and Poor Heart through the encore. Trey called Page "Chaz" prior to his solo in My Sweet One. Sweet Adeline was performed without microphones. The Antelope intro included Jean Pierre teases, Magilla contained an Anything Goes tease from Carl Gearhart, and Weekapaug included a Superstition tease. Gumbo included Horn introductions.
Soundcheck: Poor Heart (x2), Gimme Three Steps, Jazz Jam, Dinner and a Movie Intro (x3), Sesame Street Theme -> Jam -> Superstition, Caravan, Poor Heart -> Funky Bitch -> I'm Bad I'm Nationwide
SET 1: Golgi Apparatus > Chalk Dust Torture, The Squirming Coil > Buried Alive[1] > Split Open and Melt[1], Bathtub Gin[1], The Landlady[1], Cavern[1], Tela, You Enjoy Myself
SET 2: Possum, Guelah Papyrus, David Bowie[1], Jesus Just Left Chicago[1], My Sweet One[1] > Bouncing Around the Room[1], Funky Bitch[1], I Didn't Know, Frankenstein[1], Suzy Greenberg[1]
ENCORE: Contact[1] > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars[1]
This show featured the Giant Country Horns on Buried Alive through Cavern, YEM, Bowie through Funky Bitch, and Frankenstein through BBFCFM. The Horns were introduced after Landlady. YEM included a Chameleon tease by the Horns. The intro to Bowie included teases of The Asse Festival, Call to the Post, Merrily We Roll Along, William Tell Overture, and Entrance of the Gladiators. Bowie later contained Wipe Out teases from Mike. BBFCFM featured I Love Lucy and Brady Bunch theme teases.
Soundcheck: Poor Heart
SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Foam, The Squirming Coil, My Sweet One > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg[1], Stash[1], Flat Fee[1], Bouncing Around the Room[1] > Mike's Song[1] > I Am Hydrogen[1] > Weekapaug Groove[1]
SET 2: Llama, Reba, Cavern[1] > The Lizards[1], The Landlady[1] > Tweezer[1], Sweet Adeline, Dinner and a Movie[1] > Gumbo[2] > Touch Me[1]
ENCORE: Caravan[1], Golgi Apparatus
This show featured the Giant Country Horns from Suzy through Weekapaug, Cavern through Tweezer, and Dinner through Caravan. Gumbo also featured Fish on trombone and Horn introductions.
SET 1: Cavern[1] > Divided Sky[1], Guelah Papyrus, Poor Heart, Split Open and Melt[1], The Lizards[1], The Landlady[1] > Bouncing Around the Room[1] > Mike's Song[1] > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove[1]
SET 2: Tweezer[1] > I Didn't Know, Runaway Jim, Lawn Boy[2], The Sloth, Esther > AC/DC Bag[1] > Contact[1] > Tweezer Reprise[1]
ENCORE 2: Fee > Suzy Greenberg[3]
This show featured the Giant Country Horns on all songs except Guelah, Poor Heart, Hydrogen, I Didn't Know, Runaway Jim, Sloth, Esther, and Fee. During I Didn't Know, Fish was introduced as "The Sultan of Swat, Henrietta." Lawn Boy featured Carl Gerhard, who was introduced as "Lawn Boy," on trumpet. Gumbo, Touch Me, and Suzy also featured Stevo Nelson on washboard, or, as Trey referred to it, “whatever the hell you call that thing.” Weekapaug included a Bonanza theme tease and Suzy contained an And the Cradle Will Rock... quote from Trey. Fish exposed himself during Touch Me. The Radiators and TR3 were the opening acts.
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