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^Maybe they cover that a lot for sure. I am pretty stoked looks like I am doing Asheville, Bonnaroo, Deer Creek. Now If I just had Atlanta and St Louis I would be in heaven.
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made." Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man Under Socialism
"You're either on the bus or off the bus." Ken Kesey
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Hunter S. Thompson
Since this thread has been unstickied and we need some convo other than "what shows are you doing?" to get this thing going to keep it at the top until june, I propose we could all answer a series of questions about our personal experiences with the band.
We could do it rotation style, where one person asks one question, then after the answers to that question have been exhausted someone can post another question. These questions could range from "how many times have you seen Phish?" to "Where Was your first show?" to "How did you get into Phish?" Really anything you can think of can and should be asked, and I'm sure there are hundreds of these type of questions.
I think it would be kind of educational in the sense that people who are new to Phish may learn something about the band, and we, as fans, may learn something about each other.
Good Idea? Bad Idea?
I'll start and we'll see how this goes, if it dies off, than so be it:
"What is your favorite Phish show that YOU have attended? Post the setlist"
mine was at my 5th show:
8-13-96 Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN
1: The Divided Sky, Tube, Tela, Maze, Fast Enough for You, The Old Home Place, Punch You in the Eye, Llama, Glide, Slave to the Traffic Light
2: AC/DC Bag, Lizards, Mike's Song-> Lifeboy-> Weekapaug Groove, Somewhere Over the Rainbow*, Waste**, Train Song**, Strange Design**, Sweet Adeline, David Bowie
Post by mulcherry0420 on Feb 8, 2009 17:16:30 GMT -5
I think this is a great idea.
and I envy your circa 95-98 Phish experiences....
you wouldnt happen to have a audio of that show to trade do you? I'm interested in everything from AUD recordings or the SBD. some of the audience recordings sound DAMN good.
I cant really answer this question though, never seen them live yet. but the closest I came was Rothbury 2008 (Trey solo w/ special guests, Mike Gordon w/ special guests)
Trey 1. Get Back on the Train (loved this specifically bc it was acoustic) > 2. Brian and Robert 3. Water in the Sky 4. Driver 5. Inlaw Josie Whales 6. Farmhouse 7. Let Me Lie 8. Sample in a Jar 9. Banter (joke about being arrested) # 10. Mountains in the Mist 11. Sleep Again 12. Wading in the Velvet Sea 13. Waste 14. Backwards Down the Number Line * % (New Song) 15. Alaska* (New Song) 16. Chalkdust Torture *
* * With Mike Gordon on bass * # In reference to a town near Rothbury, MI that shares a name with the town where Trey was arrested in New York, Trey said... “I’m happy to be back in Michigan. I woke up in the car on my way here and the sign read Whitehall and it was a very scary moment. I had no idea I was going to wake up 18 months later back in Whitehall, but I’m happy to be here. Most of you probably don’t know what that means, but this song is for the people of Whitehall…” * % Upon bringing Mike on stage for the new Trey / Tom songs, Trey said... “if only we could find a drummer and keyboard player. But it’s got to start with the songs, so you can be our test audience.”
Mike Gordon ROTHBURY Setlist (July 6, 2008)
1. Another Door 2. Walls of Time 3. Time For Loving Is Now 4. Dig Further Down 5. Cruel World* 6. Meat * 7. She Said, She Said #
* * With Trey Anastasio on guitar * # With Trey Anastasio on guitar and Jon Fishman on drums
Saturday, June 19, 2004 Saratoga Peforming Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY Set I: Reba, Runaway Jim, NICU -> Scents and Subtle Sounds, Wolfman's Brother, Walls of the Cave -> David Bowie Set II: A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing, Piper -> Tweezer Reprise Jam -> Gotta Jibboo > Limb By Limb, Cavern Encore: Wading in the Velvet Sea Show Notes: "Harpua" was teased toward the end of the "Piper" jam. Trey forgot all of the words to the third verse of "Cavern," only just pulling it together in time for "deadly ice calm" line. He then eked out a quite self-referential "Purple Haze" tease before coming back in with the fourth verse. "Limb by Limb" may have contained some "Disease"-type jamming.
1: Mellow Mood*, Limb by Limb, Ghost, Bouncing Around the Room, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Saw it Again, NICU, Glide, Axilla**, Taste, Golgi Apparatus (1:16)
2: Birds of a Feather, Windora Bug, David Bowie, Back in the Chicken Shack, Bathtub Gin^, Character Zero
E: Fire
Show began with a "Mike's Song" tease. *First time played; Bob Marley cover. **"Axilla (I)" lyrics with "Axilla II" ending. ^with 7-minute ambient jam, which featured Fish on vacuum and Trey on drums.
you wouldnt happen to have a audio of that show to trade do you? I'm interested in everything from AUD recordings or the SBD. some of the audience recordings sound DAMN good.
Mulchies, I quit trading when bit torrent made phish readily available for download. I do have a sweet 1st gen cassette aud of the show, but I honestly would have to track it down.
You are in luck though, 8/13/96 is Live Phish #12. They released it during their FIRST hiatus. It is remastered and sounds amazing.
My first show was also the first time I saw Bela Fleck play live
11-29-95 Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, TN
1: AC/DC Bag, Ya Mar, Reba, If I Could, It's Ice, Theme From the Bottom, Acoustic Army, Fee*, Split Open and Melt
2: Timber (Jerry), Sparkle, Simple, Possum, You Enjoy Myself, Fog That Surrounds**>Heart and Soul Jam**, Poor Heart**, I'm Blue I'm Lonesome**, Long Journey Home**, Slave to the Traffic Light**
E: A Day in the Life
*Trey flubs the third verse and rambles on a bit. **With Bela Fleck (Bela Fleck and the Flecktones) on banjo.
well my favorite phish show that i actually attended would have to be the only one I attended:
07/25/03 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte - Charlotte, North Carolina
Set 1: Funky Bitch, Chalkdust Torture, Two Versions of Me, Bathtub Gin, Limb By Limb, Back on the Train, Horn, Golgi Apparatus > Character Zero
Set 2: Drowned > Kung, Twist > Heavy Things, Harry Hood > David Bowie*
Encore: Star Spangled Banner #, Bug
the story goes like this: in 1996 i received an album for my birthday from my dad. it was Billy Breathes. it was sort of a joke from dad(my name is Billy)/ i had asked for a Phish album because i heard Free randomly on the radio one day and enjoyed it thoroughly. well i never really listened to the album that much but after about a couple years a it started becoming a regular in my listening. still not really knowing anything about phish (this was around 1998/1999) i began investigating in local cd stores. what i didn't realize was that i was basically yelling down a canyon with snowy cliffs ready to give way to a avalanche. i started realizing that Phish wasn't just a band. it was an entire universe. i started downloading and trading shows regularly about a year later and just about everyday after school i'd immediately go home and bath myself in Phish goodness for the rest of the afternoon. listening to atleast 1 full show a day. still being pretty young at this point the infamous Phish roadtrips many Phans endure were still not a possibility. so i sat and waited patiently for Phish to wind it's way to Memphis, TN or maybe the possibility of being able to travel to a show nearby. well then the first hiatus happened. i was crushed. my heart broken. i thought for sure i would never be able to attend a show. then a couple years later they were back!!! i was so excited. but leu and behold there tour wasn't coming anywhere near Memphis. so traveling was going to be my option this time. i managed to score tickets to Charlotte, NC. this was going to be my first show! that summer ended with many disappointments for me that i won't go fully into but basically i had tickets to more shows and also IT but everyone bailed on me and i had to get rid of my tickets. well then 2004 rolled around and me being the idiot i was thought the Dead tour was more important because i thought for sure Phish would be around forever. then they broke up . i hated myself for years. falling into a depressed state everytime i thought about it. well now there back kiddos! and im fully prepared to give everything i've got to see them as much as possible. so far im hittin up Great Woods, Bonnaroo, and Star Lake!!!! lets hope this time the boys are back to stay so i can finally settle into the community i was born to be a part of. cheers all!
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made." Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man Under Socialism
"You're either on the bus or off the bus." Ken Kesey
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Hunter S. Thompson
you wouldnt happen to have a audio of that show to trade do you? I'm interested in everything from AUD recordings or the SBD. some of the audience recordings sound DAMN good.
Mulchies, I quit trading when bit torrent made phish readily available for download. I do have a sweet 1st gen cassette aud of the show, but I honestly would have to track it down.
You are in luck though, 8/13/96 is Live Phish #12. They released it during their FIRST hiatus. It is remastered and sounds amazing.
I have that one. Killer set thru and thru! But I'm just in loath w/ Deer Creek, and I'd take any live show audio from there and put it in my cpu.
nice story illy. I am from memphis, it's too bad you didn't know me at the time. I saw a bunch of post-hiatus and did some of it solo, including IT. We could have made travel partners :-)
i was in my last semester in college.4 years was simply not enough, 4.5 was just enough. well i tried getting tickets for the new years 2002 show. i got back from my senior class and waited by the comp and with no luck was shut out. feeling burned i decided to buy myself a live phish and a shirt. i settled on live phish 12. i wrote my senior thesis to that paper. 14 pages of bullshit on robert baden-powell and how the boyscouts were started as like military training for children. good old Imperialism in Victorian England.
1: Tweezer, Bouncing Around the Room, Horn, Heavy Things, Dogs Stole Things, My Mind's Got A Mind of Its Own, Roggae, Birds of a Feather, Guyute, Loving Cup (1:15)
2: Gotta Jiboo, The Wedge, David Bowie -> Have Mercy* > Cracklin' Rosie# > Hold Your Head Up, Twist, Waste (1:10)
E: Ride Captain Ride (0:07)
*After "Have Mercy," there was apparently confusion or miscommunication (a partial shift back into "Bowie," then some reggae like "Have Mercy," then Page draws them into a reggae style "HYHU" jam, which brings Fish out front for a vacuum solo). #Then, Mike hands Fish a pair of "B-AH" cymbals, leading to "Cracklin' Rosie"; followed by Fish tossing the cymbals and doing several laps around the stage.
And my favorite show......
07/31/03 Tweeter Center at the Waterfront, Camden, NJ
Set I: Llama, The Moma Dance> The Divided Sky, Dirt, Seven Below, The Sloth, Water in the Sky, Wolfman's Brother, Possum
Set II: Piper> Mike's Song> I am Hydrogen> Weekapaug Groove1> Free, Friday, Harry Hood
did you go to 12/11/99 danbird? incredible setlist on those 2 shhows in that philly run. too bad they are tearing that place down!
No. Wasn't there the second night. Wish I would have been, but the next day, I was still trying to come to terms with what I just experienced This was probably my second favorite show I've seen. It does suck that they're tearing the Spectrum down. Many awesome shows have been had there.
Saturday, June 19, 2004 Saratoga Peforming Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY Set I: Reba, Runaway Jim, NICU -> Scents and Subtle Sounds, Wolfman's Brother, Walls of the Cave -> David Bowie Set II: A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing, Piper -> Tweezer Reprise Jam -> Gotta Jibboo > Limb By Limb, Cavern Encore: Wading in the Velvet Sea Show Notes: "Harpua" was teased toward the end of the "Piper" jam. Trey forgot all of the words to the third verse of "Cavern," only just pulling it together in time for "deadly ice calm" line. He then eked out a quite self-referential "Purple Haze" tease before coming back in with the fourth verse. "Limb by Limb" may have contained some "Disease"-type jamming.
That show was great. I was so lost in that piper, it was fantastic. Probably my favorite show I was at, although that whole NY tour was fun.
My favorite show to listen to, on the other hand, is:
12/01/95 Hersheypark Arena, Hershey, PA
Set I: Buried Alive, Down With Disease, Theme from the Bottom, Poor Heart, Wolfman's Brother, Chalkdust Torture, Colonel Forbin's Ascent> Fly Famous Mockingbird, Stash, Cavern
Set II: Halley's Comet> Mike's Song> Weekapaug Groove> The Mango Song, Wilson, HYHU> Suspicious Minds> HYHU, David Bowie> Catapult> David Bowie Encore: Suzy Greenberg
Which can be found in all audio/video formats here:
Tuesday, June 21, 1994 Cincinnati Music Hall, Cincinnati, OH Set I: Runaway Jim, Mound -> Sample in a Jar, It's Ice, The Horse Set II: Fire, Poor Heart > Down with Disease, My Friend My Friend, Split Open and Melt, Esther, Chalk Dust Torture, Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Ginseng Sullivan, Big Black Furry Creature from Mars Reprise, Dog Faced Boy, Sweet Adeline, Julius, Sparkle, Harry Hood, Suzy Greenberg Encore: Amazing Grace Show Notes: After a few lines of The Horse, the fire alarm in the Music Hall went off. The band kept playing but the house lights came on and the building was cleared for 20 minutes. The music resumed with Fire, and that was the only "set break." Ginseng Sullivan through Dog Faced Boy were performed acoustic without microphones, and Sweet Adeline and Amazing Grace were performed without microphones.
I saw several more in 94, more than that in 95, and a LOT of shows in 96..the best being the 4 night run at Red Rocks.
After that only saw them once in 98 and once in 2003!
Post by mulcherry0420 on Feb 8, 2009 18:57:10 GMT -5
are you from the cincy area???
I'm afraid to ask on other boards, but for those who have been around phish for years, whats the deal w/ fluffhead?? why dont they play that anymore? is there any reading i can do to know more about songs i can expect/not expect. I mean, All I know is that Mike tends to not want to play it anymore? I mean I know its a complex song, and must be difficult for even Phish to play...
I sound like a newb, but I'm just curious..I guess we really wont know what to expect until Hampton..but even then we dont know exactly what they plan on playing..
I'm afraid to ask on other boards, but for those who have been around phish for years, whats the deal w/ fluffhead?? why dont they play that anymore? is there any reading i can do to know more about songs i can expect/not expect. I mean, All I know is that Mike tends to not want to play it anymore? I mean I know its a complex song, and must be difficult for even Phish to play....
Here's the deal with that. The reason they didn't play it in post-hiatus is because they never really practiced in post-hiatus, and to play that song, with that much complexity, without practice, it would've been absolutely butchered. They butchered a ton of stuff in post-hiatus b/c they didn't practice, like YEM, but YEM has a long improv section that kind of makes up for it. Fluffhead has a short improv section but is 90% composed. IT would've been a mess.
Mike actually never said he didn't want to play it, it was Trey that said that. At IT, on 8/3/03, the crowd started chanting "Fluffhead! Fluffhead! Fluffhead!" It was loud enough the band heard it. Trey walked over to Mike and asked if they could play it. It came out later that Mike said "yes, we haven't practiced it, but we could just flub our way through it." But Trey, being Trey, over-ruled him, and said into the microphone "Mike said no" and then he launched into Mike's Song.
I'm afraid to ask on other boards, but for those who have been around phish for years, whats the deal w/ fluffhead?? why dont they play that anymore? is there any reading i can do to know more about songs i can expect/not expect. I mean, All I know is that Mike tends to not want to play it anymore? I mean I know its a complex song, and must be difficult for even Phish to play....
Here's the deal with that. The reason they didn't play it in post-hiatus is because they never really practiced in post-hiatus, and to play that song, with that much complexity, without practice, it would've been absolutely butchered. They butchered a ton of stuff in post-hiatus b/c they didn't practice, like YEM, but YEM has a long improv section that kind of makes up for it. Fluffhead has a short improv section but is 90% composed. IT would've been a mess.
Mike actually never said he didn't want to play it, it was Trey that said that. At IT, on 8/3/03, the crowd started chanting "Fluffhead! Fluffhead! Fluffhead!" It was loud enough the band heard it. Trey walked over to Mike and asked if they could play it. It came out later that Mike said "yes, we haven't practiced it, but we could just flub our way through it." But Trey, being Trey, over-ruled him, and said into the microphone "Mike said no" and then he launched into Mike's Song.
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made." Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man Under Socialism
"You're either on the bus or off the bus." Ken Kesey
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Hunter S. Thompson
12/03/99 Firstar Center, Cincinnati, OH Set I: First Tube, Wolfman's Brother, Bouncing Around the Room, Back On The Train, Billy Breathes, AC/DC Bag> Possum, Slave to the Traffic Light Set II: Sand, Limb By Limb, Bug, Piper, Harry Hood Encore: Rock and Roll
. i hated myself for years. falling into a depressed state everytime i thought about it. well now there back kiddos! and im fully prepared to give everything i've got to see them as much as possible. so far im hittin up Great Woods, Bonnaroo, and Star Lake!!!! lets hope this time the boys are back to stay so i can finally settle into the community i was born to be a part of. cheers all!
This was probably my second favorite show I've seen. It does suck that they're tearing the Spectrum down. Many awesome shows have been had there. 
