Been a while since I spun anything from the Island Tour. Nassau Coliseum 4/2/98. Probably my favorite live version of Stash coming up in a bit.
I got tapes of these shows pretty quick after the fact in 1998 (quick in tape trading time anyway) and used to deliver pizzas playing those tapes on a junk boom box in the backseat of my car. I’ve always associated them with pizza.
Don’t forget to listen to 7/24/99 Fluffhead today. And when Trey belts out the powerful pills line, rest assured he wasn’t lying. The summer of pressies. The jam, early as it was in the show, perfectly met the vibe and energy of the crowd. Seemed as if the whole place was surfing the same wave, including the band.
I was there. Weird show. Very hot day, I remember a *long* break between sets and Trey waved his guitar around like a lightsaber at the end of both sets.
Very weird show. Super psychedelic first set. Trey may have mad too much tequila at set break and they were pretty sloppy in the second set. Then they drop a monster encore on us to make up for the flubby second set. It was definitely hot as hell. The whole summer tour was. It just followed the band the whole summer. 20 years old. I had lost my friends (no cell phones) and was dancing shirtless on the lawn during the first set all by myself and yet with 30,000 of my closest friends
I had not seen a show since fall of '97 and had not kept up with tapes too closely. I really think Trey was rolling his ass off and had shaken it off by the encore. I had seen him dancing around the stage grinning like an idiot before, but not at the expense of the music. The second set bummed me out by how sloppy it was, and I was a fan who normally liked the weirdness and the detours, just not like that. The shows I saw on fall tour were great though, but the drugs in the lot had def shifted to the cocaine and ecstasy side of things. And as Trey said, back then whatever was happening in the lot was happening backstage. The shows I saw in 2.0 immediately reminded me of Alpine '99, Trey was sloppy but it did not seem like it bothered him, and dope was heavy in the lot. I don't like the "energy is more important than the music" side of Trey.
9/6/15 ENCORE: Tweezer Reprise, Harpua[4] > After Midnight[5] > NO2[1] > Keyboard Army[5] > Your Pet Cat[6] > Once in a Lifetime > United We Stand[7] obviously one is far more literal than the other
New Live Bait. 8/14/96 was a fine show, could be a good vault release someday. Phish - Live Bait Vol. 17 1. Mike’s Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove (10/19/95 Municipal Auditorium - Kansas City, MO) 30:56 2. Tweezer > Makisupa Policeman (9/28/99 Oak Mountain Amphitheatre - Pelham, AL) 23:56 3. Split Open And Melt (10/25/94 Atlanta Civic Center - Atlanta, GA) 15:16 4. Down With Disease(7/1/99 First American Music Center - Antioch, TN) 18:19 5. Chalk Dust Torture Reprise > Chalk Dust Torture (7/11/00 Deer Creek Music Center - Noblesville, IN) 11:47 6. Reba (8/14/96 Hersheypark Stadium - Hershey, PA) 14:18 7. Runaway Jim (7/3/00 E Centre - Camden, NJ) 32:37 8. Fluffhead > Lifeboy (8/3/97 Gorge Amphitheatre - George, WA) 23:09 9. Light (8/9/11 Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harvey’s - Stateline, NV) 16:05 10. Simple (8/29/14 Dick’s Sporting Goods Park - Commerce City, CO) 22:07
4,5, and 10 for me that 7/1/99 show is underrated. Great disease and YEM. Interesting guests in the first set
That was a good Light - my notes: >Light (TYPE II OUTER SPACE DARK SLUDGE FUNK. AS GOOD AS GORGE ROCK AND ROLL. OMFG)
I was at 8/13 too. Actually just had to decline tickets to this years Deer Creek run due to work. Three of my high school friends that I went with are meeting there for the 25th anniversary. Our first out of town shows. One buddy is flying in from Madrid
Who’s up for some Live Phish tonight? I think I might actually but the stream for the first time. Obviously Down With Disease should be the opener.
