Fifteen years ago, when Phish completed their epic three-night stand at the Roxy in Atlanta the shows were instantly thrust into the limelight as among the greatest ever. Apparently the band agrees with the fans, as JEMP Records will release the eight-disc Phish At The Roxy on November 18.
For those of you who haven’t pre-ordered the box set or the download package, we’ve got five box sets to give away as part of our now legendary Everybody Wins When I Plug Something And In Return They Offer Me Free Shit To Give Away program. One grand prize winner will receive a package that includes both Phish At The Roxy and a t-shirt, while the other four winners get themselves a box set. Just leave a comment below telling us about your favorite Phish show from the glorious year of 1993.
Let’s go over the rules for this contest…
- To enter the contest leave a comment below telling us about your favorite Phish show from 1993
- Your comment must be left by 11:59 PM EST on November 17
- Don’t be greedy, only one entry per person
- Five winners will be selected at random
- One grand prize winner will receive both the Phish at the Roxy box set and retro logo t-shirt bundle and four other winners will receive the Phish at the Roxy box set.
For a taste of Phish At The Roxy head to the band’s MySpace and Facebook pages to hear Glide and Split Open & Melt. If you pledge to vote via HeadCount you’ll get a free MP3 of The Lizards from this fantastic set.
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07-16-93 Mann Music Center, Philadelphia, PA
debut of 2001, purple rain.
8/7/93 Darien Lake, Darien, NY
Rollercoaster of the mind during Col. Forbin’s. End of the show Trey wished Steph (Greenpeace booth girl) a happy birthday (“$5 for Greenpeace, $5 for Steph.”)
8.7.93 if only for the energy in the avenu>sloth moment.
I’m going to have to go with the one-two punch of the Murat on 8/13/93 and then the World on 8/14/93. Those two shows have sooo many highlights. The Bathtub from the Murat and the Antelope from the world. Watching the empty lawn area where people were sprinting back and forth during Antelope.
12/31/93
My 10th show, and 8th show of ’93. My first New Years Eve show, and a show that I attended with a large group of friends. The fish tank stage setup (for that holiday run) made this one of the most unique props that I’ve ever witnessed at a NYE show. This was also the first time I got to witness a Tom Marshall appearance. I remember finally getting the ‘tapes’ of this show almost a month later (via mail :-)) and being so incredibly excited to pop these in the good ole tape deck. The other unique part of this show was hearing DWD a few months later on Hoist and realizing that it contained the jam we had heard Auld Lang Syne go into. Did I mention that this show rocked?
2-12-93 Poughkeepsie, NY
Almost left the tix in friend’s mom’s car –> White-out blizzard-conditions road trip w/ my best friends –> 1/2 sold venue –> this monster show:
1: Golgi Apparatus, Maze, Guelah Papyrus, Sparkle, Split Open and Melt, Esther, The Wedge, Chalk Dust Torture, I Didn’t Know, Take the A-Train, Run Like an Antelope
2: My Friend My Friend, All Things Reconsidered, Reba, Poor Heart, Big Ball Jam, Fast Enough for You, You Enjoy Myself, Ya Mar, HYHU-> Terrapin-> HYHU, Harry Hood, Harpua
E: Amazing Grace, Good Times Bad Times
Monster tune after monster tune to reward those who made (and survived) the trek out to the Mid Hudson Civic Center. Harpua is killed by PNB. All good times, no bad times.
4/14/93 American Theater, StL – so many great 93 shows, but I’ll go with this one due to a few gems tucked inside the show. First gem is the Stash>Kung>Stash>Kung>Horse section. The Stash is fantastic as usual, the Kung addind the element of weirdness, but the acoustic transition to the Horse (with Kung,Hood, & Pinball Wizard teases)is about as unique as you can get. The second gem is the very own Roger (referenced in the ACDC Bag lyrics) proposing to his girlfriend before the band lauches into, you guessed it, ACDC Bag. Final gem, which is not unique to this show, is the Spooky jam in YEM – I’m just a sucker for Spooky.
8/6/93
Your ticket to the show got you into the zoo as well. Nothing better than a twisted afternoon at the gorilla house -> Split Open and Melt opener -> Cocaine Jam in YEM ->seamless segue in Halley’s out of the vocal jam -> return of Slave (that this noob had only heard on tape once or twice beforehand)
oof.
3.25.93
one of the first shows i searched out based on setlist alone. forbin’s > kung > icculus > mockingbird just looked so good on paper i had to hear the “tapes”. followed by a wedge and mike’s groove this second set is not shabby at all!
2.20.93 – the Mike’s Groove from this show is prob. my favorite of all time. Just goes completely out there and the ‘guest appearance’ of Gene Simmons as well as the Kung make it all the sweeter. So good!!
12/31/93…first NYE show
3/14/93 from Gunnison Colorado. Why? Perhaps because the second set contained a You Enjoy Myself > Owner of a Lonely Heart > Low Rider > Spooky > Oye Como Va > You Enjoy Myself. Solid playing all around plus this nasty, insane, weird, funky YEM makes 3/14 my favorite from that year. Too bad I was 8 years old and living in New Jersey at the time.
3/22/93 – One word: GAMEHENDGE
12-31-93 –
Not only was it the first New Years show, it was simply
epic. It perfectly described Phish in all their glory. the jamming, humor, showmanship were all on full display. Oh yea, the setlist was incredible. It also was the first Phish CD ever burned for me of which I still have to this day! This I can never forget. Can you imagine if this was a setlist for a show in 2009, I think people would lose their shit. I know I do every time I listen to this show.
12/31/93 The Centrum, Worcester, MA
Set I: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Stash, Ginseng Sullivan, Reba, Peaches en Regalia, I Didn’t Know, Run Like An Antelope1
Set II: Tweezer, Halley’s Comet> Poor Heart, It’s Ice, Fee, Possum, Lawn Boy, You Enjoy Myself
Set III: Auld Lang Syne> Down With Disease Jam, Split Open and Melt, Lizards Jam, Sparkle, Suzy Greenberg, HYHU> Cracklin’ Rosie> HYHU, Harry Hood, Tweezer Reprise
Encore: Golgi Apparatus, Amazing Grace
12-30-93 Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME
1: David Bowie, Weigh, The Curtain-> Sample in a Jar, Paul and Silas, Colonel Forbin’s Ascent-> Famous Mockingbird, Rift, Bathtub Gin, Freebird
2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Mike’s Song-> The Horse-> Silent in the Morning, Punch You in the Eye, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Weekapaug Groove-> Purple Rain, Slave to the Traffic Light
E: Rocky Top, Good Times Bad Times
Perhaps not only the greatest show of 93, but maybe one of the best ever!! The Bowie opener raged and set the tone of the night! The second set was maybe the most played tape I owned… I know I had to re-copy it at least twice!
I have to mention the 8-16-93 show from St. Louis too, as the Reba from that show is fantastic and the Weekapaug in the second set is still is up there with one of my all time favorites… Can one complain about a Mikes>Faht>Weekapaug???
Tinley Park, August 93. Lead a conga line on the near empty lawn during an insane Antelope. Definetly had the gear shift set on high…Actually got high with the head of the World Music Theater security on top of the lawn. Ah, the salad days of my youth, when all of life was green. Tapes of this concert would later play a crucial role in a nitrous induced hallucination while getting wisdom teeth pulled. Plus, the Breeders, ZZ Top, Smoke on the Water, Have Mercy, and my first ever Squirming Coil with Page’s piano outro. The memories are flooding back, I could go on and on…
12-31-93 –
Not only was it the first New Years show I heard, it was simply epic. It perfectly described Phish in all their glory. the jamming, humor, showmanship were all on full display. Oh yea, the setlist was incredible. It also was the first Phish CD ever burned for me of which I still have to this day! This I can never forget. Can you imagine if this was a setlist for a show in 2009, I think people would lose their shit. I know I do every time I listen to this show.
12/31/93 The Centrum, Worcester, MA
Set I: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Stash, Ginseng Sullivan, Reba, Peaches en Regalia, I Didn’t Know, Run Like An Antelope1
Set II: Tweezer, Halley’s Comet> Poor Heart, It’s Ice, Fee, Possum, Lawn Boy, You Enjoy Myself
Set III: Auld Lang Syne> Down With Disease Jam, Split Open and Melt, Lizards Jam, Sparkle, Suzy Greenberg, HYHU> Cracklin’ Rosie> HYHU, Harry Hood, Tweezer Reprise
Encore: Golgi Apparatus, Amazing Grace
7 – 17 – 93
Wolf-Trap, Vienna, Va
only time they played at this legendary; amazing show with great weather and a great crowd
I’ll take 3-22-93 Crest Theater as my favorite. One word GAMEHENDGE.
3.22.93 Sacramento, CA. One of the first shows I ever encountered and the first time I ever heard Gamehendge. It was love at first note.
ps – best AC/DC Bag I’ve ever heard.
Mann Music Center 7.16.93 comes to mind…But I’m going to go with my first official Phish Show on 2.11.93 Bloomsburg University, PA ( I had seen Phish open up for Santana the summer before)
Nothing Like seeing Phish rage out the same auditorium that you have your Psychology 101 Classes in !!!
The Roxy shows hands down. My most listened to tapes.
this is a trick questions……all of 1993 OWNED
3/08/03 Sweeney Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Saw Phish in a venue where I had my high school prom two years earlier. Prior to this, my first Phish show, my live music expericence consisted of a healthy diet of 80’s metal bands (Def Leppard, Tesla, Skid Row). This show literally changed my life and opened new doors of musical exploration.
This is easy. 4/10/93 at Aragon Ballroom in Chicago.
Was my first show and had an absolute blast! We were standing up on chairs and at the first note if Jim the guy next to me jumped on his chair and collapsed under him. Spent the rest of the 1st set straddling with one foot on my chair and one foot on the chair of the person next to him.
Second set superb. Especially for a virgin. (see setlist below). Highlight for me was when local harmonica legend Sugar Blue joined “The Phish” for 4 tunes.
Thanks so much for organizing the giveaway!
TL
04-10-93 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL
1: Runaway Jim, Weigh, Sparkle, Split Open and Melt, The Squirming Coil, My Friend My Friend, Uncle Pen, Chalk Dust Torture, Lawn Boy, David Bowie
2: Lengthwise-> Maze, Bouncing Around the Room, Rift, Glide, Big Ball Jam, Mike’s Song-> Great Gig in the Sky-> Weekapaug Groove, Funky Bitch*, Help Me*, Hoochie Coochie Man*, Cavern*
E: Amazing Grace, Good Times Bad Times
*With Sugar Blue on harmonica and vocals.
12/31/93
one of the first tapes I owned, the show I listened to the most in the beginning
My favorite 1993 Phish show is 12/30/1993 in Portland, Maine. The boys open with a hot Bowie. They had a nice “Dream On” tease in the middle. The Forbin’s > Mockingbird, Rift has some very nice jamming. The a capella Freebird was high energy and a fun way to end the first set. The recordings really capture the excitement in the audience.
The second set is very exciting, with a fast PYITE and an excellent McGrupps > Weekapauge. This was the first year they played 2001 / Also Sprach Zarathustra and this version has a hot jam near the end. It sounds like one of the first versions of Simple. This is a show I never get tired of! The Roxy shows are my second favorite. The Roxy shows were my first Phish tapes! I can’t wait to listen to a high quality CD instead of my old warped tapes!
Here’s one I used to love my cassettes of…and I do believe this is the SOAM that they used the jam from for Demand. Oh yeah, and one of the few listenable vacuum solos on Great Gig!!!
04-21-93 Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH
1: Buried Alive, Poor Heart, Foam, Guelah Papyrus, Maze, Colonel Forbin’s Ascent-> Famous Mockingbird, Rift, Punch You in the Eye, I Didn’t Know, Run Like an Antelope
2: Possum, Mound, Split Open and Melt, The Squirming Coil, The Horse-> Silent in the Morning, Big Ball Jam, Mike’s Song-> Great Gig in the Sky-> Weekapaug Groove, Gumbo
E: Sweet Adeline, Cavern
8-6-93 Cinci
II:YeM>Cocaine>Yem>Haley’s>Slave
Goodness gracious this show jogs my memory. If it wasn’t enough to sandwich an impromptu Cocaine in the middle of a ripping Yem, the boys elect to bring the “ba-ba-ba jingles” out of the Yem vocal jam. If that wasn’t enough, they bust out a pinpoint Slave for the first time in lord knows how long at the ZOO!
whoops
8-6-93 Cinci
II:YeM>Cocaine>Yem>Haley’s>Slave
Goodness gracious this show jogs my memory. If it wasn’t enough to sandwich an impromptu Cocaine in the middle of a ripping Yem, the boys elect to bring the “ba-ba-ba jingles” out of the Yem vocal jam. If that wasn’t enough, they bust out a pinpoint Slave for the first time in lord knows how long at the ZOO!
The greatest show of 03 was 3/25/93. some random girl blew me in the lot for a ride home. I was only 14 and it was one of the best moments of my life
8/26/93 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland Oregon
My first west coast show, and a SUPERB setlist. Plus, Bamby Gramps doing his whole Yosemite Sam/Robert Johnson hybrid weirdness as well? Wow!
12.31.93
Auld Lang Syne > DWD Jam and an EPIC Harry Hood is all that needs to be said.
My first show: 07-27-93 Classic Amphitheater, Richmond, VA
but since it was a HORDE show, does it count?
I was hooked from then on…trampolines, purple rain, who could ask for anything more?
05/03/93 State Theater, New Brunswick, NJ.
Not the best show of the year, but one that holds a very special place in my heart. I brought my dad to this show and he loved it!! I remember him looking over at me when the just nailed the “BABY’S MOUTH!” harmony in Curtain… he absolutely got it right then and there.
Made it much easier after that to convince him that summer tour was better for me than a lousy internship!
12/30/93 best show of the year, Tinley Park is a close 2nd.
7-23-93 @ Jones Beach
02-15-93 Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC — because it was my first show.
3-31-93 Roseland, Portland, OR
Nothing here is “Epic” or “Best Ever”, but still the show I go listen to the most from 1993. The setlist is perfect and the playing is inspired.
I LOVE tis band!
07.18.93
If only for the reason that the local indie radio station in Pittsburgh, 91.3 WYEP, was playing blocks of HORDE bands and I was able to get my first real introduction to Phish (and their tour mates).
5-8-93
I’m not sure why this show doesn’t receive more accolades, but without a doubt this may be the finest of all of ’93. The first set has rock solid versions of all the Nectar/Rift era Phish, ie. Chalkdust, My Friend My Friend, Glide, not to mention a sick Stash->Kung->Stash and an incredible Reba…probably the most underrated version of ’93, if not the ’90s all together…absolutely gorgeous.
The second set has a Bowie=>Jessica jam->Bowie->Have Mercy->Bowie…SPECTACULAR…a raging version, and one that’s in my Top 5 Bowie’s ever….also a great Mike’s (Crossroads!) Groove, Squirming Coil->Jam->Big Ball Jam, an Amazing Grace jam, and a version of The Horse that actually has a slight “jam”…Def. worth checking out…
If ’93 was about Phish stretching out and pushing the envelope, they pulled this one off beautifully, going off but not enough to leave fans scratching their heads. A masterpiece.
Ah, 1993. The year I found *<. 2-13-93, my first of nearly 100 shows, will always hold that special place in my heart. This is one of only two shows played in Delaware (Bob Carpenter Center, University of Delaware campus – 2nd show was same venue one year later). From the opening notes of David Bowie, a bond was formed that words cannot describe. Since that day Phish has become the soundtrack of my life. Fond memories of festivals (Big Cypress, Coventry), smaller shows (Darien Lake, Mann Music), New Year’s runs (MSG), long weekends (Hampton), will be with me forever. The friends that were made, the things I learned, even the trouble we got in, all contributed to who I am today as a person. Thanks Page, Fish, Mike and Trey. Hope to see you in Hampton – no luck in the lottery or tmaster. 🙁
phishmd
No doubt about it 12/30/93 from start to finish. Phish in it’s best 93 form. So much energy from the Bowie opener with the Dream On teases. I love Phish!
8/14/93 – Tinley Park crushed face, i was lucky to even get in, band was on fire and having a blast. Insane covers: Purple Rain? Great Gig? La Grange? 93 was a great year, the next show always tried to top the last. But this stands solid.
Mike’s Song With Heartbreaker tease >Leprechaun>Weekapaug Groove
Atlanta Masquerade Music Park
7/31/93
1st show I saw .
Not to mention the Highway To Hell at the end of 2nd set.
1993-08-09
A rather smoking YEM with my all time favorite vocal jam…I mean, it’s a PSYCHO KILLER vocal jam! Not to mention the show opens with a raucous Chalk Dust Torture -> Who Knows Jam -> Chalk Dust Torture and has a huge bustout of Crimes of the Mind with the Dude of Life. Throw in a SOAM, Divided Sky, Coil, and a sick set II opening run of Dinner and a Movie > Tweezer > Tela -> My Friend My Friend. That’s just delicious Phish from North of the Border right there.
8/13/93 Murat Gin is one of the greatest examples out there of what kind of brilliance Phish can manifest, taking the music to unimaginable heights! What an incredible era of Phish, such energy!
05/08/93 UNH Fieldhouse, Durham, NH
This was the tape that made me a complete and obsessed Phishhead. Before I had even seen the band, I heard this tape in my dorm room, set II.
For a Phish virgin who loved classic rock, it was perfect. The opening notes of the set are from the Allman Brothers’ “Jessica”–my theme song that year. Bowie has “Have Mercy,” and the Mike’s Groove has a Clapton debut–“Crossroads.”
But what really did it for me was the “Amazing Grace.” Hearing Trey say over the spine-tingling climax of the jam, “Thanks a lot, everybody! This is the end of the tour. We’ll see you again soon!”, well, it just gave me goosebumps.
Still does.
My favorite Phish moment of 1993 has to be the 2/7/93 show at the Lisner Auditorium in Washington D.C. I was still in high school, visiting my sister who was in college, and I just happened to find out about this show. I wandered on down to the venue, not realizing it was sold out.
By some stroke of luck I managed to find the one honest scalper and within minutes had a ticket to the show. The ushers led me and down, down, down we went — I must have ended up in something like the 5th row.
And the best part was that they sang Happy Birthday to Trey’s sister, and it was only a few days after my birthday so it felt like they were singing to me. :^)
I went on to see other shows that year — including 7/21/93 where they covered Elton John’s “Daniel” — but the GW show is my sentimental favorite.
This was the day before my birthday.
Maze-> Fluffhead-> Stash
8.28
12.31.93 was my first PHiSH b+p and I still have the copy lying around. Found it when I went home last month and brought it back with me. Great way for that trader to introduce me to PH.
Well, my favorite show on disc from this year (I didn’t see them until 1995) was 12/30/93. Great show, amazing improv, each song is taken to a new level, and they really stretch themselves. 1993 was quite the face melting year for Phish.
02.20.93 – I know that it is on one of these discs, but set 2 was the first show that I owned on tape, finding it on a street corner in Greenwich Village for 2 bucks in the summer of 93, and I was hooked, listening to it over and over. In my opinion, that set is still the definition of what makes this band great.
Gotta go with 4-2-93 in my college town of Bellingham, WA. Seriously Phish in tiny Bellingham as they were not a big West coast hit back then. Awesome, trippy light / smoke effects show. Setlist:
04-02-93 Mt. Baker Theater, Belligham, WA
1: Buried Alive, Poor Heart, Foam, Bouncing Around the Room, The Divided Sky, I Didn’t Know, Sparkle, Maze, Golgi Apparatus
2: Runaway Jim, Sample in a Jar, Uncle Pen, Llama, The Horse-> Silent in the Morning, Mike’s Song-> I Am Hydrogen-> Weekapaug Groove-> Lizards-> Big Ball Jam, HYHU-> Bike-> HYHU, Chalk Dust Torture
E: Amazing Grace, Rocky Top
Venue and crowd was small enough for I Didn’t Know and Amazing Grace.
Mark it 8, Dude.
12-30-93. mmmmmmmmm. 12-30-93. delicious.
Interestingly enough the 2/20/93 show is my favorite from 1993, It was the 1st Phish tape I ever owned and I was simply amazed. I could not fathom at that time how these guys were Vermonts best kept secret. Ever since then, I have been dedicating my free time and free finances to seeing Phish, it’s an expierience that I cherish and hope to remember for ever.
12/31/93 Harry Hood changed my life.
I’m going to have to go with:
3-22-93
Cliche, I know. But this was one of the first Phish shows I ever got a recording of when I was first getting into them. So great to hear Gamehendge live and it brings back fond memories whenever I pop it in.
My first show was 3.21.93 in Ventura. Confusing to me in a way. I thought they would take a few songs to warm up, but hit the stage with Maze> Sparkle>Sloth>Divided Sky. Esther was beautiful. Possum was dedicated to a guy who gave Trey a surfing lesson earlier in the day.
Second set opened with Lovin’ Cup, a song I’d never heard before and went home singing, yearning to hear again. Tweezer had a dualing jam, with the band going back and forth between two styles until the music virtually crumbled. Got a YEM, a Hood, Big Ball Jam, Acapella, Fishman moment, and Sleeping Monkey>Tweeprise.
They did so many different kind of things, I went home confused and didn’t listen to Phish for 3 years there after, until they won me over once again.
12/31/93 – Worcester Centrum. i have for now about 6 – 7 years been telling every single friend that I have that this is the greatest PHISH show played of all time. No not because it is New Years Eve….but because musically it it barn burning blistering pure hellfire PHISH at their best. There are many reasons why but I will paint this picture for you. About 4 years ago my friend Matt rented a ski house at Mount Snow VT —– we went up for new years. I brought this show with me…..as I always do to any of my friends who dig PHISH I asked my buddies “hey have you guys ever heard the tape from 12/31/93??? The majority of them have and love it but none of this particular group had … they were not really great fans of the band or anything. I assured them at some point we would listen to it that night….so later that night after about a 1/5th of Jack Daniels I hooked up the MP3 player to the stereo -more like a boom box with detachable speakers and told everyone I was goin to blow their minds with the SICK Antelope that closed out set 1. I put it on and nobody cared….I was amazed, the greatest Antelope ever played, it was on fire, sickest thing I have ever heard. To me this was the PERFECT Phish….I got kind of pissed off and said “F everybody” I detached the speakers from the boom box grabbed a roll of duct tape and asked someone to duct tape the speakers to my head—–yup duct tape all the way around my head and the speakers so as to wear the speakers affixed directly next to my ears as some sort of New Years Celebratory hat……I listened to the show beginning to end while drinking my jack and dancing like a madman in my little corner of the room —- I did this not because it was new years eve and the show itself was also from new years eve but because it is the greatest PHISH show ever!!!!!!
And ontop of that it was played in worcester, my home town where I was born and raised and still live today – best thing that ever happened to this sh*thole of a city!!!!
March 2, 1993
New Orleans
Awesome
12/31/93
I have to admit the Auld Lang Sune>DWD jam might be one of my favorite snippits of phish all time. Its just 100% energy.
12/31/93 The Centrum, Worcester, MA
Set I: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Stash, Ginseng Sullivan, Reba, Peaches en Regalia, I Didn’t Know, Run Like An Antelope1
Set II: Tweezer, Halley’s Comet> Poor Heart, It’s Ice, Fee, Possum, Lawn Boy, You Enjoy Myself
Set III: Auld Lang Syne> Down With Disease Jam, Split Open and Melt, Lizards Jam, Sparkle, Suzy Greenberg, HYHU> Cracklin’ Rosie> HYHU, Harry Hood, Tweezer Reprise
Encore: Golgi Apparatus, Amazing Grace
So many highlights, but I have to go with 8/14/93. This was my first Phish tape and made me fall in love with rareties Walk Away, Have Mercy and Daniel Saw the Stone. When they busted out Have Mercy at Oswego, I was probably the happiest person in the crowd.
12/31/1993 Hood makes me cry and laugh…at the same time. Sorry for partyin.
This might be cliche, but ’12/30/93.’ It just so happened to be the 1ST show I ever possessed, as a one track tape nonetheless.
The 2001>Mike’s segue just may have been the moment that got me hooked for good. Needless to say I owe a lot to this date in history.
Thank you 93
my favorite show from the epic year that is 93 is the tinley park show (8/14/93). The Anelope is in my top 5 favorite moments of all time. Sick tight first set as well.
5.8.93 Durham, NH
Set I: Chalkdust Torture, Guelah Papyrus, Rift, Mound, Stash> Kung> Stash, Glide, My Friend My Friend, Reba, Satin Doll, Cavern
Best Rift I’ve ever heard. Struggled with destiny up on the ledge…what an incredible show.
Without a doubt my favorite show from 1993 is none other than the Tinley Park show from 8.14.93. I first got into phish when I was 11. For my 11th birthday my sister gave me a copy of Lawnboy. I had heard Phish from being around her and her friends but it never clicked until I explored what that album had to offer. I continued to listen to Lawnboy along side my Smashmouth CD and other such music that I’ve since grown out of. The First live show I ever purchased was 8.14.93, before this I had never listened to Phish in a live setting. It opened my mind to the wonders that is Live Phish, not just the CD releases. The entire show is stellar, from the opening notes of a ripping Chalkdust to the closing rock of La Grange. What really hooked me was the free flow of the second set. The entire segue from 2001 ->Antelope-> Sparks-> Walk Away-> Have Mercy->Antelope opened my eyes to the power of improvisational rock. What truly holds together these songs is the continuity of syncopation between the band, for example the segue between 2001 into Antelope. The bands chemistry from Mike and Trey playing improve in unison, complemented by Fishman’s rhythmic accents and Page’s strong driving piano chords. I could go on forever about the power of this show. But you should check it out if you haven’t already! I’m sure who ever is reading this has certainly heard most of the shows people are talking about. I hope so! Thanks for the opportunity to win such an excellent package of shows! Hope you enjoy the readings!
Such a great year for PHISH, but I gotta go with the last day of the year 12.31.93!!!
12/30/93
Second set from this show was one of the first Phish sets that I heard. It was downloaded from Crunchy Phish Nuggets and took me a hell of long time to figure out how to burn it. Awesome set and show.
07-16-93 Mann Music Center, Philadelphia, PA
I always try to get a hold of local shows and always dug this one from one of my favorite venues.
2.20.93 set II
One of my very first tapes, an absolutely epic set… It only fit on a 120 min tape!!
12/31/93
Truly a special night, and a turning point in Phish’s career. Phish took the stage and set the bar high for every following NYE show they every played. Tight playing, solid jams, and classic Phish antics littered the show. Phish opened up the new year with the now classic solo from Down With Disease and never looked back.
Defintely gotta go with 2/20/93. It set the stage for the incredible run the next 5 years were for the band.
An underated 1st set with a great setlist that was also pretty well played. Divided Sky and Fluffhead in the same set is great on its own, but to also get a Foam, Weigh, Possum, just a really good 1st set.
But of course the 2nd set is what makes this show the best. A great Reba jam flowing nicely into Tweezer. A seemingly short Tweezer turns into the first Tweezerfest, with teases throughout the rest of the set. A full on battle between Trey and Mike commences during Mike’s Song, but incredibly even a battle for control of the jam sounds great. The Phish humor makes an appearance to with Trey singing “It’s his song” and “sing us your song Mike.” A great segue into the bustout of My Mind’s Got a Mind of It’s Own. Kung, Have Mercy, bustouts everywhere. A “Gene Simmons” appearance followed by a seemless jump back into Weekapaug Groove. A long and hilarious band introduction from Fish. And then a “is this set still going” Harry Hood flowed right into Tweezer Reprise.
A tight 1st set with a great setlist, a 2nd set that seemed to go on for hours, but you still didn’t want it to end, bustouts, laughter, guest appearance, what more could you want from a Phish show?
Two Words: Murat Gin. 8/13/1993
08/07/93. i wore these tapes out. outstanding show from start to finish, and it was my birthday, taboot:)
04/20/93 Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH
Still have the tapes! Very small place…hard to get a beer!
3/12/93 – Vail, CO – My first show – Fluffhead, Big Ball Jam, 3 song encore – My mind was blown – Then leaving the small ice hockey rink, Mike walked out the door right in front of me and held the door!
3/13/93 – Boulder, CO – My second show! After the night before, how could I NOT attend?
4/21. ’93 atonal flow. Oh, and the MELT.
4/17/93 Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI
Hometown show and just classic Phish-ey wackiness for the encore. During BBFCM Trey forgot that he was supposed to start the music at one point and just laid on his back frozen for probably 10 minutes with everybody wondering what the hell was happening! Later Mike proclaimed he could smell himself running! This resulted in a funny segment the following night where Page interviewed people from the audience what they thought of the encore. Oh those were the days……..
Gotta go with 2/20/93
It’s a show I consistently come back to and have listened to countless times.
3-22-93 in Sacramento. First show ever and it was Gamehendge for me. Wonderful stuff.
Easy…8-28-93 Greek Theatre from the great month of August…Where to start…my first greek show and it came positioned near the end of the GD west coast swing…we headed south following the GD Eugene shows the weekend prior and right before 3 night Shoreline run…picked up tickets in SF at Tower records in Stonestown mall (RIP) and headed over to the venue which was bristling with energy as both dead and phish-heads invaded the campus of UC Berkeley…I remember fans jumping over the back fences and climbing in from dorm windows to sneak into the sold-out show….JJ Cale opener and then Phish delivered with a killer show complete with a Dude of Life appearance…Highlights include the Fluffhead, Stash, 2001>Rift and one of the all time great YEMs (with an Oyo Coma Va jam)…One for the history books and the only Greek theatre appearance by the boys…
12/30/93 – One of the first show’s I ever heard. Love it to this day…
3.22.93 – Crest Theatre, Sacramento, CA
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My first tape> My first Eargasm.
Set 1 is tight as a mosquito’s ass. A great example of the bands wide musical prowess as they gracefully play through different genres that the set holds. Still my favorite REBA ever. Bowie gets a very honorable mention.
Set 2 with the full gamehendge saga — because they hadn’t had such an attentive, quiet audience in ‘YEARS’ says Trey. Beautifully played all the way through and treating those lucky fans to a Mikes Groove to close out the set.
The 4 geeks from VT, demonstrating as they did time and time again throughout the years, that the Phish was a beast far greater than the sum of its parts.
04-27-93 Concert Hall, Toronto, ON, Canada
My first Show…Hooked
1: Buried Alive-> Poor Heart, Foam, Bouncing Around the Room, Rift, Stash, Guelah Papyrus, It’s Ice, Sparkle, David Bowie
2: Golgi Apparatus, My Friend My Friend, All Things Reconsidered, Maze, Lizards, Big Ball Jam, You Enjoy Myself, Silent in the Morning, Love You, Cavern
E: My Sweet One, Amazing Grace
8/13/93
Also Sprach Zarathustra-> Run Like an Antelope-> Sparks-> Walk Away-> Have Mercy-> Run Like an Antelope, Mound, The Squirming Coil, Daniel, You Enjoy Myself, Purple Rain-> HYHU, Golgi Apparatus
Just look at that-it speaks for it’s self!!
3/14/93 GUNNISON, CO
YEM Teases
8/20/93
1: The Divided Sky, Harpua, Poor Heart, Maze, Bouncing Around the Room-> It’s Ice-> The Wedge, Ginseng Sullivan, Rift, Run Like an Antelope
2: Also Sprach Zarathustra-> Slave to the Traffic Light-> Split Open and Melt, The Squirming Coil, My Friend My Friend-> Chalk Dust Torture, You Enjoy Myself-> Purple Rain*-> HYHU, Cavern
E: The Mango Song, Freebird
*With Mimi Fishman (Fish’s mom) on vacuum.
The first red rocks show was an epic event. The band was all business all night, from the huge Divided Sky opener (after a storm had just cleared) followed by Harpua with the first giant iguana narrative. To a rare early Wedge with a nice Page led into (1st in 62 shows). The capper of a great 1st set was an other worldly antelope which the band deeply explored through realms of slick psychedelic euphoria and a trembling, frenzied peak. The 2nd set was no slouch either, which opened 2001 > Slave > Melt. This was significant as Slave had been revived two weeks earlier at the infamous ZOO in Cinci. The rest of the set is enjoyable with an interesting mid set pairing of My Friend > Chalkdust and the best song ever written, YEM. The Purple Rain included an appearance by Mimi on vacuum. I mean come on, how many moms can say they played the vacuum at Red Rocks with their son. After all this the band still had enough left to drop a great Mango, Freebird encore.
8-20-93 Divided Sky, Harpua . . . look, the storm’s gone!!!
8/2/93
Classic show! Some bustouts… Brother, Dog Log, LaGrange, Sparks. Plus the Gin->Makisupa->My Mind’s is HOTT!! Don’t forget Antelope->Makisupa reprise->Antelope too. Mike’s with “heavy metal” jam. Great show, great energy.
04/24/93 Cheel Arena, Potsdam, NY
This was my first tape (remeber those) & I listened to it for about a year before I was able to see a show. The Sparkle, Bathtub Gin, YEM, Hood, & Good Times Bad Times all really still stand out in my head as phenomenal jams with some excellent transitions. Very exciting energy projected from both the band and the crowd.
12/31/93 nye wooster ma
Dwd by far highlight for me at that show
love the mikes song and the tweexer.
1993-08-20 RRX
It’s Ice> The Wedge
listen if you haven’t phans
8/9/93.
In a month full of stellar shows (practically every August ’93 show has been mentioned at least once above), this one has always stood out to me. The Chalkdust->Who Knows->Chalkdust includes not just the fun of a segue sandwich, but consonant, energetic jamming. August ’93 was THE month for Split Open and Melt, but this one, again, has always been my favorite. All around great show.
i was in 8th grade. my parents did let me shit w/o permission. no phish in 93 for me. so my favoite would have to be all. i think i was listening to an alternative rock band called DIG.
didnt!
This show was one of my first tapes, and you can hear the exchange detailed below before LLAMA!!!
Good stuff!
07/22/93 Stowe Performing Arts Center, Stowe, VT
(From MBF)The show was played in a total downpour, and the amphitheater was not built to handle that kind of weather. Before the first set, Trey remarked that the staff was talking about canceling the show due to the danger of electrocution. “I told ’em, ‘Fuck that. Put the plug up my ass and count out Llama!'”
Now that is a professional!
03/25/93 Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA
This was the first phish tape i ever got. I didn’t know phish that well when I got it and I was instantly hooked. The quality of the tape wasn’t that great but I couldn’t stop listening to it.
3/22/93 GAMEHENDGE!!
8/16/93 American Theater, St. Louis, MO
August 93 was one of Phish’s best months. This show has a very experimental Reba, one of the longest I’ve heard, glorious jamming. The Split Open and Melt was amazing, like every version from that month. Mikes->Faht->Weekapaug is just insane, very experimental. A nice It’s Ice->My Friend My Friend and a good ol’ Rocky Top, Amazing Grace encores.
8/7/93 is one of if not my favorite phish show.
5/5/93 The Palace in Albany. My 3rd show and the one where I really, really “got” it. Overwhelming, really.
12/31/93
It’s so fast! “Everybody in yet?”
8/13/93
7-15-93, Weedsport, NY
Epic 2nd set!
My favorite show from 93 was my first show 8-20-93 Red Rocks. Amazing time, ripping show as were so many that year. The thought of them playing there again gives me the chillys. Can’t wait to see the boys back in action in ’09.
8-14-93 Antelope….one for the books…amazing
02/20/93 is one of my favourite shows, especially the tweezer>walk away>tweezer
12/30/93 IS the correct answer
02.25.93 miami
mimi on vacuum!!
8-9-93 The show speaks for itself.
My fave 1993 show (that i attended) was 12/28/93, at the Bender Arena. It was in the middle of a blizzard and I, along with about three dozen others, trudged through the snow, in the middle of the streets of DC, from the Metro to AU. About a mile later, finally got to the show, and the boys totally ripped it up. Zappa had just passed away that month and, in tribute, they brought back Peaches En Regalia to open the show, and never let up for the rest of the night. One of the great underrated epic Phish shows.
Runner-up: 7/17/93 Wolf Trap. My favorite band in the world, playing in my favorite venue in the world. It’s a shame they got too big too fast. I would give anything to see them there again.
12.30.93, as previously mentioned above
3-28-93 East Gym – Arcata, CA
YEM PEZ vocal jam is my fav
August 13, 1993
sick all around
Has to be 8/20/93 at Red Rocks. That Red Rocks debut of Divided Sky sends shivers down my spine, not to mention a first set full of favorites, including a trifecta of a bobbing Wedge, a ripping Rift and a fun Ginseng Sullivan. Love the Mango encore. One of my favorite shows.
7/24/93 great woods MA. my first show, ny senior year of high school, my first time hearing mikes>groove, awesome show. and purple rain taboot taboot!!
My favorite show of 1993 was 8/12/93. Total face melter, in my opinion. Chalkdust, Maze, Tweezer, The Lizards – the band was on fire. Speaking of, Phish encored with Fire and Freebird. Meadowbrook is a small amphitheater just minutes from Detroit, and the perfect setting for a Phish show. I was a junior in high school, and this was only my second show, but the second in a long line of many more to come.
My favorite 1993 show is 8/20. It’s their first Red Rocks show, they open with Divided Sky and it was my 13th birthday.
12.30.93 Mike’s Song
Booyah!
Looks like someone beat me to the show, but Darien Lake was a HELL of a good show. It and the 2001 2nd set opener with their new lighting rig was incredible at the time. But I think for this I may have to go with 12/31/93 in Worcester. That was the largest Phish show I had been to up to this point, and was blown away by the number of people there. Of course the show is just amazing. Their tribute to Frank with Peaches en Regalia jammed into several songs, and still my favorite NYE stunt. Actually I would kill to be able to hear the weird electronic music they played between the 2nd and 3rd sets… It was my friends first show and he was loosing his shit between sets because of that music..
Crest Theater, Intro to David Bowie is sooo good. True member interaction. And 12/30/93 dream on tease is the shiznit.
03/22/93 Crest Theater, Sacramento, CA
Set I: Chalkdust Torture, Guelah Papyrus, Uncle Pen, Stash, Bouncing Around the Room, Rift, Weigh, Reba, Sparkle, David Bowie
Set II: Golgi Apparatus, It’s Ice> The Lizards, Tela, Wilson, AC/DC Bag, Colonel Forbin’s Ascent> Fly Famous Mockingbird, The Sloth, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Mike’s Song> I am Hydrogen> Weekapaug Groove
Encore: Amazing Grace, Fire
Sick show. They bring the heat! Gotta love Gamehendge.
Cincy Zoo 8/6
The zoo, a bunch of hippies, and they serve beer… I had just been turned on to the Phish so I have no memmories. Great to have the tapes, though, cause it was a smoker.
12/30/93 Portland, ME
Just such a powerfully performed show…
Was just listening to Berkeley 8/28 yesterday, so I’ll say that’s my fave 93 show. Llama’s always a great opener, and a nice Maze, my favorite Phish tune, and of course the vacuum solo on Purple Rain. Have to admit I wasn’t impressed by the Dude of Life, though.
8/14/93 – Greatest Antelope EVER! Run Like an Antelope-> Sparks-> Walk Away-> Have Mercy-> Run Like an Antelope is the absolute best Antelope segue ever. Incredible show.
2/12/93
Poughkeepsie, NY a fun first show
May 3, 1993, Phish played an unannounced, unscheduled show at the State Theater in NEw Brunswick, New Jersey. Sick show, Buried Alive opener was face melting, Second set AC/DC Bag-> The Curtain-> Tweezer-> Manteca-> Tweezer-> Contact, It’s Ice-> McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters-> Runaway Jim-> Big Ball Jam, HYHU-> Love You-> HYHU, non stop awesomeness. Had my elbows on the stage, front row, the balcony was bouncing up and down, thought the place was going to collapse. One of the most high energy shows of my life. Unreal!!!
I love the 93 Phish, I missed the Phenoix Show when Pages bro came out due to going to see the Dead in Cali, sometimes you just got to pick
3/14/93 loved this Gunnison CO show….
8/13/93 Murat Temple, Indianapolis, IN
It was my buddy’s older brother’s salavating response to this show, and the “Highway to Hell” encore more specifically, that got me into Phish. When he returned from the show, he was a changed man, and when I got wind of it, I was too.
I was going to go with the same show Alex picked above (5/3/93) but ultimately I’ll pick 12/31/93. I think this show set the template for all of their future arena shows. I give this show 17 and a half thumbs up.
04/21/93 Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH
My favorite show (besides the Roxy run) of 1993 is 5.6.93, with special guests Dick Solberg and Jeff Walton. They guested on “I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train,” “The Tennessee Waltz,” and “Why You’ve Been Gone So Long.” For an added bonus, Dick Solberg offers a heart-warming solo to Lawn Boy. It doesn’t get better than that, folks!
2/20/93 without a doubt. Still one of my favorites of all time and my 2nd bootleg tape. The tension between Mike & Trey resulted in an amazing show.
“Me no want no Mike’s Song”
think i’ll go with 8/14 – tinley park. got to love the ‘lope madness
5/6/93 2nd night of the Palace Theatre in Albany and my very 1st Phish show, started off as many more would with a Chalkdust but also provided me with such gems as my one and only All Things Reconsidered, all the great bluegrass action with Dick Soleberg and Jeff Walton, but most importantly it was my initiation into all things Phish, Page serenading us during Lawn Boy, Fishman going nucking futz during Cracklin’ Rosie, Big Balls being bounced about the place, and a tasty Coil piano solo. Needless to say I was hooked and here I am 15 years later just in love with the band as I was back then, check that, even more so.
8-14-93, hands down! My favorite SOAM EVER! Another great jam sequence in Also Sprach Zarathustra> Run Like An Antelope> Sparks> Walk Away> Have Mercy> Run Like An Antelope. Other highlights include Mound, It’s Ice, Daniel. Hell, I could just list the whole setlist and no one could argue with that. Having the LivePhish version sure helps to make this calssic show sound top notch.
I must say i loved the UNH shows from 93, i believe they were the tour closer and hearing Paige sing Satin Doll was awesome!!
8-16-93 Reba is all I have to say!!!
93 Durham, NH may be my favorite show ever with the Stash, Bowie, Squirming Coil and Reba jams
12-31-93 Reba and Hood are also transcendant.
2-20-93 was one of my first tapes back in the day, cannot wait to here the whole run
So glad you guys are back. I have no doubt this band still has a lot left in them and is going to take us all back on a great ride and to the next level. Combine more practice with the improv that took place in 03 and you will have Phish at their best. a lot of 03’s improv jamming was some of phish’s best IMO, so much potential
bring it The Phish!
07.15.93 – Weedsport, NY – Anyone that was there for the first show of an EPIC summer tour would remember the supreme openness of the venue and amazing deep orange and sleeking red sunset during Foam.
The band was fresh and energized and the audience was of the vast mix of people all loving this awesome venue, even though it was only a dirt track.
Musically, it was perfectly executed classic phish.
7/21/93
Just one set as part of the HORDE tour. But my absolute very first time seeing Phish. I didn’t quite “get” them this first time, though I really appreciated Bouncing and Squirming Coil for the piano outro.
Regardless, this show started the love affair…
Well I have 2
8-6-93 Cinci
See the city see the Zoo. Totally faced on blotter Lost my mind at the zoo. YEM>Halley’s>SLave was outstanding sending me off to see the ZOO!!!
12-28-93 Surviving the drive from NJ to DC including losing control of my Nissan 240sx on i95 doing 3 360 to end up going straight on the road to make the peaches opener.
NYE ’93!
This show is the pinnacle of Trey shredding for me. The Reba, Hood, Stash, Melt, Antelope, Possum, and Tweezer all absolutely rip. You also can’t forget the debut of the Disease jam, which has some of Trey’s finest work. Include all of the Peaches teases, Auld Lang Syne teases and 3 sets, and this show is unstoppable!
For me, it’s all about the Murat show (8-13-93). The Gin is epic, but the rest of that set is very hot. The first set is nothing to sneeze at either.
4/20/91 at the newport in columbus. Historical venue in columbus! Hot Hot 2nd set! funky funky bitch encore
I have to go with 8-13-93. Obviously the Gin is great, but buried alive brings it to start the 2nd set
3/22/93
This show will always have be special to me. This was the first Phish tape I ever owned, and also contained a complete Gamehendge narration in Set II.
Obviously 2-20-93 I wanna rock and roll all night!
I saw my first show in ’93 and it was the only one I saw that year so it is my favorite. 7.17.93 Wolftrap, Vienna, VA. Didn’t know much about the band before walking into that venue that day. Walked up and bought my tickets at the door and the next few hours changed my life forever.
8/13/93 That Murat Gin rages. Perfect example of T and R jamming
I always enjoy the Roxy show with jimmy herring.
8/13/93 indianapolis. massive gin.
3-22-93 and its awesome soundboard for the magical feelings it gave and the escape into the unknown world of gamehenge
12.30 thesaurus
12/30/03 Portland
What an amazing set-ending Slave. Just wow.
2-20-93, this was my third time seeing Phish. In other words, my mind was blown to another place. This was a really fun night- I look forward to the box set being released.
4/14/93 American Theatre St. Louis, MO
My first show, described below by Siwook, and maybe the best show I’ve ever seen from start to finish. I seem to remember Harpua absolutely blowing me away! Along with Jim Morrison “The End” teases during the monologue. What a trip!
12-31-93
NYE First time at the centrum. Energy was through the roof. First and only time I heard Peaches. Amazing time that will stay with me forever.
so hard….if i have to choose i would pick 12/30/93. Great Caesar’s Gin!!!!
8-6-93 Cincinnati Zoo. Set I: Split Open and Melt, Poor Heart, The Curtain, Sample in a Jar, Rift, Horn, The Divided Sky, Nellie Kane, Chalkdust Torture, Suzy Greenberg
Set II: Buried Alive, Tweezer, Guelah Papyrus1, Squirming Coil, Uncle Pen, You Enjoy Myself2> Halley’s Comet2> Slave to the Traffic Light3, HYHU> Cracklin’ Rosie> HYHU, Tweezer Reprise
Encore: Amazing Grace
My first show. Hearing “See the city, see the zoo, the traffic light won’t me through” during Slave was epic, plus it was the first Slave in over 200 shows. Cracklin Rosie was awesome as I had seen Neil Diamond a few times with my parents.
I am a newb, so I will just go ahead and say that these Roxy shows are my favorite. Not sure if I have heard all three or not.
Power to The Phish!
I have several favorite 1993 Phish shows, therefor it is hard to pick just one. So I am going to just go for it and pick one.
I will have to say off the top of my head:
8-9-93 Masonic Temple-Toronto, Ontario Canada
A great show from start to finish. The Chalkdust>who knows>Chalkdust is a fabulous opener.
The Dinner & a Movie>Tweezer>Tela>My Friend to start the second set is a MUST hear for any Phish fan.
This was a hard decision that was nearly a tie for the New Years eve shows out East. But hey, how can ANYONE pick just one from an absolutely fantastic grounbreaking year in Phish history?
12/31/93 – DWD jam is the tits.
I’ll have to say 7-28-93! This was my first show and the first time i got IT. I’d been listening to the Phish for a few years before this show and had been seeing the Dead since 1989. The GD will always hold a special place in my heart but the PH is what really blew my mind! I realized that after this night i would never listen to music the same again!
Wednesday, July 28, 1993
Grady Cole Center, Charlotte, NC
Set I: All Things Reconsidered, Runaway Jim, Ya Mar, Sample in a Jar, Foam, Nellie Kane, Split Open and Melt, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Poor Heart, Cavern
Set II: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Axilla, My Sweet One, Run Like an Antelope, The Lizards, Mound, My Friend My Friend, Harry Hood, The Great Gig in the Sky, Chalk Dust Torture
Encore: Piano Duet, Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home
wolftrap in july cause this is when my brother first introduced me to phish. this band will change your world is all i kept hearing and it did. kids took over this little theatre in the woods outside of d.c. it is funny when you look into an ushers eyes and they are freaked out by what they are experiencing with a crowd of a phish show. it was a great show musically and the acoustics made it even that much better. it was the beginning of the rest of my life.
Wolf-Trap, Va 7/17/93
first show what more to say
12-31-93.
whole show is great. fish tank.
reba!
i’m goin with 2-4-93 just for the reggae lengthwise.
5-8-93 underrated and unbelievable
08/20/93 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
you can tell throughout that they were in a great mood.wonderful divided sky opener! great maze,it’s ice>wedge.rift,antelope! 2nd set is the business 2001>slave opener AND THEN..SOAMelt,squiming coil,my friend,chalkdust,YEM. cool encore
08/20/93 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
Set I: The Divided Sky, Harpua, Poor Heart, Maze, Bouncing Around the Room, It’s Ice> The Wedge1, Ginseng Sullivan2, Rift, Run Like An Antelope
Set II: Also Sprach Zarathustra> Slave to the Traffic Light, Split Open and Melt, Squirming Coil, My Friend My Friend, Chalkdust Torture, You Enjoy Myself> Purple Rain3> HYHU, Cavern
Encore: The Mango Song, Freebird
1 First Wedge since 3/25/93 or 62 shows
2 Dedicated to Brad Sands
3 With Mimi Fishman, and Fishman, on vacuum
8-7-93 – Whole show is off the charts, personally love this stash, way underrated.
12.30.93
Great show from start to finish. Makes me cry.
12/30/93 smokes.
Just an amazin run from the 2001 onward.
The Mike’s is a potent combo of pure hose…jedi knight and the “we’re on drugs” sweet-spot.
This had to be the moment when they band knew they were livin’ the dream and that full time Arena Rock was their new domain.
p.s. – pick me.
7-16-93 Mann Center Philly!!!! They always tore up philly!
1993-03-22
Sacramento
Some sweet Gamehendge and the second bootleg I ever got.
my favorite show would have to be my first show, 3/16/93. Pure greatness from begining to end, and I’d never heard a note before!
03/16/93 Celebrity Theatre, Phoenix, AZ
Set I: Sweet Adeline, Buried Alive> Poor Heart, It’s Ice, Fee, Maze, I Didn’t Know, The Divided Sky, You Gotta See Mama Every Night1, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Cavern
Set II: My Friend My Friend, The Curtain, Tweezer> Sweet Emotion Jam> Tweezer> Bathtub Gin, Esther, Chalkdust Torture, You Enjoy Myself, HYHU> Bike> Lengthwise> Bike, Lawn Boy, Llama, Amazing Grace
Encore: Sparkle, Tweezer Reprise
1 Sung to Trey’s grandmother by her husband, Harry Jones
i wasnt phan
7/27/93 Classic Ampitheatre Richmond Va
I entered the HORDE Show tour as a Blue Traveler fan. I left a Phish head. It was my first Phish show and I can honestly say it changed my life forever. They had me at “Last niiiiiiiiight…”
Thanks for the memories!
I: (55 m) 2001->Rift, Stash, Squirming Coil, Sparkle> It’s Ice->Purple Rain, Y.E.M.*
Note: * with millions of extra guests and Popper’s “death” on the trampoline
My favorite show from `93 opened with a song that we couldn’t place at first, as it was out of context, but yet we had listened to Exile On Main Street on the way to the show. That night, the tour opener in Portland, ME not only gave us the first Lovin’ Cup and Page’s new baby grand, but also a great moment with The Wedge in in which the entire audience seemed to bubble with pulsing energy, “bobbing on the surface,” as it were. It seemed like such a large show at the time in that hockey arena…
5/8/93
Some great Machine Gun Trey moments, and a spectacular 2nd set. The Bowie w/ Jessica teases is among my favorites.
Favorite 1993 shows – 4/20/93 & 4/21/93
Super tight shows from start to finish. Great 2 night run at the Newport in Columbus, OH.
Split Opean and Melt on 4/21/93 is incredible.
05/08/93
UNH Fieldhouse
i listened to this show and passed it on to many friends and fans, and to my luck it was officially released and remastered (with filler!) gr
great bowie > have mercy > bowie, debut of crossroads, stash > kung > stash. and a wonderful amazing grace followed by a one time amazing grace instrumental. the reba aint no slouch either!
12-31-93 because thats the first live Phish show I ever listened to.
love me some atl phish!!!!!
12/30/93
gorgeous flowing second set. one of my favorite tapes. remember tapes?
02/20/93. First show I received in a trade and is one of those “desert island” cd’s that you could listen to over and over.
Well I was only 11 in 1993. But I want to enter this contest, and it didn’t say you had to be at the show. So my favorite bootleg from 93 would have to be one of the first I ever listened to. Being very impressed by my friend’s older brother’s enormous collection, he gave me 3/22 Sacramento. Gamehendge complete and in all its glory. Sure there are shows from 93 that rage a lot harder than this one, but this is what got the ball rolling for me. I just could not believe the absurdity of it, combined with the work that must have gone into it. Blew my mind and changed my teenage musical perspective forever.
8/6/93- Cincinnati Zoo
great teases, jams and segues throughout and the return of slave
2-20-93
Great first set song selection, then, well we all know what went down Set 2,
One of the best Rebas ever played taboot – can’t wait for the remasters!
12/30/93 Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME
Set I: David Bowie1, Weigh, The Curtain, Sample in a Jar, Paul and Silas, Colonel Forbin’s Ascent> Fly Famous Mockingbird, Rift, Bathtub Gin, Freebird
Set II: Also Sprach Zarathustra> Mike’s Song> The Horse> Silent in the Morning, Punch You in the Eye, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters> Weekapaug Groove> Purple Rain, Slave to the Traffic Light
Encore: Rocky Top, Good Times Bad Times
the entire holiday run was amazing…snow storm started in dc and followed phish up the coast. crazy times. brought 2 friends to their first show on this night…hooked for life.
As crazy and as improbable as it sounds, 2/20/93 was my first show. I was home for the weekend from college (my parents live in metro Atlanta). It was winter quarter of my freshman year and I had become nominally aware of Phish. At that point, I had been to a handful of Dead shows, a few Garcia shows and a ton of Widespread shows. I was intrigued by the eclectic nature of Phish’s music (what I’d heard on Picture Of Nectar and Junta-this is what I was aware of before that night) and was eager to check them out. I called a buddy of mine who was also home from college and asked him to attend with me. He thought I said that it was Fishbone and was more than a little disappointed at the onset when he realized otherwise (his opinion would change). We got down to the Roxy in ATL, parked and made our way in. It occurred to me that this band attracted a wide range of folks, mostly young hippie-type folks-which suited me perfectly. The lights went down at the run-down venue and I got my first look at the drummer. He was undoubtedly one of the funniest people I’d ever seen. There was just something about him that inspired laughter within me. I also remember thinking that there must be some mistake with the lead singer. In the liner notes of my Picture Of Nectar tape it said his name was something “Italian” sounding and this guy was a very, very fair complected red-head. The music started (Golgi) and…. OH MY GOD! This wasn’t just your regular jamband. They were playing just insane stuff. It seemed like there was a bit of a starge vibe between the guitarist and bassist, but they were running with it. The show ended up changing my life and the course of my life. I will always be in debt to Phish.
2.6.93 was one of the first tapes I ever had, procured solely because I wanted to hear John Popper on Buried Alive, Possum and Fire. Pretty sweet newb tape; introduced me to Mike’s Groove, PYITE and the Big Ball Jam (which still doesn’t quite translate to tape).
2.20.93: Need I say more?! This ENTIRE show is epic!! WoooHooooo!
i love 8/20/93. when this divided sky begins i get goosebumps. i played this set one tape more than i can remember and was one of my first digital acquisitions.
great YEM, Antelope and Free Bird.
love it!
I was thinking these guys are so much better than Santana.
Lost two friends and made three new ones on 12/30/93
sometime the setlist can tell its own story
04/09/93 First show, in my home town = fantastic!
Cinco de Mayo a la 93 @ the Palace Theater in Albany. Spot on performance. The segues spell it all out (Ice > Glide > Maze. Second set opener segue: Jim > My Friend > Manteca > My Friend) However, the highlight of that night was the 30+ min YEM including a jam with the Aquarium Rescue Unit as well as the Dude of Life. That YEM was unprecedented and still my favorite. I am glad that I was alive, glad glad glad; and I’m glad that you’re a glide.
05/05/93 Palace Theatre, Albany, NY
Set I: Rift, Guelah Papyrus, Foam, Sparkle, Stash, Bouncing Around the Room, It’s Ice> Glide> Maze, Golgi Apparatus
Set II: Runaway Jim> My Friend My Friend> Manteca> My Friend My Friend, Poor Heart, Weigh> Big Ball Jam, Ya Mar, You Enjoy Myself> Jam*
Encore: Amazing Grace, Cavern> Take the A-Train> Cavern
*Jam with The Aquarium Rescue Unit and the Dude of Life
Pick a favorite show from 93?
Hmm,let’s see. I’ve got to agree with 5-8-93 the My Friend,My Friend is a fav or all I’ve heard.8-13-93 show which has also already been mentioned,for numerous reasons.
To throw another in the mix,how about the night after Indy in Tinley Park? 8-14-93
2-20-93
no, this is not a plug for this show. this has always been my favorite show from this year. in fact, phish always puts on a great show on 2-20. look at the setlists.
12/30/93 – Everything is pretty much perfect
03-06-93
This was my first Phish show, plus it was in my hometown of Austin! What a wonderful venue Liberty Lunch was. Cracklin’ Rosie made me lose it.
2-25-93. This was my first Phish experience, and I’ve been listening ever since. Highlights for me included Cavern and a rockin Bowie. But what stole the show, was Fish’s mom coming out during If I Only Had a Brain and playing the electrolux. Classic. Can’t wait to listen to Roxy, seeing as I saw them not even a week after those miltonian shows.
12.31.93 was my 10th show that year. The fish tank setup with scuba divers was unforgettable. Loved the Tweezer and Possum, and the jam after Auld Lang Syne was a fantastic intro for DWD. It was my first NYE show, which were some of my favorite shows.
12-30-93
In a dark and hazy dorm room two kids sit and bob their heads in silence, passing a pipe and learning about Phish from their crispiest tape. Nap, repeat.
Clearly, set 2 of 2/20/93. Its pure magic.
The YEM with The Aquarium Rescue Unit and the Dude of Life is one of the most listened to Phish songs of all time.
05/05/93 Palace Theatre, Albany, NY
Set I: Rift, Guelah Papyrus, Foam, Sparkle, Stash, Bouncing Around the Room, It’s Ice> Glide> Maze, Golgi Apparatus
Set II: Runaway Jim> My Friend My Friend> Manteca> My Friend My Friend, Poor Heart, Weigh> Big Ball Jam, Ya Mar, You Enjoy Myself> Jam1
Encore: Amazing Grace, Cavern> Take the A-Train> Cavern
1 With The Aquarium Rescue Unit and the Dude of Life
SEE THE CITY…SEE THE ZOO!!! First Slave in 237 shows and what a place to pull it out! Great venue and the only show they ever played there…bummer. You get Tequila and Cocaine (the songs) thrown in throughout the show and that my friends is the makings of one of the greatest shows in Phistory.
08/06/93 Cincinnati Zoo Peacock Pavilion, Cincinnati, OH
Set I: Split Open and Melt, Poor Heart, The Curtain, Sample in a Jar, Rift, Horn, The Divided Sky, Nellie Kane, Chalkdust Torture, Suzy Greenberg
Set II: Buried Alive, Tweezer, Guelah Papyrus, Squirming Coil, Uncle Pen, You Enjoy Myself> Halley’s Comet> Slave to the Traffic Light, HYHU> Cracklin’ Rosie> HYHU, Tweezer Reprise
Encore: Amazing Grace
Well, 1993 comes down to 2 choice. 8-02-93 Ritz, FL and 8-20-93, Red Rocks.
On the first show of August 93, 8-2 has a shredding second set starting with 2001, which is one reason I first started to love this band! And you just can’t go wrong with an ANTELOPE SANDWICH to close…H-O-T!!
The first real Red Rocks show, 8-20 was no let down with amazing set openers. Divided opened set one, which you know is going to lead good things, but the Ice>Mound really tells the tale. 2001 also opens set 2, like 8-2, but the 2001>slave>SOAMelt just melts your face.
My favorite Phish show from 1993 is 2/26/1993 the ritz, tampa, florida. This is my favorite show from 1993 because recently a friend of mine sent me his cassette masters and i transfered the tapes to cdr for him. The cool thing is that he sent me the first and only known source for the 1st set! It was a true rare find, it wasn’t in the data base and up until now it has been hidden and uncirculated. The whole show is classic 1993 phish: the speed, the fury, the precision of the composed sections, the humor, and all that was phish in 1993.
We have recently gotten these cass masters to someone over at LL to be edited, mastered, and circulated via bit torrent. 2/26/1993 is my favorite show from 1993 because i feel like a part of history by getting this tape out to the masses! Look for it soon!
Mike that was also my first Phish show and I would love to get hold of that bit torrent. Where can I find it? Thanks
7/24/93 @ Great Woods. My introduction to the band that would capture my attention from that day forward, leading to several cross-country road trips and incredibly good times with friends.
Great show overall, but the second set was phenomenal.
12-30-1993, Portland Maine… Maybe my favorite setlist in Phish history, it was a killer show towards the end of ’93. Starting it off with a rocking Bowie, the phantastic phour segue into weigh, the curtain, sample, paul and silas, forbin;s, mockingbird, rift, bathtub, ending set one with a freebird cover. The second set was kicked off with 2001, mike’s into hydrogen, taking into the horse, silent in the morning, PYITE, and mcgrupp before bringing it into weekapaug groove. The set then ends with a purple rain chock full of fishman on vacuum, and finally a slave. rocky top and GTBT encore finish it off, making it, in my opinion an ideal 21-song setlist.
I had just come back from traveling around Israel summer of ’93. I brought 40 cd’s with me (cases and all) and only listened to 3 of them the entire trip…junta, lawn boy, and rift. It was the summer I discovered Phish. I came back praying they would be playing sometime soon in my area. They played one week later on 8/12 at meadowbrook in detroit. It was the first hit of a major addiction of following these four freaks all over the place. Highlights of the show were the ac/dc bag, reba, possum, and the single greatest freebird they ever performed. I laughed and danced my ass off. Thank you boys.
12/30/93…i love bluegrassy sounding tunes and this show i believe has a nice version of Paul and Silas, a song i was lucky enough to see Phish play in 98. maybe i will finally win bc im posting my comment on the 12th anniversary of my first Phish show ever! only time will tell with that one…
08/17/93 Memorial Hall, Kansas City, KS
Set I: Wilson, Llama, Guelah Papyrus, The Divided Sky, Weigh> Maze, Fluffhead, Fast Enough For You, Daniel
Set II: Also Sprach Zarathustra> David Bowie, The Horse> Silent in the Morning, Rift, Suzy Greenberg, You Enjoy Myself1> Purple Rain> HYHU, My Sweet One, Cavern
Encore: Memories, Fire
1 With “Ob La Di, Ob La Da” teases in vocal jam
03/22/93 Crest Theater, Sacramento, CA
3-22-93 The Crest Theater, Sacramento, CA
Set I: Chalkdust Torture, Guelah Papyrus, Uncle Pen, Stash, Bouncing Around the Room, Rift, Weigh, Reba, Sparkle, David Bowie
Set II: Golgi Apparatus, It’s Ice> The Lizards1, Tela1, Wilson1, AC/DC Bag1, Colonel Forbin’s Ascent1> Fly Famous Mockingbird1, The Sloth1, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters1, Mike’s Song> I am Hydrogen> Weekapaug Groove
Encore: Amazing Grace, Fire
1 With Gamehendge narration
I love how Trey comments on the most “quiet, respectful audience we’ve had in a long time”. Just a good solid first set, followed by GH. Just a great show.