LivePhish Vol. 16-20

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LivePhish Vol. 16
SATURDAY 10/31/1998 THOMAS & MACK CENTER Las Vegas, NV

SET 1: Axilla > Punch You in the Eye > Roggae, Birds of a Feather, Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley[1] -> Chalk Dust Torture[2] > Lawn Boy, Mike's Song -> Frankie Says > Weekapaug Groove

SET 2: Who Loves the Sun?[3], Sweet Jane, Rock and Roll[3], Cool It Down[3], New Age[3], Head Held High[3], Lonesome Cowboy Bill > I Found a Reason[3], Train Round the Bend[3], Oh! Sweet Nuthin'[3]

SET 3: Wolfman's Brother[4] -> Piper > Ghost

ENCORE: Sleeping Monkey > Tweezer Reprise

FILLER (10/30/1998 Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas NV): Run Like an Antelope, Stash -> Manteca -> Tweezer -> NICU > Jam > Prince Caspian > Golgi Apparatus E: Driver, Free Bird

[1] No vocal jam.
[2] Unfinished.
[3] Phish debut.
[4] Fish on vacuum.

Sneakin' Sally included a Super Bad tease from Trey and did not contain a vocal jam. Chalk Dust was unfinished. Mike’s Song included Simple teases. The second set "musical costume" was The Velvet Underground's Loaded. All of the songs in the second set were Phish debuts, except for Sweet Jane and Lonesome Cowboy Bill (which hadn’t been played since June 10, 1995, or 268 shows). The long jam out of Wolfman’s included Makisupa, Lifeboy, and On Your Way Down teases and featured Fish on vacuum. The band left the stage during Ghost, as the sound of Trey’s delay loop ended the set. From 10/30/1998, Tweezer subsequently included Manteca and You Better Believe It Baby teases. Driver featured Trey on acoustic guitar. This show was webcast live and was officially released as Live Phish 16.

LivePhish Vol. 17
WEDNESDAY 07/15/1998 PORTLAND MEADOWS Portland, OR

SET 1: Wolfman's Brother, Water in the Sky, The Moma Dance, Guyute, Horn -> Jam > Chalk Dust Torture, Brian and Robert, Beauty of My Dreams, Cars Trucks Buses, Roggae, Birds of a Feather, Loving Cup

SET 2: Limb By Limb -> Simple > Tweezer -> California Love Jam -> Tweezer -> Free, Meat, Harry Hood

ENCORE: Wilson > Tweezer Reprise

FILLER (July 29, 1998, Riverport Amphitheatre, Maryland Heights, Missouri): Bathtub Gin


Some humor surrounded the Guyute ending; fans of stage banter will want to seek this segment out. Fish teased Peaches before Limb By Limb and Glide in Simple. This show was officially released as Live Phish 17.

LivePhish Vol. 18
SATURDAY 05/07/1994 THE BOMB FACTORY Dallas, TX

SET 1: Llama, Horn[1] > Divided Sky, Mound, Fast Enough for You > Scent of a Mule, Split Open and Melt, If I Could, Suzy Greenberg

SET 2: Loving Cup > Sparkle > Tweezer -> Mind Left Body Jam -> Sparks -> Makisupa Policeman -> Digital Delay Loop Jam -> Sweet Emotion Jam -> Walk Away[2] -> Cannonball Jam -> Purple Rain > Hold Your Head Up Jam -> Tweezer Reprise

ENCORE: Amazing Grace[3], Sample in a Jar

FILLER (November 22, 1994, Jesse Auditorium, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri):
Funky Bitch, Columbia Jam, Jerusalem, Jerusalem (Yerushalayim Shel Zahav)

[1] Ended with a brief, atypical jam.
[2] The jam after Walk Away included a Page solo and a Simpsons signal.
[3] Without microphones.

Horn ended with a brief, atypical jam. The jam out of Walk Away included a Page solo, teases of It’s Ice and McGrupp, and a Simpsons signal. The Sweet Emotion and HYHU Jams both contained Tweezer teases. Amazing Grace was performed without microphones. This show was officially released as Live Phish 18.

LivePhish Vol. 19
FRIDAY 07/12/1991 THE COLONIAL THEATRE Keene, NH

SET 1: Dinner and a Movie[1] > Bouncing Around the Room[1] > Buried Alive[1] > Flat Fee[1], Reba, The Landlady[1], Bathtub Gin[1], Donna Lee[1], AC/DC Bag[1] > Rocky Top, Cavern[1], David Bowie[1]

SET 2: Golgi Apparatus, The Squirming Coil, Moose the Mooche[2], Tweezer[1] > My Sweet One, Gumbo[1] > Mike's Song[1] > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove[1], Hold Your Head Up > Touch Me[3] > Hold Your Head Up > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg[1]

ENCORE: Sweet Adeline[4], Frankenstein[1]

ENCORE 2: Fee > Tweezer Reprise[1]

[1] Giant Country Horns.
[2] Phish debut; Giant Country Horns
[3] Giant Country Horns, Fish on trombone.
[4] Without microphones.

This show, officially released as Live Phish 19, featured The Giant Country Horns for all songs except Reba, Rocky Top, Golgi, The Squirming Coil, My Sweet One, Hydrogen, both HYHUs, Oh Kee Pa, Adeline, and Fee. It also marked the first Phish performance of Moose the Mooche, which contained a tease of Rhythm-A-Ning from Trey. Trey also teased the Woody Woodpecker theme before Golgi. During the band intros before Donna Lee, Page and Russ teased Killer Joe during Russ's introduction. Prior to Touch Me, Fish was introduced as the Lizard Queen. Touch Me featured Fish on trombone. Sweet Adeline was performed without microphones.

LivePhish Vol. 20
THURSDAY 12/29/1994 PROVIDENCE CIVIC CENTER Providence, RI

SET 1: Runaway Jim -> Foam, If I Could, Split Open and Melt, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Uncle Pen, I Didn't Know, Possum

SET 2: Guyute, Digital Delay Loop Jam -> David Bowie[1], Halley's Comet > The Lizards, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Good Times Bad Times

ENCORE: My Long Journey Home[2], Sleeping Monkey

[1] Whistling and a "Lassie" chant.
[2] Acoustic.

Unlike many Runaway Jim and Foam combos, the opening to this show contained an actual segue between the two songs. Runaway Jim and Possum included Dueling Banjos teases. Possum also included an L.A. Woman tease. Before Guyute, Trey teased Spill the Wine. This epic Bowie, which times out at nearly 34 minutes, included whistling and a “Lassie” chant, a brief 2001 tease from Mike, and a whistled tease of Fishin' Hole. GTBT included Heartbreaker and Stairway to Heaven teases. My Long Journey Home was performed acoustic. The soundcheck's Sample was only one verse. This show was officially released as Live Phish 20.