PHISH - The Clifford Ball - 1996-08-16 and 1996-08-17 - Plattsburgh AFB - Plattsburgh NY

 

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PHISH, FRIDAY 08/16/1996

PLATTSBURGH AIR FORCE BASE

Plattsburgh, NY

SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Bathtub Gin, Ya Mar, AC/DC Bag > Esther > Divided Sky, Halley's Comet > David Bowie

SET 2: Split Open and Melt, Sparkle > Free, The Squirming Coil, Waste[1], Talk[1], Train Song[1], Strange Design[1], Hello My Baby, Mike's Song -> Simple -> Contact > Weekapaug Groove

SET 3: Makisupa Policeman > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Down with Disease[2] -> NICU, Life on Mars? > Harry Hood -> Jam

ENCORE: Amazing Grace

SET 4: Flatbed Truck Jam

[1] Acoustic mini-stage.

[2] Unfinished.

This was the first show of The Clifford Ball festival. Bathtub Gin contained a brief DEG tease from Trey. Waste through Strange Design were performed on the acoustic mini-stage. Disease was unfinished. The second set was preceded by a Mary Had a Little Lamb tease. The jam at the end of Harry Hood accompanied a fireworks display. The band took to the back of a flatbed truck at around 3:30 in the morning and drove through the crowd. The performance was one long open-ended jam.

PHISH, SATURDAY 08/17/1996

PLATTSBURGH AIR FORCE BASE

Plattsburgh, NY

SET 1: The Old Home Place, Punch You in the Eye, Reba[1] > Cars Trucks Buses, The Lizards, Sample in a Jar, Taste, Fee[2] -> Maze, Suzy Greenberg

SET 2: The Curtain > Runaway Jim, It's Ice > Brother[3], Fluffhead, Run Like an Antelope > Golgi Apparatus > Slave to the Traffic Light

SET 3: Wilson > Frankenstein, Scent of a Mule[4], Tweezer, A Day in the Life, Possum > Tweezer Reprise

ENCORE: Harpua[5]

[1] No whistling.

[2] Trey sang verses through megaphone.

[3] Ben and Jerry on vocals.

[4] Page/Fish Mule Duel.

[5] Unfinished.

This was the second show of The Clifford Ball festival. Reba did not have the whistling ending. Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone. Before the second set, Trey paid tribute to Aaron Stein of Syracuse, who was front row center for every show of the tour. The first Brother since August 2, 1993 (258 shows) featured Ben and Jerry on guest vocals. Wilson included a Heartbreaker tease. Antelope featured a female acrobat twirling in the rigging, suspended above the stage in a circus-like fashion. Scent of a Mule featured a Page/Fish duel instead of the typical Page/Trey duel. Tweezer had big trampolines on each side of the stage and more circus shenanigans. A stunt plane circled overhead during Tweezer Reprise and Harpua. Harpua was unfinished; it was completed on August 16, 1997 at The Great Went.

Rolls on forever? (You damn right!)

 

Today, your ol' Uncle Hugo (again) received a slew of takedown notices from Mega for almost the entire run of recently posted shows for ToS violations. This is the second time since the beginning of Summer Tour that we've had our ship run aground here at BMB. It's becoming apparent that either the Boys from VT have some aggressive bulldogs, or that Mega is more of a snitch than the wild wild west it used to be.

So, what comes next?

Well, we've got until New Years to figure out our move. Gotta look into some options. We Transfer and the Drive of the Googles are the current front runners, but there are costs associated with those that there weren't with Mega, and Uncle Hugo is counting his shekels and seeing what's what. This is frustrating to us, and it feels like we're letting you down. We're gonna find a way to keep our heads above water and keep the goodness flowing. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, I'll try to get Halloween re-Post Malone'd some other way.

One way or another, this darkness got to give...

UH

PHISH - 2021-10-31 - MGM Grand Garden Arena - Las Vegas NV

 

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PHISH, SUNDAY 10/31/2021

MGM GRAND GARDEN ARENA

Las Vegas, NV

SET 1: Buried Alive, Roses Are Free > Ghost, Wolfman's Brother, Kill Devil Falls > Free, David Bowie

SET 2: Knuckle Bone Broth Avenue, Get More Down, Egg in a Hole, Thanksgiving, Clear Your Mind > The 9th Cube, The Inner Reaches of Outer, Don't Doubt Me, The Unwinding, Something Living Here, The Howling, I Am in Miami

SET 3: Carini > Lonely Trip, Soul Planet > Death Don't Hurt Very Long > Twist, Drift While You're Sleeping

ENCORE: Harry Hood

For the second set, the band's "musical costume" was all debuted originals, performed as the invented band Sci-Fi Soldier (a 14-page comic book distributed upon entry detailed the group's adventure to save the planet). For that set, the band performed in elaborate costumes (helmets and all), with alternate instruments (Trey on a BCR Mockingbird), each playing within a flashing/glowing shape (two circles and two squares), after descending (in the form of holograms) from the ceiling in cylinders of colored light. Knuckle Bone Broth Avenue included extended choreography by Trey and Mike. During Get More Down, matching upright geometric shapes danced around behind the band, reducing to the two circles overlapped by Egg in a Hole, which featured pyrotechnics. Before Clear Your Mind, Trey introduced the band as from the year 4680 (the total of the October 28, 2021 songs as noted during that night's encore-ending Grind). During The 9th Cube, there were projections of donuts and turtles on a cube above the band. Fireworks rained down on the stage during The Inner Reaches of Outer. For I Am in Miami, Trey switched to an acoustic guitar and the band stood together at stage front with the four-mic a cappella setup. After the set, the band departed as holograms back up the colored tubes. The start of Harry Hood included alternate lyrics (Holy Blankenstein). Soul Planet contained Knuckle Bone Broth Avenue and Don't Doubt Me quotes.

PHISH - 2021-10-30 - MGM Grand Garden Arena - Las Vegas NV

 

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PHISH, SATURDAY 10/30/2021

MGM GRAND GARDEN ARENA

Las Vegas, NV

SET 1: The Dogs > Ocelot, Turtle in the Clouds, Run Like an Antelope, Camel Walk, Wombat > Guyute, Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Shaggy Dog, Dog Faced Boy, The Sloth, Llama, I Am the Walrus

SET 2: Dogs Stole Things, Your Pet Cat > Runaway Jim > Piper -> Birds of a Feather, Harpua > Bug > The Lizards, Farmhouse

ENCORE: Vultures, Sleeping Monkey > Possum

The songs in this show were based on animals. Big Black Furry Creature From Mars and Harpua contained Little Squirrel quotes. Shaggy Dog was played for the first time since June 22, 2012 (331 shows). I Am The Walrus was played for the first time since July 29, 2017 (130 shows). Runaway Jim was unfinished. Harpua was performed for the first time since July 30, 2017 (129 shows) and featured Carini and Your Pet Cat quotes as well as This Jesus Must Die scatting from Trey.

PHISH - 2021-10-29 - MGM Grand Garden Arena - Las Vegas NV

 

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PHISH, FRIDAY 10/29/2021

MGM GRAND GARDEN ARENA

Las Vegas, NV

SET 1: Olivia's Pool, Axilla (Part II) > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Shade, I Always Wanted It This Way

SET 2: Ass Handed > Tweezer > Funky Bitch, Reba, Sand -> Tweezer -> Sigma Oasis > Walk Away

ENCORE: Julius > Tweezer Reprise

Trey and Mike quoted Little Squirrel throughout the first set (after Olivia’s Pool, and during Axilla and Weekapaug Groove), and during the final vocal chorus of Reba. After Olivia’s Pool, Trey also did a Little Squirrel call-and-response with the audience. Trey teased Martian Monster in Mike’s Song and There Is a Mountain and Who Knows in I Always Wanted It This Way. Reba contained a verse with an Ass Handed quote by Trey in the final vocal chorus. Trey teased Tweezer during Sand

PHISH - 2021-10-28 - MGM Grand Garden Arena - Las Vegas NV

 

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PHISH, THURSDAY 10/28/2021

MGM GRAND GARDEN ARENA

Las Vegas, NV

SET 1: Also Sprach Zarathustra, 1999 > 555 > 46 Days, Strawberry Letter 23 > Twenty Years Later

SET 2: Seven Below > If 6 Was 9 > Five Years > Two Versions of Me -> NO2, Army of One, My Sweet One, First Tube > Character Zero

ENCORE: Backwards Down the Number Line, Grind

This show featured a setlist with all songs featuring a number in their name in descending order including the Phish debut of If 6 Was 9 and several bustouts: 1999 (last played July 26, 2017, or 130 shows), Five Years (last played October 31, 2016, or 147 shows), Two Versions of Me (last played November 27, 2009, or 435 shows), and NO2 (last played September 6, 2015, or 192 shows). Trey teased L.A. Woman in Also Sprach Zarathustra and Seven Below in First Tube. In place of the usual number of days lived, Grind featured the band singing the setlist ended by noting that the songs added up to “4,680 digits.”