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.