1993-08-12 Rochester Hills, MI

 8 12 93 Rochester Hills, MI

Starts off with a wonderful AC/DC Bag. If I had this in perfect sound it would be going on my "non-album songs" playlist PRONTO!!! 

Insane Reba.

Also, the sound quality on this AUD is terrific. Do some slight EQ to boost the top end a bit and its a wonderful headphone listen!!!  

Reba

WOAH!

This isn't yer usual Reba. The boys jam this one pretty weird (for Reba, at least). Page is all over this one. Because I suck at describing things, here's a succinct quote from .NET:

"Reba - Type 2 jam with lots of tension that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Some nice interplay between Page and Trey. If the release from all of the tension was better, I think this would be an all-time version." 

 Chalkdust Torture

Another absolutely face-melting, world-destroying, perfectly performed CDT. 1993 Phish in a nutshell right here. 

SOAM

yesssssss....

The Squirming Coil

Forget the song, this is basically just a massive Page solo for like 6 minutes.

Sick. 

2001>The Landlady

Very cool to get Landlady, but unfortunately Trey seems to be having tech issues or something as he is butchering the hell out them

But, when in doubt, just whip out some feedback squalls and then get your angst out in a flurry of shredding!

And into Tweezer we go!!! 

Tweezer

Holy freaking crap

2001>The Landlady>Tweezer>Landlady Reprise>Tweeprize>The Lizards

Ok, so this was half magic half butchered insanity. As I said before something is up with Trey. If you want to hear a good Landlady then this is NOT the one to seek out, lol.

That being said, Tweezer was hotter than the sun and Lizards is 10/10 gorgeous perfection of the goose-bumps-on-your-arms kind

Also, KEEP KILLIN IT PAGE!!!!  

1993-08-11 Grand Rapids, MI

 Beginning 1993 08 11 Grand Rapids before turning in for the night

Buried Alive kicks us straight to the sun before we get an ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE Runaway Jim!!!!

10/10

Its lengthy and jammed to hell and back with everyone shredding it up, but its got that extra something to distinguish it from other 93 shredfests

This Jim is absolutely must hear.

A rare Weigh is next and the X Factor wonderfulness continues.

Then into a perfect Its Ice...

Yea, I dont think this show is gonna break the streak of classic shows.... 

The debut of a much slowed down Ginseng Sullivan was excellent.

But the steamrolling resumes with a smashing My Friend...

Sick  

Woah!!!

Check this Stash! This is like the evil near-Type-II precursor to Carini

This is evil! 

Set 2

After doing set 1 the other night, im picking back up.

Mikes-Gig-Groove

30 minutes of wtf in the best way possible.

Wow  

Ok, so up next was a ridiculous Esther-All Things Reconsidered

Im not really an Esther fan but the 2 were still great.

After a break with BATR we go 500 miles an hour into a brick wall with an EXPLOSIVE Rift!

Rift is always awesome but this one really stood out to me.

Also - SIMPSONS. SIMPSONS EVERYWHERE.

After Jesus and My Sweet One we get an outta this nebula Antelope still loaded with more Simpsons

This show was great. The 2nd set was pretty darn dense though so I dont see myself returning soon, but just know the August 93 winning streak still remains unbroken!!!

1993-08-09 Toronto, CAN

93 08 09 Toronto

How else do you open a 1993 show but with a RIPPING AS ALL HELL Chalkdust Torture with a legit Who Knows jam in the middle?!

Dude, mind=blown

The boys are still tearing it up like 8/8 never ended!

Fee>Split Open and Melt>Glide

Spectacular!!!! The segue from one to the next is like melted butter.

Also, the guys go NUTS during SOAM. I've heard lots of hot ones (read:all of them) but this one is definitely one to check out!!!
The jamming is very dynamic and you can tell the guys are listening/following closely to each other as they are constantly changing tempos and moods on a dime like it's nothing.

Sick.  

Dinner and a Movie>Tweezer

This Tweezer is full on Type II darkness. There's a great jam that sounds like Godzilla stomping around Tokyo or something. It's pretty sick.

 

1993-08-08 Cleveland, OH

 At my mom's with headphones, so it's time to move onwards in 1993 with 8/8 Cleveland

A ripping and ridiculous BBFCFM opens the show like a tornado!!!

Also, as the boys are whipping up the storm, Trey gives a hyperspeed version of one of the Divided Sky themes beneath the maelstrom.
Pretty funny/unexpected/awesome.

And then, without so much as a blink of the eye, we are into Foam... 

Loving Cup was surprisingly early in the set but killed just the same.

But holy crap this Runaway Jim is OUTTA THIS WORLD INSANE!!!!

I mean, it's only 8 minutes but it goes borderline Type II in spots and is completely off the rails. It's actually pretty dark and twisted!!!  

After a nice Horse>SITM, we get my favorite Phish tune, Punch You In The Eye

Although the ultra funky 12/31/95 version was my "I get it now" moment with Phish and my favorite version of any song ever played, these early 90s versions regularly slay.

They don't have as much funkiness and the piano has more presence, imo, than in later versions. This particular one is darn flawless, taken at a very speedy pace and absolutely DESTROYS for its entire duration.

Man, if Trey played one like this today people's minds would explode

SUCH DEXTERITY! 

Fast Enough For You

The best classic rock ballad that never was, Trey ripping it up and aiming for the heavens with every bit of shredding strength he can muster.

Jeez, this show is KILLING it so far!!!

August 1993 is certainly living up to expectations!!!

8/2/93 Tampa
8/6/93 Cincinnati
8/7/93 Darien

and now 8/8/93 Cleveland

4 of the 5 shows so far are on my "oh my god that was the greatest show I've ever heard list"

And if things are this good so far, looking at the second set for 8/8 I'm surely in for a doozy!!!  

I'm sorry for posting - AGAIN - but HOLY FRICKIN EVER LOVING CRAP THIS BOWIE IS HOTTER THAN THE INSIDE OF THE SUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

1993-08-07 Darien, NY

8 7 93 Darien

INSANE psych meltdown Stash!!!  

Oh crap, I just saw the insanity im about to hit in this show. Might have to wait till home or at Starbucks to give a proper listen 

The Stash meltdown pretty epicly, Reba is OUTTA THIS WORLD and Maze murders us 12 ways to Sunday like the Zodiac Killer

Reba segues into Maze with them doing the whistling over the Maze intro. Didnt catch that the other day. Its pretty funny.

Also Trey seamlessly inserts the Stairway solo into his Maze murder-fest.

This Maze is probably an all-timer.  

Forbins Rollercoaster Mockingbird

HOLY FREAKING CRAP MY JAW IS O THE FLOOR!!!

And then Mikes Song is NASTY as a back alley call girl. Holy hell. 

Mikes-Kung-TMWSIY-Avenu-SLOTH-Sparkle


...

WHAT?!?!?!

This was every bit as mindblowingly incredible as it looks  

And then we get the ever incredible McGrupp!!

What the heck?! SO MUCH GAMEHENDGE! 

 

1993-08-06 Cincinnati, OH

93 08 06 Cincinnati

Beginning this awfully dreary, rainy morning with a red hot SOAM

No type 2, but extremely jammed out type 1 fer sher


Next, the trio of Curtain-Sample and Rift sound made for each other.

The segue from Curtain into Sample is so seamless if you werent familiar with the music youd think it was one big song.

And then having Rift follow gives us the "With" we didnt get earlier

Beautiful Horn now...  

Divided Sky

Terrific 

Just found out this was the return of Slave since 1991. Huh.  

Set 1 finished with a fiery CDT and a SMOKING Suzy

Set 2 off to a bang with Buried Alive, an ultra wacky Tweezer and now a tight Guelah 

This YEM is pretty dang sweet

YEM Vocal jam>Halleys Comet

Holy crap that was unexpected  

Return of Slave is mind blowingly awesome.

The ending of the show is lame and skippable.

Onward to 8 7 93 Darien and a white hot, feedback laden Llama kicks us in the face

Good way to start a show!

1993-08-03 Miami, FL

8/3/93 Miami, FL

After the world-destroying 8/2, I move onwards further south to Miami.

On paper this show doesn't look as good and the ratings online don't rank it that highly, but Phish and the Dead will teach you - DONT JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER!

It might suck, it might awesome. We will find out.

Also, it features a whopping EIGHT songs from Rift - I know the July and August shows are super heavy on Rift material, but dang I don't think any have had this much from it at once!  

First set is a total sleeper for me until Ya Mar. Everything was played fine, but there was no "pizazz" - it's like they left all the rocket sauce back in Tampa, haha.

It's like excellent, dare I say, background music.

Ya Mar is SUPER FUN though!!! Awesome organ solo from Page!

And then straight into a world-destroying Llama that sees Trey ripping us into a million pieces.

Machine gun does not begin to describe it!

 

Set 2 so far is killing it.

Lengthwise was a strange opener, but Maze destroyed, BATR was actually really fresh sounding, It's Ice slayed as usual and so far YEM is funky as hell!

Also, if listening in headphones, beware of Trey's "feedback from hell" moment in YEM.