AL83@delphi.com

6/23/95 Waterloo Village - Stanhope, NJ

I.                                                      II.
Simple                                          Runaway Jim--->
Chalkdust Torture                                       space--->
Prince Caspian                                  Lizards
Reba                                                    The Wedge
Ginseng Sullivan                                        Antelope
Free                                                    Harpua--->
Taste                                                   Waterloo*^--->
You Enjoy Myself                                        Llama^  
                                                        Good Times Bad Times
E: A Day In The Life

* - first time, ABBA cover
^ - with JOHN POPPER on harmonica!!!

first off, lemee tell you what a bitch it was getting in... so much of one in 
fact that we had to walk 5 miles from the parking lot to the stage area and 
missed all of the first set. we parked and began to walk... we met up with 
several "security" people pointing us away saying we were only a mile away... 
some many miles and an hour and a half later we could hear a bass solo rumbling 
out of the woods... we shrugged... then seconds later "wash Uffize drive me to 
Firenze" (or whatever) 

we made it in for set 2... it opened with Runaway Jim... by all accounts they 
were attempting to do what they did the other night, without much success. 
during one of the solo's Trey hinted at the outro solo from Down With Disease. a
weird spacey jam with Page and Trey each going different directions... it seemed
Page wanted to play Feed/Theme and Trey wanted Lizards... Trey had his way. the 
Wedge was next... i dislike this tune... that's just me... a STRANGE Antelope 
followed... the band was on but whenever Trey seemed like he should be 
soloing... he didn't... when he did it was atonal and weird... spacey... Trey 
seems to be real into that stuff this tour. during the Rye Rye Rocco section 
Trey paused before the word "spike" and the rest of the band yelling SPIKE in a 
beavis and butthead voice. 

OM-PAH-PAH, OM-PAH-PAH... i phreaked... Harpua... in gamehendge... the old man 
gets dragged back into town by some weird force... (not the Vib. Of Life)... 
there was no mention of Poster Nutbag, nor was there a fight or anything else...
it was incomplete... but who cares? not i... Jimmy puts on an old record he 
finds... by the sweedish supergroup ABBA... Waterloo (the name of the song)... 
(shlocky 70's pop)... Jimmy soon decides that it sucks... so he decides he needs
some harmonica... fuck the horns... the big man himself saunters out onto stage 
and promptly puts an end to those rumors... lemee tell ya, he blows a mad 
harp... Popper is THE shit... after a bit of jamming they began to segue... i 
was hoping for Gloria (anyone familiar with older BT live sets can tell you why)
or Don't Get Me Wrong (Popper's collaboration w/ Trey) but it slowly but surely 
moved into Llama... after that the harp became buried in the mix... bummer... 
GTBT followed that - always a treat... but, that was the end of the set... 
really really short... i was pretty pissed... i mean, if you have John Popper in
the house exploit his talents to the fullest! the encore was a nice Day In The 
Life... my first time hearing it... 

i bet they finish all the unfinished Tweezers as well as Harpua at the end of 
the tour...

see ya,
jesse :)
ps. a few more things...
i don't give a shit if your a phish head, deadhead, airhead, bonehead,
melonhead, rastahead, noodlehead, puffhead, givehead, or even Fluffhead -
DON'T COME TO THE SHOW WITHOUT A TICKET!!!! simple... there were tickets
left for tonights show (though there shouldn't have been - it was oversold
by about 12,000 people...) - yet i still saw AT LEAST 100-200 miracle
seekers...
pss. i'm never going back to Waterloo again... it was such a problem
getting in and out... on the way there we didn't even know about the
shuttle buses... on the way back it took us 2 hours