From: Jeff Scholtec 
Cc: fubar@weber.campus.mci.net
Subject: review 8-2-96

I attended my 5th Phish concert last night at Wolf Mountain in Park City,
Utah.  I believe that it is the first concert in the summer tour here in
the states.  

It was a perfect evening in Park City.  The clouds, the temperature, the
moon. Perfect.  The first set had a number of sound problems.  The members
of the band held their ears a few times during feedback episodes.  They
played a number of songs that I had heard of but hadn't "heard" in person,
including Possum and a cute barbershop quartet ditty.  

It is the second set that blew my mind.  Best I have heard them play.
The sound problems were solved.  The vocals were crisp.  The dynamics were
monterous.  It started with "Run Like and Antelope".  There was probably
10 seconds total between all of the songs in the second set.  Trey added
something new with a sampler of some kind.  He sampled a chord on his
guitar, started playing some percussion and manipulating the guitar sample
while he beat some drums.  Fascinating. It was a magical evening to start
a tour.  If Red Rocks wasn't sold out, I would be on I-80 eastbound.  

Phish head for life

Jeff
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From: "Craig Guyer" 
Subject: 08/02/96 REVIEW

Just wanted to do this before I forgot *all* of the details.  Park City
is a neat small resort town, this was my first time there.  I drove from
Seattle to get there, and I saw the HORDE show on Thursday and the drive
was rough.  So I had been run down a bit.  Friday, the weather was
sunny/overcast/sunny with occasional drips of showers (not golden hose
showers) and around seven there were these amazingly beautiful rainbows.
A very distinct double rainbow, and a couple of times I swore that I saw
three.  They were draped across the bottom of the valley that we had
climbed up.  Very neat to see.  Phish came out at around quarter to eight
or so (didn't check) and Page played a very weird/cool 'Somewhere over the
rainbow'.  I am still not sure what he was doing and I had decent assigned
seats.  Mike was wearing this great outfit all day-glow green.  Pants and
a stretchy day-glow green cut-sleeve t-shirt.  I had actually gotten lucky
and talked to Mike during Horde.  I talked to him about the storm (there
was this crazy wind/rain/lighting storm on thursday) and his umbrella and
I asked whether they had a good time in Europe.  He said that they did.
Fishman was sporting a typical dress and NO GOGGLES!!!  Later, he was 
wearing some shades, tho'.  Trey and Page looked mostly normal (that is,
the way they normally look).  They then played 'Ya Mar' which was well 
played and I liked it.  Good starter.  But then they played DWD and I
don't really dig that song, and thought that the jam was pretty damn
noodly, so some personal momentum was lost.  Guelah Papyrus was nice to
start hearing and I think Trey said "the squirming flag can be a rag' in
place of 'so maybe I could be a fly'.  I was not quite sure where that fit
in.  But hopefully I will soon have tapes to hear of it (Thanks, Tony!).
Poor Heart made me get up & bluegrass boogie a bit.  The Foam was
powerful, a bit atonal, dark. But cool.  This next was Theme from the
bottom.  I like this song, but the placement was weird for me.  Then
Golgi.  First DWD then Golgi.  I wasn't having my favorite first set.
Anyway, I don't think that either of those songs are my favorite, so my
momentum pretty much stopped.  Tweezer started and I left my stadium seats
to go hang out with my friends (my friends) up in nose-bleed gen ad.  I
wasn't paying attention to the tweezer.  Ragtime gal was next.  Then 
Possum, which got everyone hyped but I don't think it was really great.
This ended the set.  Before and after the show, they had been playing  
some neat tunes.  I think that I recognized some of MMW, and they were
playing some surrender to the air.  Some other stuff, too.  The second
set started with Runaway Jim, which is a great song, and they played it
well.  Simple was next, and I liked where they went with the jam, it
wasn't like the one on ALO.  I thought that it was pretty melodic and went
somewhere.  They then started to play Taste.  Kind of in the middle,
though, they played some 'Fog that Surrounds', and I thought that I had
heard that they were not going to play that anymore.  But that is their
prerogative, I suppose. It was played a bit differently, though.  I liked
it a lot.  Free then blew out of  the air.  It was nice to hear that song.
Fluffhead was perfect.  Prince Caspian was well placed and I think a bit
different than it had been.  They then played Horse->silent.  Antelope
went into the "last song" slot and was played well, all with Rye Rye,
Marco,  & Spike.  Trey also snuck a 'Star Wars' reference in the jam.  It
was pretty cool to hear that in the context of a phish show.  I got goose
bumps.  Then the best thing happened.  They came out and started what is
one of my current favorite songs.  It is a song which can confuse.  Punch
you in the Eye fired up, and was great.  The Landlady changes went back 
and forth several times with powerful crescendos.  I dig this tune.  Great  
second set.  I was a bit bummed about this show for a few reasons.  They  
really did go off quite a bit which I am not sure was because they were  
holding so much in from Europe that they really wanted to freak out.  But
they jammed on a lot of songs in weird ways.  Another reason was that
they played no new songs.  I had been looking forward to hearing some new
songs, and they have quite a few.  That bummed me out too.  Otherwise a
neat-o show.  Nothing really terrible happened to me and my friends at
this show.  Usually us getting together is disaster.  One friend got
busted for vending his hand sewn Phish pillows.  Someone in the
Phishorganization just got a nifty hand made pillow.  Hope you guys
appreciate it.  I guess my friend kind of was breaking trademark laws.  I
got home from Utah just in time to see DEAD CAN DANCE in Seattle.  Good
show. Sorry for the ramblings and the short sections of nophishcontent.

Kyle