Saturday, 05/07/1994
The Bomb Factory, Dallas, TX
Soundcheck: Jazz Jam, Dog Log (slow reggae version), Blues Jam
Set 1: Llama, Horn[1] -> The Divided Sky, Mound, Fast Enough for You, Scent of a Mule, Split Open and Melt, If I Could, Suzy Greenberg
Set 2: Loving Cup, Sparkle, Tweezer -> Sparks -> Makisupa Policeman -> Digital Delay Loop Jam -> Sweet Emotion Jam -> Walk Away[2] -> Cannonball Jam -> Purple Rain > Hold Your Head Up -> Tweezer Reprise
Encore: Amazing Grace, Sample in a Jar
[1] Ended with a brief, atypical jam.
[2] The jam after Walk Away included a Page solo, teases of It’s Ice and McGrupp, and a Simpsons signal.
Notes: Horn ended with a brief, atypical jam. The jam after Walk Away included a Page solo, teases of It’s Ice and McGrupp, and a Simpsons signal. This show was officially released as Live Phish 18.
This show was part of the "1994 Spring Tour."
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2 Phish.netters attended.
Before Tweezer was a disco-ball dance tune it was an all-bets-are-off mid-90's free-improv springboard, and this small-venue second set is a relatively coherent Tweezer medley. Apparently the band did shots at setbreak and decided to experiment with playing open-endedly without stopping; it's busy music and the experiment isn't 100% successful (that 6/8 blues jam is misguided) but once they swerve into a medley of covers and joke tunes the band achieves the ecstatic fluency that marks their best sets. (Fantastic DDLJ > etc. in particular.) The HYHU > Tweeprise jam is good enough to stand on its own, and what a segue! This show isn't quite in line with the marvelously inaccessible 1994-95 free Tweezers (cf. 'A Live One'), but it's an important example of the band flying without a net in front of an audience, which would become the norm in 1997. Luckily it's also a welcoming and enjoyable set of rock'n'roll (and HQ SBD copies circulate, of course - including the official release).