9.14.99 Boise, ID

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Tuesday, 09/14/1999 Boise State University Pavilion, Boise, ID

Set 1: Chalk Dust Torture, The Sloth, The Curtain > Waste, Loving Cup > What's the Use?, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Farmhouse, Nellie Kane, Taste, Rocky Top

Set 2: Peaches en Regalia > AC/DC Bag > Gumbo, Down with Disease > Frankenstein

Encore: Simple, Hello My Baby


Notes: Peaches was played for the first time since February 28, 1997 (161 shows). This long AC/DC Bag featured Trey on keys and Fishman on vacuum for part of the jam. Gumbo included an Another One Bites the Dust jam. Fishman again grabbed the vacuum for Frankenstein and quoted One of These Days.

FLAC - 865 MB
mp3 - 256 MB
AAC - 155 MB

My goodness, the boys were locked in this fateful Tuesday night in Boise.  After a varied and well-played first set, they threw down the gauntlet from the start of Peaches through the end of Gumbo.  There is just some serious full-band improv going on here, spanning from sublime ambience to triumpantly soaring rock to endorphin-throttling funk.  We've all come to know and love the way our heroes channel their myriad influences and bring us a decidedly Phishy take on them.  Sometimes they attempt to emulate various bands and styles to a precise degree, and what we get is Phish doing their best Earl Scruggs or Bob Marley or Frank Zappa or Stevie Wonder musical impersonations...which is of course awesome, but is still Phish.  But from 6:55 until 10:03 of Gumbo, Trey IS James Brown's rhythm guitarist.  It's just straight-up dirty, and I don't want a napkin.

Anyway, this is a really, really nice FOB Schoeps mk4v source.  It might be one of my favorite arena AUDs ever.  However, with no tweaking and as with many '99 and '00 AUDs, this one was heavy on the low end and in need of increased clarity.  I almost scaled the bass back a little more, but Mike sounds so thick and juicy while maintaining a well-defined sound that I decided against reducing his frequencies any more than I did (which wasn't much).

Enjoy.
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