Summer 96 Setlists
8/2/96
Wolf Mountain, Park City, UT
I: Somewhere Over the Rainbow*, Ya Mar, Down With Disease, Guelah Papyrus,
Poor Heart, Foam, Theme from The Bottom, Golgi Apparatus, Tweezer,
Ragtime Gal, Possum
II: Runaway Jim, Simple, Taste, Free, Fluffhead, Prince Caspian**,
The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Run Like An Antelope
E: Punch You In the Eye
* Page, solo on Theremin
** New arrangement
8/4/96
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison CO
I: Chalk Dust Torture, Funky Bitch, Guyute, Fee, Split Open and Melt,
The Mango Song, The Sloth, Maze, Loving Cup
II: AC/DC Bag > Reba > Scent of a Mule, Sample in a Jar, David Bowie,
Sweet Adeline*, Slave to the Traffic Light
E: Theme to Star Trek: The Original Series**, Rockytop
* Acapella, w/ mics
** Page solo on Theremin
8/5/96
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison CO
I: Wilson, Poor Heart, Guelah Papyrus, Divided Sky*, The Wolfman's Brother,
Foam, If I Could, Julius, The Squirming Coil
II: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Down with Disease >It's Ice, Halley's Comet >
Somewhere Over the Rainbow*, Waste#, Talk***#, Trainsong#,
Strange Design#, Amazing Grace****, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen >
Weekapaug Groove
E: Cavern
* During the silent part everyone sat down by instruction of the Group
Crowd Ideas at Red Rocks flier.
** Theremin
# Page on a smaller piano, Trey on acoustic, Mike on acoustic bass, and
Fishman on a smaller drumset.
*** 1st time played
**** Acapella, w/ mics
8/6/96
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison CO
I: Makisupa Policeman, Rift#, Suzie Greenberg, Simple, Theme from the Bottom,
Lizards, Dinner and a Movie, Horn, Run Like An Antelope##
II: The Curtain > Tweezer*, Prince Caspian, A Day in the Life,
Big Black Furry Creatures from Mars**, Purple Rain, Harry Hood >
Tweezer Reprise
E: Johnny B. Goode
# "This is Red Rocks, This is the Edge" from Trey during the break in Rift
## "21 year old Phish Fan Marcus Esquandolius" substituted for "Marco
Esquandolas" (in reference to a quoted fan in a newspaper article on the
disturbance in Morrison on 8/5)
* Norwegian Wood jam
** Thunder, lightning and rain starting in Creature and continuing through
the end of the set.
8/7/96
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison CO
I: Punch You in the Eye, Sparkle, Stash, Ya Mar*, Gumbo, Taste, Lawn Boy,
99 Years**, Ode to a Dream**, Doin' My Time**
II: Runaway Jim***, Free, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > narration**** >
Famous Mockingbird, Possum, Life on Mars, You Enjoy Myself,
Ragtime Gal#
E: Bouncing Around the Room, Golgi Apparatus
* Trey thanks the audience, salutes a Colorado swimmer who won two gold
medals at the Olympics and announces that a special guest will come out
later in the set.
** With Tim O'Brien on mandolin, acoustic guitar and lead vocal
*** Gypsy Queen jam
**** Giant Iguana takes us to Mars (to check out the Life on Mars :-))
# acapella, with mics
8/10/96
Alpine Valley, East Troy WI
I: My Friend My Friend, Poor Heart, AC/DC Bag, Fee, Reba, I Didn't Know,
The Horse, Silent In the Morning, Rift, Bathtub Gin*, Cavern
II: Wilson, Down With Disease, Scent of a Mule, Free, Fluffhead, Hold Your
Head Up**, Whipping Post, Hold Your Head Up, Harry Hood, A Day in
the Life
E: Contact, Fire
* Soul Sacrifice jam
** extended
8/12/96
Deer Creek Amphitheatre, Noblesville IN
I: Ya Mar, Split Open and Melt, Esther, Chalk Dust Torture, Weigh,
It's Ice, Dog Faced Boy, Taste, Oh Kee Pah Ceremony > Suzie Greenberg
II: Timber Ho!, Sparkle, Simple, Prince Caspian > McGrupp and the Watchful
Hosemasters, Run Like An Antelope, Ragtime Gal, Golgi Apparatus,
Possum*
E: Sample in a Jar
* Language, All Fall Down & Simpson's
8/13/96
Deer Creek Amphitheatre, Nobelsville IN
I: Divided Sky, Tube, Tela, Maze, Fast Enough For You, My Old Home Place,
Punch You in the Eye, Llama, Glide, Slave to the Traffic Light
II: AC/DC Bag*, Lizards, Mike's Song > Lifeboy, Weekapaug Groove >
Somewhere Over the Rainbow**, Waste***, Trainsong***, Strange Design***,
Sweet Adeline#, David Bowie
E: Sleeping Monkey, Rockytop
* "Cool little groove" before AC/DC Bag
** Page solo on Theremin
*** acoustic mini-stage
# acapella
8/14/96
Hershey Park Arena, Hershey PA
I: Wilson > Jam > Down With Disease, Fee > Poor Heart, Reba,
The Mango Song, Gumbo, Stash, Ragtime Gal*
II: Runaway Jim, You Enjoy Myself, The Horse > Silent in the Morning,
Cars Trucks and Buses, Tweezer, Theme from the Bottom, Hold Your
Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Sample In a Jar >
Tweezer Reprise
E: Julius**
* acapella
** Dedicated to Brad Sands' brother Matty
8/16/96
The Clifford Ball, Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Plattsburgh NY
I: Chalk Dust Torture, Bathtub Gin, Ya Mar, AC/DC Bag, Esther,
Divided Sky#, Halley's Comet, David Bowie
II: Split Open and Melt, Sparkle, Free, The Squirming Coil, Waste*, Talk*,
Trainsong*, Strange Design*, Ragtime Gal**, Mike's Song > Simple >
Contact > Weekapaug Groove
III: Makisupa Policeman, Also Sprach Zarathustra > Down With Disease > NICU,
Life on Mars, Harry Hood*** > Fireworks Jam***
E: Amazing Grace**
# with pause for Fishman
* acoustic mini-set
** acapella
*** with fireworks
After the show, Phish played a mini-set of mellow songs/jams on a flatbed
truck that toured the campground. This lasted 30-45 min.
8/17/96
The Clifford Ball, Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Plattsburgh, NY
I: My Old Home Place, Punch You In the Eye, Reba, Cars Trucks and Buses,
Lizards, Sample In a Jar, Taste, Fee, Maze, Suzie Greenberg
Orchestral set: The Clifford Ball Orchestra (which did not include Phish)
played:
Debussy: Nocturnes (2 movements), Ravel: Pavane Pour une Enfante
Defunte, Debussy: Claire de Lune, Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin (2 movements),
Chavrier: Joyeux Muse, Faure: Pelleas et Mellisandre (2 movements),
Stravinsky: The Firebird (2 movements)
II: %, The Curtain, Runaway Jim, It's Ice, Brother*, Fluffhead,
Run Like an Antelope**, Golgi Apparatus, Slave to the Traffic Light
III: Wilson, Frankenstein, Scent of a Mule***, Tweezer#, A Day in the Life,
Possum, Tweezer Reprise##
E: Harpua###
% Before the second set, Trey paid tribute to Aaron Stein (of Syracuse), who
was sitting front row center every show of the tour.
* With Ben & Jerry on guest vocals
** A woman acrobat twirling in the rigging, or some circus-like thing similar.
*** Page/Fishman duel instead of the typical Page/Trey duel
# With big trampolines on either side of the stage and more circus stuff
## A stunt plane circles around
### Also with the stunt plane, a short Harpua missing the "Oom Pah Pah" opening
and cut short, someone jumped onstage.
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