Well, here I am finally at my very first show! Well, half show anyway. I went home for the Summer after my second year of college and hooked up with some friends from high school. We got tix to see Santana. Found my ticket stub, $7.50 plus $2.50 service charge for a grand total of ten bucks for Phish and Santana! Wow, times have changed. Lollapalooza had just been through town two days earlier and turned the lawn into a mud pit. So, lucky for us the lawn was closed and we had to all move into the pavillion. Oh damn it, I hate it when that happens. So we ended up in the very last row of seats in the pavillion dead center sitting up on the backs of our chairs.

I don't remember too much about the songs. Like the a cappella Suzy opener but, I do remember Trey ripping through Chalk Dust. I don't remember too much about Bouncing or the Oh Kee Pa Ceremony but, there is a guy who posted video on YouTube of Uncle Pen through GTBT. From what I can hear they were good versions of all three: Pen, YEM, and GTBT. Lots of dancing around from Trey and Mike. You can't really see Page at all in the videos. I did get to see them come out later and jam with Santana's band. Very cool.

The moral of the story is: I'm sure glad I went. I still love them to this day. Just paid $50 for FRONT ROW at Blossom last Summer. It's been a long time since I'd seen them that close. I will probably pay $60 this Summer to see them again. I haven't missed a Blossom performance yet and I don't plan to! Special thanks to Santana for introducing me to them.

I'm not sure why this list doesn't have The Oh Kee Pa before the YEM that occurred at this show. It did. I was there and was stoked! I think this was the show where the whole band came out during Santana's set and did Exodus(BMW) for ever and a day. Fishman on washboard seein as how many drummers Santana already had on stage.Maybe that was the night before and this was one of the shows where Trey and Carlos did solo duels.Anyhow. Phish's slots were short but boy that tour was fun. Anyone have recordings of these shows to share?