Fall '97 Setlists


11/13/97 Thomas and Mack Center, Las Vegas, NV

I: Chalkdust Torture, Black Eyed Katy*, Theme From The Bottom, Train Song, Split Open and Melt, Beauty of My Dreams, My Soul, You Enjoy Myself, Character Zero

II: Stash, Punch You In The Eye, Prince Caspian, Bouncing, Mike's Song > **I am Hydrogren > Weekpauag Groove

E: Loving Cup

* New instrumental, could be called something else ** Intro to CCR's Green River before Hydrogen "The Return of Henrietta" as Fishman wears his dress. Thanks to Damian for the call


11/14/97 West Valley E Center, West Valley, UT

I: Runaway Jim, Gumbo, Maze*, Fast Enough For You, 2001 > Funky Bitch, Guyute**, Antelope***

II: Wolfman's Brother > Piper > Twist Around, Space Jam****, Slave To The Traffic Light

E: Axis: Bold as Love

* Unfinished ** Dedicated to Paul Languedoc *** "Marco Esquandolas" part was whistled. **** Cool funky jam w/ lots of Trey soloing Thanks again to Damian for the call & Brian for the email!


11/16/97 McNichols Arena, Denver, CO

I: NICU, My Soul, Black Eyed Katy, Farmhouse, My Old Home Place, Billy Breathes, Cars Trucks Busses, Scent of a Mule*, Poor Heart*, Taste, Ragtime Gal

II: Timber Ho > Simple, Wilson > Harry Hood > Isabella

E: David Bowie

* w/ Pete "Dr. Banjo" Wernick - "local banjo legend" on Banjo


11/17/97 McNichols Arena, Denver, CO

I: Tweezer, Reba*, Train Song, Ghost > Jam**, Fire

II: Down with Disease > Oblivious Fool > Johnney B. Goode > Jam*** > Jesus Left Chicago, Circus Comes To Town, You Enjoy Myself

E: Character Zero

* No whistling ** Jammed out, "For your listening pleasure" *** Included space jam Thanks again to Damian!


11/19/97 Assembly Hall, Champaign, IL

I: Julius, Bathtub Gin* > Llama, Dirt, Limb By Limb, Funky Bitch, Theme From The Bottom, Ginsing Sullivan, Fee > Time > Antelope

II: 2001* > Wolfman's Brother > Jam!** > Makisupa Policeman***, Taste

E: Possum

* Long and Jammed out ** w/ "Crosseyed & Painless" teases *** w/ space jam & Walk Away tease


11/21/97 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton VA

I: Emotional Rescue* > Split Open & Melt, Beauty Of My Dreams, Dogs Stole Things, Punch You In The Eye, Lawn Boy**, Chalk Dust Torture, Prince Caspian***

II: Ghost**** > AC/DC Bag > Jam, Slave to the Traffic Light, Loving Cup

E: Guyute

* Rolling Stones cover, Mike sang, very falsetto ** With anti-drum solo - an intentionally boring drum solo. *** Delay loop ending played until after lights were brought up **** Sparks, Guyute, Spooky teases in Ghost and ensuing jam Thank to Aaron Kafner and D. Baum for the calls


11/22/97 Hampton Colliseum, Hampton, VA

I: Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Harry Hood, Trainsong, Billy Breathes, Frankenstein, Isabella

II: *Halley's Comet > Tweezer > Black Eyed Katy > Piper > Run Like An Antelope**

E: Bouncing Around The Room, Tweezer Reprise

* Before Halleys, the crowd chanted the beginning of Destiny Unbound, in hopes the band would play it. Trey acknowledged the chant by saying that he couldn't hear what was being sung, said that it sounded like some kind of 'death chant' then asked if this was the point in the show where they do the human sacrifice. He then asked for a volunteer, which was pretty funny. No Destiny Unbound was played or even teased.

** "Mike-o Esquandolas" Thank to D. Baum for the call.


11/23/97 Lawrence Joel Veteran's Memorial Coliseum, Winston-Salem, NC

I: My Soul, Theme From The Bottom, Black Eyed Katy, Sparkle, Twist Around, Stash > NICU, Fluffhead, Character Zero

II: Bathtub Gin > Jam, Down w/ Disease* > Low Rider** > Down w/ Disease***, Axis: Bold as Love

E: Julius

* w/ Isabella tease ** w/ Trey & Fishman singing *** Don't Stop Till You Get Enough tease, Michael Jackson cover -Last Low Rider (8/27/87) [826 shows!]-(Unless you count 3/14/93 - BL) Thanks to D. Baum for the call


11/26/97 Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT

I: Tweezer > Sparkle, Gumbo, My Soul, McGrupp & The W.H., Dirt, Split Open And Melt, The Horse > Silent In The Morning, Taste

II: Character Zero > 2001 > Cities > Ya Mar > Punch You In The Eye > Prince Caspian, Poor Heart, Tweezer Reprise

E: Cavern* * w/ alternate lyrics Thanks to Toby for the call!


11/28/97 Worcester Centrum, Worcester, MA
Soundcheck: Dog Log, Poor Heart, Jam, Jam, Take Me Out To The Ballgame (Page did "duh duh duh duh duh duh....CHARGE" thing)

I: The Curtain, You Enjoy Myself* > I Didn't Know**, Maze, Farmhouse, Black Eyed Katy, Theme From The Bottom, Rockytop

II: Timber Ho!, Limb By Limb, Slave To The Traffic Light, Ghost***, Johnney B. Goode

E: My Soul

* w/ Crosseyed & Painless teases into vocal jam ** w/ Henrietta on vacuum ** Extended w/ Cities jam teases & start/stop ala Vegas '96 Weekapaug -last curtain 2/20/97 [57]- Thanks to D. Baum for the call!


11/29/97 Worcester Centrum, Worcester, MA

I: The Wedge, Foam, Simple, TMWSIY > Avenu Malkenu > TMWSIY, The Sloth, Ginsing Sullivan, I Saw It Again, Horn, Water in the Sky, David Bowie

II: Runaway Jim* > Harry Hood Jam* > Weekapaug Jam > Strange Design > Harry Hood**, Prince Caspian, Suzy Greenberg

E: Buffalo Bill*** > Moby Dick by Led Zeppelin > Fire

* Extended beyond belief (58 minutes) ** w/ crosseyed and painless teases *** Fishman's favorite song. -last Suzy Greenberg 3/18/97 [48 shows]- -last Avenu Malkenu 12/28/96 [66]- -last sloth 2/23/97 [54]-


11/30/97 Worcester Centrum, Worcester, MA

I: Guyute, Funky Bitch, Wolfman's Brother > Sanity* > Split Open & Melt Jam**, Love Me, Squirming Coil, Loving Cup

II: NICU, Stash, Free*** > Piper, When The Circus Comes, Antelope

E: Them Changes#

* Hard Rock jam w/ Sanity lyrics & Trey saying "Ester tried in Vain" Trey asks Chris to turn off the lights and they jam the hard rock Sanity jam out in the dark. ** lights come on to Split Open & Melt-esque jam. *** w/ Experimental noise jam # Buddy Miles cover, also done by Hendrix/Band of Gypsies, first time played. -last Sanity (10/31/96) [91 shows]-


12/2/97 Corestates Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA

I: Buried Alive > Down w/ Disease > Makisupa Policeman, Chalkdust Torture, Ghost, Divided Sky, Dirt > Taste, Star Spangled Banner

II: Mike's Song > Simple > Simple Jam* > Dog Faced Boy > Ya Mar** > Weekapaug Groove***, Bouncing Around The Room, Character Zero

E: Ginseng Sullivan, Sample in a Jar

* w/ a Trey & Page duet, fooling with temp. **"No Grand Pa" instead of "No Good Pa" and "Play it Leo for Grandpoodie" said Trey *** w/ Down w/ Disease Jam Last Dog Faced Boy: 8/12/96 [109 shows] Thanks to John Whittaker


12/3/97 Corestates Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA

I: Punch You In The Eye, My Soul, Drowned, My Old Home Place, Gumbo > 2001 > You Enjoy Myself

II: David Bowie* > Possom, Jam** > Prince Caspian, Frankenstein, Harry Hood

E: Crossroads

* Unfinished, a Simpson's theme and a "D'Oh" during the intro w/ "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" ** Similiar to Worcester Ghost jam...probably really really good. Thanks to John Whittaker & Others


12/05/97 CSU Convention Center, Cleveland, OH
Soundcheck: Rift

I: Ghost > Wilson, Funky Bitch > Black-Eyed Katy, Sparkle, Runaway Jim > My Friend My Friend, Ginseng Sullivan, Limb By Limb, Character Zero

II: Stash, Bouncing Round the Room, Julius -> Jam > Slave to the Traffic Light > Lizards, Loving Cup, Chalk Dust Torture

E: Bold as Love

Thanks to Marcie and Mike Witt & The Phish.net


12/06/97 The Palace, Auburn Hills, MI
Soundcheck: Dog Log, AC/DC Bag, Ginseng Sullivan, Black Eyed Katy

I: Golgi, Antelope, Train Song, Bathtub Gin > Foam, Sample, Fee, Maze, Cavern

II: Tweezer > Isabella > Twist Around > Piper > Sleeping Monkey > Tweezer Reprise

E: Rocky Top


12/7/97 Ervin J. Nutter Center, Dayton OH

I: AC/DC Bag > Psycho Killer@ > Jesus Just Left Chicago, My Mind's Got a Mind of It's Own, It's Ice > Swept Away > Steep > It's Ice, Theme from the Bottom, Tube > Jam* > Tube**, Jam* Reprise > Slave to the Traffic Light

II: Timber Ho! > Wolfman's Brother > Boogie on Reggae Woman*** > Reba#, Guyute##, Possum

E: A Day in the Life

@ Talking Heads Cover, Last time played: Concert Hall, Toronto Ontario Canada, 8-9-93, out of the YEM vocal jam... -AS * Post-Isabella jam from Saturday 12/6/97. Slowed down, stopped, started again - about five or six times. Then back into Tube. ** After Tube return, house lights off and they stop playing, then Jam* reprised *** Steve Wonder Cover. Last time played 3/21/88 [821 shows!] # no whistling ## whistled second verse 17th Anniversary of John Lennon's Death is 12/8/97. (next day)


12/09/97 Bryce Jordan Center, University Park, PA

I: Mike's Song > Chalkdust Torture > My Soul > Stash > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Dogs Stole Things, Beauty Of My Dreams, Horn, Loving Cup

II: Julius, Simple > Jam, *Timber Ho!, Contact, Axlla I, Harry Hood**

E: Fire

* w/ David Bowie Teases ** They went back into Axilla for about 10 seconds, then back into Harry Hood

Thanks to Marci, Noah Cole, and a slew of others.


12/11/97 War Memorial, Rochester, NY

I: Punch You in the Eye > Down w/ Disease > Maze, Dirt, Limb By Limb, Loving Cup, Rocky Top

II: Drowned > Roses are Free* > Big Black Furry Creature From Mars** > Ghost > Down w/ Disease Reprise > Johnny B. Goode

E: Waste

* Ween cover, first time played. ** Trey puts down guitar and does laps around the stage


12/12/97 Pepsi Arena, Albany, NY

I: Funky Bitch > 200 > Camel Walk, Taste, Bouncing Around The Room Tweezer, Trainsong, Character Zero

II: I Saw It Again* > Piper, Swept Away > Steep, Prince Caspian > Isabella, Tweezer Reprise

E: Guyute, Run Like An Antelope**

* Long jam segued into Piper, Llama teases (more Llama teases throughout the set). ** Buried Alive teases, lots of stop/start jamming.


12/13/97 Pepsi Arena, Albany, NY
J. Willis Pratt and Wierd Bionic opened.

I: Yamar, Jam, Axilla Pt. 1, Theme from the Bottom, Ginseng, Sullivan, Strange Design, Sample in a Jar, Vultures, Tube, Good Times Bad Times

II: NICU, Punch You in the Eye, Ghost > Jam, Mike's Song > Llama > When the Circus Comes, Weekapaug Groove > Catapult > Weekapaug Groove, Harry Hood*

E: My Soul, Squirming Coil

* w/ lights off and glowstick war


Holiday Tour Set Lists

12/28/97 USAir Arena, Landover MD

I: Julius, Cities > The Curtain, Sample in a Jar, My Old Home Place, Runaway Jim, Farmhouse, Funky Bitch, Split Open and Melt, Bouncing Around The Room, Character Zero

II: Axilla#, Simple* > Ghost, Drowned, Scent of A Mule**, Halley's Comet, Slave to The Traffic Light, Rockytop, Cavern

E: Bold as Love

# Axilla Pt 2 ending * w/ Trey talking about Feedback & Ghosts ** w/ slow jam instead of normal russian jam/duel.


12/29/97 Madison Square Garden, New York NY

I: NICU, Golgi Apparatus, Crossroads, Cars Trucks Buses, Train Song, Theme From The Bottom, Fluffhead, Dirt, Run Like An Antelope*

II: Down With Disease** > David Bowie*** > Possum****, Tube, You Enjoy Myself

E: Good Times Bad Times

* w/ extended ending of Mike & Trey solos ** w/ Loving Cup Jam *** w/ James Bond & Antelope Jams **** w/ Blues Brothers Jam "I Can't Turn You Loose" by Otis Redding


12/30/97 Madison Square Garden, New York NY

I: Sneaking Sally Through The Alley > Taste, Water In The Sky, Punch You In The Eye, Stash, Chalkdust Torture, A Day In The Life

II: AC/DC Bag*, McGrupp and The Watchful Hosemasters, Harpua > Five Hundred Miles** > Harpua > Isabella > Harry Hood***, My Soul, Sleeping Monkey, Guyute****

E: Carini# > Black Eyed Katy > Sneaking Sally Through The Alley (reprise) > Frankenstein##

* w/ Crosseyed and Painless jam ** Proclaimers cover sung by Tom Marshall *** w/ Glowstick War **** Before Guyute, Trey said they were going to play one more song and not encore. After Guyute, the lights did not go on, the band came back except Trey, then Trey came on and explained that it was 10 minutes to midnight, so they would jam until it was New Years Eve. The encore ended at 12:25! # Pete Carini (Drum Tech) is called up to the stage during this ## vacuum solo

Last Sneaking Sally 7/24/88 [817 shows]


12/31/97 Madison Square Garden, New York NY

I: Emotional Rescue, Ya Mar*, My Sweet One, Beauty of My Dreams, Wolfman's Brother, Limb By Limb, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, The Sloth, Fire

II: Timber Ho!, Mike's Song > Piper > When the Circus Comes > Roses Are Free** > Weekapaug Groove

III: Also Sprach Zarathustra# > Auld Lang Syne > Tweezer > Maze^ > Prince Caspian > Loving Cup

E: New York New York$ > Tweezer Reprise% I: (75 min.) II: (60 min.) III: (60 min.)

There was a strange white ball in the center of the ceiling (covering the MSG scoreboard), on which various images were projected during the show.

* With "Auld Lang Syne" tease(s). ** Ween cover # During the song, fried eggs, udder balls, and olives were projected on the ball (in reference/relating to last night's narration). This was followed by the countdown and a balloon drop at midnight. The balloons broke both Page's and Mike's mics. ^With a "Birdland" tease. $ Page sang, Frank Sinatra cover (first time played). % Before Fishman started the drums he walked to the front of the stage, poured a bottle of champaign on his head, then walked back to his drumkit and started playing. (A guy in the front row then reached across and grabbed) Happy New Year!