Thursday, 06/23/1994

Phoenix Plaza Theatre, Pontiac, MI

Monday morning – back to work. I woke up at 3 o’clock this morning. My body is seriously fucked. Jetlag didn’t used to bother me this much. Life at 40! Fat, bald, and cranky. Do I really need to listen to Phish today? I’m really not in the mood.

The first set flew by while working through a week’s worth of emails. I’m not even a third of the way through at this point, but the first set is over! I did notice the little transition from DwD to Silent with no Horse. Interesting!!

This Bowie has grabbed my attention, though!! It gets into a segment that is very similar to many of the Stashes from this summer tour. What I mean is they get locked into this pattern for a while that featured Mike on the highest registers of the bass and Trey just locked into repeat mode. Brilliant!

The closing segment of Tweezer>Lifeboy>Slave is freaking brilliant, too. What a great way to close out the show. The Slave, in particular. It builds kinda fast, but then it peaks forever and ever! Dig it!

Thanks for reading.

Thursday, 06/23/1994

Phoenix Plaza Theatre, Pontiac, MI

Set 1: Buried Alive > Poor Heart > Split Open and Melt, NICU > Foam, Bouncing Around the Room, Down with Disease > Silent in the Morning > Punch You In the Eye > Julius

Set 2: Frankenstein, David Bowie, The Mango Song > Axilla (Part II) > Uncle Pen, Tweezer > Lifeboy > Slave to the Traffic Light

Encore: Sparkle > Tweezer Reprise

Notes: The first set included the first NICU since May 1, 1992 (248 shows). Silent was performed without The Horse. Tweezer included Sunshine of Your Love teases.

Setlist courtesy of Phish.net.

Key tracks:

http://www.phishtracks.com/shows/1994-06-23/david-bowie

http://www.phishtracks.com/shows/1994-06-23/tweezer

http://www.phishtracks.com/shows/1994-06-23/slave-to-the-traffic-light