Phish / 1994.07.08 (Gamehendge)

Phish
Date: 1994.07.08
Venue: Great Woods, Mansfield,MA
Recorded: WGBH Mobile
Mastered: Red Kevorkian
Post-Production: Kevin Shapiro
Technical Assistance: Ben Collette
Source: Live Phish (MP3 ＄9.95)
★ 8

Trey が卒業作品とした制作した
‘The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday'
(これも音源は世の中に出回っていますので、
欲しい方は、探せば手に入ると思います)
からの曲を繋げて演奏した日、
Phish の起源 "Gamehendge" Saga として知られる
5 回の Show のうちのひとつが Archive されました。
(1998.03.12 / 1991.10.31 / 1993.03.22 / 1994.06.26)

この日の映像がすでに、
‘Dinner And A Movie' Episode 19
で公開されました。

この日に演奏した "Stash" は
'A Live One'に収められています。


Note:
On Friday, July 8, 1994 Phish played the first of two shows
at Great Woods Performing Arts Center in Mansfield, MA near Boston.
It was Phish’s third Great Woods show and first two-night stand
at this outdoor amphitheater opened in 1986 by promoter Don Law.
Tickets cost $21.50, the band had hired WGBH Mobile
to record the show for posterity, and the local crew captured
the performance from the video screens on VHS tape.
Set I consisted of the fifth and most recent live telling of
the “Gamehendge” saga from Trey’s
‘The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday’ senior thesis.
The lots before the show were still buzzing from
the fourth Gamehendge performance –
the Charleston, WV “GameHoist” show played two weeks earlier.
Having circulated among the community via tapes and word of mouth since 1988, Gamehendge was already deeply embedded in Phish’s DNA,
but it had never been performed outdoors to a large audience.
Friday night at Great Woods changed all that.
After an incendiary Llama opener, Colonel Forbin’s trip to Gamehendge originated
in the dentist’s chair during the second-ever live NO2,
which featured Trey on megaphone, Mike on electric drill and Fish on vacuum.
The Gamehendge song cycle continued with some notable standouts:
AC/DC Bag, Colonel Forbin’s Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird,
and a powerful McGrupp And The Watchful Hosemasters > Divided Sky
ending first adopted during GameHoist.
Set II kept up the heat with newer songs like Rift > Sample In A Jar,
he only pairing of Reba > Yerushalayim Shel Zahav,
a transcendent Stash later selected for ‘A Live One’,
and the only You Enjoy Myself > Frankenstein >
You Enjoy Myself sandwich to- date.
This was Peak Phish and the tapes tell the tale of a truly unique performance.
Great Woods 7/8/94 was recorded by WGBH Mobile to DAT
and mastered by Fred Kevorkian.