Phish / 1997.07.23.

Phish
Date: 1997/07/23
Venue: Lakewood Amphitheatre, Atlanta, GA
Recorded: Paul Languedoc
digital multitrack & mixed/mastered: Jon Altschiller
Source: Live Phish (MP3)
Runtime:2h36min
★8.3

今年に入り、2つ目の Archive 音源は、
Atlanta の Lakewood Amphitheatreで、
私も 2015 年にこの会場で
Phish を観ているので、地元民ではないけど、
何となく愛着を感じる会場です。



Opener の Julius が凄すぎた。
Hotlanta と紹介されるわけだな。

Second Set の Ghost、27分と長舌演奏です。
(私の観たShow では、初日の Kill Devil.. 23分、
2 日目の Tweezer が 26 分という演奏でした)

Top 100 に選ばれている Show ではないけど、
久しぶりに中々、聴き応えのある演奏で、
満足のいく Archive 音源だと思います。







Note:
Lakewood Amphitheatre is a 19,000 seat modern outdoor
shed opened in 1989 at the Lakewood Fairgrounds near downtown Atlanta.
The venue has had some corporate names since the
but it was still just Lakewood when Phish rolled in on July 23, 1997.
This was Phish’s second Lakewood show of 11 to-date (1995-2015),
reserved tickets cost $27.00 including parking,
and the Wednesday night sellout crowd was fired up.
The band was freshly back in the United States
after their second European tour of the year
with a quiver of new songs that were coming into their own.
Just a couple of shows in, the U.S. tour was
already formidable with the band coming off of
two standout shows in Virginia Beach and Raleigh.
Atlanta continued the streak.

Set I highlights included the Julius opener,
Limb By Limb, Split Open And Melt and Billy Breathes.
Limb By Limb, with its syncopated beat
and sinuous leads, was a U.S. public debut introduced to
the Hotlanta crowd along with new songs Dirt,
Dogs Stole Things, and Water In The Sky.
Set II’s Punch You In The Eye opener
(with shoutouts to Burlington’s own Joe Moore)
set up the Lakewood Ghost – a 27-minute improvisational masterwork
that cemented this show’s must-hear status.
A knockout combination of
You Enjoy Myself > Rocky Mountain Way > Chalk Dust Torture
rounded out the set, with a unique Scent Of A Mule’ish breakdown
in YEM and Rocky Mountain Way woven into the Chalk Dust closer.