Phish - You Enjoy Myself Live at Madison Square Garden New Year's Eve 1995 (Reaction)

[@Bloomer55122]

I know that youtube says "Clifford ball" on ALive One but the ball was in 1996. YEM on a live one is from San Diego 12.7.94

[@jschoenack]

Thank you! I was just going to point that out.

[@ameadors11]

This is correct. Idk why they said “live from the Clifford Ball” on that…the Clifford Ball was just a fantastical concept until 1996.

[@nb8375]

@@ameadors11IIRC, it was easier to say it was recorded at the Clifford Ball than to get whatever permission they needed to say all the real dates.

[@ttp9936]

@@nb8375 yep this was the reason, it was for copyright purposes. "Although recorded at different venues, the songs are noted in the liner notes as having been recorded at "The Clifford Ball", a reference to aviator Clifford Ball that the band would use again as the name of their 1996 festival. This decision was made because the band's management could not secure the recording rights from every venue featured on the album at the time of its release"

[@makisupa110]

Clifford Ball is a guy that they thought had a funny name, so they said in the ALO liner notes that “all songs were recorded live at The Clifford Ball.” Then a few years later they decided to call their festival that

[@jameswillmuth8959]

I was there and enjoyed this very YEM with all my senses. And lucky enough to be bouncing around the very same room on New Year's Eve once again just this week.

[@JP_43]

This was a magical night. My memories of this show are rather fuzzy... I was 20 years old and having an absolute blast with my friends. We all arrived to the show in separate groups but found each other and sat behind the stage losing our minds. I also remember leaving the garden that night and we walked outside where reality hit us in the face having been transported to somewhere else over the course of those 3 sets. As we got out into the cold air, the cops were marching down the street having just swept the crowd out of Times Square. There we are a bunch of kids in altered states seeing lines of cops on horse back confused by this new crowd around them. What a wild night.

[@randomperson-dy6kj]

We didn’t realize the Garden and our hotel were so close to Times Square- we only bothered to look at proximity of our hotel to the venue. All the thousands(?? it was A LOT) of “normal” people outside were a massive shock, especially because it was not like that at all the night before. I still can’t believe it’s been 29 years.

[@gravytrainwithbiscuitwheels]

I remember the cops rolling through on motorcycles and clearing the fuck out of the place with a crazy show of force. Maybe it was the acid, but it was a huge wakeup as they cleared the area and told us in their special way "you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here" What a trip

[@mxhdnr]

Stumbling out of the Garden on New Years has become a yearly tradition haha

[@chezrolez436]

I was there! What a time to be alive. Still widely regarded as one of the best Phish shows ever.

[@DrChrisKerszko]

This was my very first Phish concert. It kinda knocked my socks off!! 😍

[@geraldhayes3292]

I was 20 and at my 3rd phish show. I was also alone in the big city. This show was one of my favorites for so many reasons. GOD, I LOVE THIS BAND!

[@adamgordon315]

Walt's reaction to them bringing it way down @20min has me excited for him to see how still/quiet a What's The Use gets.

[@alan-daniel]

25:20 haha my man just had his very first "is this still Lawn Boy?" moment

[@cshubs]

Keep in mind that Jerry Garcia died in Aug 95, and a huge number of deadheads switched to Phish. Most fans were deadheads, too, but after Jerry passed, the crowd sizes scaled up like mad. Phish was the new king of jam bands. My first show was Barre VT, 11/23/91. There were about 300 fans. Virtually everyone was a deadhead. This was back when many people covered their cars with stickers.

[@stacybenstockklein449]

My first show was 2/11/93. I still get a knot in my stomach when I think of how the scene changed after Jerry died. I didn’t see the dead until after I saw Phish. I kind of did it backwards. But I did go hang out in the parking lot of the Spectrum outside of a Grateful Dead concert in September 1990 when I was in high school just to party so I did see the scene in 90 but didn’t get there until 93. But yeah, it gives me the ick at how gross it got.

[@cshubs]

@@stacybenstockklein449 I also saw Phish before the Dead. My first Dead was Buffalo 92. I was a UVM student. First saw a Phish poster in 87. They were playing Nectar's and the dorms back then, but I didn't know! There were 100 bands in Burlington. Got into them in 90 while living in a house across Main St from the UVM library. During my frosh and sophomore years, I lived in Wing Davis Wilkes, where Trey and Mike lived just a few years before me. Mike graduated the same year I started.

[@cshubs]

@@stacybenstockklein449 I only saw 2 shows in 93, Columbus OH in the spring and the Cincy Zoo in Aug.

[@stacybenstockklein449]

@ yeah but you saw them in 91 lol. Did you see any in 92? I listened to a lot of 92 when I got into them. I saw nine my first year in 93. I saw some amazing stuff including 7/16/93 a lot of debuts that night.

[@cshubs]

@@stacybenstockklein449 I think I only saw one 92 show at a club in Cincy called Bogart's. I loved the ol' mid-tone sound of 83 to spring 93.

[@kylebaker9542]

I was at this show and it was amazing. My first of many YEMSG NYE runs and shows. My buddy and I got in on 12/30 with fake tickets that we bought for $50 off some scalpers outside the venue.

[@victorpineiro8727]

I’m biased since I was at this show, it was my first NYE show, and my “mood management” was in top form but I consider this the greatest Phish show ever…and it influenced my musical journey more than any other live music experience. I’m psyched to see your reaction due to the fact you get it. Thanks for this and here we gooooo!

[@smoknbobjd]

I feel like a broken record when I chime in to once again state that I was at the show you're listening to. I went to a bunch of shows in the 90s, and I can remember many things about this NYE 95 show. It was my first time in Manhattan for New Year's, so it was amazing to feel the energy of the city, and to appreciate that Phish had really made it - continuing to play arena shows and festivals. They went all out during that run. It was a fantastic show, and I really felt like they'd given us an incredible holiday gift. I've not tried to add my voice to a vocal jam yet, but may feel moved to do so in the future. Thanks for the reaction, Walter.

[@zappa4ever]

Congrats! You've taken another step into a larger world ;) Night and day from the 2012 YEM vid, going into pure improv sections and another fun vocal jam... re: vocal jams -- most stand mouth agape watching the great visuals CK5 is throwing down during it, and depending on your "state" you're either giggling wildly, listening intently, slightly freaking out, or some get turned off :) Next YEM's should be some more straight ahead bangers like 12-31-93 where Trey just lays it down. Cheers!

[@treyphish]

Quintessential Phish foundation songs. YEM, Divided Sky, Fluffhead, Slave to The traffic light, Fee, Stash, Maze, Bathtub Gin, FOAM, SOAM, Possum, Chalkdust, my friend my friend, Mikes Song, Weekapaug, Run Like an Antelope, Bowie…. There’s more but that’s where I start people out. If you don’t like those, then there’s nothing I can do for you.

[@stacybenstockklein449]

When I think of the quintessential Phish song, I immediately think of Harry Hood and then of course Reba because it’s my song lol

[@coopervangrol8305]

Tweezer is what got me

[@cleech74]

@@coopervangrol8305Split Open & Melt was the song that hooked me.

[@gravytrainwithbiscuitwheels]

I was at this show but I believe, recency bias noted, that this last NYE was their best to date (Big Cypress aside because that's a whole different ballgame). Keep it up my friend. There are so many of us who are supporting your journey, living vicariously through you experiencing this band for the first time. Like watching my daughter open Christmas presents. Also need to promote 11/14/95 Orlando Stash>Manteca aka Stashteca. There's a video of it too. It's not an easy read but I know you can handle it. One of the most intense 30 minutes of Phish there is. Happy new year! Also,

[@cristabelleblanc309]

“…Christmas presents” is great. So exactly true.

[@ameadors11]

He’s gotta do a reaction to at least part of the Big Cypress set, especially given the excellent video on KZbin!

[@anythingpipes3722]

last year was definitely awesome. full gamehenge is just a different animal. i don't consider it a nye "gag" as they say.. YEM < Ghost was fucking lit though.

[@incidentalist]

This years? L O L!! Stop it man!

[@stacybenstockklein449]

@@incidentalist the set list for 12/31/24 is remarkable to me in so many ways! I was not there. I watched it. My first show was 2/11/93. I’ve seen nine New Year’s Eve shows and this one was next level.

[@ManFromMars42]

NYE was Phish's 81st "ticketed" show in 1995; May Lowell Benefit, 22-show Summer Tour, 54-show Fall Tour, 4-night Holiday Run. I was fortunate to attend 80 of them and it's easy to say this night was the perfect summary of everything that happened musically that year! This was their 3rd show at MSG, preceded by the night before and their 1st MSG show the year before on 12/30/94. It was to be their first ever New Year's Eve in the famed Madison Square Garden. It was exciting for the band and for those of us that had been following them around for some time!! Start to finish, they brought the energy and their musicianship, and shared their beloved Gamehendge with the masses, all while being perfectly Phishy. We got a couple of songs from their Halloween costume cover of Quadrophenia, fave classics, new tunes, acappella, along with some deep, out-there, jams. They continued their NYE gag tradition with the Phish Time Laboratory complete with Fishman as "The Baby New Year". They closed the show brilliantly with the YEM that you just deeply appreciated, but followed it with a huge 148 song bustout of Sanity (my first ever in 112 shows), then closed the set with the raucous Frankenstein, and an encore of Johnny B. Goode. Good times in deed!!! Thanks for being you @Walterooski, for being awesome, for bringing the positive vibes, and for breaking down our favorite band with such a fresh perspective!!! PS- "Trey-tana", never heard that before :) As far as I know you get the copyright ;) PPS- Please react to the 12/29/94 Providence David Bowie to hear some uber tasty whispering by the band, after the most incredible musical journey happens. We just celebrated the 25th anniversary of that moment a few days ago! (Include the Digital Delay Loop as it bleeds into Bowie :)

[@Drgnhrtstrng]

Mike uses a pedal called the "Meatball" by Lovetone for those super wet sounds (as well as some kind of flanger I believe?). Im not 100% sure if he had that one by this time, or if its another envelope filter, but its such a classic Mike sound that he uses all the time. (DWD intro is a good example) As a side note, the YEM from 6/11/94 at Red Rocks is in my opinion the BEST YEM theyve ever played. I'd love to see you check it out at some point in the future!

[@robertwiles8106]

Band AND audience. Both dialed in TOGETHER. We are as important to them as they are to us. Our precious life experiences and memories ARE THEIRS TOO.

[@randomperson-dy6kj]

I was there. :) Both nights were awesome.

[@cleech74]

I was lucky enough to be there for both 12/30-12/31. For me, I can’t say I Enjoyed Myself more at either of these shows. They were both outstanding, but each had a different feel to them. Simply put, 12/30 had more of a dark, psychedelic, & trippy feel to it, like hanging out with friends from college. In contrast, 12/31 seemed more like a fun, festive vibe. A celebration that’s more like a holiday family gathering. Really enjoyed your breakdown of this show, and it was nice to reminisce about the great times I had 30yrs ago. I saw 21 shows in 1995, and this was a perfect way to close out the year. Liked & subbed to your channel.🎸🌵🎹⭕️

[@dannichols55]

There are moments in shows where people say lightning bolts shoot out of Treys guitar. They are talking about moments like the 14:14 mark of this song. Its great when 20K people feel just like you did at that exact moment.

[@victorpineiro8727]

Ok, amazing you say that…I have to rewatch the whole show, and it may have been the moment you mention, but while at this show I remember a moment where Trey was hitting staccato chords and the sound of the strings combined with the light show gave me the visual of shots of electricity shooting through the garden…I was at a “peaking” moment as well and thought it was just me but your comment confirms what I was visualizing and feeling 👍🏼

[@paullevine6239]

I love how quickly you "get it!" from only listening to this band for a few weeks. So I was at this show. Was only my second show. I went the night before to 12/30/95 for my first! Fuzzy memory as others have said. At one point I was sitting in the lower bowl looking straight at the stage and was mezmerized by Page's finale to Squirming Coil. He was lit in purple and I was drawn to it. It was the most beautiful piano solo I can recall ever hearing live. I was 19. Good times.

[@ttp9936]

lmao wait till you hear the "david bowie" from 1994 with the lassie vocal jam

[@stacybenstockklein449]

12/29/94 is burned in my soul, my brain, all of it! I grew up watching Lassie yo and I can’t hear Lassie without thinking of that show and hearing Trey . It’s kind of like the whole OJ thing.😂

[@gmcsrbosavl6964]

I was at that one. Maybe my 4th show? Had no fucking idea what was going on during that Bowie. At one point I was facing the stage and it sounded like an 18 wheeler blared its horn behind me.

[@ttp9936]

NYE 1995 is a top 5 phish show. just absolutely legendary

[@ttp9936]

you'll get there eventually as you explore, but 1994-1997 was the peak of phish. they are still an amazing band, there is still good stuff to hear today, but 94-97 was peak phish in terms of execution, musical exploration, etc. even trey's tone at that time was so singular and perfect, so silky smooth and clean. they were truly the best band on the planet and the best kept secret ever.

[@ttp9936]

@@ItsAllBallBearings lol. my comment was that "he'd get there", ie, there is so much content to explore and so many shows to listen to, and 1.0 is a big contrast to 2.0 and 3.0. i dont think saying that 94-97 is peak phish is super controversial

[@stacybenstockklein449]

@@ttp9936 lower down a little bit to 93 and then I completely agree with you! Only because 93 was magical on its own right with the addition of Page’s baby grand on stage and of course, the big ball jam and the secret language. And they were still really small, so there was no separation between us and the stage and then during Mike’s Kuroda turned out the lights and then put strobe lights on and used fog machines. I’m not sure when that stopped but it definitely happened in 1993.

[@ChadWeisman]

@@stacybenstockklein449august 93 is a watershed month

[@stevea2639]

We actually met Page's wife that night. She left her bag at her seat. We looked after it for her until she got back. We had to drop her bag over a railing to make sure she got it back. She came back to us with back stage passes. Backstage was a bit chaotic and we didn't get to meet any of the band but we ran into another good friend who happened to find a back stage pass on the floor- so he used it. Fun fun times!

[@chrisburton7081]

Mike just did a gear rundown the other day.

[@tacojohn1267]

yep! would be cool to get a reaction vid to some of the gear rundowns

[@likecrazyhorse]

Trey is the captain of the ship, but all 4 have hands on the wheel. Someone can turn the boat at any time, and the other 3 provide as much push or pull as they feel. We're surfing the wake made by the ship Edit: "Do you make noises with them?" No. Chris Kuroda is providing a mesmerizing light show to go along with the vocal jam. We are trying to not drool on the person in front of us while our brains melt out through our ears and our eyes become interdimensional wormholes

[@Drgnhrtstrng]

Yep, Trey is the leader by default but that doesnt mean that the rest of the band cant take over sometimes. The funk sound of 97/98 only came to be because Trey consciously took a step back and let Mike and Fish do their thing. Theyre about as egalitarian as a band can get, but they still need a frontman

[@BurningStonersMusic]

so happy to see these guys this new years run still amazing to this day

[@stacybenstockklein449]

I was there. Absolutely amazing. I’m editing as I watch the video cause I have to pause it. Part of me feels like you really should watch the concert because you’re missing some of it by not seeing them on stage at Madison Square Garden. On the Phish KZbin channel they have separate videos one recently of Mike’s rig and one I think from summer 2023 of Trey‘s rig. OK, all joking aside because I can laugh too, but please understand how hearing some of these lyrics by Trey Anastasio and Tom Marshall from the age of 19 for over three decades can help shape you. Bro, they are my Lennon/McCartney. I didn’t realize that this was only one song. It’s safe to say you are team vocal jam, welcome. Not everybody likes the vocal jam. Some people chitchat to their neighbor, but that’s just rude if you ask me, some people watch in amazement or take a sip of water or whatever, some people go to the bathroom and some people dance, like me sometimes. 1995 Phish is not the same as 2012 Phish. There are a lot of different variables and I’ll just leave it at that.

[@brockoesquandolas4457]

I like your comment about the hive mind of the band. Trey is steering the ship most of the time, but they each take the lead from time to time. When someone changes direction, they listen and fall in line with the lead. It's all about communication.

[@rdogg2621]

Seeing you’ve been into YEM check out sometime the YEM from Albany 12/9/95. Top tier jam in that one.Just otherworldly. Been enjoying the videos🤘

[@alan-daniel]

easily the thing I most want a soundboard recording to become a thing for (I know it was part of the tent thing at Superball, but I personally never found a copy of it)

[@jameskyler5441]

Man, I can't wait until you do A Live One. You will be flabbergasted. A truly remarkable collection of their work until that time. Much of it still going today. The Squirming Coil, Harry Hood, slave to the traffic light etc all so good.

[@YoyoDaddyO]

Right on James

[@DrHolmesPhD]

Second guitar solo is one of my favorite guitar solos of all time, it's only one note but it's so dang good

[@DrHolmesPhD]

Also I suggest checking out the yem from last April at Sphere in las Vegas, but with the video

[@stevea2639]

I was there - Saw it with my own eyeball. Phish in the 90s was one of the best times for music and life.

[@KiverChris-jm6oj]

One ball Steve?

[@stevea2639]

@@KiverChris-jm6oj Actually yes - only one eye working over here 🤣

[@jayredz7807]

Fish eyeball(s) are a delicacy in many parts of the world. @ steve knows what's up👁🐠

[@KiverChris-jm6oj]

From the Clifford Ball to the Magnaball, phish has always been all about the one ball, y’alll!

[@evoshandor11]

1.0 vs 3.0 YEM breh. It's all good....but imagine being a youngster and seeing THIS in the 90's, before cell phones, the internet, and people paying attention. What a great time to grow up. PHISH4LYPHE

[@TheJaycam1027]

Really was man. My first big run was summer 98. Fresh off graduation and saw pretty much everything east of the Mississippi, missed the Virginia which will haunt me forever. But no cellphone, no GPS, no Apple pay etc and made it to Limestone and back home safe and sound.

[@drewstur]

Was up in there😛. Insane in the membrane

[@Throwawayjim119]

You are going to WEEP when you hear the 11/17/97 Ghost. For my money, the peak of Phish’s fully type 2 improvised, one of one, never to be heard again jamming. Sounds absolutely nothing like anything else they ever played. Just pure emotion from funk strutting to introspection to joy to melancholy and back. And they made it appear out of thin air one night. Those type 2 jams where they completely escape the space a song usually inhibits-the “canvas” as you call it-that’s my favorite phish. But of course i agree the best course of action is to spend time exploring 94-95 before seeing where the evolution took them 🫡

[@bacolfax]

Was there. The next day my friend Katie and I left my parent's house in NJ and drove all the way across the country in my Nissan Hardbody pickup. She was going to visit her sister in Breckenridge, and I was taking a semester off from college to go live in Lake Tahoe for the winter.

[@wax_poetic_pro_wrestling]

I appreciate you recognize that at Phish's core the band & music is about friendship. That's also something that they share in common with King Gizz. That Band Of Musical Brothers Vibe. Consequently, no one has spoken to me like Phish did in the mid-90s until King Gizz came along. You're on the right path. Surrender To The Flow...

[@jeffbrown-hill7739]

"Canvases in the shape of the songs that are blank". Yes, that makes a lot of sense. I've observed that in many different areas of life, the best things happen when you create a framework to work within, in which you have total freedom. Phish are the best example of this philosophy in "rock" music.

[@snucka21]

My first and only Phish NYE show I’ve been to. Made my return to MSG in 2017 for Chocolate and Cinnamon night. Hope to make it back to that venue again someday because that place is special

[@TheHSIHP]

I was only there for 02/03. I was at Boston 96 though.

[@ericzar4470]

Raw younger energy, 🎯

[@GordoFunk555]

Mike has this awesome ability to play with a pic and switch to slapping very quickly. He slips the pic between his pinky/ring fingers and his palm so he can easily go back and forth.

[@gmcsrbosavl6964]

I was outside of MSG that night but I couldn’t get a ticket. Only time I ever couldn’t find my way into a show. It was an early psychedelic experience for me…was still pretty wet behind the ears. Ate a bunch of boomers assuming I would make it in to the show and it was a challenging night at times but good times overall. It was cold as fuuu that night. Went and saw my friend’s band play at a Korean bar in the Meat Packing District called Calvin’s Red Room instead. The whole bar was red and filled with Koreans who seemed to be grilling me the whole time…super trippy. That was my only time going to Times Square on NYE but was too spun and didn’t want to be in a crowd so didn’t see the ball drop.

[@UnkDimp]

Shout out to Clark for showing up in time for the dance party!!!

[@KiverChris-jm6oj]

I want to introduce Clark to all the great phish dog-related songs!

[@Matt_Katt]

Appears we are still on course…bearing set to destination mind blown by A Live One. I was at this show, my 16th. It doesn’t get any better, only different. Hopefully you’ll knock out the individual sets from these shows one day.

[@hereintheyear]

"When you are in the crowd do you make noises with them?" No, the crowd is dead silent

[@elee2968]

that runaway Jim from this night is my all time fav jam

[@Lauramarklemusic]

You really need to go to an outdoor show this year. Get lawn seats and someone you enjoy and immerse yourself in the happiness that comes from Phish and phamily. There’s absolutely nothing like it.

[@WallyPDoyle111]

This was my 2nd NYE show of theirs! I also saw every NYE show after until 2000 at Big Cypress

[@barbarjinx3802]

I was at this years new years run, all 4 shows and there were some incredible moments. You want to listen to the Harry Hood and the 84 second note Trey plays. Mike is dirty on this tour. His new rig setup is nice. Check out the video they posted on it. Very interesting and a piece from his mom taboot.

[@pardonmedoug886]

@Walterooski as a new phan I'm curious if you caught any of the 2024 NYE MSG webcasts and what your thoughts on it were, if you saw/heard any of it.

[@miporotv3313]

17:40 Mike is using a ring modulator of some type. The harder the strike the more depth to the “wah-wow”

[@suzannemiller1877]

When Im in the crowd during a vocal jam i don't make noises, just listen/watch in awe...sometimes I'm probably laughing in amazement!

[@stevea2639]

Thats exactly what I do 🤣

[@stefuhnelly]

Thanks, Walter. That was a fun one. If I see one of your vids drop on KZbin I click it no matter where I am or what I'm doing. Gonna try to join the stream on Saturday if I can figure out what a Twitch is 😜

[@ledhed5553]

Totally got the Star Trek reference and ordered the fuggin 📖 too. This is great ✌️

[@johnny85er]

There is video of this…. 😢 You need to WATCH phish again! The lights alone, the interaction ….

[@FlowerSupply420]

Sound quality is way worse on the video unfortunately!! Super compressed.

[@KiverChris-jm6oj]

best phish ASMR is found in the Providence Bowie

[@KiverChris-jm6oj]

(Do it now!)

[@SportelliM34]

Would love to see your reaction to the red rocks 93 YEM IMHO the greatest blues solo ever crafted

[@mattrudybass]

I was there. The night was epic.

[@jahvolunteer]

I was at this show!! And Clifford Ball was in 96'

[@informedoptimist5777]

YOU are awesome, friend! Volume swells like Lifeson on Xanadu😊

[@Crafter75]

Canvases in the shape of songs… that are blank. Brilliant line!

[@mikeyevans5014]

I was there for both nights at MSG that year

[@nathanmount3912]

When you were asking about Mike's buttery tone, they were both jumping on trampolines. So Mike is playing whatever effect he had going,..the Meatball perhaps?

[@thejeremyclouse]

If he likes the vocal jam….maybe he’s ready for freebird

[@mattreynolds612]

22:25 When yer crazy Phriend swears to you that Trey is the greatest live Rock guitar 🎸 player ever ......this is a good place to start listening 🎧❤️🩵...........🎶🎶🎵🎶🔥🔥🔥💯💃🕺🎶🎶🎵🎶🔥🔥🔥💯✌️☮️🕊️ & They get better than this ....😮😲🍿🤷🐠🐟🕺💃

[@seansho]

Trey is the bandleader in that he is like that lady borg that was the leader of the hive mind. but also he is the primary songwriter. on stage though they all play off each other as to where to go and when to land it. one example i forget the show and the song but at one point Page triggers a cat sound sample from their song Your Pet Cat by mistake Trey looks over at Page who is like oopsy but Trey immediately drops into the Your Pet Cat riff and the whole band segue into that song for a bit before finishing the one they were playing. Also not usually a fan of the vocal jam but this one is aces and this YEM is easily top 5 ever. Also also fun fact Trey isnt his real name its a nickname his real name is Ernest Anastasio III so Trey as in the 3rd.

[@kylebaker9542]

This was also when MSG was a better venue with better sound. I used to love walking around/dancing in the walkway between the 100s and 200s. One of the biggest things I miss about the new MSG.

[@ameadors11]

Another live YEM?! Didn’t have it on my bingo card but you do you! This is your journey…we are here for it. Get to Billy Breathes already though lol! You’re really going to like that album. “I feel the feeling I forgot”-somehow I just know that lyric is going to give Walterooski the chills. Billy Breathes is such a representative album and a growth album. Dying to see your reaction to it because I know how damn good that album is so I know you’re going to love it bc you clearly get it! All in good time though. Gonna enjoy this for now… And no, the longest KZbin video you ever make it going to be your reaction to the midnight set from Big Cypress!!!

[@FairHavenFarm]

I Was There!!! And the night before. A 20-year old with my 4 best friends. It was, unfortunately, a night I’ll never remember 🥹🤩😤

[@braddart4766]

I was there for all the 90s msg shows

[@JeffCarrollGoogle]

I saw, was 16. Blew my brain away

[@tenplex]

By the way, all the services like Spotify got the info wrong on A Live One. A lot of it says stuff was from the Clifford ball but that is incorrect. Nothing is from the Clifford ball. Don’t know why they said that but it’s wrong.

[@No24us]

Trey is the only one who can rip cord a song & they play most of the stuff him & Tom write, so I'd say that makes him the band leader. Also, he sings most of the songs & does all the setlists for the most part. Not that they're not all fantastic, but this is arguably the best YEMs they've ever played. So there's that.

[@alan-daniel]

I've always considered the Albany 95 one as the GOAT, personally. Just wish a soundboard existed for it

[@filldrummin42]

Great show. Great YEM. I feel like 95 was the year Phish hit their stride. From here to the IT fest in 03 was the first high water mark for the band. Which brings me to my point, my favorite YEM was at the IT fest in 2003 kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6mcgWuVhb6Lr5Y. I feel like the IT fest was the culmination of the blow off top of Phish 1.0 which started at Big Cypress. They definitely turned the page that weekend. And that YEM jam had an intensity I've not heard in that song before or since. The epic of epics. Sorry to digress but I can't hear YEM and not think of (and share) the best one I ever heard.

[@mutoneon]

For heaven''s sake, man. The do the full A Live One before I plotz! Aren't phans the worst? :)

[@tombadil64]

He's streaming it to twitch on the 4th! Gonna be incredible!

[@andyhill5427]

Ooh...I like your blank canvass metaphor.

[@KiverChris-jm6oj]

My admittedly biased opinion: Most important city in the world: NYC Most important venue in the city: MSG Most important night of the year for a performance: NYE Therefore, most high-profile musical gigs in the world: phish’s MSG new years shows

[@kylebaker9542]

So nice to listen to something where the jams don't feel forced. Jams like this are few and far between these days.

[@colinsmith6178]

Twas there 🎉 w no ticket stub in my hand!

[@colinsmith6178]

Resistance is futile

[@timbauza1370]

I usually make a b line to the bathroom during the vocal jam.

[@TheHSIHP]

Yes! A Live One is coming soon right?

[@informedoptimist5777]

It’s like Arron Copland Americana, the release/resolution!

[@benjidasbear]

The beginning is like a hi-fi version of a Zelda theme to me.

[@socplaya02]

The majority of YEM is actually composed...same with Fluffhead, Divided Sky, Squirming Coil and a bunch of other of the early stuff Trey wrote, even up through songs like Guyute, Time Turns Elastic, and Petricor more recently. Yeah, they're long songs, but so is Supper's Ready and thats composed. Remember, Phish played Genisis into the rock and roll hall of fame playing Watcher of the Skies (also on the same album as Super's Ready iirc)... Especially early phish had a lot of early Genesis prog type influence and a huge Miles Davis influence when they did jam, especially early in their time as a band...the crazy thing is the parts that did go into more jazzy harmonic type stuff, like that drum bass breakdown...I've heard December 95 phish described as playing insanely recklessly (like driving on the edge of a cliff), always looking to push up against the edge and topple over, but each one driving individually, but as a group...and they didn't fall off the cliff. Check out some pre-1993 live stuff when you can...you can see the evolution of their sound in the albums, but watching them weave and grow their sound live from tour to tour, it's wild...also, 91 and 92 is before they hit it really big and a lot of those shows are still in smaller venues and kinda the original crowd that had been there from the start

[@randybrown-kx4sf]

You need to hear Scent Of A Mule live. 7/20/14 is a great one with video

[@reverendjim9891]

Mike just did a bass rig rundown you should check out, obv different the what he used in 95 but still worth it to check it out

[@tweedwood6910]

Rolling stone called this album “raw raucous and note worthy”

[@YoyoDaddyO]

I think that mustard is Grey Poupon

[@miraclejohan]

I did see this with my eyeballs

[@matthewshubert8495]

YEM on A Live One is not from Clifford Ball. A few titles say that on Spotify for some reason but none are from that festival.

[@grandoner]

You literally could have reacted to a live one if you streamed one of the MSG shows recently

[@RDNZLarf17]

Wait until you hear some 30-40 minute jams

[@rgrossi]

Worcester Jim from 97 is a good start

[@RDNZLarf17]

@ it should definitely be on the list. This list will be never ending

[@jahvolunteer]

Resistance is phutile

[@JackAErickson]

Smooth -> Chonky ❤

[@adamgordon315]

So, regarding the Clifford Ball refrenced w/r/t A Live One. On ALO, (this may be wrong) since they hadn't cleared recording for release w/ venues, they listed all performances as having been from "The Clifford Ball", but are actually from a bunch of different shows. In 1996 they threw their second two day festival The Clifford Ball. Only reason I mention is to drop the video for the soundcheck. It's *fascinating*. Not songs, just them jamming/sound-checking, half just goofing around. A must watch. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYuxmaWeqsyZi7ssi=x_kTbRbkxBGlkFKm

[@stevea2639]

FYI - A live one is life changing but not really the clifford ball. Can't remember why they said the live one was Clifford Ball. Maybe someone can explain better than me. Cheers!

[@YoyoDaddyO]

Hey Clark Phish dawg

[@wharpua]

I'm sure it would trigger a different level of attention and possibly sink the whole effort, but when you get up to the Story of the Ghost album you should consider doing a reaction video to their documentary Bittersweet Motel, which was filmed from August '97 through August '98.