Reba 6/19/95 Deer Creek

[@sinane.y]

The way they bring the jam back to the Reba theme after those couple of dark jamming is one of the finest Phish moments

[@markuslaunsburry]

Just here to be the 1,000th kid to say I was at this show. Still just as magical today as it was then. Thanks boys 🙏🏼

[@Pabstmear]

stamping this after 4/21/24

[@LudiCrust.]

This was my very first Phish concert. I lived less than 10 miles away from Deer Creek at the time. Every show there from 95 to 2000 was epic. I was lucky as hell living there. I didn’t start touring with them until 2000 then stopped after 04 when I got my degree. 2003 imo was their best year - winter & summer tours were spectacular. 04 was they seemed to lose themselves to drugs. I’ve seen a handful of shows after 08-09 but they just don’t hit the same for me. Too many newer songs that don’t have the beauty the prime Phish songs had.

[@hangingon]

This was my only show at Deer Creek since we lived in Philly. Saw DMB that summer there as well. Beautiful venue and camped out after melting our faces on shrooms.

[@sg1770]

About two months later, Jerry would die and music would never be the same. I am so glad Trey kept his music alive.

[@hlf_coder6272]

I went to a Dead show just 4 days before this. Oddly, you could actually tell their run was coming to an end. It was in the air somehow. I had seen them just a few months prior to that, and the 6/15 show at Highgate just felt completely different and Jerry looked about 100 years older.

[@jamespage7998]

Two totally different animals. Never understood why /how people compared one to the other, musically . "Jam" ? 🙄

[@jamespage7998]

Thanks Professor Brilliant!!!

[@hlf_coder6272]

I've always loved the way Page and Trey dance off each other in Reba at like the 5:10 mark. Such a great song.

[@benparisi2148]

I love how Trey is just wading and walking back and forth as he plays. He’s always had so much fun

[@elguapo6750]

And the dynamite 🧨 goes boom 💥!! 1.0 still the best.

[@jamespage7998]

What did you just say??

[@magellan1818]

No doubt!

[@magellan1818]

They are really fucking good right now though, too!! Not quite as Earth shattering as 93-97 but really good! Amazing, at times!

[@elguapo6750]

@@magellan1818 longer than that... 90-99. I'm specifically including the 98 Island Tour as being part of Earth shattering days. Yes, today is just great... No doubt, but not the pure fire and reckless abandon of 1.0

[@JacobBeron]

​@@jamespage7998yeah; what did he say? Speed of playing it?

[@adamdavidoff1500]

This Reba rules all your faces. The syncopated midsection is simply stupid... Great tempo! I think this was my 11th show...

[@jamesbrumfield1594]

Been on a Reba kick lately. Can play drums to most of the easy songs and can do the grooves and fills. But the orchestrated ways of Reba, YEM, Hood, The Lizards, The Curtain, Divided Sky are hard for me to follow. I come to watch Fish as that helps me learn as much listening, almost. It's still fun to play "5th member" even if I can't keep up.

[@wedamammynuns]

Ew

[@gagealbright]

i'm on a reba kick now. check out 12/31/93 reba if u havent already

[@bmfsnc8466]

Thank you OP, for this absolute gem

[@jeffg7478]

12:00 chills. Love that 95 sound. 95 was peak for me. I know 97/98 is more considered their peak by most but whatever. I even go to it more often for a listen but 95 hit the sweet spot on all levels of phish.. tight, jammy, spacey, out there and treys tone and groove was unreal. He could hit peak after peak. The guitar played him. Basically they had many more peaks in their career, just beginning at this time, but nothing eclipsed 95. 93/94 were also amazing but something just gelled in 95. Just an opinion. It’s art, always up for interpretation.

[@DrewD76]

Just beautiful..

[@cshubs]

I attended this one! I lived in Indy at the time, and maybe 15 miles from the Creek.

[@andrewdyke5561]

Were i live love deer creek

[@cshubs]

@@andrewdyke5561 In the 90s, it was still just a venue in the middle of cornfields. Now I'm guessing it's totally built up around there.

[@bigmike5785]

Mike with the good hair.

[@luptonpittman6580]

11:08 or so. It’s fucking mind blowing chills that’s nothing like anything else. It is euphoria. Their ability to weave out to the weird and then back into the e flat f jam so smoothly to make your brain feel so good is more than music theory and improv. That’s what makes this so unbelievable magic.

[@blackbenny1]

6:16 is when the joy begins

[@SPINUNDRUM]

If you skip the previous 6 minutes and 5 seconds, you lose the contrast, thus the magic also. ❤

[@blackbenny1]

@SPINUNDRUM good point well said

[@Richk-sz9is]

Trey just up there having the best time lol

[@hangingon]

We wuz there! Dang so many memories of Phish just destroying the mid to late 90s. They were the most explosive band on the planet during these years. Straight shredding!

[@jonaskessler326]

Not a Phish fan but I’ve always liked this song.

[@hangingon]

It's beautiful

[@patrickmullins4552]

Well you’re a fan of this one !

[@BW-pr8qr]

Best Reba ever?!?!?!?! I go back and forth between this and 12/2/95 New Haven.

[@CesarHernandez-nh1wz]

11/29/95 might be the best but this one is up there for sure!

[@andrewdyke5561]

5-16-95 and 12-31-93

[@BW-pr8qr]

@@andrewdyke5561 two great ones for sure!!!

[@BW-pr8qr]

@@CesarHernandez-nh1wz I will have to listen to that one tonight 👍

[@jburre]

this one has to be it. love the funk jam in the middle! they were so on top of everything during these years

[@kellystephen4235]

Spirit cooking

[@jpcannon9329]

Something about 8:45.... can feel the mood shift 29 years later

[@KiverChris-jm6oj]

KZbin’s finest!

[@incidentalist]

Back when they were scary, crisp, scary and crisp. Good times, I suure fucking miss the 90s!! What a time to be alive and be a teenager. They were so on point then. Brilliant here!

[@jamespage7998]

Saw Phish for the first time in 1990. Sadly, over the last 30+ years, the fan's have turned into later day "dead heads". More there for the drugs and party than the music. That's okay, just glad I was there with 5000 fan's on many occasions, who truly were there for the music, before it was hip to take molly and Phake Phan out.

[@hangingon]

I started in 94 and last major run were the Halloween Vegas shows of 2016 & 2018. Saw one more show at the Forum before covid then retired. Now I just am grateful for videos of shows I was at to relive those days (minus all the drugged out wierdos)

[@adamweb]

Damn I love the boys so much but they just aren't this tight these days!

[@ColeWheeler4Lyfe]

No one makes a sick groove go angular and ill like phish.

[@maroonecho]

back when trey was trey

[@DavidJones-ey6ie]

Gets dark and then it gets light!

[@JasonMccoubrey-qp9pn]

Was looking at the latest comment the guy said he didn't like them in 1995 and he didn't like them in 2023 either and that it sounds like being in a Guitar

[@JasonMccoubrey-qp9pn]

It was my post it's even worse than the first time

[@JasonMccoubrey-qp9pn]

Did not like them in 1995 dont like them in 2023 is this a 16 minute song sounds like guitar center

[@hammondOT]

Trey does the guitar player faces too much.

[@conjandysecurity]

Good music is not for everyone.

[@FirstBornSunBand]

​@@conjandysecurityI really like Oysterhead. However, I've always found Phish to be incredibly underwhelming. If I want to listen to a jam band, I have to go with moe.

[@prairiephan]

​@@FirstBornSunBandmoeron

[@adamweb]

Phish is actually an AI band created by Guitar Center to sell equipment to stoners

[@steveisfatter2]

I’m not sure it was Reba but I’d read (from an old interview with Trey) that they would write several chunks of music that were recorded and they would sort of not listen back and then just add another unrelated 2-4 more measures that they added on and then forgot it. I’m pretty sure it is this song just before the improvised solo over two simple chords. But the “worked out” parts give it a vibe of “holy hell, how did we even come up with this crazy beautiful mess?” It sounds like music that wasn’t written by earthlings. Anyway, it’s kind of ironic how the solo (imo one of the best improvised solos consistently in the phish catalog) is just two simple chords after sheets and sheets of material that had to be memorized and practiced for 30-40 hours maybe before it could even got off the ground. I was never in a band this good by any stretch but I guess at the hours knowing my best group would’ve need 120 hours playing this and we never had the piano talent to do it in the first place. It is something that might be as good as it ever gets. I bet even Phish cover bands give up on the pipe dream to do this. Maybe I’d be surprised about my ignorance here but…I’m gonna search for a cover of this and I bet if its here at all it’ll only earn a slow ironic clap…

[@steveisfatter2]

I really don’t believe most bands…and I really can’t picture any other band even having the skill sets to cover this song let alone write it’s equal!! I know Phish had many compositions along a similar level of detail and complexity. So I’m saying it’s pretty much the mountain top for me as a guitarist who’s learned a few of their harder songs and I’d love if ppl would take a stab at a band that could handle this one at all. Maybe Queen? Idk, primus? I suppose they could both have done it but the point is they would’ve had to work so hard at it that you just have to give it to these four dudes. One of the all time greatest in rock history for certain in my mind