Setlist

Set One
The Landlady 234
Llama 282
Colonel Forbin's Ascent 330
Fly Famous Mockingbird 751
My Sweet One 161
Reba 699
I Didn't Know 203
Stash 627
The Mango Song 462
Poor Heart 170
Chalk Dust Torture 410
Set Two
The Curtain 413
Possum 835
Guelah Papyrus 333
The Squirming Coil 442
All Things Reconsidered 184
Brother 378
Sanity 330
Cold As Ice 67
Love You 492
Hold Your Head Up 39
Sparkle 240
Harry Hood 801
Cavern 349
Encore
Lawn Boy 145
Good Times, Bad Times 364
Filler
Suzy Greenberg 349
Maze 546
Divided Sky 867
Horn 222
Mike's Song 519
I Am Hydrogen 194
Weekapaug Groove 460
Runaway Jim 501
Achilles Rink - Union College
Schenectady, NY
May 17, 1992

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Setlist

Set One
The Landlady 234
Llama 282
Colonel Forbin's Ascent 330
Fly Famous Mockingbird 751
My Sweet One 161
Reba 699
I Didn't Know 203
Stash 627
The Mango Song 462
Poor Heart 170
Chalk Dust Torture 410
Set Two
The Curtain 413
Possum 835
Guelah Papyrus 333
The Squirming Coil 442
All Things Reconsidered 184
Brother 378
Sanity 330
Cold As Ice 67
Love You 492
Hold Your Head Up 39
Sparkle 240
Harry Hood 801
Cavern 349
Encore
Lawn Boy 145
Good Times, Bad Times 364
Filler
Suzy Greenberg 349
Maze 546
Divided Sky 867
Horn 222
Mike's Song 519
I Am Hydrogen 194
Weekapaug Groove 460
Runaway Jim 501

Show Notes

- On May 17, 1992 Phish played at Achilles Rink – the Union College hockey arena opened in 1975 with a capacity of about 2,500. Schenectady was the second-to-last date on a 53-show spring tour that hit 24 states and the District of Columbia with five shows in Colorado, six in California and seven in New York before wrapping up in the band’s hometown Burlington, Vermont.  Phish’s third studio album and Elektra debut, A Picture of Nectar, had dropped in February.  Fans benevolently plastered promo stickers depicting Nectar’s face from the album cover on toll booths and highway rest areas from coast to coast.  Spring ’92 featured the new Minkin Lexan backdrops, a big batch of new songs that would form the basis for Rift, and the band inviting the audience to share in the Secret Language.  Phish.net (and the Internet in general) was just starting to catch on, there was no official taper’s section yet, and word of mouth was key.  The Schenectady show – with a ticket price of $5 - was a prime example as it was not listed in the Phish newsletter or hotline.  It was a Sunday night, Page’s birthday, and the band was almost home after more than two months on the road. Highlights of the Schenectady ’92 show included The Landlady > Llama opener, Stash, and Chalk Dust Torture from set I.  The Curtain > Possum kicked off set II with a concentrated barrage of Secret Language and teases of everything from Rocky Mountain Way to China Grove to It's Ice and Divided Sky during one of the all-time far-out Possums.  Brother went completely unhinged and led appropriately...perhaps inevitably to Sanity, before Fish took over vocal and vacuum duties for Syd Barrett’s Love You.  A standout Harry Hood rounded out set II and continued the show’s Outward thrust.  The Schenectady ’92 release includes filler selected from the tour-closing show the following night - 5/18/92 at The Flynn Theatre in Burlington. 5/17/92 Schenectady was recorded by Paul Languedoc to 2-track soundboard cassette and mastered by Fred Kevorkian. - Recorded by Paul Languedoc - Post-Production by Kevin Shapiro - Technical Assistance by Jared Slomoff and Ben Collette - Mastered by Fred Kevorkian at Kevorkian Mastering   * The Landlady (Anastasio) * Llama (Anastasio) * Colonel Forbin's Ascent (Anastasio) * Fly Famous Mockingbird (Anastasio) * My Sweet One (Fishman) * Reba (Anastasio) * I Didn't Know (Wright) * Stash (Anastasio/Marshall) * The Mango Song (Anastasio) * Poor Heart (Gordon) * Chalk Dust Torture  (Anastasio/Marshall) * The Curtain (Anastasio/Daubert) * Possum (Holdsworth) * Guelah Papyrus (Anastasio/Marshall) * The Squirming Coil (Anastasio/Herman/Marshall) * All Things Reconsidered (Anastasio) * Brother (Anastasio/Fishman/Gordon/McConnell) * Sanity (Anastasio/Fishman/Gordon/McConnell/Pollak) * Cold As Ice (Gramm/Jones*) * Love You (Barrett#) * Hold Your Head Up (Argent/White^) * Sparkle (Anastasio/Marshall) * Harry Hood (Anastasio/Fishman/Gordon/Long/McConnell) * Cavern (Anastasio/Herman/Marshall) * Lawn Boy (Anastasio/Marshall) * Good Times, Bad Times (Bonham/Jones//Page/Plant**) * Suzy Greenberg (Pollak) * Maze (Anastasio/Marshall) * Divided Sky (Anastasio) * Horn (Anastasio/Marshall) * Mike's Song (Gordon) * I Am Hydrogen (Anastasio/Daubert/Marshall) * Weekapaug Groove (Anastasio/Fishman/Gordon/McConnell) * Runaway Jim (Abrahams/Anastasio)   All songs copyright Who Is She? Music Inc (BMI) except for: *WB Music Corp (ASCAP) & Somerset Songs Publishing Inc (ASCAP), #Lupus Music Co Ltd (BMI), ^Marquis Songs USA (BMI), **Flames of Albion Music (ASCAP)
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Reviews

Fern 4/14/2024 12:37:08 PM

"Quite possibly the greatest Possum of all time. "

runawayjim71 9/9/2023 6:08:55 PM

"this Crystal clear recording from 92 wow, early '90s is when I first saw them and I've been hooked ever since and this is by far the best time for phish they had something to prove they did "

d oliver 8/12/2023 11:08:36 PM

"this was my first phish bootleg. the possum is easily the GOAT. phish language, LA woman, rocky mountain way, its ice tease, the lizards tease. "

Jon 5/10/2023 12:26:15 PM

"This recording sounds so clear and clean, especially for 92’. Amazing show. Love the uniqueness of Possum. Awesome. "

Tenderhorse 5/17/2022 9:14:36 AM

"This was my 1st show. 30 years ago...... way back in my collage days. "Dude. Ever hear of Phish. They're playing in Schenectady" "No. Who the fuck is Fish?! That's like 4 hours away. I'm not going 4 hours for a band I never heard of." "DUDE. You'll love them. They're a little like Zappa meets the Grateful Dead, and it's only $5 ... you can drive part of the way" (he had a cool fast car) "Well that sounds terrible. Fine." Then we get there and immediately I can tell the fans were RABID. Everybody wanting to Phil me in on the scene and the lore and the super-jam from this night and that night of the tour. Then the 1st set blew my socks off. The energy of the band was incredible but the audience energy was just off the charts. So many inside little nuances that I didn't know ...but I could see were happening. And THEN that (possible GOAT) Possum. Face>Floor. Time to pack one for sure after that, am I right? These beautiful magnificent bastard new friends took pity on me and my shit Beaster bowl, and tried to distract me while they emptied my bowl and then packed it with some really dank kind bud. After we circled that, they packed it again and left me with it right as Squirming Coil started. And then the crowd started singing Happy Birthday to this amazing piano player I didn't know existed before that day and I was crying and singing and laughing with them and I clearly remember thinking, "This is the most incredible music experience of my life". I rode that high through my face falling off again during Brother ... through the crazy spectacle of Sanity>Sparkle ...and then I cried again at the incredible peak of Hood, screaming with everyone "You can feel gooooood goooood good about Hoooood" while jumping up and down. Instant obsession. Never looked back. And I got 1st gen tapes of the show right out of the guy's freezer as a gift (for real, next to a block of weed) because I was so pumped about my 1st show. Wish my old Mazda tape deck didn't eat the 1st tape. Like the Central Scrutinizer says, "Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best." This band fucking knows it. May our children be blessed to have a band they can love so deeply with so many. That can be a soundtrack to their lives for decades. That can survive becoming a VH1 Behind the Music tragedy story equivalent. That continues to thrive, grow and write new material, surprise and delight us with amazing spectacle, and is still rip faces off. And that still has such a truly amazingly vibrant and thriving community ta boot. 30 years later ... Soo many miles. Soo many smiles. SOO MUCH LOVE. Soo many, many, many THANKS."

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