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2-13-97 Shepherds Bush Empire, London, England

1: Chalk Dust Torture, Wolfman's Brother, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Stash, Walfredo*, Taste, Waste, Poor Heart, Character Zero, Peaches en Regalia, My Valentine, David Bowie

2: Julius, Cars Trucks Buses, My Soul**, Punch You in the Eye, Slave to the Traffic Light, When the Circus Comes**, Maze, Rocko William**, Harry Hood, Frankenstein

E: Prince Caspian, Johnny B. Goode

*New original with instrument switching (Fish - Bass, Mike - Guitar, Trey - Keyboards, Page - Drums).  **New cover (Clifton Chenier).  **New original with instrument switching (Fish - Guitar/Vocals, Mike - Keyboards, Trey - Drums, Page - Bass)

2-14-97 Botanique, Brussels, Belgium

1: Runaway Jim, NICU, You Enjoy Myself, Sweet Adeline, Axilla, It's Ice, Billy Breathes, Uncle Pen, Run Like an Antelope

2: AC/DC Bag, Ya Mar, Down With Disease, Funky Bitch, Reba, Walfredo, Rocko William, Scent of a Mule*, A Day In The Life

E: Character Zero

*Unfinished.

2-16-97 Wartesaal, Koln, Germany

1: Beauty of My Dreams, Split Open and Melt, Bouncing Around the Room, Crosseyed and Painless, Guelah Papyrus, Ginseng
Sullivan, Tweezer, Waste, Cavern, Chalk Dust Torture

2: Sample in a Jar, Cars Trucks Buses, Free, Sparkle, Simple, When the Circus Comes, Swept Away, Steep, David Bowie, Loving Cup, Tweezer Reprise

E: Theme From the Bottom, Johnny B. Goode

2-17-97 Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1: Soul Shakedown Party*, The Divided Sky, Wilson**, My Soul, Gyute, Timber (Jerry), Billy Breathes, Llama, Bathtub Gin, Golgi Apparatus

2: The Squirming Coil > Down With Disease, Carini Had a Lumpy Head, Taste, Down With Disease, Suzy Greenberg, Prince Caspian

E: Sleeping Monkey, Rocky Top

*First time played (Bob Marley cover).  **Trey flubs lyrics a few times.

2-18-97 Bataclan, Paris, France

1: Mid-Highway Blues, Cavern, Punch You in the Eye, Runaway Jim, NICU, Stash, Waste, Walfredo, Character Zero, Slave to the Traffic Light

2: Peaches En Regalia, Also Sprach Zarathustra, My Soul, Maze, Wolfman's Brother, Reba, Train Song, Harry Hood, Frankenstein

E: Bold As Love*

* Dedicated to Jimi Hendrix

2-20-97 Teatro Smeraldo, Milan, Italy

1: The Curtain, Tweezer, Soul Shakedown Party, Chalk Dust Torture, So Lonely, Taste, Gumbo, When the Circus Comes, David Bowie, Tweezer Reprise

2: Sample in a Jar, Cars Trucks Buses, Character Zero, Uncle Pen, Stash, Bouncing Around the Room, Free, Swept Away, Steep, A Day in the Life, Runaway Jim, Sweet Adeline

E:   Julius

2-21-97 Tenax, Florence, Italy

1: My Soul, Foam, Down With Disease, Lizards, Crosseyed and Painless, You Enjoy Myself

2: Ya Mar, Run Like an Antelope*, Wilson**, Oh Kee Pa Ceremony, AC/DC Bag, Billy Breathes, Reba, Waste, Prince Caspian

E: Character Zero

*Unfinished.  **Heavy metal version.

2-22-97 Teatro Olimpico, Rome, Italy

1: Walfredo, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Funky Bitch, Theme From the Bottom, NICU, When the Circus Comes, Talk, Split Open and Melt, I Didn't Know*, Character Zero

2: Chalk Dust Torture*, Bathtub Gin, Sparkle, Simple**, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Harry Hood, Free, Hello My Baby

E:  Johnny B. Goode

*With "David Bowie" teases.  **With Page solo.

2-23-97 Fillmore, Cortemaggiore, Italy

1: Carini Had a Lumpy Head*, Axilla, All Things Reconsidered, The Sloth, Love Me, Rift, Fluffhead, Frankenstein, David Bowie

2: Daniel, Suzy Greenberg, Maze , The Horse, Silent in the Morning, Peaches en Regalia, Mike's Song, Why Don't We Do It in the Road**, HYHU^, Good Times Bad Times

E: Billy Breathes, Rocky Top

*Pre-recorded soundcheck, with Phish picking it up as they took the stage.  **Trey on drums, Fish singing.  ^Extended version, Trey announces the "Return of Henrietta" (Fish dons the mu-mu for the first time this tour).

2-25-97 Incognito, Munich, Germany

1: Runaway Jim, My Soul, One Meatball*, Little Red Rooster*^, Got my Mojo Workin'*, Stash, Waste, Taste, Loving Cup

2: Beauty of My Dreams, Sample in a Jar, Punch You in the Eye, Free, Fee, My Friend My Friend**, Down with Disease,
Prince Caspian, La Grange, Sweet Adeline

E: Chalk Dust Torture

*With special guest vocalist Sydney Ellis.  ^The same Rooster the Grateful Dead used to perform.  **Aborted after a minute (Trey apologized and said he couldn't go on. Fish replied, "It happens to the best of us."  Possible reference to the 11-22-95 Rift.)

2-26-97 SWF 3 Studios, Baden-Baden, Germany

Talk, Waste, Train Song, Walfredo, Goodbye Jam

Interviews between songs (and a brief tease of Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough").  Runs approximately 40 minutes, including three album cuts.  Trey on acoustic guitar.

2-26-97b Longhorn, Stuttgart, Germany

1: Camel Walk, Llama, My Friend My Friend, Harry Hood, My Soul, Tube, Carini Had a Lumpy Head, Rocko William, Dog Log, While My Guitar Gently Weeps

2: Buried Alive, Poor Heart, Ha Ha Ha, You Enjoy Myself, Kung, Theme From the Bottom, Scent of a Mule, Jazz Jam*, Magilla**, Scent of a Mule, Slave to the Traffic Light

E: Highway to Hell

*Trey's part of the Muel Duel.  **Page's part of the Duel.

2-28-97 Huxley's Neue Welt, Berlin, Germany

1: Carini Had a Lumpy Head, Paul and Silas, My Soul, Cars Trucks Buses, Peaches en Regalia, Swept Away, Steep, Ya Mar*, Character Zero

2: Taste, Drowned, Prince Caspian**, Frankenstein, David Bowie, Creamy Blue, Axilla, Waste, Julius

E:   A Day in the Life

*With "Oh Kee Pa Ceremony" teases.  **With Page solo.

3-1-97 Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany

1: Cities, Oh Kee Pa Ceremony, Down With Disease, Weigh, Beauty Of My Dreams, Wolfman's Brother, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Reba, Hello My Baby, Possum

2: Carini Had a Lumpy Head, Dinner and a Movie, Mike's Song*, Lawn Boy**, Weekapaug Groove, The Mango Song, Billy Breathes, Theme From The Bottom

E: Taste, Sweet Adeline

Excerpts of this show comprise Phish's second live release, "Slip Stitch and Pass".  *With "The End" and "Be Careful With That Axe, Eugene" and "Peace Frog" teases.  **With Mike solo.

3-2-97 Pumpehuset, Copenhagen, Denmark

1: Johnny B. Goode, Uncle Pen, Sample in a Jar, Gyute, My Soul, Runaway Jim**, Run Like an Antelope*, Catapult, Life on Mars, Chalk Dust Torture, Hello My Baby

2: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Maze, Swept Away, Steep, Punch You in the Eye, Waste, Character Zero, Slave to the Traffic Light, Tweezer Reprise

E: You Enjoy Myself

**With "Gypsy Queen" jam.  *Unfinished.

3-5-97 Ed Sullivan Theatre, New York, NY

Character Zero

Late Night with David Letterman

3-18-97 Flynn Theatre, Burlington VT

1: Cinnamon Girl*, NICU, Sample in a Jar, Punch You in the Eye, My Soul, Beauty of My Dreams, Harry Hood, Cars Trucks Buses**, Suzy Greenberg**, Character Zero****

2: Taste, Drowned, Prince Caspian, David Bowie, Love Me, I Told You So^, Love Me Like A Man^, Waste, Chalk Dust Torture, Slave to the Traffic Light

E: Hello My Baby, Funky Bitch**

A benefit for the cleanup of the Lake Champlain region of Vermont, sponsored in part by Ben & Jerry's and Phish Food.  *Neil Young cover, first time played.  **With Dave Grippo (alto sax) and James Harvey (trombone).  ^With Tammy Fletcher from The Disciples on vocals (Unrehearsed, according to Trey).  **Happy Birthday wishes to Ben of Ben & Jerry.

6-6-97 Brad's House, Charlotte, VT

Samson Riff*, I Saw It Again, Fooled By Images, Limb by Limb, Dogs Stole Things, Ghost, Dirt, Vultures, Water in the Sky, Twist Around, Piper, Wading in a Velvet Sea, Funny As It Seems, Stand, Izabella

This was an unannounced, private show (most likely at Brad Sands' house).  Supposedly, this is just the second set.  *From "Samson Riffs", an album by Trey's mentor and composition instructor Ernie Stires.  Trey plays on this track on the album.

6-13-97 The S.F.X. Centre, Dublin, Ireland

1: Theme from the Bottom, Dogs Stole Things*, Beauty of My Dreams, Billy Breathes, Wolfman's Brother, Wading in a Velvet Sea*, Taste

2: La Bamba Jam, Tequila Jam, Stash, Maze, Water in the Sky*, Vultures*, Slave to the Traffic Light, Chalk Dust Torture, Ghost*, Oblivious Fool*, Character Zero

E: Stand**, Izabella+

*New originals.  **New cover (Sly and the Family Stone).  +New cover (Jimi Hendrix).

6-14-97 The S.F.X Centre, Dublin, Ireland

1: Down With Disease, NICU, Dirt*, Talk, My Soul, Cars Trucks Buses, Limb By Limb, Bye Bye Foot*^, Free, Prince Caspian

2: Twist Around*, Piper*, I Saw It Again*, Fooled By Images*, Dogs Stole Things, Waste, David Bowie, Cavern

E: When the Circus Comes, Rocky Top

*New originals.  ^Fish sings (part of the lyrics appeared in the last Doniac Schvice).

6-16-97 Royal Albert Hall, London, England

1: The Squirming Coil, Dogs Stole Things, Taste, Water in the Sky, Sample in a Jar, Beauty of My Dreams, Theme From the Bottom, Chalk Dust Torture, Wolfman's Brother, Oblivious Fool

2: Limb By Limb, Ghost, I Don't Care, Reba, Wading in a Velvet Sea, Dirt, Harry Hood

E: Cities, Poor Heart

6-19-97 Arena, Vienna, Austria

1: Limb By Limb, Dogs Stole Things, Theme From the Bottom*, Punch You in the Eye, Water in the Sky, Maze, Waste, Vultures, Runaway Jim

2: Stash, Ghost, I Saw It Again, Wading in a Velvet Sea, Piper, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Prince Caspian

E: Beauty of My Dreams, Character Zero, Hello My Baby**

*With "The Landlady" tease (including dance by Trey and Mike).  **No mics.

6-20-97 Divadlo Archa, Prague, Czech Republic

1: Taste, Cities*, Horn, Funny As It Seems, Limb By Limb, I Don't Care, Run Like an Antelope

2: David Bowie, Ghost, Bye Bye Foot, Ginseng Sullivan, Cavern, Twist Around, Bouncing Around the Room, Julius

E: When the Circus Comes, Rocky Top

*Extended intro jam.

6-21-97 Hurricane Festival, Scheesel, Germany

Sample in a Jar, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Poor Heart, Taste, Dogs Stole Things, Theme From the Bottom, Swept Away, Steep, Limb By Limb, Dirt, Harry Hood, Chalk Dust Torture, Samson Riff, Twist Around, Cavern

E: My Soul

6-22-97 WDR Festival Lorey, Koblenz, Germany

Taste, Water In The Sky, Stash, Dirt, Uncle Pen, Character Zero, Theme From the Bottom, Hello My Baby, Ghost, Limb By Limb

6-24-97 La Laiterie, Strasbourg, France

1: Split Open and Melt, Beauty of My Dreams, Dogs Stole Things, Vultures, Guelah Papyrus*, Runaway Jim**, Talk, Free, Prince Caspian, Rocky Top

2: Wolfman's Brother, Reba, NICU, Twist Around, Oblivious Fool, Wading in a Velvet Sea, Ghost

E: Loving Cup

*Aborted.  **With "Gypsy Queen" jam .

6-25-97 L'Aeronef, Euralille (Lille), France

1: Oblivious Fool, Dogs Stole Things, Taste, Billy Breathes, AC/DC Bag, The Old Home Place, Theme From the Bottom, Wading in a Velvet Sea, I Saw It Again, Limb By Limb, My Soul

2: Down With Disease, Piper, Down With Disease, Time*, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Makisupa Policeman, Cecilia^, HYHU, Rocko William, Run Like an Antelope+

E: Gyute

*New original.  ^Simon & Garfunkel cover, sung by Fish.  +Trey introduces the whole band and crew.

6-27-97 Glastonbury Festival - Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, England

Wilson, Chalk Dust Torture, Stash, Dogs Stole Things, Poor Heart, Taste, Bouncing Around the Room, Character Zero

6-29-97 Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark

You Enjoy Myself, Taste, Bouncing Around the Room, Beauty of My Dreams, Chalk Dust Torture, Theme From the Bottom, Character Zero

E: My Soul

7-1-97 Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1: Ghost, Horn, Ya Mar, Limb By Limb, Funny As It Seems, I Saw It Again, Dirt, Reba, Dogs Stole Things

2: Jam^, Timber (Jerry), Bathtub Gin, Cities**, Loving Cup, Slave to the Traffic Light

E: When the Circus Comes

^Fish alone on piano, then builds into a jam distinct from "Timber (Jerry)."  **Slow tempo, almost reggae beat.

7-2-97 Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1: Mike's Song, Simple, Maze, Strange Design, Ginseng Sullivan, Vultures, Water in the Sky, Weekapaug Groove

2: Jam, Stash, Llama, Worm Town Jam^, Wading in a Velvet Sea

E1: Free*

E2: David Bowie

^A jam on "Swing Town"  (Steve Miller tune) with dark vocals about "Back of the Worm" and worms in the canals of Amsterdam.  *Band left stage after Free.

7-3-97 Serenadenhof, Nurnberg, Germany

1: Piper, My Soul, The Divided Sky, Beauty of My Dreams, Taste, Train Song, Theme From the Bottom, Rocky Top

2: Ghost*, Cars Trucks Buses, Billy Breathes, Sparkle, Harry Hood, Cavern

E: Character Zero

*Included themes from the 7-2-97 Set 2 Jam, and more "Back of the Worm" vocals.

7-5-97 Piazza Risorgimento, Cernobbio (Como), Italy

Soundcheck: Funky Bitch, Ginseng Sullivan

Julius, Bouncing Around The Room, Uncle Pen, Sample in a Jar, Theme From the Bottom, Prince Caspian, Twist Around*,
Piper, Harry Hood**, Love You, Poor Heart, Character Zero, Good Times Bad Times+

E: The Squirming Coil

*With "Groove is in the Heart" (Dee-Lite) tease and "Fluffhead" tease.  **With Fish vac solo.    +With "Walk This Way"(Aerosmith) tease.

7-6-97 Spiaggia di Rivoltella, Desenzano (Brescia), Italy

Soundcheck: Jam, Oblivious Fool, Beauty of My Dreams, Hell's Bells (attempt)*, You Shook Me All Night Long**, MMMBop^, Another One Bites the Dust (Queen)$&, And It Stoned Me (Van Morrison)$, Only Shallow (My Bloody Valentine)$, Day-O

1: Runaway Jim, The Old Home Place, Dogs Stole Things, Stash, The Horse, Silent in the Morning, Cars Trucks Buses, Scent of a Mule, Chalk Dust Torture

2: Free, You Enjoy Myself, Waste, Rocky Top, Funky Bitch

E: My Soul

*As the show is outside (on a beach), bells ringing at a nearby church prompt this attempt at this AC/DC tune.  **Sung by Fish after Trey can't remember the words.  Trey makes a comment afterwords about writing just one song like this one.  ^Hanson cover, sung by Fish as James Brown ("Like an 11-year-old sex machine").  $The Soundcheck Limbo Karaoke Contest (sung by audience members).  &Sung as "Another one rides the bus".

7-9-97 Le Transbordeur, Lyon/Villeurbanne, France

1: Punch You in the Eye, Prince Caspian, Ginseng Sullivan, Split Open and Melt, Dirt, Taste, Sweet Adeline, Harry Hood

2: Down With Disease, My Soul, Cars Trucks Buses, You Enjoy Myself*, Ghost*, Poor Heart*

E: Hello My Baby

*With Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.

7-10-97 Espace Julien, Marseille, France

1: Dogs Stole Things, Limb By Limb, Ginseng Sullivan, Bathtub Gin, Llama, Wading in a Velvet Sea, Lizards Jam*, Oblivious Fool

2: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Julius, Magilla, Ya Mar^, Ghost, Take Me to the River**

E: Funky Bitch**

*Very slow, no lyrics, largely unrecognizable until the end.  ^Apparently they took turns jamming in pairs: Fish and Page, Trey and Mike, hi-hat and clavinet (Fish and Page again), bell and low guitar (Mike and Trey), crash cymbal and Rhodes (Fish and Page), footstomping (band and audience); also Magilla teases.  **With Son Seals and members of his band (guitar, trumpet, bass, and drums) and Fish dancing at the front of the stage (Funky Bitch is a Son Seals song). **An Al Green cover, from his "Explores Your Mind" album.  Also regularly performed by Talking Heads, notably appearing on several (some live) albums.

7-11-97 Doctor Music Festival, Pyrenees, Spain

Chalk Dust Torture, Bouncing Around The Room, Stash, Beauty of My Dreams, Wolfman's Brother, Johnny B. Goode, You Enjoy Myself*

E: Character Zero

The band that was to follow Phish on an adjacent stage was soundchecking during Phish's set; this interfered significantly at times.  *With extended vocal jam.

7-21-97 Virginia Beach Ampitheatre, Virginia Beach, VA

1: Ghost, Dogs Stole Things, Piper, Dirt, Ginseng Sullivan, Bathtub Gin*, Character Zero

2: Wolfman's Brother, Magilla, David Bowie^, Wading in a Velvet Sea, Theme From the Bottom**+, Funky Bitch**, Slave to the Traffic Light

E: Loving Cup

*At the end, Trey welcomes the beginning of the U.S. Summer Tour after time spent in Europe, mockingly chanting "USA! USA! USA!" He then introduced the new songs to the American crowd.  ^With "Birdland" (Weather Report) tease during high-hat intro.  **With Leroi Moore of Dave Matthews Band on sax.  +With Multi-Instrument Jam (Leroi with 2 saxes, Trey with 3 guitars and Fish's cymbals (running around like a madman on stage), and Mike with 2 basses. Meanwhile Fish was playing with multiple (somewhere between 6 and 8) drum sticks while Page was laying on his keyboards trying to play as many as he could and banging on them like a madman.).

7-22-97 Walnut Creek Ampitheatre, Raleigh, NC

1: Runaway Jim, My Soul, Water in the Sky, Stash, Bouncing Around the Room, Vultures, Bye Bye Foot**, Taste*

2: Down With Disease, Mike's Song, Simple, I Am Hydrogen, Weekapaug Groove**, Hello My Baby

E: When the Circus Comes, Harry Hood

**Trey teases "Mother" (Pink Floyd).  *Band jams with a lightning storm, which eventually forces the set to end early.  **With "I Am Hydrogen" teases.

7-23-97 Lakewood Ampitheatre, Atlanta, GA

1: Julius, Dirt, NICU, Dogs Stole Things, Ginseng Sullivan, Water in the Sky, Limb By Limb, Split Open and Melt, Billy Breathes, Possum

2: Punch You in the Eye, Ghost, Sample in a Jar, You Enjoy Myself*, Rocky Mountain Way^, Chalk Dust Torture

E: Frankenstein

*With Russian folk jam, similar to the Muel Duel; fast vocal jam.  ^Joe Walsh cover (first time played).

7-25-97 Starplex Ampitheatre, Dallas, TX

1: Beauty of My Dreams, Wolfman's Brother, Maze, Water in the Sky, Bathtub Gin, Makisupa Policeman, AC/DC Bag

2: Chalk Dust Torture, Taste, Ya Mar, Drums*, Ghost, Character Zero

E: Theme From the Bottom

Entire second set with Bob Gullotti on drums.  *Trey turns the jam in Ya Mar over to "Leo and the Drummers"; Page drops out of jam leaving only Fish and Gullotti.

7-26-97 South Park Meadows, Austin, TX

1: Limb By Limb, Dogs Stole Things, Poor Heart, Stash, Billy Breathes, Cars Trucks Buses, Dirt, You Enjoy Myself, Izabella

2: Timber (Jerry), David Bowie, Harry Hood*, Free, Waste, Johnny B. Goode

E: Bouncing Around the Room, Cavern^

Entire show with Bob Gullotti on drums.  *With "Blister in the Sun" (Violent Femmes) tease/jam.  ^Trey skips a verse, and repeats another.

7-29-97 Desert Sky Amphitheatre, Phoenix, AZ

Soundcheck: The Old Home Place

1: Theme From the Bottom, Beauty of My Dreams, Gumbo, Dirt, Sparkle, Ghost, Swept Away, Steep, Loving Cup

2: Oblivious Fool, Run Like an Antelope, Wading in a Velvet Sea, Twist Around, Taste, Sample in a Jar, Rocky Top, The Squirming Coil

E: Possum

7-30-97 Ventura County Fairgrounds, Ventura, CA

Soundcheck: Jam, Twist Around, Chuckie's In Love, Chuckie's In Love (played to Makisupa), Jam

1: NICU, Wolfman's Brother, Chalk Dust Torture, Water in the Sky, Stash, Weigh, Piper, Cars Trucks Buses, Character Zero

2: Punch You in the Eye, Free, David Bowie*, Cities, David Bowie, Bouncing Around the Room, Uncle Pen, Prince Caspian, Fire

E: My Soul

*With "Simpsons" language in the high-hat intro.

7-31-97 Shoreline Ampitheatre, Mountain View, CA

Soundcheck: The Old Home Place, Rift

1: Ghost, Ya Mar, Dogs Stole Things, Limb By Limb, Dirt, Maze, Glide, I Saw It Again, You Enjoy Myself

2: Runaway Jim*, When the Circus Comes, Vultures, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters , Mike's Song , I Am Hydrogen , Weekapaug Groove^

E: Cinnamon Girl

*With "Sweet Home Alabama" tease at beginning.  ^Trey thanks Bill Graham Productions and the Phish crew, talks about keeping the spirit of Jerry Garcia alive through music, and wishes a Happy Birthday to Jerry Garcia.  Jerry and the Dead had played many a time at Shoreline, and Jerry's birthday was the next day (teases of "Happy Birthday" and "Can't You Hear Me Knocking?" at the end).

8-2-97 The Gorge, Quincy (George), WA

1: Theme From the Bottom, Ginseng Sullivan, Ghost, Dogs Stole Things, The Divided Sky, Wolfman's Brother, Water in the Sky, Split Open and Melt

2: Down With Disease, Tweezer, Down with Disease, Johnny B. Goode, Sparkle, Wading in a Velvet Sea, Loving Cup, Tweezer Reprise

E: Harry Hood*

*Trey asks Chris [Kuroda] to turn the stage lights off; band jams in darkness to the stars.

8-3-97 The Gorge, Quincy (George), WA

1: Bathtub Gin, Foam, Samson Riff, Dirt, Vultures, My Mind's Got a Mind of Its Own, Twist Around, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Limb By Limb, Character Zero

2: Julius, Simple, Jam, Fluffhead, Lifeboy, Taste, Hello My Baby, Frankenstein

E: Bouncing Around the Room, Slave to the Traffic Light

8-6-97 Riverport Amphitheatre, Maryland Heights, MO

1: NICU, Stash, Beauty of My Dreams, Twist Around, Also Sprach Zarathustra, AC/DC Bag, Ya Mar, You Enjoy Myself

2: Runaway Jim, My Soul, Ghost, Prince Caspian, Cars Trucks Buses, Sample in a Jar, Run Like an Antelope, Makisupa Policeman*, Run Like an Antelope

E: Julius

*Instrumental, with Page on Theremin and Mike on mini-drum kit.

8-8-97 The World Music Theatre, Tinley Park, IL

1: Cars Trucks Buses, Gumbo, Lizards, Dirt, It's Ice, Water in the Sky, Character Zero

2: Wolfman's Brother, Free, Limb By Limb, Loving Cup, Prince Caspian, Chalk Dust Torture

E: Hoochie Coochie Man***, Messing With The Kid*^

*With Sugar Blue (blues artist) on vocals and harmonica.  **A Willie Dixon cover.  ^A Junior Wells cover.

8-9-97 Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI

1: Theme From The Bottom, Punch You in the Eye, Ghost, Taste, Dogs Stole Things, Reba, Lawn Boy, Crossroads

2: Wilson, Foam, Mike's Song, Funny As It Seems, Simple, Swept Away, Steep, Scent of a Mule, Slave to the Traffic Light, Weekapaug Groove

E: When the Circus Comes, Rocky Top

8-10-97 Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN

1: Bathtub Gin, Sparkle, Down With Disease, Dirt, Cars Trucks Buses, Billy Breathes, Split Open and Melt, Bye Bye Foot, Ginseng Sullivan, Harry Hood

2: Cities*, Good Times Bad Times, Rotation Jam**, Rocko William, David Bowie^

E: Cavern

*Debatably, with a "Franklin's Tower" (Grateful Dead) jam.  **Page to Theremin (solo), Trey to keyboards, Mike to guitar, Page to bass, Mike joins Trey on keyboards, Trey joins Fish on drums, Mike takes piano solo, Fish to guitar...and into "Rocko William."  ^With a very long intro (9 min.).

8-11-97 Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN

1: Makisupa Policeman, Maze, Water in the Sky, Gyute, Guelah Papyrus, Limb By Limb, Horn, Run Like an Antelope

2: Timber (Jerry), Piper, Vultures, My Soul, You Enjoy Myself, Character Zero

E: The Squirming Coil

8-13-97 Star Lake Amphitheatre, Burgettstown, Pennsylvania

Soundcheck: Funky Bitch, Poor Heart, Paul And Silas

1: Amoreena*, Poor Heart, Stash, Water in the Sky, Gumbo**, The Horse, Silent in the Morning, Beauty of My Dreams, Crosseyed and Painless, Wilson, Little Drummer Boy, Sweet Adeline

2: Runaway Jim, Ghost, Izabella, Sleeping Monkey, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Sample in a Jar, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Golgi Apparatus, Frankenstein

E: Theme From the Bottom

*Elton John cover (first time played).  **With "Franklin's Tower" (Grateful Dead) teases.

8-14-97 Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, Darien Center, New York

Soundcheck: Buffalo Bill, The Old Home Place, Funky Bitch

1: Ya Mar, Funky Bitch, Fluffhead, Limb By Limb, Free, Cars Trucks Buses, Tela, Train Song, Billy Breathes, Run Like an Antelope

2: Chalk Dust Torture, Love Me*, Sparkle, Harry Hood, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Merry Pranksters' Bozo Madness**, Camel Walk, Taste

E: Bouncing Around the Room, Rocky Top

^Played slowly.  *For Elvis Week.  **This segment was dominated by a stage presence reported to be Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters.

8-16-97 Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, Maine

1: Makisupa Policeman, Harpua*, Chalk Dust Torture, Theme From the Bottom, Punch You in the Eye, Ghost, Ginseng Sullivan, You Enjoy Myself, Train Song, Character Zero, The Squirming Coil

2: Wolfman's Brother, Simple**, My Soul**, Slave to the Traffic Light, Rocky Top, Julius

3: Halley's Comet, Cities, Llama, Lawn Boy, Limb By Limb^, Funky Bitch

E: Contact, Loving Cup

The Great Went (Day One).  *Starts with the theme and Jimmy story, picking up where the song aborted last year at the end of the Clifford Ball (8-17-96).  **With teme from "The Odd Couple" tease/jam.  **With a kind of a twisted "Seven Dwarves" sort of jam.  ^Major fireworks are let off behind the stage during the song, culminating in a great finale display as Funky Bitch kicks in.

8-17-97 Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, Maine

1: The Wedge, Beauty of My Dreams, Dogs Stole Things, Vultures, Water in the Sky, Maze, Bouncing Around the Room, Tweezer*, Taste, Carolina

2: Down With Disease, Bathtub Gin, Uncle Pen, Also Sprach Zarathustra,Art Jam, Harry Hood

3: Buffalo Bill, NICU, Weigh, Gyute, Dirt, Scent of a Mule**, Prince Caspian

E: When the Circus Comes, Tweezer Reprise^

The Great Went (Day Two).  *With a "Cities" jam.   **No Muel Duel.  ^The entire art tower was burned to the ground.

11-7-97 NBC Studios, New York, NY

Farmhouse*, Mike's Song**

Late Night with Conan O'Brien (12:30am EST on NBC). *A new original written for Trey and Tom Marshall's cleaning lady.  **Quickly fades off into commercial.

11-13-97 Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, NV

1: Chalk Dust Torture, Black-Eyed Katy*, Theme From the Bottom, Train Song, Split Open and Melt, Beauty of My Dreams, My Soul, You Enjoy Myself**, Character Zero

2: Stash, Punch You in the Eye, Prince Caspian, Bouncing Around the Room, Mike's Song**, I Am Hydrogen^, Weekapaug Groove^^

E:  Loving Cup

*New original (a funky instrumental).  **Intro to "Green River" (Credence Clearwater Revival) before "I Am Hydrogen."  ^With "tweaked out" Trey solo stuff at start.  ^^Fish started slowing down the beat, then Trey sped them up...to "double
time."

11-14-97  West Valley E Center, West Valley, UT

1: Runaway Jim, Gumbo, Maze*, Fast Enough For You, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Funky Bitch, Gyute**, Run Like an Antelope**

2: Wolfman's Brother, Piper, Twist Around, Space Jam^, Slave to the Traffic Light

E: Bold as Love

*Unfinished.  **Dedicated to Paul Languedoc.  **"Marco Esquandolas" part was whistled.  ^Cool funky jam with lots of Trey solos.

11-16-97  McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, CO

1: NICU, My Soul, Black-Eyed Katy, Farmhouse, The Old Home Place, Billy Breathes, Cars Trucks Buses, Scent of a Mule*, Poor Heart*, Taste, Hello My Baby

2: Timber (Jerry), Simple, Wilson, Harry Hood, Izabella

E: David Bowie

*With Pete Wernick, aka "Dr. Banjo" on banjo.  Wernick is a member of the Pete Wernick Live Five, a Colorado bluegrass band, and also produces instructional books and tapes for the banjo.  He is a former member of Hot Rize (see 8-7-96).

11-17-97  McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, CO

1: Tweezer, Reba, Train Song, Ghost*, Fire

2: Down With Disease, Oblivious Fool, Johnny B. Goode, Space Jam, Jesus Just Left Chicago, When the Circus Comes, You Enjoy Myself

E: Character Zero

*Jammed out, "For your listening pleasure."

11-19-97 Assembly Hall, Champaign, IL

1: Julius, Bathtub Gin, Llama, Dirt, Limb By Limb, Funky Bitch, Theme From the Bottom, Ginseng Sullivan, Fee, Time, Run Like an Antelope

2: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Wolfman's Brother**, Makisupa Policeman*, Taste

E:  Possum

**With "Walk Away", "Tweezer","I Feel Free" (Cream), and "Shock Me" (KISS) teases.  *With space jam.

11-21-97 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA

1: Emotional Rescue*, Split Open and Melt, Beauty of My Dreams, Dogs Stole Things, Punch You in the Eye, Lawn Boy, Chalk Dust Torture, Prince Caspian^

2: Ghost, AC/DC Bag, Slave to the Traffic Light, Loving Cup

E: Gyute

*Rolling Stones cover (first time played).  ^With digital delay loop jam.

11-22-97 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA

1: Mike's Song, I Am Hydrogen, Weekapaug Groove, Harry Hood, Train Song, Billy Breathes, Frankenstein, Izabella

2: Halley's Comet, Tweezer > Black Eyed Katy > Piper > Run Like An Antelope*

E:  Bouncing Around The Room, Tweezer Reprise

*With "Mike-O-Esquandolas" (instead of "Marco").

11-23-97 Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Winston-Salem, NC

1: My Soul, Theme From the Bottom, Black-Eyed Katy, Sparkle, Twist Around, Stash, NICU, Fluffhead, Character Zero

2: Bathtub Gin, Down With Disease*, Low Rider**, Down With Disease**, Bold as Love

E: Julius

*With an "Izabella" tease.  **Sung by Trey and Fish.  **With a "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" (Michael Jackson) tease.

11-26-97 Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT

1: Tweezer, Sparkle, Gumbo, My Soul, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Dirt, Split Open and Melt, The Horse, Silent in the Morning, Taste

2: Character Zero, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Cities, Ya Mar, Punch You in the Eye, Prince Caspian, Poor Heart, Tweezer Reprise

E: Cavern*

*With alternate lyrics.

11-28-97 Worcester Centrum, Worcester, MA

Soundcheck: Dog Log, Poor Heart, Jam, Jam, Take Me Out To The Ballgame^

1: The Curtain, You Enjoy Myself*, I Didn't Know, Maze, Farmhouse, Black-Eyed Katy, Theme From the Bottom, Rocky Top

2: Timber (Jerry), Limb By Limb, Slave to the Traffic Light, Ghost**, Johnny B. Goode

E:  My Soul

^Page did "duh duh duh duh duh duh....CHARGE" thing. *With "Crosseyed and Painless" teases; no bass/drum jam or vocal jam.  **With "Cities" teases/jam and start/stop jamming.

11-29-97 Worcester Centrum, Worcester, MA

1: The Wedge, Foam, Simple, TMWSIY, Avenu Malkenu, TMWSIY, The Sloth, Ginseng Sullivan, I Saw It Again, Horn, Water in the Sky, David Bowie

2: Runaway Jim*, Strange Design, Harry Hood**, Prince Caspian, Suzy Greenberg

E: Buffalo Bill**, Moby Dick^, Fire

*Extended beyond belief (58 min.); with a "Weekapaug Groove" jam.  **With "Crosseyed and Painless" teases.  **Fish's favorite song.  ^Led Zeppelin cover.

11-30-97 Worcester Centrum, Worcester, MA

1: Gyute, Funky Bitch, Wolfman's Brother, Hard Jam*, Love Me, The Squirming Coil, Loving Cup

2: NICU, Stash$ > Free^, Piper, When The Circus Comes, Run Like an Antelope

E:  Changes**

*Hard rock jam: Mike quotes "Heartbreaker" going into the jam, and Trey says a few lines from Sanity and then one line from "Esther."  Trey asks Chris to turn off the lights and they jam in the dark.  $Unfinished.  ^With a space jam.  **Buddy Miles cover.

12-2-97 Corestates Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA

1: Buried Alive, Down With Disease, Makisupa Policeman, Chalk Dust Torture, Ghost, The Divided Sky, Dirt, Taste, The Star Spangled Banner

2: Mike's Song, Simple*, Dog Faced Boy, Ya Mar**, Weekapaug Groove, Bouncing Around the Room, Character Zero

E: Ginseng Sullivan, Sample in a Jar

*With extended jam, with a Trey/Page duet (fooling around with tempo).  *"No Grand Pa" instead of "No Good Pa" and "Play it Leo for Grandpoodie," said Trey.  Supposedly Phish had had a party with family members (including Trey's grandpa and father) this day, to celebrate "Slip Stitch and Pass" going gold.

12-3-97 Corestates Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA

1: Punch You In The Eye, My Soul, Drowned, The Old Home Place, Gumbo, Also Sprach Zarathustra, You Enjoy Myself

2: David Bowie*, Possum**, Prince Caspian, Frankenstein, Harry Hood

E: Crossroads

*Unfinished; "Simpsons" language during the high-hat intro. **With the start/stop funk jam that repeatedly surfaced during the Fall Tour.  May have oringinated in the 11-28-97 Worcester "Ghost."

12-5-97 Cleveland State University Convocation Center, Cleveland, OH

1: Ghost, Wilson, Funky Bitch, Black-Eyed Katy, Sparkle, Runaway Jim, My Friend My Friend, Ginseng Sullivan, Limb By Limb, Character Zero

2: Stash, Bouncing Around the Room, Julius, Slave to the Traffic Light, Lizards, Loving Cup, Chalk Dust Torture

E: Bold as Love

12-6-97 The Palace, Auburn Hills, MI

Soundcheck: Dog Log, AC/DC Bag, Ginseng Sullivan, Black-Eyed Katy

1: Golgi Apparatus, Run Like an Antelope, Train Song, Bathtub Gin, Foam, Sample in a Jar, Fee, Maze, Cavern

2: Tweezer, Izabella*, Twist Around, Piper, Sleeping Monkey, Tweezer Reprise

E: Rocky Top

*With the start/stop funk jam that repeatedly surfaced during the Fall Tour.  May have oringinated in the 11-28-97 Worcester "Ghost."

12-7-97 Ervin J. Nutter Center, Dayton, OH

1: AC/DC Bag, Psycho Killer, Jesus Just Left Chicago, My Mind's Got a Mind of Its Own, It's Ice, Swept Away, Steep, It's Ice, Theme From the Bottom, Tube, Jam*, Tube**, Jam Reprise*, Slave to the Traffic Light

2: Timber (Jerry) > Wolfman's Brother, Boogie on Reggae Woman**, Reba, Gyute^, Possum

E: A Day in the Life

*Post-"Izabella" jam from 12-6-97 Auburn Hills. Slowed down, stopped, started again (about five or six times).  **After "Tube" returns and ends, the house lights go off and they stop playing.  Then the Jam* is reprised.  **Stevie Wonder cover (second time played - last played 3-21-88 Set I).  ^With whistled second verse.

12-9-97 Bryce Jordan Center, University Park, PA

1: Mike's Song, Chalk Dust Torture, My Soul, Stash, I Am Hydrogen, Weekapaug Groove, Dogs Stole Things, Beauty of My Dreams, Horn, Loving Cup

2: Julius, Simple*, Timber (Jerry), Contact, Axilla, Harry Hood, Axilla (Reprise), Harry Hood

E: Fire

*With "David Bowie" intro.

12-11-97 War Memorial, Rochester, NY

1: Punch You in the Eye, Down With Disease, Maze, Dirt, Limb By Limb, Loving Cup, Rocky Top

2: Drowned , Roses Are Free*, Big Black Furry Creature From Mars, Ghost, Down With Disease (Reprise), Johnny B. Goode

E: Waste

*Ween cover, from their "Chocolate and Cheese" album (first time played).

12-12-97 Pepsi Arena, Albany, NY

1: Funky Bitch, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Camel Walk, Taste, Bouncing Around the Room, Tweezer, Train Song, Character Zero

2: I Saw It Again***, Piper*, Swept Away, Steep, Prince Caspian*, Izabella, Tweezer Reprise

E: Gyute, Run Like An Antelope**

*With long jam not usually a part of the song.   **With "Llama" teases.  "Llama" teasing continued throughout the set.  **With "Buried Alive" teases; lots of stop/start jamming.

12-13-97 Pepsi Arena, Albany, NY

1: Ya Mar, Axilla, Theme From the Bottom, Ginseng Sullivan, Strange Design, Sample in a Jar, Vultures, Tube, Good Times Bad Times

2: NICU, Punch You in the Eye, Ghost, Mike's Song, Llama, When the Circus Comes, Weekapaug Groove, Catapult,
Weekapaug Groove, Harry Hood*

E: My Soul, The Squirming Coil

J. Willis Pratt and Weird Bionic opened.  *With lights off and a glow stick war.

12-28-97 USAir Arena, Landover, MD

1: Julius, Cities, The Curtain, Sample in a Jar, The Old Home Place, Runaway Jim, Farmhouse, Funky Bitch, Split Open and Melt, Bouncing Around the Room, Character Zero

2: Axilla*, Simple^, Ghost, Drowned, Scent of a Mule, Halley's Comet, Slave to the Traffic Light, Rocky Top, Cavern

E: Bold as Love

*With Axilla (Part 2) ending.  ^Trey's guitar experienced feedback coming out of Simple, causing Trey to pause and explain that they were clearing it up so they could move on; that feedback creeps into the ghost of the machine and that Paul clears it up so they can move on; that perhaps that's the explanation of the next song, but then again he doesn't know what he's talking about...they then paused and went into Ghost.

12-29-97 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY

1: NICU, Golgi Apparatus, Crossroads, Cars Trucks Buses, Train Song, Theme From the Bottom, Fluffhead, Dirt, Run Like an Antelope

2: Down With Disease, David Bowie, Possum, I Can't Turn You Loose^, Possum**, Tube**, You Enjoy Myself

E: Good Times Bad Times

*Unfinished.  ^A jam, from this song often associated with the "Blues Brothers," but truly an Otis Redding cover.  **"I Can't Turn You Loose" reprised after "Possum."  **With a lengthy "I Can Feel the Earth Move" segment during the jam.

12-30-97 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY

1: Sneaking Sally Through the Alley, Taste, Water in the Sky, Punch You in the Eye, Stash, Chalk Dust Torture, A Day in the Life

2: AC/DC Bag*, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters^, Harpua**, I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)@, Harpua, Izabella, Harry Hood%, My Soul, Sleeping Monkey, Gyute$

E: Carini Had a Lumpy Head, Black-Eyed Katy, Sneaking Sally Through the Alley, Frankenstein&

*With "Crosseyed and Painless" jam.  ^Unfinished.  **Very little Jimmy/Posternutbag comment  @Proclaimer's cover (from the "Benny and  Joon" soundtrack), Tom Marshall on vocals.  %With lights down and a glow stick war, and also unfinished.

12-31-97 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY

1: Emotional Rescue, Ya Mar*, My Sweet One, Beauty of My Dreams, Wolfman's Brother, Limb By Limb, The Horse, Silent in the Morning, The Sloth, Fire

2: Timber (Jerry), Mike's Song, Piper, When the Circus Comes, Roses Are Free, Weekapaug Groove

3: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Tweezer, Maze^, Prince Caspian, Loving Cup

E: New York New York$, Tweezer Reprise

There was a strange white canvas ball hanging from the ceiling, on which various images were projected during the show.  *With "Auld Lang Syne" tease(s).    $Page sang this Frank Sinatra cover (first time played).