Friday, April 21, 2017

Phish (+DMB opener) 4-21-94 Winston-Salem, North Carolina


4-21-94 (April 21, 1994 / 1994-04-21)
Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Dave Matthews Band (opening act)

Dave Matthews - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Steffan Lessard - bass guitar
Carter Beauford - drums, percussion, backing vocals
Boyd Tinsley - violin, vocals, mandolin
LeRoi Moore - saxophone, winds

Recently
Satellite
Tripping Billies
Rhyme & Reason
Two Step->
Ants Marching

Taper: Brad and Larry
Source: SBD->DAT
Source: AKG 460 Cards->XLR's->Power Supply->XLR"S->1/4's->TEAC->DAT
From: Front Row Center on 15 ft pole 
DAT>CD: Linda Webster
EQUIP: Technics SV 260A->COAX->WAV->CDWAV->WAV>CD
> 320 kbps mp3 by Boot Hill Bootlegs


Phish

Trey Anastasio - guitars, vocals
Page McConnell - piano, organ, vocals
Mike Gordon - bass, vocals
Jon Fishman - drums, vocals

Set 1

Chalk Dust Torture
Sparkle->
Foam
Glide
Split Open and Melt
Lizards
Down With Disease->
If I Could->
Cavern

Set 2

Also Sprach Zarathustra->
Maze
Fluffhead->
Mike's Song->
I Am Hydrogen->
Weekapaug Groove
Scent Of A Mule
Big Ball Jam->
Possum
Amazing Grace

Encore

Drums*-> Jam**-> All Along The Watchtower**

* with Carter Beauford
** with Dave Matthews Band
Debut of Phish playing Watchtower, one of only 2 times ever played; Dave has lead vocals.

SOURCE: AKG460b/ck61 (FOB) > DAT (Teac DA-P20) 
CONVERSION: CTD8000H-S > DAT2WAV > SOUNDFORGE 5.0 
(Resampling from 48kHz to 44.1kHz, level 4 w/anti alias filtering)
> CD WAVE  (track splits)  > SHN
> 320 kbps mp3 by Boot Hill Bootlegs


A short but sweet set by DMB kicks off the evening and what a fantastic recording that is, essentially CD-quality!  It's not perfect, unfortunately, as there is a high pitched whine through the first several tracks (I think it goes away) that can be heard when the music is low/between songs.  When the music is kickin', the whine can't even be heard.  If that issue didn't exist it would be a 10 out of 10!  It's really not too bad and didn't distract me terribly.

Quality for the Phish show is definitely above average, especially for 1994, really an excellent audience recording.  Why is one soundboard and one an audience?  DMB was cool like that in 1994 while Phish . . . I dunno how many '94 SBDs there are but maybe it wasn't as common for them that year as their popularity had definitely picked up by this point and there isn't a known soundboard for this show.   Soundboards not always needed, though, as this is almost an A+ for auds -- I'll go about a 9.6/10.

For the encore, I ditched the audience sourced Phish tracks and tacked on a Soundboard finish courtesy of the Dave Matthews Band recording.  Because the finale includes DMB members, I guess it got recorded . . . although how would they know ahead of time???  Perhaps the whole Phish show got recorded from the soundboard?  In any case, the finale did and it was included with the DMB files so here it is.  Well worth changing from aud to sbd for those like 22 minutes, I think it is.  A most excellent end to the night.


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Can barely read the thing after so many years go by.

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