◆Summer Tour 1999
06/30/99 Sandstone Amphitheatre - Bonner Springs, Kansas
I: Bathtub Gin, Farmhouse, Tube, Horn, Get Back On The Train*, Maze**,
Limb by Limb, Golgi Apparatus
II: The Squirming Coil, Free, Birds of a Feather, Simple > Swept Away >
Steep, Piper, Bug***, Stash
E: Bouncing Around the Room, Sample in a Jar
07/01/99 First American Music Center - Antioch, Tennessee
I: Punch You in the Eye, Billy Breathes, Guyute, Wolfman's Brother*,
Beauty of my Dreams**, "Done My Time"(?)**^, Roggae**, Water in the
Sky**, Get Back on the Train**, Poor Heart^^
II: Down With Disease, Prince Caspian, You Enjoy Myself
07/03/99 Lakewood Amphitheatre - Atlanta, Georgia
I (1:22): Chalk Dust Torture, Gumbo, Sparkle, Cavern, Taste, When the
Circus Comes*, Tube, Funky Bitch, NICU**, Waste, Meatstick
II (1:03): Twist Around -> Piper, Moma Dance, Kissed By Mist, Run Like an
Antelope, Contact, Little Drummer Boy
E: Little Drummer Boy***, Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey****
07/04/99 Lakewood Amphitheatre - Atlanta, Georgia
I (1:23): My Soul, Ya Mar, Farmhouse, The Oh Kee Pah Ceremony, The AC/DC
Bag, The Wedge, Vultures, I Didn't Know*, Fast Enough For You, David
Bowie
II: Ghost -> Slave to the Traffic Light, The Horse -> Silent in the
Morning**, Ambient jam, Wilson***, Mike's Song -> Sleeping Monkey ->
Weekapaug Groove
07/07/99 Blockbuster Pavilion - Charlotte, North Carolina
I: Get Back on the Train, Whats the Use, Billy Breathes, My Mind has a
Mind of Its Own, Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley, Axilla, Rift,
Wolfman's Brother, Maze, Loving Cup
II: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Down with Disease, My Left Toe > Wading
in the Velvet Sea > My Left Toe, Bug, You Enjoy Myself
E: Possum, Funky Bitch
07/08/99 Virginia Beach Amphitheatre - Virginia Beach, Virginia
I (1:10): Julius, Fee*, Guyute, Dirt, Nellie Cane, Stash, Cavern
II (1:20): Birds of a Feather** -> If I Only Had a Brain***, Prince
Caspian -> Jesus Just Left Chicago, I Saw It Again, Sleep,
Meatstick****, Tube* -> Simple
E (0:15): Terrapin -> HYHU, Character Zer0
07/09/99 Merriweather Post Pavilion - Columbia, Maryland
Soundcheck: Bug, What's the Use, (more?)
I (1:05): Limb By Limb, Farmhouse, Get Back on the Train, Divided Sky,
Trainsong, Llama, Driver, Runaway Jim
II (1:20): Punch You In the Eye, Free, What's the Use, Meatstick*, Mike's
Song** -> Twist Around > Weekapaug Groove***
E: Harry Hood****
* - with Trey, Mike and Sofi (Page's wife) doing "The Meatstick Dance"
** - with Trey on keyboard for part of the jam and "Sweet Emotion"
(Aerosmith) teases
*** - with "Macarena" teases
**** - with Trey on keyboard for part of the intro; "Meatstick" tease
07/10/99 E Centre - Camden, New Jersey
I (1:08): Wilson, Chalk Dust Torture -> Roggae, Water in the Sky, Down and
Dirty Blues*, Sparkle, Bathtub Gin, Golgi Apparatus
II (1:05): Tweezer -> Mountains in the Mist, Birds of a Feather -> When
the Circus Comes, Fluffhead
E (0:12): While My Guitar Gently Weeps -> Tweezer Reprise
* - blues instrumental; possibly the same song as "Back at the Chicken
07/12/99 Tweeter Center (formerly Great Woods) - Mansfield, Massachusetts
I (1:12): Foreplay > Long Time -> Down with Disease, Get Back on the
Train, What's the Use, Split Open and Melt, Water In the Sky,
Character Zer0
II (1:14): Twist, Moma Dance, Makisupa Policeman* -> David Bowie, Lizards,
Guyute**
E: Rock and Roll
* - key word was "stay kind"; included Trey on small keyboard during
jam
** - "Guyute" followed by band introductions, during which Trey
introduced Mike as Michael Jordan
07/13/99 Tweeter Center (formerly Great Woods) - Mansfield, Massachusetts
I (1:13): NICU -> The Curtain -> Halley's Comet -> Roses are Free -> NO2,
Lawn Boy, Reba* -> Carini, Funky Bitch
II (1:16): Wolfman's Brother -> Piper, Bug -> Mountains in the Mist, Run
Like an Antelope**, Possum***
E (0:09): Tuesday's Gone****
* - unfinished
** - with "Meatstick" teases; Trey says hi to his friend Dave
(Abrahams?) in the audience
*** - with Scott (Murawski of Max Creek?) on guitar
**** - Lynyrd Skynyrd cover - first time played; also with Scott
(Murawski of Max Creek?) on guitar
07/15/99 PNC Bank Arts Center - Holmdel, New Jersey
I (1:33): Punch You in the Eye > Ghost, Farmhouse, Horn, Poor Heart,
Axilla > Theme from the Bottom, I Didn't Know*, The Sloth, You Enjoy
Myself
II (1:08): Meatstick**, Split Open and Melt*** -> Kung > Jam****, Bouncing
Around the Room, Chalk Dust Torture^
E (0:14): Brian and Robert^^, Frankenstein
* - Trey mentions that Michael "Soft G" Jordan will be turning the mic
over to "Flagina" Fishman; with vacuum solo
** - Trey talks about the band having tried to get into the Guinness
Book of World Records in the past with things like the naked photo
at the Great Went, and mentioned that they're going to try and
break the record (50,000 people) for the most people doing a
single dance simultaneously by having people do the Meatstick
dance in Oswego; Trey, Mike and Sofi (Page's wife) prepare people
by showing them how to do the Meatstick dance
*** - unfinished
**** - similar to the jam in "Split Open and Melt" but with different
elements as well
^ - Trey waved and pointed at someone in the front row several times
before unplugging his guitar and walking over to shake hands with
the person
7/16/99 PNC Bank Arts Center - Holmdel, New Jersey
I (62): Sample in a Jar, Beauty of My Dreams, Dog Stole Things, Limb by
Limb, Billy Breathes, Vultures, Get Back on the Train, Maze*, Cavern
II (75): 2001 -> Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove** -> Simple
> Guyute^, Loving Cup > Golgi Apparatus
Enc (10): Born to Run^^
* w/ Trey on keys
** with a 2001 tease; and the set to this point repeats set 2 from 7-2-94,
which was at the same venue
^ set is 62 minutes to this point ^^ prefaced by Trey talking about Mike
is "from around here" and talked about growing up in Jersey, and then said
that someone else grew up around here, "the greatest songwriter of all
time". Then Tom Marshall came out wearing a red bandana and sang lead on
Born to Run (first time played)
07/17/99 Oswego County Airport - Volney, New York
I (~90): Tube, Boogie on Reggae Woman, Birds of a Feather, Guelah Papyrus,
My Sweet One, Roggae, Tweezer -> Have Mercy*, Taste, Character Zero
II (115, incl. E): Funky Bitch**, Southern Fried**^, Blues Outro^^, Down
With Disease*, Wolfman's Brother -> Sneaking Sally Through the Alley ->
Timber (Jerry), You Enjoy Myself
E: The Squirming Coil, Tweezer Reprise
* w/ Trey on keys
** w/ Son Seals (composer of Funky Bitch)
^ title may be incorrect
^^ short blues jam played as Son Seals left the stage
07/18/99 Oswego County Airport - Volney, New York
I (100 min.): Punch You in the Eye, Farmhouse, Water in the Sky, Bathtub
Gin, Get Back on the Train*, Call Me If You Need a Fool*, Blue and
Lonesome*^, Beauty of My Dreams
II (60 min.): Runaway Jim -> Free, Meatstick**, Guyute, Axilla I***, Llama
III (110 min.): My Soul, Piper^^ > Caspian > WIlson -> Catapult ^^^ ->
Icculus ^^^^, Mighty Quinn, Fluffhead
Enc: Harry Hood #
* with the Del McCoury Band
^ one DMB member broke a string and left the stage, and a fiddle-banjo
breakdown thing ensued during his absence
** with an explanation of the record by Trey, with Sofi on stage dancing,
and with Guinness Book of World Records staff videotaping the event for
verification later. (No word yet on what the estimated attendance count
was, much less a count of those dancing, though premilinary reports suggest
the crowd may have exceeded 70,000, but that participation in the Meatstick
Dance was weak.
*** Axillas on this tour have been Axilla I but with the II ending; this
performance was pure I, with no II ending
^^ with glowrings, and Trey on keys
^^^ Catapult was followed by a tremendous amount of banter and toying, all
continuing an E chord from the end of Wilson (which was never finished).
Trey gabbed against MTV, in favor of books, about Deep Purple, teased Smoke on the Water, compared it to Cat Scratch Fever, and more.
^^^^ followed by more narration, and teases of the Stones'"Miss You"
(primarily the vocal "ooh"s)
7/20/99 Molson Amphitheatre - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Soundcheck: My Soul, How Long Has This Been Goin' On, Dream Weaver
I: Chalkdust Torture, Sample in a Jar, Cars Trucks Busses, Sloth, Divided
Sky, Waste, Ghost, Wilson, YEM*
II: Twist Around, Moma Dance, What's the Use, Train Song, 2001, Misty
Mountain Hop**
Enc: Guyute, Hello My Baby (acapella)
* with Carribean "Hey, Ho" vocal jam
** first time cover of Led Zeppelin original
7/21/99 Star Lake Amphitheatre - Burgettstown, Pennsylvania
I: AC/DC Bag > Cities, Gold Soundz*, Ginsing Sullivan, Limb By Limb, Funky
Bitch, Moma Dance, When The Circus Comes, Taste, Bittersweet Motel
II: Mike's Song > Simple > My Left Toe > Prince Caspian > Weekapaug Groove,
Golgi Apparatus
Enc: Brian & Robert, Bold as Love
* Pavement cover, first time played
7/23/99 Polaris Amphitheatre - Columbus, Ohio
I (80 min?): Yamar, NICU, Back at the Chicken Shack, Punch You in the Eye*,
Fast Enough for You, Get Back on the Train, Davie Bowie, Strange Design**,
Possum
II: Ghost -> Free, Birds of a Feather > Meatstick^, Fire^^
Enc.: Bouncin' Round the Room, Rocky Top
* inc. Trey on small keyboard
** not played in 48 shows (since 8/15/98)
^ Trey announced that the world record for most dancing was set a few
months ago by a group of 74,000 in another country, so that the band is
going to continue teaching The Meatstick Dance and try to break that at NEW YEAR'S EVE IN FLORIDA!
7/24/99 Alpine Valley - East Troy, Wisconsin
I: Guyute, Fluffhead -> Jam* > TMWSIY > Avenu > TMWSIY > Wedge, CharacterZero
II: Tweezer -> Catapult ** -> Tweezer, Mango ***, What's the Use (?),Waste, Chalkdust Torture
Enc: Glide, Camel Walk, Alumni Blues ****, Tweezer Reprise
* the Fluff>Jam was 34 minutes!
** Trey and Mike sang Catapult in harmony over Tweezer
*** with glowring war
**** not played in 272 shows (since 4/15/94)!
07/30/99 FRF(Green Stage) & (Field of Heaven Stage) - Naeba, Niigata, Japan
(Green Stage)
Chalk Dust Torture, Guyute, Wolfman's Brother, Taste, Speech*, Punch You
in the Eye > Waste, Hello My Baby**
* - the band huddled and Trey apologized for not being able to speak,
himself and then brought out a translator who spoke to the crowd
in Japanese
** - a cappella
(Field of Heaven Stage)
I: Birds of a Feather, Sample in a Jar, Beauty of my Dreams, Stash,
NICU, Funky Bitch, Ghost > Axilla (I)
II: Down with Disease, My Soul, Reba, Hold Your Head Up > Bike* > Hold
Your Head Up, Runaway Jim, Cavern
E: Julius
* - Fish said his vacuum did not make it over there...he said he was
going to torture the crowd by playing guitar and he was not going
to apologize to anyone for it. He would play a riff and then say
"damn"; to impress Shiomo, the drummer from The Boredoms because
07/31/99 FRF(Field of Heaven Stage)- Naeba, Niigata, Japan
I: My Friend My Friend, Golgi Apparatus, Get Back on the Train, Limb by
Limb, Free, Roggae, Sparkle, Character zer0
II: Also Sprach Zarathustra > David Bowie, Wading in the Velvet Sea,
Prince Caspian, Fluffhead, Squirming Coil
E: Tibetan's Speech, Tibetan monk chant* > Brian and Robert**, Simple
* - with Jon Fishman on Vacuum.
08/01/99 FRF(Field of Heaven Stage)- Naeba, Niigata, Japan
I: Cities, Rift, Wilson, Moma Dance, Divided Sky, Horn, Split Open and
Melt, Poor Heart, Bouncin' Around the Room, Run Like an Antelope
II: Possum > Tweezer > Llama > Mike's Song > I am Hydrogen > Weekapaug
Groove, The Wedge, Lizards, You Enjoy Myself
E: Sweet Adeline, Tweezer Reprise
◆Fifth Ball With Jim Carrey
06/24/99 Fifth Ball - Trey's Barn, Carreystock, VT
Set-1:
Farmhouse, Moma Dance, Hey You* , Meatstick > Funk/Fusion Jam > Come Together*
Set- 2 :
Get Back on the Train, Windora Bug, Dirt, Twist Around > Jam, Bug, Saw it again, Rockawilliam
* - with Jim Carrey on vocals
"Private show at Trey's barn - a mix between some Phish pholk, and the filming crew of Jim Carrey's newest movie,which is being filmed in Burlington. This is the same Jim Carrey that was in Truman Show, Ace Ventura, etc.. Mike, of course, had the grand idea of pulling together music and film, and everyone, film crew especially, had a great time."
◆Phil & Phriends Set List...
4/15/99 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, California
Soundcheck: Help on the Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower -> Wolfman's Brother > Uncle John's Band
Pre-set
Hello Old Friend*
Set-1 (100 min)
Viola Lee Blues**, Big Railroad Blues, Jack-a-Roe,Cosmic Charlie, Wolfman's Brother -> Space -> Uncle John's Band -> Jam
Set-2 (110 min.)
Alabama Getaway, Sugaree, Like a Rolling Stone > I Know You Rider, Row Jimmy, Shakedown Street, The Wheel, Not Fade Away
Encore (10 min.)
Tamborine Man***
* Phil and Steve, with Phil's kids
** nearly 39 minutes, with long jam before returning to Viola Lee
*** Phil on vocals. Prior to the encore, Phil came out and spoke about organ donation.
4/16/99 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, California
Set -1 (82 min.)
Help on the Way (Trey singing) > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower (Page singing), Wish You Were Here (Phil singing), Tennessee Jed (Trey singing), Stella Blue (instrumental; Kimmock on pedal steel), Alligator (w/ Phil jam)
Set - 2 (105 min.)
Bertha (with Donna), Prince Caspian, St. Stephen, The Eleven, Unbroken Chain (with Page solo intro), Chalkdust Torture, Mountains on the Moon, Scarlet Begonias (19 min. long; with Dark Star tease; also with Donna) > Fire on the Mountain (with Donna)
Encore
Ripple (acoustic, with Donna)
4/17/99 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, California
Soundcheck? Terrapin Station, Eyes of the World, My Favorite Things
Set -1(77 min.)
Dark Star -> It's Up to You (Zero original), Days Between-> Dark Star (1st verse) -> My Favorite Things > Mississippi Half-step*, Bird Song* (Page on Vocals)
Set - 2(78 min.)
Terrapin Station > Down w/ Disease -> Dark Star (2nd verse) -> Other One Jam (short), Friend of the Devil, Casey Jones, Morning Dew, Goin Down the Road Feelin' Bad* -> We Bid You Goodnight (one verse)*
Encore
Box of Rain
* with Donna Jean
◆Trey Anastasio Solo Appearance...
02/22/99 Carnegie Hall - New York, New York
- A benefit for Tibet House -
Unknown*, Brian and Robert**, Dirt***, Billy Breathes****
* - instrumental; Trey on acoustic, Philip Glass on piano
** - with two other musicians; one on an exotic Tibetan flute, one on a harp-like
*** - Trey on acoustic; solo
**** - Trey on acoustic, Peter Kater on piano
Trey also sat in on electric guitar with Patti Smith and band for a group jam of Have the
Power" which was the finale of the show.
02/15/99 Higher Ground - Winooski, Vermont
- Arts of Vermont Benefit Concert -
Trey Anastasio Solo Performance
I (Trey Solo Acoustic) : Dirt, Dog Stole Things, Runaway Jim, Brian and Robert, Guyute,Driver, Chalkdust Torture
II Electric with Russ Lott (Gordon Stone Band) on Drums and Tony Markelis
(Unknown Blues Band) on Bass : Come On Baby Lets Go Downtown, Jiboo, Ooh
Child, Chasin' the Waste, Tops Off, I Can See Clearly Now, Come On #1,
Bell Bottom Blues, First Tube, Drums (with Trey on Small Set), Possum > Last Tube
E: Ribot, Row Jimmy, Pistol
Paul Languadoc ran sound and Chris Kuroda ran lights for the show. Page, Mike, Jon
and Tom were all in attendance, but did not perform
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