And the award for most attentive crowd goes to... Sarratt Student Center at Vanderbilt University!

Listening to this show, it's pretty average for the time period, with great 1991 playing throughout and a few highlights of excellent jams in Reba and YEM. But there's something else very special happening at this show, which is Phish having a respectful audience listening as attentively to the music as the band themselves are. Fish comments on it humorously Before Love You ("What a great crowd. So attentive. It's scary... if you fuck up we'll all know!"); and Trey thanks the crowd before the YEM encore ("In all honesty I can't remember an audience that was this attentive in like the last five years or something, it's really amazing, this is great man."). So listening back, there's no crowd chatter on this aud tape, making it sound almost like a sbd. And I think Phish really rewarded this crowd for that.

Esther is an incredible story, musically and lyrically, but it needs listeners to land, and this Esther feels especially potent and powerful. TMWSIY is a very delicate song, and I'm guessing it was played because the crowd could hold it. And it seems that Trey is more willing to offer some Gamehendge narration to good-listening crowds, as he does before Esther and The Lizards. (In Sacramento on 3/22/93, Trey also explains the reason they play all of Gamehendge is because of the great, attentive, quiet crowd.)

The final blessing of this show is an awesome YEM with a very dynamic vocal jam centered around the band saying "Shut up." It's bold, hilarious, and exemplifies the glorious types of musical exchanges Phish and the audience can co-create.

The moral of this show is: Don't talk when the band is playing, and the music will reward you.

This is a pretty average show from 1991 with nothing really of note except for some very strange song placement in my opinion (an ugly Mike's Groove dropped in the middle of set 1, a partially-narrated The Lizards as the show closer, and Buried Alive, Llama, and Cavern all oddly misplaced). It's all good because it's Phish, but the show didn't have great flow or any real standout moments. I'm going to go with 2 stars here mainly for the almost total absence of flow from beginning to end.

Final note: I will say that The Lizards is probably worth listening to because of the funny start to the song and the pre-song banter.

Decent enough audience recording for this show. The levels run hot and the sound is a bit tinny, but overall enjoyable given the intimate setting. The master recording is from a Dat source. The digi-farts during Landlady confirm this. Hopefully the Dat Master finds it’s way into circulation!The circulating source sounds like a Cass/1 to my ears.

Things open with an electrifying Landlady. Well played Foam. Trey takes the crowd to a carnival on the outskirts of Gamehendge for Esther. I remember him doing a similar rap a few other times before Esther in ‘89/‘90. Pretty straightforward mid set Mike’s Groove. The intro to Cavern is slightly extended. A few sour notes during TMWSIY but well played overall. There’s a harsh cut during Mike’s solo in Avenu. The end of Golgi cuts out. Apparently the power went out. It sounds like some people split after the power cut out because Set 2 is far more intimate.

Set 2 starts off with the band shushing the crowd down to absolute silence. The audience of maybe 30ish get completely silent before Trey starts up Coil. A nice Buried Alive segues out of Pages solo. Solid Reba. During Llama I couldn’t help but think how lucky this small group of folks were to be seeing a band of this caliber in such an intimate setting! Unfortunately there’s a cut at the start of the jam in Sky. This version of Love You features not only Fish introducing the band but the entire crew of four as well. He starts with Andrew Fischbeck as he forgot to mention him the other night in Salem, VA. More shushing follows HYHU. lol Trey raps about Gamehendge some more before transitioning into Lizards. The audience claps off-beat to the “If I were a dog” section of Lizards. Before the encore Trey thanks the audience and says he hasn’t played to a crowd this attentive in at least 5 years! The band shushes the audience once again. lol. Trey says “you guys are gonna get your chance to join in at the end of this one” before launching into a rare YEM encore! Enjoyable version with another inspired VJ. “Shut up! Shhh! Fun show!