Soundcheck: Dancing Days, Makisupa Policeman -> Stir It Up Jam -> Have Mercy -> Pressure Drop -> NICU
SET 1: Contact > Llama, Horn, Uncle Pen, Stash, Esther > Chalk Dust Torture, I Didn't Know[1], Reba, Cavern
SET 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Tweezer[2] > The Horse[3] > Silent in the Morning > Poor Heart > Fluffhead[2] > My Friend, My Friend[4], Golgi Apparatus, The Squirming Coil, David Bowie
ENCORE: Walk Away, Amazing Grace
The Contact opener started before the band took the stage, as they were driven to the front in golf carts and performed the song off stage. Some fans didn’t even realize the show had started until well into Llama, as that song was begun off stage. I Didn't Know featured Fish on the Madonna washboard. Page teased Entrance of the Gladiators at the end of Cavern and I Feel The Earth Move in Tweezer, and the theme from Speed Racer in Fluffhead. The Horse, the ending of Tweezer and Fluffhead, and the beginning of My Friend featured Trey on acoustic guitar. The Bowie intro contained a Squirming Coil tease from Trey. The show took place in Starwood Amphitheatre's concessions area, which was roped off to accommodate 3,500 though fewer than 1,800 tickets were sold.
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Review by PHATTSKIS
I had been to Starwood MANY times prior to this night (Aerosmith/Gn'R, b-52's, Boston, Jimmy Buffett, Elton John, Clapton, Journey, and on and on, even Steely Dan just a month prior!) but nothing prepared me for the show we would see in the beer garden, veranda, plaza, whatever you wanna call it. With very few other lucky phreaks, we caught some serious heat that night.
After the Contact opener, Llama came out to show they were there to fry us good. The tip of the hat to Bill Monroe's uncle Pen and to Nashville's bluegrass/country heritage I thought was very fitting. Stash, Ester>Chalkdust BOOM BOOM BOOM!!
But what really did it for me was when my buddy Shoe (Schumaker) walked over and was kinda drunk during I didn't Know. All of a sudden, he's leaning on me and I gave him some water and some M&M's and in a few moments he was back at it just as Cavern came on. I know, its kinda whack, but I freaked because the words of the song was like the band was looking at me. "Whatever you do, take care of your Shoe!" hahaha
2001 opener was short and sick going into one of those unsung epic Tweezers you wanna hear everytime. Fluff>MFMF was just pure magic. I also remember the Bowie being well played and a great power ending to that set.
Walk Away became a song I listened to over and over after that show. I love the James Gang and hearing PHiSH do that tune just took them over the top for me. Hearing them do Amazing Grace brought chills to my neck as I remember my grandmother, who passed away the Christmas before, and who was from Nashville, singing that to me as a small child.
PHiSH always had a tendency to surprise you and make you feel like you were connected. 118 shows later, they still do.
Phred