Phish - 1992-05-17 Achilles Rink, Union College, Schenectady '1992

Tracks list

Tracklist

Set One
The Landlady 3:54
Llama 4:42
Colonel Forbins Ascent 5:30
Fly Famous Mockingbird 12:31
My Sweet One 2:41
Reba 11:39
I Didnt Know 3:23
Stash 10:27
The Mango Song 7:42
Poor Heart 2:50
Chalk Dust Torture 6:50

Set Two
The Curtain 6:53
Possum 13:55
Guelah Papyrus 5:33
The Squirming Coil 7:22
All Things Reconsidered 3:04
Brother 6:18
Sanity 5:30
Cold As Ice 1:07
Love You 8:12
Hold Your Head Up 0:39
Sparkle 4:00
Harry Hood 13:21
Cavern 5:49

Encore
Lawn Boy 2:25
Good Times, Bad Times 6:04

Filler
Suzy Greenberg 5:49
Maze 9:06
Divided Sky 14:27
Horn 3:42
Mikes Song 8:39
I Am Hydrogen 3:14
Weekapaug Groove 7:40
Runaway Jim 8:21

On May 17, 1992 Phish played at Achilles Rink – the Union College hockey
arena opened in 1975 with a capacity of about 2,500. Schenectady was the
second-to-last date on a 53-show spring tour that hit 24 states and the District
of Columbia with five shows in Colorado, six in California and seven in New York
before wrapping up in the band’s hometown Burlington, Vermont.
Phish’s third studio album and Elektra debut, A Picture of Nectar, had
dropped in February. Fans benevolently plastered promo stickers depicting
Nector’s face from the album cover on toll booths and highway rest areas
from coast to coast. Spring ’92 featured the new Minkin Lexan backdrops,
a big batch of new songs that would form the basis for Rift, and the band
inviting the audience to share in the Secret Language. Phish.net (and the
Internet in general) was just starting to catch on, there was no official
taper’s section yet, and word of mouth was key. The Schenectady show
– with a ticket price of $5 - was a prime example as it was not listed in
the Phish newsletter or hotline. It was a Sunday night, Page’s birthday,
and the band was almost home after more than two months on the road.

Highlights of the Schenectady ’92 show included The Landlady > Llama
opener, Stash, and Chalk Dust Torture from set I. The Curtain > Possum kicked
off set II with a concentrated barrage of Secret Language and teases of
everything from Rocky Mountain Way to China Grove to Its Ice and Divided Sky
during one of the all-time far-out Possums. Brother went completely unhinged and
led appropriately...perhaps inevitably to Sanity, before Fish took over vocal
and vacuum duties for Syd Barrett’s Love You. A standout Harry Hood
rounded out set II and continued the show’s Outward thrust. The
Schenectady ’92 release includes filler selected from the tour-closing
show the following night - 5/18/92 at The Flynn Theatre in Burlington.

5/17/92 Schenectady was recorded by Paul Languedoc to 2-track soundboard
cassette and mastered by Fred Kevorkian.

- Recorded by Paul Languedoc
- Post-Production by Kevin Shapiro
- Technical Assistance by Jared Slomoff and Ben Collette
- Mastered by Fred Kevorkian at Kevorkian Mastering

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