From: ALJONES@pitzer.claremont.edu
Subject: Variety Arts Theater
Reply-To: ALJONES@pitzer.claremont.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 10:58:01 GMT

	It was quite a show I must say!! The boy's first time in 
Southern California. The theater was actually very nice for downtown
LA, but the management was a REAL drag. They did NOT let the tapers tape!!
There was no taping  at all except for what Paul and/or JP were doing.
The manager apparently thought that these tapers were going to be selling
these tapes and he was afraid that he wasn't going to be making the money.
It didn't seem to even phase the guys at the soundboard, even after the 
tapers tried to get them to talk to the manager (oh well???). 
	
	Panic came out first and played a beautiful set. They did a great
soundcheck of "She caught the Katy" They weren't letting people in to the
theater part yet from the lobby but being the audio enthusiasts that we
are we managed to get down in there with no disturbance to anyone. 
Panic opened with J.J. Cale's "Travellin' Light" Then a little later in the
set they did a great "Driving Song" -> "Weight of the World" -> ? ->
(into) "Driving Song" at which point they closed with "Makes Sense to Me"
	Then Phish came (and so did we)!!!! The set list goes as follows:

4-15-92 Variety Arts Theater, LA Ca.
 -I-
Oh Kee Pa ->
Suzy Greenberg
Foam
Guelah Papyus
Sparkle
Stash
Fiddle Song (therecould be another name for this?)
Caverns
I Didn't Know (Henrietta on Vacuum)
(Variations On) All Things Considered
Runaway Jim

-II-
Chalkdust
YEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reba!!!!!!!!!!
Landlady!!!!
Intensive Care Unit (I think I have never heard it, he says "ICU")
cold as ice->
Cracklin Rose
cold as ice
My Sweet One
Golgi

-Encore-
A Memories (acappella, no mikes)
Sweet Adeline (acapplla, no mikes)
Rocky Top

* YEM - Mikes bass solo had "Groove is in the Heart" jam, then 
	Trey jumped in and changed it to "Funky Town"

**YEM - Vocals jam was amazing, they must have gone in and out of 
	at least four different songs, all in perfect harmony. It
	almost sounded rehearsed (yes, thats how good it was!)!!!!!

*** Fish man comes up right before he's about to sing "Cracklin' Rose
	and says, "All right now, we've got a choice. Its either 
	Neil Diamond ... or .. Syd Barrett. ... NEIL IT IS!!

**** Right before My Sweet One, Trey announced that "This next one is 
	by the third greatest song writer of all time..." At which 
	point Fish raised his hands in glory then slammed into "MSO"

	The first set, honestly, kinda lagged (ie. one of my favs. Foam
Guelah) Otherwise everything from Stash on was jammin'. THEN, I don't
what they did back stage but when they came out for the second set, you
could just feel it! The Chalkdust was soarin' and I was groovin' right
below  where all the Electra reps were. And thery were all smiles :-)
Then the YEM was mind blowing! See out here inthe west not a lot of people
know about bouncin when they're on the tramps. But that soon ended. Every-
one was bouncin' during Page's organ solo 9which was needless to say, 
amazing. Trey solo was so colorful and bright. He was using every trick
in his book (cuz as you know he re-wrote the book on guitar soloing :-)!
I don't think I could say anything more (in the way of words) I guess you
could just tell by them smiles and glassy eyed looks every one had after
the show. It is too bad that noone gotta a tape of this, except JP.

	Well I'm off to Santa Babs in an hour. Hope to see all of you at
the Warfield and the rest.
	Enjoy ..

	(No longer) Sufferin' from Petrified Phish Disease,

				Alex

aljones@ptnext.claremont.edu

P.S. If you are anywhere NEAR northern California on Saturday, highly 
	recomend that you make the trip to Stanford. Don't worry about
	all the stuff. Just stay LP (that's Low Profile).
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