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PHISH: 12/6/97 The Palace at Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, MI
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PHISH: 12/6/97 The Palace at Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, MI
This latest archival offering
picks up where LivePhish11 (11/17/97
Denver), 12/7/97 Dayton and Hampton/Winston-Salem ’97 leave off in fall
’97 – a perennial fan favorite tour for its wide open jamming, experimentation
with new instruments/techniques and funky treatment of Phish classics and
covers alike.
Phish’s third show at The Palace
on December 6, 1997 was yet another defining fall ’97 gig, with an under-recognized
set I and a renowned set II that must be heard in one sitting, preferably with
headphones. Set I highlights
include an intense second-song Run Like An Antelope, alien landscapes of Train
Song and seamless pairings of Bathtub Gin > Foam and Fee > Maze. Set II was a unified, non-stop affair: Tweezer
> Izabella > Twist > Piper > Sleeping Monkey > Tweezer Reprise
is just the sort of raging, psychedelic-funk that Phish dreams are made of. As they rounded the bend into the final
week of fall tour, the band had a confident swagger that exploded in The Palace
with a flood of combined energy that flows through on the tapes. The Palace is
deep in the suburbs but this Saturday night show in the home of The Pistons was
a slam-dunk that reverberated throughout Detroit Rock City and beyond.
The release was created from Paul
Languedoc’s DAT stereo soundboard mix re-mastered by Fred Kevorkian and
contains two and a half hours of music totaling 16 songs. The 2-CD LivePhish Limited set (also
available as downloads at livephish.com) is slated for release on JEMP Records September
25, 2012.
Enjoy! --ks