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The Clifford Ball

photo by Todd Wickerstyphoto by Todd Wickersty


photo by Todd Wickerstyphoto by Todd Wickersty


photo by Todd Wickerstyphoto by Todd Wickersty


photo by Todd Wickerstyphoto by Todd Wickersty


photo by Todd Wickerstyphoto by Todd Wickersty


photo by Todd Wickerstyphoto by Todd Wickersty


photo by Todd Wickerstyphoto by Todd Wickersty


photo by Todd Wickerstyphoto by Todd Wickersty

Doniac Schvice, Summer 1996 editionDoniac Schvice, Summer 1996 edition


Phish

August 16, 1996

The Clifford Ball — Plattsburgh Air Force Base — Plattsburgh, NY



I: CDT, Gin, Ya Mar, Bag > Esther > Divided, Halley’s > Bowie

II: SOAMelt, Sparkle > Free, Coil, Waste[1], Talk[1], Train Song[1], Strange Design[1], Hello My Baby, Mike’s -> Simple -> Contact > Weekapaug


III: Makisupa > 2001 > DwD[2] → NICU, Life on Mars? > Hood → Jam


E: Amazing Grace


IV: Flatbed Truck Jam




Footnotes:

[1] Acoustic mini-stage.

[2] Unfinished.


This was the first show of The Clifford Ball festival. Bathtub Gin contained a brief DEG tease from Trey. Waste through Strange Design were performed on the acoustic mini-stage. Disease was unfinished. The second set was preceded by a Mary Had a Little Lamb tease. The jam at the end of Harry Hood accompanied a fireworks display. The band took to the back of a flatbed truck at around 3:30 in the morning and drove through the crowd. The performance was one long open-ended jam.



Phish

August 17, 1996

The Clifford Ball — Plattsburgh Air Force Base — Plattsburgh, NY



I: The Old Home Place, PYITE, Reba[1] > CTB, Lizards, Sample, Taste, Fee[2] → Maze, Suzy


II: Curtain > Runaway Jim, It’s Ice > Brother[3], Fluffhead, Antelope > Golgi > Slave


III: Wilson > Frankenstein, SOAMule[4], Tweezer, ADITL, Possum > Tweeprise


E: Harpua[5]




Footnotes:

[1] No whistling.

[2] Trey sang verses through megaphone.

[3] Ben and Jerry on vocals.

[4] Page/Fish Mule Duel.

[5] Unfinished.

This was the second show of The Clifford Ball festival. Reba did not have the whistling ending. Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone. Before the second set, Trey paid tribute to Aaron Stein of Syracuse, who was front row center for every show of the tour. The first Brother since August 2, 1993 (258 shows) featured Ben and Jerry on guest vocals. Wilson included a Heartbreaker tease. Antelope featured a female acrobat twirling in the rigging, suspended above the stage in a circus-like fashion. Scent of a Mule featured a Page/Fish duel instead of the typical Page/Trey duel. Tweezer had big trampolines on each side of the stage and more circus shenanigans. A stunt plane circled overhead during Tweezer Reprise and Harpua. Harpua was unfinished; it was completed on August 16, 1997 at The Great Went.

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