Phish - New Year's'Eve 1993 - Live at Worcester Centrum - 180 Gram Seaweed Vinyl - 5XLP Box Set

Recorded live December 31, 1993, the release includes 30 complete tracks, recorded + mixed from band’s original 2-inch 24-track reels. Pressed on 180g Seaweed + Water colored vinyl, and housed in a deluxe lift-off box with a “Cut Out” Phish Aquarium set included. Tees + Limited Edition Posters available. 

Phish’s first show at Worcester Centrum, a 14,800-capacity hockey arena, was their fifth annual New Year’s Eve show, and was the band’s biggest headline gig to-date. Tickets cost $22.50 and the show was sold out. The stage set for the entire 4-show 1993 holiday tour was an aquarium, complete with seaweed, rocks, swimming fish and a giant clam built by Chris McGregor and J.W. Nickel of Rocket Science. 

Phish added new sounds to their sonic palette that year and spent the fall recording their fifth studio album, ‘Hoist’, so they were armed with a fresh batch of sounds and material.
Worcester set I highlights included a Llama opener and a hot Stash. Ginseng Sullivan was performed in an acoustic configuration with Trey on acoustic guitar, Mike on upright bass, Page on piano and Fish on Madonna washboard. A soaring Reba led to the tour’s third Peaches en Regalia, a Zappa cover that had all but disappeared from the repertoire until his passing on December 4th. 

Set II opened with Tweezer > Halley’s Comet and continued with It’s Ice, which had an extended Peaches en Regalia tease. Fee began with another Peaches tease and transitioned into Possum, with more Peaches teases. At the end of You Enjoy Myself (after the vocal jam), the band donned wetsuits and announced a “little excursion” before launching a Phish Aquarium soundscape that spanned the set break in their first elaborate New Year’s Eve gag. Underwater sound effects and band dialog signaled the start of Set III, beginning with the band “diving” into the onstage aquarium and climbing into the giant clam, which snapped shut on them. As midnight approached, the clam rose off the stage and began to shake during the countdown to 1994 before erupting into a sea of confetti, light and sound at midnight.  

Side A:
Llama
Guelah Papyrus
Stash
Side B:
Ginseng Sullivan
Reba
Side C:
Peaches en Regalia
I Didn't Know
Run Like an Antelope
Side D:
Tweezer
Halley's Comet
Poor Heart
Side E:
It's Ice
Fee
Side F:
Possum
Lawn Boy
Side G:
You Enjoy Myself
Phish Aquarium
Side H:
Phish Aquarium (continued)
Auld Lang Syne
Down with Disease Jam
Split Open and Melt
Side I:
The Lizards
Sparkle
Suzy Greenberg
Hold Your Head Up
Cracklin' Rosie
Hold Your Head Up [reprise]
Side J:
Harry Hood
Tweezer Reprise
Golgi Apparatus
Amazing Grace