Phish Announces Seattle November 1996 Live Archival Release
The show was highlighted by a sequence featuring “Tweezer” and “Down With Disease” dubbed by fans the “Diseezer”
By Scott Bernstein Jun 29, 2021 • 7:13 am PDT
Phish will issue official audio of their November 27, 1996 concert at Key Arena in Seattle this Friday, July 2 via LivePhish.com. Archivist Kevin Shapiro spun tracks from the forthcoming release on SiriusXM’s Phish Radio for the latest episode of From The Archives which premiered on Monday and will re-air throughout the week.
The quartet’s Key Arena debut came towards the tail end of their extensive Fall Tour 1996. Phish celebrated the late Jimi Hendrix birthday in his hometown by covering “Bold As Love” to end the evening’s first set and “Fire” to end the second set.
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Phish kicked off the closing stanza in Seattle with an adventurous “Down With Disease” that spanned well beyond the lauded 20-minute mark. A stellar cover of ZZ Top’s “Jesus Just Left Chicago” came next as the four-piece left “Disease” unfinished. Then, “Scent Of A Mule” was followed by a ferocious “Tweezer” featuring a jam on Aerosmith’s “Sweet Emotion” that gave way to the end of “Down With Disease.” A number of Phish fans quickly dubbed the sequence the “Diseezer” and the nickname stuck.
Audio featuring Phish’s November 27, 1996 show will be available for download via LivePhish.com starting on Friday. LivePhish+ subscribers will be able to stream the recording the same day. Tonight, Phish wraps their Dinner And A Movie archival video series (for now) by broadcasting the group’s July 20, 1991 concert at Arrowhead Ranch in Parksville, New York.
Set 1: Julius > My Friend, My Friend, Ya Mar, Chalk Dust Torture, The Sloth, Uncle Pen, Free > Theme From the Bottom, Bold As Love
Set 2: Down with Disease -> Jesus Just Left Chicago > Scent of a Mule [1], Tweezer -> Sweet Emotion -> Down with Disease, The Star-Spangled Banner, Fire
Encore: Waste > Tweezer Reprise
Trey teased Lazy in Chalk Dust Torture. The Mule Duel included Brady Bunch theme scats from Trey and some vacuum action from Fish. Fire and Bold As Love were dedicated to Jimi Hendrix on his birthday. The Disease and Tweezer combo has led some fans to refer to this as the âDiseezer.â The return to DWD contained a Canât You Hear Me Knocking ending. This show is available as an archival release on LivePhish.com.
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