Phish Soundboard Comes Into Circulation After 25 Years

There was a period in the early ’00s when it seemed as if previously-uncirculated Phish recordings were surfacing nearly every day on torrent sites like eTree. The internet made sharing recordings much easier than the days of tape trading and those with just a little technical know-how were able to easily download to their heart’s content. So many Phish recordings were shared back then that there aren’t too many tapes left in the trader circles that haven’t entered public circulation yet. With that in mind, We’re happy to see that a previously-uncirculated soundboard recording of a classic Phish show from Dartmouth College in 1990 has just been posted on eTree.

On January 20, 1990 Phish made their third-ever appearance at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and first at the college’s Webster Hall venue. The quartet debuted four tunes during the show including two beloved originals that are still in rotation -“The Squirming Coil” and “Bouncing Around The Room.” Phish also debuted covers of Duke Ellington’s “Caravan” and Walter Donaldson/Gus Kahn’s “Carolina.” The rest of the show features a number of classics such as “You Enjoy Myself,” “Run Like An Antelope,” “Reba,” “Bathtub Gin” and the “Mike’s Song”/”I Am Hydrogen”/”Weekapaug Groove” trifecta.

Dartmouth’s paper profiled Phish’s 1990 concert on campus for a feature published in 2012. “The place was totally full, and we were worried that there were going to be too many people. People were camped out in front waiting to get in,” one of the show’s organizers, Jane Demarchi, remembered. “I know people were pretty blown away that were at the show,” Dartmouth Class of ’90 graduate Deacon Warner said. “For certain songs, they would be hopping around on trampolines in unison, and then at some point, the drummer would come out and do a vacuum cleaner solo.”

While audience recordings of Phish’s 1990 gig at Dartmouth have circulated for a long time, the just-posted soundboard recording is new to circulation. Head over to eTree to download FLACs of the new source thanks to the efforts of Charlie Miller and Jeff Mitchell.

Stream “Run Like An Antelope” for a taste of the recording:

[via Phish.net]