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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:44:43 -0500
From: Bart Frazier willet43@hotmail.com
To: dws@archive.phish.net
Subject: H.O.R.D.E. Show

If you wanted to add notes to the 7-11-92 show, John Popper came on stage
while Trey and Mike were on the trampolines.  There was an empty trampoline
for Popper, which he proceeded to to jump in in sync with Trey and Mike.  On
first impact, he went straight through, bursting all of the springs and
falling on his ass.  He pulled the wire out of Mike's bass, which he quickly
replaced.  Popper then got up, looked around, and walked off stage.  The
crowd, being very congenial, laughed very little.  I forget which song it
was, but I am sure the band members remember.

Bart Frazier,
Centreville VA

From: Sam Shaw <71044.2055@compuserve.com> Subject: HORDE Jones Beach Reply-To: 71044.2055@compuserve.com Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1992 07:13:04 GMT Hi all, I just returned from the Jones Beach HORDE... it's 3:00 am. After checking out digest #428, I realized that there will probably be 6 or 7 reviews of today's show, so I'll keep it short. I have a couple of friends who toured HORDE, and I'm told today's was the hottest. For one, Phish had been playing second to last for the first three shows, and (to our surprise) headlined this one. Also, they'd been playing fairly boaring set lists (sparkle every night) and tonight they sizzled. The list was... Sweet Adeline Chalkdust Bouncin' Divided Sky Fluffhead Maze Uncle Penn Glide Possum Divided & Fluff were VERY tight. Durig Maze, I thought they might explode. The highpoint of the evening for me, though, was Glide. During Fish's opening percussian, Trey dedicated the song to David Ullrich, a friend of mine who died July 4 of lukemia. It really meant a lot. Uncle penn was right on target, as was possum... a great show, all in all. If anyone has a good copy of Phish's set, PLEASE let me know. David's family would really be grayeful... Surrender to the flow, Sam ------------------------------ ------------------------------ From: Matt Laurence Subject: Jones Beach HORDE Reply-To: mlaurenc@world.std.com Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1992 23:00:07 GMT Well, the Horizons Of Rock Developing Everywhere show at Jones Beach was something of an expereince. Jones Beach Theater was pretty nice, though it would have been nicer if the day hadn't been so rainy and grey. Rainy enough, in fact, that the crowd got caught in a downpoour during ARUs opening set. This didn't dampen anyone's spirits, however. The show was great, and this time PHISH was the headliner, coming on last after Blues Traveler and with a slightly longer set. Still not long enough, but better than nothing. And it was a very good set, too! Check out this list: Chalkdust Bouncin' Divided Sky Fluffhead-> Fluff's Travels Uncle Pen Maze Glide-> Vacuum break -> Glide Possum (3 language cues: Simpsons,Oom Pa pa, and fall down) The set was 1:10 in length, far too short. But the band was NOT sloppy at all, playing really tight and hard, and surprisingly, nobody from any of the other bands came out and jammed with them, not even Popper! The show was also apparently different than previous nights in a few ways: they had some bizarre processions around the venue with many key members of the bands playing percussion instruments and people carrying signs and effigies and such, very Bread and Puppet tyupe of thing. They also had the New York Scottish Bagpipe league (or something like that) come on, and they played some stuff while Traveler joined in making it a sort of Rare Air-like tune, and Popper started singing "Swing Low," then turning it into "Gilligans Island!" They then paraded around the venue again,. with the bagpipes. Kinda cool, if a little weird. Everyone played a good set, though I think Widspread Panic should have opened - they were the least inspiring - and ARU come next when more people were inside to appreciate them. The Spins were GREAT, though I really think that the singer needs to work on his stage patter a little ("Say yeah! Say HELL yeah! How ya feelin' people?" all seemed a little trite, and he added some even stupider stuff (though when he shouted "Jack Shit for President" during Shinbone Alley, that was pretty damn funny)). Like the ARU-Panic segue where one band kept playing as the other one came on, joined in, and tool=k over, The Spins led right into Traveler, and THEIR two-band jam was not just cool, it was inspiring. It;s a really neat sight to see two drummers playing side by side in perfect unison. It was VERY hot. And Traveler didn't disappoint me as much as I expected they would after everyone's reviews. They did drive some folks away, and I DID fall asleep during two songs (more a comment on my state of fatigue rather than their playing), and it was irnoic since we met on Phishhead outside who kept complaining about how much air time Snooze Traveler was getting in HORDE. I liked that, and it turned out to be literally true. But they were good, and completely bearable since Phish closed out the night. Overall, it was very good show, despite the fact I did 11 hours of driving to see a 7 hour show. But all in all, if it came right down to it, I'd do it again! I hope everyone else's experiences were as fulfilling, especially Robert T., who I saw in his fourth row center seats. Matt ------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Berger Subject: HORDE@Jones Beach Reply-To: berger@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1992 02:29:19 GMT THis poist about the Horde at Jones Beach is being cross posted to the Spin Doctor's Mailing list and Phish mailing list. Yesterday, I went to see the Horde at Jones Beach. The day started well. While waiting for my friend outside Penn station, I was approached by a Born Again Christian, who told me that I would see the Holy Ghost yesterday. If that could be interpreted as Mark White's increadable Bass playing last night, then maybe I did. Otherwise, I guess not. I got there, and was informed imediatly that ther was no tapeing. Shit... I was stuck. I had no place to stash my stuff, and there was nothing stealth about my mike stand. But after some talking with security, we eventually got the ruling overturned. Everuything was golden, except we still weren't alowed to use mike stands. So I held my mike over my head for all five bands. Quite tiring, but worth it. (before you ask me for dubs, I don't have two working decks at the moment. I had to borrow one for the show.) The rain came down during ARU. They were fun, and seemed to play well, but I was to involved with the strange tapeing logistiics of the show to really appreciate them. ARU, with the help of John Popper, jammed into the WSP set. At this time, I was settled, and got to watch the show. They played great. Next came the Spin Doctors, my favorite of the five bands. They played a very hot set, including a very long and very sweet House with Arnie Lawrence (old time friend of SD and BT) playing sax. Chris was jumping all over the place, doing cartwheels and things. Much more so then normal. Perhaps it was because the stage was so much larger than the ones they are used to. He told everybody that NOW, NORML, and Planned Parenthood were forbidden from entering. They were censored. Chris gave a good, but short speech about it. He says that 'you should know information has been witheld from you.' The croud had the largest reaction to the NORML rejection. Even though most people on the spins and phishnet would disagree on my stance (how many other straight-edgers are there on these nets?) I would think most of you would agree that Birth Control, AIDS prevention, and the women's movement are all much more important issues than Marijuana's legality (or lack thereof.) Anyway, enough of my politics... At the end of Jimmy Olsen's Blues, the Spins set jammed into Blues Traveker playing Gloria. Chris was up singing with John Popper on that one. Highlights of the Blues Traveler set were Support Your Local Emporar, where Richard Vink, the BT's sound man came on and played 12 string accoustic guitar. I've never seen a board guy called up to play as a guest. (I wonder who ran the board for that song.) Arnie Lawrence came back and played with BT, as well. Perhaps the coolest thing that BT did was their last tune, which had a guest bagpipe section, as the band played Swing Low, Sweet Chariot into Giligan's Island. (Yesm, they played the whole them,e song...) But I thought BT was sloppy. They used to be one of my favorite bands, haveing been watching them from the early Wetlands days. They used to be hgreat. They just can't seem to cary it anymore. After another setbreak came the closer of Phish. They played really well. Its been a while since I've seen a phsih show: I used to see them all the time. I'd forgotten just how good they were. Unfortunately, by this time, I was pooped from stnading up with my mike for so long. Phish did one thing that I though was particul;ary notworthy. As they started Possom, whcih had an extra long intro, Trey played the harmonica part of a vers to BT's But Anyway. I relaly thought that was cool. Anyway, taht's my Horde story. ------------------------------