Today marks the 25th Anniversary of the first “official” show Phish ever played at UVM’s Harris-Millis Cafeteria in Burlington. Five years ago the Phab Phour made a big deal out of their 20th Anniversary Show in Boston, but we haven’t heard a peep from the band about this one. In fact, we haven’t heard much of anything from any of the band members since they announced their comeback on October 1. Regardless, Phish fans are feeling something they haven’t felt since Miami: hope for the band’s future.

12/02/1983 – Burlington, VT

A few weeks ago, a picture surfaced of Trey, Mike, Page and Jon rehearsing at a studio in NYC. They were working out the kinks with more than 100 days to go until Hampton showing some real dedication this time around. We’re still in a holding pattern as to what lies ahead after March 6, 7 and 8, but there seems to be a new tour date-related rumor each day. So on the verge of Phish’s return, let’s celebrate this anniversary the same way we celebrated the 20th with this montage that Jared Slomoff put together…

READ ON for a helpful key to Phish’s 20th Anniversary Video Montage…

1987 Fluffhead (Rehearsal/ Dorm Room?)
1987 Fishman Drumz Video
1987 Picture of Page
5-20-87 Run Like an Antelope
1988 David Bowie (Junta)
1988 Contact (Junta recording sessions with kids singing and Trey conducting)
89/90? Asse Festival w/ Fishman falling on his face
5-26-89? Halley’s Comet (w/ Nancy)
89/90? Possum
89/90? Donna Lee
89/90? Letter to Jimmy Page
10-31-89 AC/DC Bag
10-31-89 Finalist #4 Tweedil Dee & Tweedil Dumb
7-21-91 Arrowhead Introductions
7-21-91 Mike’s Song (w/ Giant Country Horns)
7-21-91 Hydrogen (w/ Trey & Mike doing the dance)
?/?/91? ?Jam? snippet
?/?/92? Runaway Jim
?/?/92? (possibly 3-13-92) Split Open & Melt
3-13-92 Fishman on bagpipes for Love You
3-13-92 Secret Language Instructions (d’oh!)
3-13-92 Contact (w/ Mike on bagpipes)
4-17-92 Brother (w/ Steve McConnell, Mike’s Brother and several crew members jumping into a bathtub onstage)
?/?/92/93? Hey Hole Musical Excercises
?/?/93 Leprechaun Rehearsal
’93 Marley!
Summer ’93 (possibly 7-24-93) Trey & Mike on Glide’s for Glide
Summer ’93 Rocky Top
8-2-93 Mike’s Song (w/ Joe Rooney)
8-8-93 Band & Friends launch water balloons into the parking lot from bleachers
8/?/93 Fish on vacuum while Trey cools him off with stage fan
8-28-93 Crimes of the Mind (w/ The Dude of Life)
’93 snippet of Mike saying something about the first hotel billed??? (w/ image of an outlet???)
12-31-93 Down with Disease jam (w/ Frank Zappa’s spirit walking on stage! )
10,11 ’93 Lifeboy; Hoist recording sessions
5-3-94 If i Could (w/ Alison Krauss)
7-8-94 N2O
10-31-94 Blackbird
10-31-94 Birthday Jam (Brad Sands B-Day)
11-?-94 Blue & Lonesome Rehearsal (w/ Rev. Jeff Mosier)
11-19-94 Pig in a Pen (Parking Lot Jam)
12-30-94 Late Show with David Letterman
12-31-94 Auld Lang Syne on the Hot Dog
6-16-95 Runaway Jam!
9-30-95 Page makes a move (w/ White Rabbit Jam)
10-31-95 I’ve Had Enough
10-31-95 Love Reign O’er Me
10-31-95 YEM
10-31-95 My Generation (w/ Instrument Distruction)
11-11-95 HYHU Fish bow w/ Elvis Cape
11-11-95 Acoustic Army
11-25-95 Rotation Jam
11-28-95 Fish pays respects to Cl. Bruce Hampton
12-11-95 Dog Gone Dog’s (Boo’s & Cheer’s)
12-31-95 Mikes Song?
12-31-95 Phish Time Factory/ Auld Lang Syne
12-31-95 Weekapaug Groove & snippet of jam
2-6 ’96 Stange Design; Bearsville Studios
2-6 ’96 Free; Bearsville Studios
8-5-96 Waste
8-5-96 Mike’s Song (My 50th Show )
8-15/16-96 Introducing Jim Pollock
8-17-96 Flatbed Truck Jam
11-16-96 The Vibration of Life
11-16-96 Kung>Catapult
12-6-96 Suzy Greenberg
12-31-96 Amazing Grace (w/ Boston Community Choir)
?/?/97 Philadelphia reporter refering to a picture of Trey in a Flyers jersey as Eric Clapton
?/?/97 Some old guy in a suit and tie reciting the lyrics to Scent of a Mule
6-6-97 Ghost; “Bradstock”
7-21-97 Multi-Instrument Jam (w/ LeRoi Moore)
8-8-97 Sugar Blue on Messin’ with the Kid
8-17-97 Art Tower set a blaze
7-16-98 Fast Enough for you
10-17-98 Never
10-30-98 Long Cool Women
12-31-98 1999
7-30-99 Japanese Introduction
7-30-99 Chalk Dust Torture
10-8-99 We’re not gonna take it (w/ Tom Marshall)
10/99-2/00 Farmhouse in the barn
12-31-99 In the Hot Dog (shot from Mike’s camera)
1-1-00 After Midnight
1-1-00 Fishman dozing off
1-1-00 Roses are Free
6-22-00 Backstage Rehearsals
6-22-00 Freebird (w/ Wynonna Judd)
9-29-00 Rappers Delight (w/ Kid Rock)
10-7-00 YEM vocal jam (End of my childhood )
12-31-02 Seven Below
8-3-03 Tower Set “Great Gag in the Sky”

[Taken from the comments left by zappa4ever at YouTube]

Scott Bernstein

Scott Bernstein co-founded Hidden Track in October 2006 and was managing editor until taking over as EiC in January 2008. Scotty also writes for Relix Magazine and curates YEMblog.com.

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