Phish - July 18th, 1999
Oswego County Airport · Volney · NY
1 Del McCoury Band.
2 Narration featured Trey rambling about the negative aspects of television and the positive aspects of books.
3 Accompanied by fireworks.
4 Icculus Sandwich: Icculus bookended Smoke on the Water in Set 3 - the first one on record. No Icculus sandwich has ever held more.
Song length in play order. Tap a point for that song. Swipe the chart to see the rest.
Tonight's unique songs by the era Phish first played them.
- '83-'898
- '90-'947
- '95-'0012
The studio home of each song, from phish.net. Covers count as one slice.
- A Picture of Nectar3
- The Story of the Ghost3
- Billy Breathes2
- Farmhouse2
- Junta2
- Lawn Boy2
- Covers7
- No studio album6
Shows since each song's previous appearance. A big number is a bustout.
- 1-24
- 3-58
- 6-159
- 16-504
- 51+ · bustout1
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original20
- The Del McCoury Band2
- Bill Monroe1
- Bob Dylan1
- Clifton Chenier1
- Deep Purple1
- Trey Anastasio1
Rarer than most - 1 song shelved 50+ shows.
Gap = shows since the song was last played, at the moment it was played.
A nice, Page-led groove develops on the back end of the standard "Gin" jam.
With the Del McCoury Band. Another great bluegrass version.
Concentrated, quiet, and introspective play emerges from the composed section. Mike and Fish maintain a steady beat, and Trey's delicate soloing is complimented by really great work from Page. Super bass and powerful piano underscore great guitar and percussion, the jam breaking free to become less groove-oriented and more euphoric.
Breaks into a nice pulsing groove at about 6:45. Doesn't stray as far from "CDT" as the 7/10/99 version, but still great.
Fantastic, groove-based jamming, and this "Jim" has several good ones. Released on Live Bait Vol. 5.
-> in from a huge "Runaway Jim." Super lazy, summer-style Mike led jam. > to "Meatstick."
> in from "Axilla." Incredibly deft Trey playing combines with that unique '99 - '00 high pitched sound. Extended ending.
After a long patient intro, this "Piper" rages until about 14:00 when the jam shifts to a funky, multi-faceted rhythmic groove. This version has much more exploratory jamming than most '99 "Pipers," which tend to focus on a single layered groove. Cool Fishman percussion at the end leads to a -> to "Prince Caspian."
-> in from a big "Piper." Easy-going Camp Oswego version has some soaring Trey guitar work and a cool transition to "Wilson."
Deep into the last set of Camp Oswego, Wilson serves as the unfinished springboard to classic, ridiculous Phishery, preceding a Catapult and a series of narrations and jamlets that often rely on a Wilson-ish chug as a sort of home base.
-> in from "Wilson." Following "Catapult," Trey launches into several minutes of banter about the Guiness Book of World Records, the "Book", and other topics. The droning vamp played since the latter part of "Wilson" abruptly changes and -> to "Smoke On The Water" Jam.
-> in from "Catapult." Nice jam on this Deep Purple classic. Trey adds some amusing banter about musical similarities between this song and Ted Nugent's "Cat Scratch Fever." > to "Icculus."
Versions phish.net's jam charts single out as noteworthy.
This was the second show of the Camp Oswego festival. Back on the Train through Beauty of My Dreams featured a guest appearance by the Del McCoury Band, who had played on the venue’s side stage. During I’m Blue I’m Lonesome, Del McCoury broke a string, and a bluegrass breakdown ensued while the string was changed. Runaway Jim contained Super Bad teases from Trey. During Meatstick, the crowd tried to break the world record for most people dancing at one time. Trey explained the record that the band was trying to break while Sofi Dillof danced on stage and the Guinness staff videotaped the crowd. Part of the Piper intro was used on the studio Piper released on Farmhouse. Some musical chaos ensued between Catapult and Icculus (first since October 31, 1995, or 262 shows), where Trey rambled about the negative aspects of television and the positive aspects of books and Mike teased Meatstick. The ensuing Smoke on the Water Jam included Cat Scratch Fever teases. Subsequently, Icculus was followed by more narration and a tease of Miss You. The show closed with fireworks during Hood.
Setlist, gaps, jam charts, and notes from phish.net, a project of the non-profit Mockingbird Foundation.