It was one of the most musically important nights of our lives, during a time when we were still mourning the loss of Jerry Garcia earlier that year (DK had seen 183 Dead shows, and Jim and I combined had seen over 100, iirc). While I fell out of touch with the engineer (Jim), and the philosophy professor (DK)-who became a highly regarded environmental ethics expert-died in 2013 from a recurrence of cancers originally caused by radiation he had received in the early 1980s (!), I have often thought of them while re-listening to the show. One was a graduate engineering student who attended Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering, and the other was a philosophy professor who obtained a graduate philosophy degree from BC when I was there in the late 1980s. After witnessing a wonderful NYE run, highlighted in particular by “ The Real Me Gin” on 12/29, I saw 12/31/95 with two guys who were much, much smarter than me. Those remarks-as well as the version revised for publication in “ The Phish Companion”- are available to read here, along with other reviews by fans of 12/31/95 on this site. I reviewed the concert on in January 1996, only days after it blew thousands of minds including my own, and changed the course of many lives. © 1995 PHISH (Late Fall 1995 Doniac Schvice Cover Page) A favorite of countless fans of improvisational rock music, the magnificently unplacid performance will be streamed by Phish as a “ Dinner And A Rematch” this New Year’s Eve in support of The Waterwheel Foundation, the band’s charitable organization founded in 1997. IT has been twenty-five years, but Phish’s performance on 12/31/95 at Madison Square Garden continues to be among Phish’s most legendary shows.
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