Colorado '88

History

When Phish arrived in the Colorado, they made the most of the opportunity, managing to improvise bookings for seven shows over the course of ten days - six of which were in the small mountain town of Telluride.

According to Mike Gordon in The Phish Book: "My fiance Cilla Foster was responsible for our first tour. In 1988 she was waitressing in Telluride for a guy named Warren Stickney. I didn't know her very well at the time, but one day she called and said Stickney wanted us to come play in his bar. We'd never played further away from home than New Hampshire at the time, but Stickney promised to book a monthlong tour across the country. It took another six months to get him on the phone again, but I finally spoke with him about a week before we were supposed to hit the road. He said something like, 'I don't know if I can get you any other gigs, but you can play my place and I'll pay you a thousand bucks.' I couldn't get him on the phone after that, so the six of us - including Paul Languedoc and Tim Rogers, who was doing lights - decided to go for it anyway.

"We finished playing a Nectar's gig at 2am, took a vote, and decided to head west then and there. Our friends Ninja Custodian subbed for us the next night at Nectar's, and we took off across the country with turkey ham, cheese, and apple butter. It was the middle of summer, and we were traveling in a windowless truck with only a foam mattress on the floor. We didn't even stop at a rest area for forty hours, so the truck got pretty disgusting."

Disc one

1. "The Curtain With" (Anastasio, Daubert) - 17:34
2. "The Sloth" (Anastasio) - 3:08
3. "Icculus" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 4:48
4. "Colonel Forbin's Ascent" (Anastasio) - 5:43
5. "Fly Famous Mockingbird" (Anastasio) - 9:14
6. "I Didn't Know" (Wright) - 5:38
7. "Maiden Voyage" (Hancock) - 9:29
8. "Timber" (White) - 11:23
9. "Harpua" (Anastasio, Fishman) - 12:27

Disc two

1. "Fluffhead" (Anastasio, Pollak) - 14:54
2. "Run Like an Antelope" (Anastasio, Marshall, Pollak) - 10:58
3. "Sneakin' Sally Thru the Alley" (Toussaint) - 6:47
4. "Light Up or Leave Me Alone" (Capaldi) - 7:27
5. "The Lizards" (Anastasio) - 10:21
6. "I Know a Little" (Gaines) - 2:59
7. "The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday" (Anastasio) - 3:18
8. "Avenu Malcanu" (Traditional) - 3:08
9. "The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday" (Anastasio) - 1:35
10. "Flat Fee" (Anastasio) - 2:22
11. "McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 9:32
12. "Alumni Blues" (Anastasio) - 4:32
13. "Letter To Jimmy Page" (Anastasio) - 1:00
14. "Alumni Blues" (Anastasio) - :44

Disc three

1. "Camel Walk" (Holdsworth) - 5:39
2. "Wilson" (Anastasio, Marshall, Woolf) - 5:47
3. "No Dogs Allowed" (Anastasio) - 13:50
4. "Mike's Song" (Gordon) - 4:55
5. "I Am Hydrogen" (Anastasio, Daubert, Marshall) - 2:06
6. "Weekapaug Groove" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 4:20
7. "You Enjoy Myself" (Anastasio) - 17:31
8. "Cities" (Byrne) - 4:44
9. "Dave's Energy Guide" (Abrahams, Anastasio) - 1:25
10. "Cities" (Byrne) - :41
11. "AC/DC Bag" (Anastasio) - 10:06
12. "Corinna" (Davis, Taj Mahal) - 4:33
13. "Thank You" - 3:37

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1. "Sanity" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell, Pollak) - 7:41
2. "Dog Log" (Anastasio) - 4:30
3. "Big Black Furry Creature From Mars" (Gordon) - 3:52
4. "Slave to the Traffic Light" (Abrahams, Anastasio, Pollak) - 10:27
5. "Harry Hood" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Long, McConnell) - 13:39

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1. "Tela" (Anastasio) - 11:43
2. "Possum" (Holdsworth) - 6:17

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