I attended this show as a graduating student at NHM in 1989. This was the annual 'Spring Thing' event. It was not in a gymnasium as noted on most setlists. Phish set up their equipment and played in an open field on campus. I remember a white truck parking right on the grass and the band literally setting up their gear then playing, no stage. So close to the band you could hit Fish's cymbals if you wanted to. Great memories!

Very, very chatty show. I think my favorite banter moment was Trey having to explain what a rhombus is. "TOWEL!!!" No, dude, not a towel. Musically, I think mostly pretty average, except Foam is kind of a mess and GTBT is pretty rockin'. Oh, and Alumni is decent and has kind of a Possum jam in it w/ a Possum tease. 3 Stars

The SBD source for this show is pretty flat sounding. The multiple cassette generations in it’s lineage doesn’t help. Set two’s pitch seems just a hair slow.

Luckily this doesn’t take away from the energy of the performance. The show starts out just like Syracuse with AC/DC, Alumni, YEM. Trey even dedicates Alumni to the graduates again. The pairing was far stronger than what we heard in Syracuse. After the poor reception Trey got during his “Traveling minstrels from Gamehendge” rap at the Night Stage in Cambridge, I was curious how long it would be before he tried again…about 3 weeks. This attempt was far better received by the young boarding school audience. There’s a time and place for everything!

Set 2 wasn’t quite as strong as set 1, but featured a nice Weekapaug and Bowie. It should be noted that the band references the shuttle buses in Contact. Fun show overall. The band seemed in good spirits and I would imagine they picked up some lifelong fans at this gig.