*PRE-ORDER* Phish "New Year’s Eve 1993 Live At Worcester Centrum" Vinyl Box Set

We’re excited to announce New Year’s Eve 1993 Live at Worcester Centrum, the newest release from JEMP Records, available as a 5-LP Vinyl Set or 3-CD Set, out February 20. 
 
Recorded live December 31, 1993, the release includes 30 complete tracks, recorded + mixed from band’s original 2-inch 24-track reels. Pressed on 180g Seaweed + Water colored vinyl, and housed in a deluxe lift-off box with a “Cut Out” Phish Aquarium set included. Tees + Limited Edition Posters available.
 
Phish’s first show at Worcester Centrum, a 14,800-capacity hockey arena, was their fifth annual New Year’s Eve show, and was the band’s biggest headline gig to-date. Tickets cost $22.50 and the show was sold out. The stage set for the entire 4-show 1993 holiday tour was an aquarium, complete with seaweed, rocks, swimming fish and a giant clam built by Chris McGregor and J.W. Nickel of Rocket Science.
 
Phish added new sounds to their sonic palette that year and spent the fall recording their fifth studio album, ‘Hoist’, so they were armed with a fresh batch of sounds and material.
 
Worcester set I highlights included a Llama opener and a hot Stash. Ginseng Sullivan was performed in an acoustic configuration with Trey on acoustic guitar, Mike on upright bass, Page on piano and Fish on Madonna washboard. A soaring Reba led to the tour’s third Peaches en Regalia, a Zappa cover that had all but disappeared from the repertoire until his passing on December 4th.
 
Set II opened with Tweezer > Halley’s Comet and continued with It’s Ice, which had an extended Peaches en Regalia tease. Fee began with another Peaches tease and transitioned into Possum, with more Peaches teases. At the end of You Enjoy Myself (after the vocal jam), the band donned wetsuits and announced a “little excursion” before launching a Phish Aquarium soundscape that spanned the set break in their first elaborate New Year’s Eve gag. Underwater sound effects and band dialog signaled the start of Set III, beginning with the band “diving” into the onstage aquarium and climbing into the giant clam, which snapped shut on them. As midnight approached, the clam rose off the stage and began to shake during the countdown to 1994 before erupting into a sea of confetti, light and sound at midnight.
 
The band reappeared playing Auld Lang Syne, leading to the first Down With Disease Jam to usher in the New Year before a fiery Split Open And Melt. Suzy Greenberg contained more Peaches en Regalia teases and led to a Fishman Cracklin’ Rosie segment before a superlative Harry Hood with Auld Lang Syne teases, and finally Tweezer Reprise to close. As the band returned for an encore, Trey thanked the crowd for ten years of Phish and wished for ten more to come.
 
New Year’s Eve 1993 Live At Worcester Centrum was recorded by Paul Languedoc to multitrack, mixed by Jon Altschiller, mastered by Fred Kevorkian for CD + digital and by Chris Bellman for vinyl.
 
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