From: Victor Szalvay

Subject: Antelope in Review Pt.23 11/03/88

Greetings once again!~

Today I am looking at 11/3/88 from Molly’s Cafe in Boston, MA.  The
significance of this show is primarily that these little Molly’s shows the
bands first Boston gigs... pretty cool.  Highlights of this one include a
fat Bold As Love and a Whipping Post to match.  Anyhow, here are my $.02
on this Antelope:

11/3/88 Molly’s Cafe- Boston, MA Set: 2 of 3

Tuning before the intro out of Take the A-Train
Antelope -- Intro:  Trey is solo on this sucker for a while until Fish
wishes a Happy B-day to Sarah and then Trey echos the sentiment... OK.
Page and the boys roll in and add their licks to get things going.  Will
they hit a gearshift this time?  Who knows!!  The intro is as standard as
they get until Page spices it up with some really smokin riffs-->
Opening theme: (2:20) Trey is moving along with his solo... Still using
that clean tone (when will he ever learn? :-]).

Rake: (2:45) Nice with a sustained note to match -->
Key Change to Em: (2:50)  Trey feeding back into tomorrow!!  He is really
riding the one note pretty far and then digs in for a hearty run.  Page
shows up with his own run mimicking the guitarist.  Trey gets a little
wild and weird while heading off in an obscure direction.  Mike and Fish
are really steady holding things together.  Trey is flailing on a weird
tangent but the overall intensity is pretty low.  Trey rides a nice riff
into -->

gear shift: 4:37 slight and not that great.  They start picking up
intensity and the solo lines are really spacey at that.  Another build
approaching from Trey, he double takes, and tries to hit another gear, but
no such luck.... yet.  He is still building and Page covers him with some
nice chording.  Trey is still way out there, but the overall effect is not
getting him to 3rd gear.  Trey and Mike now spiraling upwards, I think
this is more like it :-) !  They are just jamming it out and a nice
release is in store... sure enough:
third gear (7:07) Wow!!!  What an eruption!!  Mike is releasing the bomb
left and right!  Pretty nice sustain for after the shift until they drop
into the -->

Pre-Marco-Groove: 7:20  trey ultra funky to get in the mood.  Mike and
Fish are laying it down as usual... pretty cool.  Page chiming once in a
while on the B3.

Ry, Ry, Rocco!!
MARCO ESQUANDOLAS:
happen to have any spleef, man? (wow, Charlie, sounds a lot like happen
once again... but perhaps I am wrong, so sub-in *‘Been* for *Happen* if it
makes you happier)

High Gear Theme: 8:20  Nice transitions, but the announcements in the PMG
were a little too close together.  The Runs are were scattered and not
together either... oopps!

Trey:- Set the Gear shift:  (pretty serious, isn’t he?)
Standard chorus and nice Page work till the -->
End:  (9:50)
Trey: “Thanks we will be back for another set in just a minute, we are
PHISH from Burlington, VT.  Thanks everybody.”

So... what did you think?  It is hard to judge how good this version was.
If anything, it is the most standard 88 version I’ve ever heard, I guess.
Not too impressive, but they did get in one fat shift and a little one as
well.
I’d give it a 5.0 on the scale.  Pretty average.
Till next time, take it easy everyone,
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