Date:    Sun, 18 Jan 1998 12:24:52 -0800
From:    Charles Dirksen 
Subject: 3/28/90 Tweezer

3/28/90 Denison Univ., Granville, OH

Long drum intro from Fish.  Trey says that this tune goes out to the
Beta Intramural Hockey Team.  This is apparently the first Live In
Concert version of Tweezer (Tweezer was soundchecked in early March,
though, among other times probably).  It is a bit more upbeat than the
versions we hear today (but typical for the early versions).  Opening
lyrics are belted out, and there's a very loose feel to the whole
composed opening segment.  Jam segment begins at

4:49.  Trey begins soloing right away, and there's liquid psychedelic
phaaat wet drippy butterfly bass accompaniment from Mike.  Page
sustains a lot of chords in the first minute or two.  Trey appears to
tease something around 6:08 or so, but I don't recognize the non-Phish
tune.  At this point, he is basically noodling, tooling around... it
isn't meaningless musicianly meandering, but he's not really searching
for a theme.  Just Rock Star Trey.  Around 7 mins he gets especially
nasty, and the groove picks up a notch as a result.. but, rather
abruptly, Trey starts playing the main Tweezer theme again.  And then
that's basically it.. he just repeats it a bunch.  Really very
sloppy.  They clearly hadn't quite worked out the ending.  By 7:52, it
is just Fishman holding the rhythm.. and a bit from Mike.  Then at
8:10 Fish just softly lets the beat fade out.  And that's it.

Trey says "Thank you.  Tweezer so cold.  We're going to go on down
South now."  (Uncle Penn)

Well.  I've never heard a version of Tweezer more uninspired and weak.
What you might expect for the first *live* version I suppose.  I'll give
it a 0.5 rating (.25 for the drum opening and .25 for the Beta Intramural
Hockey Team reference).

two cents
charlie