August 1993 was one hell of a month of Phish, folks,
if you haven't heard.  There is not one show from
this month that I wouldn't recommend.  Get 'em all!
Those of you especially impressed with '95 should
familiarize yourself with this month of incredible
setlists.  I'm not knocking 1994 or 1995, mind you,
but August 1993 is still probably my favorite MONTH
of Phish.

The opening is typical rhythm, with some accentuated
lyrics from Trey and Mike, no pre-Ebeneezer jam, and
a little bit more improv action from Trey in
general.  Still ends fairly quickly.

Jam segment begins at 4:17, with a beautiful,
delicate theme-groove led by Trey and gently
accompanied by the others.  This theme groove
steadily increases in volume and tempo (as would a
Slave-jam).  Trey started out in the lower reaches,
but gets up there for a bit and starts jamming around
5:50.  This is quite the melodramatic Tweezer.  Very
Slave or Hood-esque, in a sense (though neither are
teased).  Trey lets loose some very soothing
melodious licks, that implore one to listen and learn
more.  Nothing textural in here... gets dissonant at
7:40.  OH NO!  The gorgeous melody is gone.  Page
kicks in on this repetitive obscure theme, and
everything goes crazy for a little bit.  Fish puts in
some heavy fills, but otherwise is still maintaining
the typical Tweezer beat... until 8:30 or so, when
Mike and Page and Trey quiet down and get stuck in a
somewhat spacey mode.  Fish more/less drops out.
Everyone is just tooling away on no particular theme
at 9 minutes, and then at 9:15 everyone comes in
together on an edgy, spooky, plodding groove.  No
magical harmonies here.. just somewhat chaotic, evil
stop-start sorts of jams.  Hahaha.. at 10:30 the jam
is severely in this stop-start mode.  Everyone coming
in at the same time for a measure or two and then
stopping.  This reminds me a classical piece of
music.. hmm.. can't remember what it is called.  It
is not a tease, but is similar in form.  At 11:30 the
Tweezer kicks back in masterfully, everyone coming in
at once (very nice).  THE NOTE comes at 12:50, after
a more/less uneventful closing jam (kinda
disappointing).  The dying out doesn't really occur,
and Tela segues in at 13:24.  This Tweezer started
out magically, but just didn't go anywhere after the
first several minutes, and ends very
anti-climactically.  4.5 rating.