Watch A Rare 1991 Phish Show From Amy’s Farm

January 4, 2019
Watch A Rare 1991 Phish Show From Amy’s Farm

 

Longtime Phish fan Matt Laurence recently shared footage of Phish’s entire 8/3/91 show at Amy’s Farm, the Maine locale owned by Amy Skelton where Phish played many of their first large-scale outdoor events.

“This was the small, friendly version of a Phish festival. What it lacked in spectacle, it made up for in ease of access,” fan David “ZZYZX” Steinberg said of Amy’s Farm in the third edition of the Phish Companion.

Laurence unearthed the footage in conjunction with Phish.net to raise funds and awareness for the Mockingbird Foundation, the all-volunteer nonprofit started by Phish fans to raise funds for music education in schools.

Laurence started digitizing his Amy’s Farm footage – which was captured on an old school VHS camera – last year, and the 8/3/91 show is a real standout gig. It kicks off with a rocking “Wilson”> “Foam” segment and even features a didgeridoo on a set three “Buried Alive.”

You can donate to the Mockingbird Foundation here.

Watch and download Laurence’s 8/3/91 tape via Google Drive here.

Check out the full 8/3/91 setlist below:

Phish
August 3, 1991 
Amy’s Farm, Auburn, Maine 

Set I: Wilson > Foam, Runaway Jim, Guelah Papyrus, Llama, Fee, The Squirming Coil > Poor Heart > The Sloth, Divided Sky, Golgi Apparatus

Set II: The Curtain > Reba > Chalk Dust Torture, Bouncing Around the Room > Tweezer > Esther > Cavern, I Didn’t Know, You Enjoy Myself^, Rocky Top

Set III: Stash, Ya Mar, Fluffhead > Lawn Boy > My Sweet One, The Lizards, Buried Alive*> Possum

Enc: Magilla, Self+, Bitchin’ Again%, Crimes of the Mind$

Enc II: Harry Hood

Notes:

^“No gerbils in your bottom” vocal jam.
*Jamie Janover on didgeridoo.
+Dude of Life on vocals.
%Phish debut; Dude of Life and Sofi Dillof on vocals.
$Phish debut; Dude of Life on vocals.