Phish
December 31, 2002
Madison Square Garden - New York City, NY

Source: 	DAUD/OTS Neumann U87ia (Cardiod) > Apogee AD1000 > Tascam DAP1 @ 44.1kHz
		Master (from DAP1) used in below transfer.
		
Conversion: 	Tascam DA-20mkII > Turtle Beach Montego II > 
		Soundforge 4.5 > CeQuadrat > CD > EAC Secure 100% > SHN 		
		
Taper: Dave Schall

Setlist:
Set 1 (1:10): Piper, Guyute > NICU, Horn, Wilson*, Mound, Squirming Coil, David Bowie 
Set 2 (1:06): Waves -> Divided Sky, Lawn Boy, Carini, Rift, Harry Hood, Character Zero 
Set 3 (1:03) Sample in a Jar, Seven Below** -> Auld Lang Syne*** > Runaway Jim -> Time Loves a Hero, Taste, Strange Design, Walls of the Cave 
Encore (0:08): Wading in the Velvet Sea

Notes:  Pre-show music on the PA included the "Welcome Back Kotter" theme, "Feels Like the First Time," "Back in the Saddle Again," "Reunited," "The Boys are Back in Town," and "Foreplay/Long Time" which was interrupted by the band coming on stage. Post-show music was "Let's Stay Together" * - preceeded by footage from the movie "Castaway" on the jumbotron screens on the scoreboard (scenes in which Tom Hanks's character is yelling and kicks away, then goes to search for his befriended volleyball named "Wilson"); with "Tom Hanks" (actually Page's brother Steve McConnell; see Salon.com if you want explicit confirmation) on guest vocals for the "Blat Boom..." part; ** - "Seven Below" began approximately seven minutes before midnight; during the song a disco ball was lowered from within the scoreboard and it began snowing on stage; several dancers in white with blinking light "stick figure skeletons", dressed as snow creatures (with a vaguely "winter/forest kingdom" fantasy motif, including white costumes with 
fur and some horned helmets) came out and began circling the band on stage before moving off into the crowd - while in the crowd several grew into large snow angels by standing on covered ladders; midway during the song snow began falling on the fans on the floor from a pair of snowmaking rigs on the right and left sides of the scoreboard above the floor; shortly before midnight, the snow angels began shining small spotlights around the crowd, appearing similar to search lights; *** - at midnight, pyrotechnics spiraled around and behind the stage (some coming from the snowmaking rigs) and enormous white balloons with snow designs were dropped onto the floor. (Thanks to ZZYZX for pre-show info, and "Chris" for the sound check list.)


some balloon interference in set III

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