Subject: 11/19/96 You Enjoy Myself Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 19:39:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Charles Dirksen11/19/96 Municipal Aud, KC, MO YEM starts up >right after a special Bob Newman Vibration of Life. Opening is standard. Pace is definitely UpBeat. The pre-Nirvana segment begins at around 1:15, with Fish whipping the hi-hat, and Page, Mike and Trey sustaining miscellaneous soft, enchanting tones. Not terribly dramatic or long, though. Nirvana at 2:50. Flawlessly executed with excellent, Hornsby-esque chords from Page. Mike's solo section at 3:33 is dark and confused. Pre-charge section is powerfully performed. "Boy" at 6:07 after an average scream. BMGS/WUDMTF segment is definitely a sciosh quicker than usual, it seems. Nice clavinet work from Page between WUDMTF lyrics (I assume this is the clav and not the moog.. the moog what's used in Frankenstein, right? I'm no moog connoiseur). Tramps jam around 8:10. Signals from Mike for the trampolines moves. Nice Hammond action from Page! Mike steps on That Bell a few times, after jumping on the trampolines. (Trey respectfully accompanies Page after getting off the tramps) Jam segment approximately starts at 10 minutes with Trey strongly and quickly repeating the same chord... backed by Fish's solid, traditional YEM rhythm (a bit upbeat, though, akin to the 12/9/95 Albany YEM, for example). It isn't quite the same chord over and over again, actually. Anyway, a wholesome funky jam. Dead stop at 11:03.. then again after a few measures. And another dead stop. Nice funky jam!! At 13:15 Trey begins soloing mellowly. He teases part of the melody line of Oye Como Va around 13:40. Jam begins climbing in intensity, and at 14:50 ish, as if on cue, they all stop, except for Trey, who appears to tease Groove is in Your Heart. But then the jam returns to something more appropriate for YEM, and JUST RAGES!!! =^] Dead stop at 15:40 but Page sustains a chord, and Mike repeats this erie melody line on his bass.. before all 4 dramatically return for yet another few measures of exceptionally strong YEM jamming! At just after 17 minutes, Trey starts singing "Groove is in your heart" and I believe Page or someone gently accompanies him. Fish shrills "Groove is in your heart" once or twice, too. Trey appears to have gone to his mini kit at around this point... Fish starts singing again. Mike keeps playing the same Groove is in your Heart melody/bassline over and over again.. he starts improvising more by 18:20ish. Fish won't stop singing "Groove is in your heart." By 19:30, Fish and Mike are funking away, with Trey on the mini-kit and Page.. soon comes in on the clav around 19:50. Not quite a bass and drums section, even though Fish and Mike are the most prominent (Trey and Page are still contributing to this semi-melodious Mike-driven groove). Excelllllent Mike in here, fwiw!! At 21:14 the closing WUDMTF segment starts but Fish keeps playing, and even lets out some more "Groove is in the heart" vocals. Mike also took a bit longer to quit playing bass. :) At 21:45 Fish forcefully quits the drums and a very quick vocal jam begins. If there was ever any doubt that the members of Phish are weird, this vocal jam definitively resolves the matter. Total time 25:38, easy A-/B+ rating for this above avg-awesome YEM. two cents charlie