Set List
Set I
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Show Notes
This was Phish’s only performance at Glastonbury Festival – the world’s largest greenfield festival dating back to 1970 and held more or less annually with 1997 attendance estimated near 100,000. It was a 1-set show at a multi-act festival. Five-day tickets (there were no single-day tix) cost £75.00 and the festival was sold out. This area is best known for its history, especially its location out near Stonehenge, which is about 40 miles away. Glastonbury is a high point within the Somerset Levels – a coastal plain and wetland that contains some ancient roads including the Post Track, the oldest known timber trackway dating from 3800’s BC. The tickets read: “Legend tells of the enchanged city, which appears for just three days a year, at mid-summer, in the flowering meadows of the Vale of Avalon. And ’tis said that there be found entrancing music, amazing spectacle and strange wonders beyond compare…” Phish played on the Pyramid Stage from 10:30am to 11:30am. The original Pyramid Stage was a one-tenth replica of the Great Pyramid of Giza located atop a blind spring which was found by dowsing. Also on the bill were: Beck, David Byrne, Pavement, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Spearhead and Stereolab. Beck was the same day as Phish. This was one of very few Phish shows to end without an encore. After this show the band and crew traveled overnight to London to fly to Copenhagen, Denmark for a day off.