Phish
December 31, 2002
Madison Square Garden - NYC, NY

Source: Schoeps cmc6/mk41v > Lunatec V3 > VX POcket 24/48 > Sony Vaio SR33 > Samplitude > 16/44.1 > shn

Taped by: John Crouch & John Cocci
Transferred by: John Cocci

Disc 1
Set 1

1 - Piper
2 - Guyute >
3 - NICU
4 - Horn
5 - Wilson*
6 - Mound
7 - Squirming Coil
8 - David Bowie

Disc 2
Set 2

1 - Waves# ->
2 - Divided Sky
3 - Lawn Boy
4 - Carini
5 - Rift
6 - Harry Hood
7 - Character Zero

Disc 3
Set 3

1 - Sample in a Jar
2 - Seven Below** -> Auld Lang Syne*** >
3 - Runaway Jim ->
4 - Time Loves a Hero
5 - Taste
6 - Strange Design
7 - Walls of the Cave#
Encore
8 - Wading in the Velvet Sea

* 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) 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. Debut.

*** 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.)

#debut.

