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Mike Cotton's Collection

Phish   12/31/1997

Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Source Video: Aud Tripod; Audio: Schoeps CMC641
Media DVD   3 discs
Notes A, See Notes
Tech Notes Phish
12/31/97
Madison Square Garden
New York, NY


VIDEO ATTRIBUTES:
Source: Audience Tripod (Fish side; 1st Gen VHS supplied by JMFranc)
TV system: (NTSC)
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Sys Bitrate: 8000 kb/s CBR

AUDIO ATTRIBUTES:
Source: Schoeps CMC641 (90 deg. NOS) > Sonosax SX-M2 > Tascam DA-P1 By Craig Hillwig
Audio Coding mode: DVD_LPCM_AUDIO
Sampling Rate: 48kHz
Bitrate: 1411 KB/s


Disc 1
Set 1
1. Emotional Rescue (cut)
2. Ya Mar (cut)
3. My Sweet One (cut)
4. Beauty of My Dreams (cut)
5. Wolfman's Brother (cut)
6. Limb By Limb
7. The Horse->
8. Silent in the Morning
9. The Sloth
10. Fire

Disc 2
Set 2
1. Timber (Jerry)
2. Mike's Song
3. Piper->
4. When the Circus Comes->
5. Roses Are Free
6. Weekapaug Groove

Disc 3
Set 3
1. //Also Sprach Zarathustra#->
2. Auld Lang Syne
3. Tweezer->
4. Maze^->
5. Prince Caspian->
6. Loving Cup

Encore:

7. New York New York$->
8. Tweezer Reprise

There was a strange white canvas ball hanging from the ceiling,
on which various images were projected during the show.
#During the song, fried eggs, udder balls, and olive loaves were
projected on the canvas (in reference/relating to last night's narration).
This was followed by the countdown and a balloon drop at midnight.
The balloons broke both Page's and Mike's mics.
^With a "Birdland" (Weather Report) tease.
$Page sang this Frank Sinatra cover (first time played).

Notes on the DVD:
This video suffers from some of the same type of problems that 12.30.97 does (same cam, same room, one night later) They are not as rampant as on 12.30 and they are confined to small periods of time. The video is dark in general though and concentrates on Trey mainly with a little bit of Page and a minimal amount of Mike and Fish (even darker to that side) I want to send a specific thank you to the taper, You are appreciated endlessly. As long as i'm thanking people, thanks to Chris for another fantastic aud and Jim for the tape. I would recommend downloading this.
Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Sound: A
Reference / Generation 0005670559
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Owned by Mike Cotton · Last Updated May 23, 2023