Phish's Clifford Ball
08-17-96 - Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Plattsburgh, NY

SETLIST

1: The Old Home Place, Punch You in the Eye, Reba, Cars Trucks Buses, Lizards, Sample in a Jar, Taste, Fee, Maze, Suzy Greenberg

2: The Curtain, Runaway Jim, It's Ice, Brother*, Fluffhead, Run Like an Antelope, Golgi Apparatus, Slave to the Traffic Light

3: Wilson, Frankenstein, Scent of a Mule, Tweezer, A Day in the Life, Possum, Tweezer Reprise

E: Harpua#

INFO
The event is named for Clifford Ball, famed aviator who held fabulous balls for other aviators such as Amelia Earheart. The band purportedly learned of Ball from a plaque in a Pittsburgh-area airport, memorializing Ball with the epitath "a beacon of light in the world of flight". Trey used that phrase to introduce Page at 3/26/92 (during the Harpua encore), and at 3/24/92 he calls Fishman "Clifford O'Sullivan ... a beacon of light in the world of flight!" Over four years later, the phrase became the theme of the event named the Clifford Ball.

The Clifford Ball was an absolutely phenomena event at the former Air Force Base in Plattsburgh, New York. Phish performed three sets and an encore on each of the two show days, of a Friday-to-Sunday event, where some 70-80,000 fans camped on site for three days. Phish and Great Northeast Productions provided an array of entertainment and preparations that included:

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