30 years ago my first (of 2) trips To Canada to see PH. Probably the smallest room I saw them in? Maybe the Montreal show the next year was in a smaller room, but 30 years ago in a moderate-sized rock club that was probably not 2/3 full, PH put on a rager. Crazy high energy show, people tried to stage dive! Wild!
Set 2 was fire top to bottom with another spring 93 alltimer Weekapaug. Back in the day, Mike's was fill-the-room smoke machines + strobe lights + jams from trampolines. Anarchy of the best kind.
On this night someone threw a cowboy hat on stage, Trey picked it up & put it on the mic stand with a towel. Kuroda back lit & with the smoke it looked like a cowboy silhouette. Band dropped into Happy trails & assorted cowboy melodies then busted out Makisupa for the first time in 3 years. Ah, 1993!
OK, I looked it up and room capacity was 1200, definitely less than 1000. Don't think I saw em anywhere smaller than that. Mostly UVM kids that night.
One day after schlepping to Montreal and back, drive to Hartford for a show in a university field house. I think this was my least fave of the 93 shows I saw, but second set was still pretty great. Loved the Good, The Bad & the Ugly teasing in Wilson.
Maybe my highlight was during the clapping section of Mound, screaming "you played this last night!" and getting Trey to F up the clapping and give me a "we didn't think anyone at last night's show would be here tonight" laugh.
Perhaps most importantly, this was the first time I ever waited on line to get a good spot at a PH show. I had been on the rail and up front before, but by this point 30 years ago, I pretty much *had* to be in the spot, worth waiting for in my young-and-dumb opinion.
Ended up on the rail, dfc and would be there more often than not for the next 5+ years. Some non-trivial amount of my life has been spent waiting to get into PH shows and I regret nothing.
@Neddyo 1200 was the exact capacity of the Toronto show I saw on 4/6/94 which was easily my smallest. Feel incredibly lucky to have experienced that.