Nectar's
Burlington, VT
- Jam,Cover
- Wild Child >Cover · Lou Reed💎 Rare · 6 plays ever
- Bertha,Cover · Grateful Dead💎 Rare · 3 plays ever
- Can't You Hear Me Knocking,Cover · The Rolling Stones💎 Rare · 3 plays ever
- Camel Walk,
- Jam,Cover
- In the Midnight Hour,Cover · Wilson Pickett💎 Rare · 5 plays ever
- Scarlet Begonias >Cover · Grateful Dead💎 Rare · 3 plays ever
- Fire¹ >Cover · Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Fire on the Mountain >Cover · Grateful Dead💎 Rare · 2 plays ever
- Makisupa Policeman,
- Slave to the Traffic Light²,
- Spanish Flea¹,Cover · Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass💎 Rare · 1 play ever
- Don't Want You No More³ ->Cover · Spencer Davis Group💎 Rare · 2 plays ever
- Cities¹ ->Cover · Talking Heads
- Drums⁴ ->Cover · Traditional
- Skippy the Wondermouse⁵,💎 Rare · 4 plays ever
- Fluffhead⁶
- Eyes of the WorldSBDCover · Grateful Dead💎 Rare · 3 plays ever13:29
¹ First known Phish performance.
² First known performance.
³ First known Phish performance; missing final lyrics.
⁴ Marc Daubert.
⁵ First known Phish performance; Dude of Life on vocals.
⁶ First known performance; Dude of Life on vocals.
Skippy and Fluffhead featured The Dude of Life on vocals. The jam after Camel Walk may have been Back Porch Boogie Blues. Spanish Flea included an introduction of the band members. Don’t Want You No More was not performed in its entirety, as it lacked the final lyrics. The lengthy percussion jam featured a guest appearance from Marc Daubert. Mike recalls that there were approximately 200 people in the audience. This gig featured the first known version of Slave to the Traffic Light and Fluffhead, the first known Phish versions of Fire, Don't Want You No More, Cities, and Skippy the Wondermouse, and the only known Phish version of Spanish Flea. This performance was on the upstairs level of Nectar's.
It’s so stupendous, living in this tube
Bustouts and debuts are Phish.net’s gap on the row. Version rankings and “hot this year” are counted over the shows in THIS archive — not all of history until the backfill finishes — and lengths are phish.in’s timings. Rarities use Phish.net’s all-time play count; long odds are shows played since the song’s debut divided by its plays (see the rarity index on LizardStats).
- Eyes of the World · Encore13:29
Straight off the phish.in timings, longest first. What this can’t tell you yet is whether any of these is a big version — that needs each song’s own history to compare against, which is the next thing to pull in. After that: phish.in publishes a jam-start marker per track, so the composed section and the improvisation can be separated and measured properly. That’s what belongs in this tube.
When it debuted
Tonight’s songs by the era Phish first played them.
- ’83–’8918
Album representation
The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.
- Covers13
- Not in the song file yet2
- The White Tape2
- Junta1
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.
- 1–2 · rotation16
- 3–52
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original5
- Grateful Dead4
- Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass1
- Lou Reed1
- Spencer Davis Group1
- Talking Heads1
- +5 more
Who wrote it
Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.
- Cover13
- Anastasio + friends2
- Not in the song file yet2
- Anastasio solo1
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.
- Without Marshall3
14 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.