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The Base Lodge, Stearns Hall, Johnson State College

Johnson, VT

20
Songs
2
Sets
73:04
Timed
Fluffhead
Longest
0
Sandwiches
6
Notes
Set 112 songs
  1. The Chicken¹,Cover · James Brown💎 Rare · 1 play ever
  2. Funky Bitch,Cover · Son Seals
  3. Sneakin' Sally Thru the Alley²,Cover · Lee Dorsey
  4. Take the 'A' Train,Cover · Duke Ellington
  5. You Enjoy Myself³ ->
  6. Wilson,
  7. Golgi Apparatus >
  8. Slave to the Traffic Light,
  9. Flat Fee,
  10. Corinna,Cover · Taj Mahal
  11. The Lizards,
  12. David Bowie
Set 28 songs · 73:04 timed
  1. Fluffhead,15:23
  2. Dinner and a Movie,💬 Banter4:16
  3. Harry Hood,12:33
  4. The Ballad of Curtis Loew²,GuestCover · Lynyrd Skynyrd5:12
  5. Harpua,Narration10:13
  6. AC/DC Bag >5:56
  7. Alumni Blues >4:46
  8. Run Like an Antelope⁴Tease💬 Banter14:45

¹ First known Phish performance.

² Bobby Brown on harmonica.

³ No vocal jam.

⁴ Trey spoke the names "Marco Esquandolas... Poster Nutbag... Moses Heaps... Moses DeWitt."

From the stage3 moments
Dinner and a Movie · Dedicated to "our good friend Susannah."
transcript: phish.in
Harpua · Debut of Harpua's narration! The mean, ugly dog rounds a corner and comes "face to fat" with a enormous, furry white cat. Poster Nutbag coils his body into a deadly arch, Harpua smiles. They are going to fight!

“TREY: Okay, now I'm gonna give you guys a test, to see who was listening. What is Harpua? [Audience member yells "DOG!"] Good. Good response there: you guys are obviously all listening. Harpua is a mean, ugly dog. One day, …”

transcript: phish.in
Run Like an Antelope · Trey spat out the names "Marco Esquandolas... Poster Nutbag... Moses Heaps... Moses DeWitt."
transcript: phish.in

This show featured the only known Phish performance of The Chicken. Sneakin’ Sally and Curtis Loew featured Bobby Brown on harmonica. Bowie began with a tease medley that included Timber, Alumni Blues, Smoke on the Water, Sunshine of Your Love, Money, Whipping Post, and several others. YEM did not contain a vocal jam. Trey teased Entrance of the Gladiators and spat out the names “Marco Esquandolas... Poster Nutbag... Moses Heaps... Moses DeWitt” during Antelope. Dinner and a Movie was dedicated to “our good friend Susannah.” Lizards was delayed, as Trey cut on Fish for losing his drumsticks during the gig; Lizards subsequently included a theme from  I Dream of Jeanie tease. Some recordings that circulate are mislabeled “The Base Lounge.”

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Noteworthy
DebutsThe Chicken first time played
Top 5 versionDinner and a Movie #4 of 105
RaritiesThe Chicken 1 play ever · debuted March 11, 1988 at The Base Lodge, Stearns Hall, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT
Hot this yearAlumni Blues 50× in 1988 · You Enjoy Myself 33× in 1988 · The Lizards 33× in 1988 · Golgi Apparatus 32× in 1988 · Fluffhead 31× in 1988 · Take the 'A' Train 29× in 1988
CoversThe Chicken James Brown · Funky Bitch Son Seals · Sneakin' Sally Thru the Alley Lee Dorsey · Take the 'A' Train Duke Ellington · Corinna Taj Mahal · The Ballad of Curtis Loew Lynyrd Skynyrd
On the recordingRun Like an Antelope Tease

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).

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Longest of the night
  • Fluffhead · Set 215:23
  • Run Like an Antelope · Set 214:45
  • Harry Hood · Set 212:33
  • Harpua · Set 210:13
  • AC/DC Bag · Set 25:56
  • The Ballad of Curtis Loew · Set 25:12

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–’89 — 2020SONGS
  • ’83–’8920

Album representation

The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.

Covers — 6Junta — 5Not in the song file yet — 3No studio album — 2TMWSIY (Gamehendge) — 2Lawn Boy — 1The White Tape — 120SONGS
  • Covers6
  • Junta5
  • Not in the song file yet3
  • No studio album2
  • TMWSIY (Gamehendge)2
  • Lawn Boy1
  • +1 more

Gap since last played

Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.

1–2 · rotation — 93–5 — 76–15 — 420SONGS
  • 1–2 · rotation9
  • 3–57
  • 6–154

Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

Phish original — 14Duke Ellington — 1James Brown — 1Lee Dorsey — 1Lynyrd Skynyrd — 1Son Seals — 1Taj Mahal — 120SONGS
  • Phish original14
  • Duke Ellington1
  • James Brown1
  • Lee Dorsey1
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd1
  • Son Seals1
  • +1 more

Who wrote it

Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.

Anastasio + friends — 6Cover — 6Anastasio solo — 3Not in the song file yet — 3Full band — 119SONGS
  • Anastasio + friends6
  • Cover6
  • Anastasio solo3
  • Not in the song file yet3
  • Full band1

The Marshall factor

Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.

Without Marshall — 8With Tom Marshall — 311ORIGINALS
  • Without Marshall8
  • With Tom Marshall3

8 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.

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