Nectar's
Burlington, VT
- Jump Monk¹,SBDCover · Charles Mingus💎 Rare · 2 plays ever6:55
- McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters >SBDGamehendgeNarration8:48
- The Lizards >SBDGamehendgeNarration11:01
- Tela² >SBDGamehendge8:02
- Wilson >SBDGamehendgeNarration6:37
- AC/DC Bag >SBDGamehendgeNarration6:19
- Colonel Forbin's Ascent² >SBDGamehendgeNarration6:48
- Fly Famous Mockingbird >SBDGamehendgeNarration7:20
- The Sloth >SBDGamehendgeNarration4:27
- Possum,SBDGamehendge7:28
- Run Like an AntelopeSBDTease8:48
¹ First known Phish performance.
² First known performance.
“TREY: Once upon a time there was a man called Colonel Forbin, and he was a retired army colonel living in twentieth-century suburbia. One day he found himself shaving in his bathroom, and he was looking into the mirror and …”
“TREY: Thank you! Okay, so for those of you who are still following us, Colonel Forbin is standing there, with this knight, Rutherford the Brave, who has just dived into the water. And, across the lake he sees this ugly monster, …”
“TREY: [over the beginning of "Wilson"] Okay, so here's Colonel Forbin falling in love with Tela, who's riding on the big two-toned multibeast. She reaches down, and she pulls him up onto the back of the multibeast. And, they go …”
“TREY: Okay, so the revolution is going haywire, and as a last-ditch attempt to save things, Colonel Forbin decides he's going to climb up the mountain and find Iculus, the Great and Knowledgeable ahhh--oh-ahhhh Icculus. We all …”
“TREY: And the famous Mockingbird came down and landed on Icculus' shoulder and flew off to get the Helping Friendly Book.”
“TREY: Okay, thank you. So at this point in time [tape cut] with us. We've got Colonel Forbin, who goes up the mountain [tape cut]. Icculus? You know the song about Icculus, Steve! Come on. Come on! No really now, this is the …”
“TREY: Okay so, that's it so, they kill Wilson! Wilson's dead! Ayyyy, long live Wilson! Errand Wolfe, the new Wilson, takes over. And, somewhere up on top of the mountain there Icculus is dancing around as he usually does, …”
This was John Paluska’s first Phish show and also the first known live Gamehendge, complete with narration between songs from McGrupp through Possum. This show contained the first known Phish version of Jump Monk and the first known versions of Tela and Forbin’s (although on 5/21/88, Trey called Tela a debut). Antelope contained Dixie teases from Trey. The members of Phish were, by accounts, at the Frank Zappa concert up the street at the Burlington Memorial Auditorium before this Nectar’s gig. This setlist is incomplete.
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).
- The Lizards · Set 111:01
- McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters · Set 18:48
- Run Like an Antelope · Set 18:48
- Tela · Set 18:02
- Possum · Set 17:28
- Fly Famous Mockingbird · Set 17:20
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–’8911
Album representation
The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.
- TMWSIY (Gamehendge)5
- No studio album2
- Not in the song file yet2
- Covers1
- Lawn Boy1
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.
- 1–2 · rotation7
- 3–52
- 6–152
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original10
- Charles Mingus1
Who wrote it
Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.
- Anastasio solo3
- Anastasio + friends2
- Not in the song file yet2
- Anastasio / Marshall1
- Cover1
- Holdsworth1
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.
- Without Marshall5
- With Tom Marshall3
3 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.
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