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Sam's Tavern

Burlington, VT

14
Songs
1
Sets
15:22
Timed
McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters
Longest
1
Sandwiches
3
Notes
Set 112 songs
  1. Satin Doll,Cover · Duke Ellington
  2. Suzy Greenberg,
  3. The Curtain With,
  4. Funky Bitch,Cover · Son Seals
  5. Fire,Cover · Jimi Hendrix Experience
  6. Bold As Love,Cover · Jimi Hendrix Experience
  7. Colonel Forbin's Ascent >
  8. Fly Famous Mockingbird,
  9. Golgi Apparatus,
  10. Alumni Blues >
  11. Letter to Jimmy Page¹ >
  12. Alumni Blues
Encore2 songs · 15:22 timed
  1. McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters² >SBDAlt Rig9:22
  2. La GrangeSBDCover · ZZ Top6:00

¹ Fish drum solo.

² Fish on trombone.

Sandwiches & fests1 shape
🥪 Alumni Blues sandwich
Alumni Blues > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues · Set 1

Trey graduated from college on this date and treated the crowd to a killer Alumni Blues. Letter to Jimmy Page featured a drum solo from Fish. Suzy Greenberg included Dave’s Energy Guide teases. Trey referred to the "With" portion of The Curtain With as “A Living Nightmare.” McGrupp featured Fish on trombone. The listed encore may actually be the start of the second set; the first set appeared to end after Alumni given Page’s comments.

The Lab

It’s so stupendous, living in this tube

Noteworthy
DebutsAlumni Blues first time played
Top 10 versionLa Grange #8 of 50
Hot this yearAlumni Blues 50× in 1988 · Alumni Blues 50× in 1988 · Golgi Apparatus 32× in 1988 · Letter to Jimmy Page 24× in 1988 · Suzy Greenberg 23× in 1988 · Fire 23× in 1988
CoversSatin Doll Duke Ellington · Funky Bitch Son Seals · Fire The Jimi Hendrix Experience · Bold As Love The Jimi Hendrix Experience · La Grange ZZ Top

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).

You’ll never win a major only shooting par
Longest of the night
  • McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters · Encore9:22
  • La Grange · Encore6:00

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 — 1313SONGS
  • ’83–’8913

Album representation

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

Covers — 5No studio album — 3Not in the song file yet — 3Junta — 1TMWSIY (Gamehendge) — 113SONGS
  • Covers5
  • No studio album3
  • Not in the song file yet3
  • Junta1
  • TMWSIY (Gamehendge)1

Gap since last played

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

1–2 · rotation — 66–15 — 713SONGS
  • 1–2 · rotation6
  • 6–157

Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

Phish original — 8The Jimi Hendrix Experience — 2Duke Ellington — 1Son Seals — 1ZZ Top — 113SONGS
  • Phish original8
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience2
  • Duke Ellington1
  • Son Seals1
  • ZZ Top1

Who wrote it

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

Cover — 5Not in the song file yet — 3Anastasio + friends — 2Anastasio / Marshall — 1Anastasio solo — 112SONGS
  • Cover5
  • Not in the song file yet3
  • Anastasio + friends2
  • Anastasio / Marshall1
  • Anastasio solo1

The Marshall factor

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

Without Marshall — 3With Tom Marshall — 25ORIGINALS
  • Without Marshall3
  • With Tom Marshall2

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

Data: Phish.net · Lengths: phish.in · What’s new