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Nectar's

Burlington, VT

12
Songs
2
Sets
44:06
Timed
Harpua
Longest
0
Sandwiches
1
Notes
Set 16 songs
  1. Mike's Song >
  2. I Am Hydrogen >
  3. Weekapaug Groove,
  4. Bold As Love,Cover · Jimi Hendrix Experience
  5. Light Up Or Leave Me Alone,Cover · Traffic
  6. Fluffhead
Set 24 songs · 33:32 timed
  1. Skin It Back,SBDCover · Little Feat9:10
  2. Harpua,SBDNarration12:06
  3. Big Black Furry Creature from Mars,SBDTease3:10
  4. SanitySBD💬 Banter9:06
Encore2 songs · 10:34 timed
  1. Icculus,SBDNarration4:26
  2. Camel WalkBustout · 53-show gapSBDTease💬 Banter6:08
From the stage3 moments
Harpua · This fun variation of the classic story uses Paul Languedoc as the protagonist as opposed to Jimmy, and does not reference the Old Man, but instead has Harpua wandering the town. The free and silly Nectar's is a perfect backdrop for this late 80s Harpua.

“TREY: This next song is a story. And as all… I'm talking. Fish, I'm talking, okay? And as with all good stories… And as with all good stories, this story begins with a… With an Oom Pa Pa. TREY: Everybody, clap your hands. MIKE: …”

transcript: phish.in
Sanity · Sanity was jokingly attributed to Jimmy Buffet
transcript: phish.in
Icculus · The night that Phish left for their now-legendary trip to Colorado, they treated the Nectar's crowd to this Icculus in the first encore slot. This standout versions includes a well-timed sexual interjection from Fishman, an incredible amount of screaming from Trey, and of course Trey's impression of Bono's "This is Red Rocks! This is The Edge!" This version appears on the Junta re-release.

“TREY: You want to hear a stupid song? We know plenty of those! MIKE: We're gonna lighten it up a bit. We're gonna lighten it up a bit. TREY: This isn't really a stupid song. This is a special song. This is an important song. …”

transcript: phish.in

These versions of Icculus and Sanity appear on the Junta re-release. During Icculus, Trey screamed "This is Red Rocks. This is The Edge!" Sanity was jokingly attributed to Jimmy Buffet. BBFCFM featured a tease of the Flintstones theme and Camel Walk contained a Sanity tease from Mike. This setlist is incomplete.

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Noteworthy
BustoutsCamel Walk first in 53 shows · debuted November 3, 1984 at Slade Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Longest versionSanity 9 min — longest of 30 archived
Top 5 versionSkin It Back #3 of 10
Top 10 versionIcculus #10 of 23 · Camel Walk #7 of 51
Hot this yearFluffhead 31× in 1988 · Big Black Furry Creature from Mars 15× in 1988 · Bold As Love 14× in 1988 · Mike's Song 12× in 1988 · Harpua 9× in 1988 · I Am Hydrogen 8× in 1988
CoversBold As Love The Jimi Hendrix Experience · Light Up Or Leave Me Alone Traffic · Skin It Back Little Feat
On the recordingBig Black Furry Creature from Mars Tease · Camel Walk 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
  • Harpua · Set 212:06
  • Skin It Back · Set 29:10
  • Sanity · Set 29:06
  • Camel Walk · Encore6:08
  • Icculus · Encore4:26
  • Big Black Furry Creature from Mars · Set 23:10

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 — 1212SONGS
  • ’83–’8912

Album representation

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

No studio album — 4Not in the song file yet — 4Covers — 3Junta — 112SONGS
  • No studio album4
  • Not in the song file yet4
  • Covers3
  • Junta1

Gap since last played

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

1–2 · rotation — 66–15 — 216–50 — 351+ · bustout — 112SONGS
  • 1–2 · rotation6
  • 6–152
  • 16–503
  • 51+ · bustout1

Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

Phish original — 9Little Feat — 1The Jimi Hendrix Experience — 1Traffic — 112SONGS
  • Phish original9
  • Little Feat1
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience1
  • Traffic1

Who wrote it

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

Not in the song file yet — 4Cover — 3Anastasio + friends — 2Full band — 1Gordon — 111SONGS
  • Not in the song file yet4
  • Cover3
  • Anastasio + friends2
  • Full band1
  • Gordon1

The Marshall factor

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

Without Marshall — 4With Tom Marshall — 15ORIGINALS
  • Without Marshall4
  • With Tom Marshall1

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

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