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Humphries House (The Zoo), Amherst College

Amherst, MA

26
Songs
3
Sets
69:27
Timed
Fluffhead
Longest
1
Sandwiches
2
Notes
Set 112 songs
  1. Golgi Apparatus,
  2. On Your Way Down,Cover · Allen Toussaint
  3. Alumni Blues >
  4. Letter to Jimmy Page >
  5. Alumni Blues,
  6. You Enjoy Myself ->
  7. Wilson >
  8. Peaches en Regalia >Cover · Frank Zappa
  9. La Grange,Cover · ZZ Top
  10. Take the 'A' Train,Cover · Duke Ellington
  11. Divided Sky¹,
  12. Bold As LoveCover · Jimi Hendrix Experience
Set 27 songs · 38:45 timed
  1. David Bowie,Tease
  2. The Lizards,SBD10:16
  3. Walk Away >SBDCover · The James Gang3:11
  4. Possum,SBD7:58
  5. Fee ->SBD5:14
  6. Sparks >Bustout · 84-show gapSBDCover · The Who2:19
  7. Whipping PostSBDCover · The Allman Brothers Band9:47
Set 37 songs · 30:42 timed
  1. Good Times Bad Times >SBDCover · Led Zeppelin4:00
  2. Fluffhead,SBDTease13:49
  3. The Curtain >SBD6:17
  4. AC/DC Bag,SBDTease6:36
  5. Dinner and a Movie,
  6. Contact,
  7. Big Black Furry Creature from Mars

¹ First known complete version.

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

Humphries House had been a Zeta Upsilon ("Zu") frat house and monthly parties used to occur there that were referred to as "Full Moon at the Zoo" parties. Alumni contained a Possum tease. YEM was dedicated to Dionysian Productions co-founder John Paluska.  This was the first known complete version of Divided Sky, with a large section of it having previously been performed as the back half of No Dogs Allowed. Divided, Bowie, Fluffhead, and AC/DC Bag contained Sailor's Hornpipe teases. AC/DC Bag also contained London Bridge Is Falling Down, and the  Flintstones  theme teases. The third set was preceded by a First Noel tease. The second set listing might be incomplete, as the recordings that circulate cut into Bowie.

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It’s so stupendous, living in this tube

Noteworthy
DebutsAlumni Blues first time played
BustoutsSparks first in 84 shows · debuted March 23, 1987 at Nectar's, Burlington, VT
Hot this yearAlumni Blues 50× in 1988 · Alumni Blues 50× in 1988 · You Enjoy Myself 33× in 1988 · The Lizards 33× in 1988 · Golgi Apparatus 32× in 1988 · Fluffhead 31× in 1988
CoversOn Your Way Down Allen Toussaint · Peaches en Regalia Frank Zappa · La Grange ZZ Top · Take the 'A' Train Duke Ellington · Bold As Love The Jimi Hendrix Experience · Walk Away James Gang · Sparks The Who · Whipping Post The Allman Brothers Band · Good Times Bad Times Led Zeppelin
On the recordingDavid Bowie Tease · Fluffhead Tease · AC/DC Bag 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).

You’ll never win a major only shooting par
Longest of the night
  • Fluffhead · Set 313:49
  • The Lizards · Set 210:16
  • Whipping Post · Set 29:47
  • Possum · Set 27:58
  • AC/DC Bag · Set 36:36
  • The Curtain · Set 36:17

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 — 2525SONGS
  • ’83–’8925

Album representation

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

Covers — 9Junta — 7Not in the song file yet — 4No studio album — 3TMWSIY (Gamehendge) — 225SONGS
  • Covers9
  • Junta7
  • Not in the song file yet4
  • No studio album3
  • TMWSIY (Gamehendge)2

Gap since last played

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

1–2 · rotation — 43–5 — 86–15 — 516–50 — 751+ · bustout — 125SONGS
  • 1–2 · rotation4
  • 3–58
  • 6–155
  • 16–507
  • 51+ · bustout1

Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

Phish original — 16Allen Toussaint — 1Duke Ellington — 1Frank Zappa — 1James Gang — 1Led Zeppelin — 1The Allman Brothers Band — 1The Jimi Hendrix Experience — 1The Who — 1ZZ Top — 125SONGS
  • Phish original16
  • Allen Toussaint1
  • Duke Ellington1
  • Frank Zappa1
  • James Gang1
  • Led Zeppelin1
  • +4 more

Who wrote it

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

Cover — 9Anastasio solo — 5Anastasio + friends — 4Not in the song file yet — 4Gordon — 1Holdsworth — 124SONGS
  • Cover9
  • Anastasio solo5
  • Anastasio + friends4
  • Not in the song file yet4
  • Gordon1
  • Holdsworth1

The Marshall factor

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

Without Marshall — 10With Tom Marshall — 212ORIGINALS
  • Without Marshall10
  • With Tom Marshall2

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

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