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Molly's Cafe

Boston, MA

24
Songs
3
Sets
100:01
Timed
Harpua
Longest
1
Sandwiches
2
Notes
Soundcheck Shaggy Dog, Foam
Set 19 songs
  1. Fire,Cover · Jimi Hendrix Experience
  2. Golgi Apparatus,
  3. Fluffhead >
  4. Possum,
  5. Fee,
  6. Alumni Blues >
  7. Letter to Jimmy Page >
  8. Alumni Blues,
  9. Good Times Bad TimesCover · Led Zeppelin
Set 29 songs · 58:44 timed
  1. Time Loves a Hero,SBDCover · Little Feat💎 Rare · 8 plays ever4:18
  2. Walk Away,SBDCover · The James Gang4:44
  3. The Lizards,SBD💬 Banter10:47
  4. Shaggy Dog,Cover · Sam Hopkins
  5. Whipping Post,SBDTeaseCover · The Allman Brothers Band10:00
  6. Contact,SBD7:58
  7. Bold As Love,SBDCover · Jimi Hendrix Experience6:16
  8. Take the 'A' Train,SBDCover · Duke Ellington4:41
  9. Run Like an AntelopeSBD10:00
Set 36 songs · 41:17 timed
  1. Suzy Greenberg,SBD5:41
  2. Foam,SBD7:09
  3. I Didn't Know¹,SBDA CappellaAlt Rig4:48
  4. Big Black Furry Creature from Mars,SBDTease3:02
  5. Harpua,SBDNarration11:15
  6. David BowieSBD9:22

¹ Fish on trombone.

Sandwiches & fests1 shape
🥪 Alumni Blues sandwich
Alumni Blues > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues · Set 1
From the stage2 moments
The Lizards · Dedicated to Celia for cooking the band spaghetti before the show
transcript: phish.in
Harpua · Another concise retelling of the story once upon a time of the encounter of Jimmy's big, beautiful, fluffy white cat and the meanest, fattest, ugliest bull dog in all the town

“TREY: Once upon a time, there lived a young boy, and his name was Jimmy. Jimmy had a cat that he loved very much. Jimmy and the cat lived in the section of town where there also lived a mean and nasty dog. Well, that dog was …”

transcript: phish.in

Lizards was dedicated to Celia for cooking the band spaghetti before the show. Whipping Post included DEG teases and BBFCFM featured a Sailor's Hornpipe tease. I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone.

← Previous showOct 29 · Sculpture Room, Goddard CollegeNext show →Nov 4 · Nardis Restaurant
The Lab

It’s so stupendous, living in this tube

Noteworthy
DebutsAlumni Blues first time played
Top 10 versionContact #8 of 133
RaritiesTime Loves a Hero 8 plays ever · debuted October 29, 1988 at Sculpture Room, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT
Hot this yearAlumni Blues 50× in 1988 · Alumni Blues 50× in 1988 · The Lizards 33× in 1988 · Golgi Apparatus 32× in 1988 · Fluffhead 31× in 1988 · Take the 'A' Train 29× in 1988
CoversFire The Jimi Hendrix Experience · Good Times Bad Times Led Zeppelin · Time Loves a Hero Little Feat · Walk Away James Gang · Shaggy Dog Sam Hopkins · Whipping Post The Allman Brothers Band · Bold As Love The Jimi Hendrix Experience · Take the 'A' Train Duke Ellington
On the recordingWhipping Post Tease · Big Black Furry Creature from Mars 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
  • Harpua · Set 311:15
  • The Lizards · Set 210:47
  • Whipping Post · Set 210:00
  • Run Like an Antelope · Set 210:00
  • David Bowie · Set 39:22
  • Contact · Set 27:58

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 — 2323SONGS
  • ’83–’8923

Album representation

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

Covers — 8Junta — 5No studio album — 5Not in the song file yet — 3Lawn Boy — 1TMWSIY (Gamehendge) — 123SONGS
  • Covers8
  • Junta5
  • No studio album5
  • Not in the song file yet3
  • Lawn Boy1
  • 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 — 183–5 — 36–15 — 116–50 — 123SONGS
  • 1–2 · rotation18
  • 3–53
  • 6–151
  • 16–501

Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

Phish original — 15The Jimi Hendrix Experience — 2Duke Ellington — 1James Gang — 1Led Zeppelin — 1Little Feat — 1Sam Hopkins — 1The Allman Brothers Band — 123SONGS
  • Phish original15
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience2
  • Duke Ellington1
  • James Gang1
  • Led Zeppelin1
  • Little Feat1
  • +2 more

Who wrote it

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

Cover — 8Anastasio + friends — 4Anastasio solo — 4Not in the song file yet — 3Gordon — 1Holdsworth — 121SONGS
  • Cover8
  • Anastasio + friends4
  • Anastasio solo4
  • Not in the song file yet3
  • 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

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