The Paradise
Boston, MA
- I Didn't Know¹,
- Golgi Apparatus,
- Alumni Blues² >
- Letter to Jimmy Page >
- Alumni Blues,
- You Enjoy Myself,
- The Lizards,
- Take the 'A' Train,Cover · Duke Ellington
- Sanity³,
- Divided Sky,
- Fee,
- Good Times Bad TimesCover · Led Zeppelin
- Suzy Greenberg,SBDCUT1:58
- Icculus,SBD3:02
- Colonel Forbin's Ascent >SBD5:49
- Fly Famous Mockingbird,SBD7:22
- The Sloth ->SBD3:28
- Possum,SBD8:21
- Contact,SBD6:18
- Big Black Furry Creature from Mars,SBD2:53
- Foam,SBD4:11
- David BowieSBD11:27
- AC/DC Bag,SBD5:17
- FireSBDCover · Jimi Hendrix Experience4:01
¹ Fish on trombone.
² Additional lyrics.
³ Fast version.
This was the band’s first major gig in Boston. The Paradise held around 650 people, they didn’t think the band could come close to selling out the room and so refused to book Phish. John Paluska and Ben Hunter, who were managing Phish at the time, therefore rented the room for the evening. John and Ben promoted the gig heavily, including via radio. Tickets were only $5. Tom Baggott, a fan of the band, helped get Burlington fans to the show by Greyhound bus. Not only did the gig sell out, but there were some 200 people shut out (mostly Boston University and Boston College students). I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone. Alumni contained additional lyrics. Prior to YEM, Trey welcomed his mom, who had come "all the way from Ireland." After YEM, Trey said that they had a special guest that night for the person in the front row that kept requesting that they play Minkin. Trey mentioned that there was a Minkin hanging behind the band and that Minkin was also there that night. There was a subsequent brief Minkin vocal tease prior to Lizards. This version of Sanity was the fast version.
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).
- David Bowie · Set 211:27
- Possum · Set 28:21
- Fly Famous Mockingbird · Set 27:22
- Contact · Set 26:18
- Colonel Forbin's Ascent · Set 25:49
- AC/DC Bag · Encore5:17
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–’8923
Album representation
The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.
- Not in the song file yet7
- Junta6
- No studio album5
- Covers3
- TMWSIY (Gamehendge)2
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.
- 3–57
- 6–1515
- 16–501
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original20
- Duke Ellington1
- Led Zeppelin1
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience1
Who wrote it
Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.
- Anastasio solo7
- Not in the song file yet7
- Cover3
- Anastasio + friends2
- Gordon1
- Holdsworth1
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.
- Without Marshall12
- With Tom Marshall1
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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