The Paradise
Boston, MA
- Possum,Tease8:11
- Mike's Song >Jamcharts6:49
- I Am Hydrogen >
- Weekapaug Groove,5:53
- Golgi Apparatus >4:47
- Divided Sky,11:54
- AC/DC Bag,5:34
- If I Only Had a Brain,💬 BanterCover · Ray Bolger (as “The Scarecrow”)4:43
- Take the 'A' Train,Cover · Duke Ellington7:21
- David Bowie11:09
This setlist is incomplete and is out of order. The only recording in circulation is a mix of songs from the show, which features Hydrogen brutally cut out of the Mike’s Groove. This setlist is in the order in which those songs appear on the mix. (The mix also includes several songs from the Paradise show on January 26, 1989.) Possum contained a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer tease, which raises the question – were these songs really performed in March 1989? David Bowie closed the first set. Before Brain, someone introduced Fish – or is it Phish – as being “from Bogota, Colombia.” It is therefore possible that Brain opened this show, which would be the only (known) time that Brain opened a show.
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).
- Divided Sky · Set 111:54
- David Bowie · Set 111:09
- Possum · Set 18:11
- Take the 'A' Train · Set 17:21
- Mike's Song · Set 16:49
- Weekapaug Groove · Set 15:53
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–’8910
Album representation
The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.
- Junta3
- No studio album3
- Covers2
- Not in the song file yet2
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.
- 1–2 · rotation9
- 3–51
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original8
- Duke Ellington1
- Ray Bolger (as “The Scarecrow”)1
Who wrote it
Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.
- Anastasio + friends2
- Anastasio solo2
- Cover2
- Not in the song file yet2
- Full band1
- Holdsworth1
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.
- Without Marshall4
- With Tom Marshall2
4 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.
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