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The Wetlands Preserve

New York, NY

15
Songs
2
Sets
63:51
Timed
Foam
Longest
0
Sandwiches
4
Notes
Set 12 songs
  1. Fluff's Travels¹ ->💎 Rare · 1 play ever
  2. David Bowie
Set 29 songs · 49:22 timed
  1. Bathtub Gin,SBD5:58
  2. Split Open and Melt²,SBDAlt Rig7:50
  3. Ya Mar,SBDCover · Cyril Ferguson7:24
  4. Suzy Greenberg >SBD4:57
  5. Foam,SBD8:23
  6. My Sweet One >SBD2:07
  7. La Grange,SBDCover · ZZ Top4:55
  8. Lawn Boy,SBD2:36
  9. Golgi ApparatusSBD5:12
Encore4 songs · 14:29 timed
  1. Auld Lang Syne³ ->SBDCover · Traditional0:23
  2. Mike's Song >SBD5:44
  3. I Am Hydrogen >SBD2:13
  4. Weekapaug GrooveSBD6:09

¹ First known performance.

² Fish drum solo.

³ First known Phish performance.

The setlist for the first set is incomplete. Melt contained a Fish drum solo. The show featured the first known performance of Fluff's Travels and the first known Phish performance of Auld Lang Syne. The opening act was Indecision.

The Lab

It’s so stupendous, living in this tube

Noteworthy
DebutsFluff's Travels first time played · Auld Lang Syne first time played
RaritiesFluff's Travels 1 play ever · debuted December 30, 1989 at The Wetlands Preserve, New York, NY
Hot this yearWeekapaug Groove 45× in 1989 · Mike's Song 44× in 1989 · I Am Hydrogen 44× in 1989 · Golgi Apparatus 41× in 1989 · David Bowie 35× in 1989 · Ya Mar 28× in 1989
CoversYa Mar The Mustangs · La Grange ZZ Top · Auld Lang Syne Traditional

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
  • Foam · Set 28:23
  • Split Open and Melt · Set 27:50
  • Ya Mar · Set 27:24
  • Weekapaug Groove · Encore6:09
  • Bathtub Gin · Set 25:58
  • Mike's Song · Encore5:44

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 — 1515SONGS
  • ’83–’8915

Album representation

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

Not in the song file yet — 4Covers — 3Junta — 3No studio album — 3Lawn Boy — 215SONGS
  • Not in the song file yet4
  • Covers3
  • Junta3
  • No studio album3
  • Lawn Boy2

Gap since last played

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

1–2 · rotation — 83–5 — 715SONGS
  • 1–2 · rotation8
  • 3–57

Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

Phish original — 12The Mustangs — 1Traditional — 1ZZ Top — 115SONGS
  • Phish original12
  • The Mustangs1
  • Traditional1
  • ZZ Top1

Who wrote it

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

Anastasio + friends — 4Not in the song file yet — 4Anastasio solo — 3Cover — 3Full band — 115SONGS
  • Anastasio + friends4
  • Not in the song file yet4
  • Anastasio solo3
  • Cover3
  • Full band1

The Marshall factor

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

Without Marshall — 6With Tom Marshall — 28ORIGINALS
  • Without Marshall6
  • With Tom Marshall2

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

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