The Showbar
Houston, TX
- Dinner and a Movie >
- Bouncing Around the Room,
- Foam,
- You Enjoy Myself,
- If I Only Had a Brain,Cover · Ray Bolger (as “The Scarecrow”)
- Buried Alive,
- Cavern,
- Uncle Pen,Cover · Bill Monroe
- Magilla,
- Carolina,Cover · Traditional
- Esther,
- Run Like an Antelope >
- The Landlady >
- Run Like an Antelope
This show was listed in the Sept/Oct/Nov 1990 Phish Update as Liberty Lunch in Austin but actually happened at Showbar in Houston. This was either a one set show or set two is unknown. There are no known recordings of this show in circulation.
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).
No verified lengths yet — phish.in’s recording lands the morning after, and the list fills in then.
When it debuted
Tonight’s songs by the era Phish first played them.
- ’83–’896
- ’90–’947
Album representation
The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.
- Junta4
- Covers3
- Lawn Boy2
- Not in the song file yet2
- A Picture of Nectar1
- No studio album1
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.
- 1–2 · rotation7
- 3–54
- 6–152
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original10
- Bill Monroe1
- Ray Bolger (as “The Scarecrow”)1
- Traditional1
Who wrote it
Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.
- Anastasio solo4
- Anastasio + friends3
- Cover3
- Not in the song file yet2
- Anastasio / Marshall1
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.
- Without Marshall5
- With Tom Marshall3
5 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.