Aragon Ballroom
Chicago, IL
- Runaway Jim,SBD7:21
- Weigh >SBD4:59
- Sparkle,SBD3:40
- Split Open and Melt,SBDTease9:13
- The Squirming Coil,SBD8:10
- My Friend, My Friend¹,SBDAcousticAlt Rig7:27
- Uncle Pen,SBDCover · Bill Monroe3:59
- Chalk Dust Torture²,SBDSignalTease6:50
- Lawn Boy,SBD2:38
- David Bowie³SBDTeaseSignal15:24
- Lengthwise ->SBD0:57
- Maze,SBDTease9:12
- Bouncing Around the Room >SBD3:32
- Rift,SBD5:59
- Glide >SBD5:11
- Big Ball Jam,SBD0:28
- Mike's Song >SBDTease8:19
- The Great Gig in the Sky >SBDCover · Pink Floyd4:52
- Weekapaug Groove,SBD7:48
- Funky Bitch⁴,SBDGuestCover · Son Seals5:02
- Help Me⁵,SBDGuestDebutCover · Sonny Boy Williamson💎 Rare · 1 play ever5:27
- Hoochie Coochie Man⁵,SBDGuestDebutCover · Muddy Waters💎 Rare · 2 plays ever6:45
- Cavern⁴SBDGuest4:30
- Amazing Grace,A CappellaCover · Traditional
- Good Times Bad TimesSBDCover · Led Zeppelin1:30
¹ Beginning featured Trey on acoustic guitar.
² Simpsons signal.
³ Random Note and Oom Pa Pa signals.
⁴ Sugar Blue on harmonica.
⁵ Phish debut; Sugar Blue on harmonica and vocals.
Melt contained an 1812 Overture tease from Mike and a Jean Pierre tease from Trey. The beginning of My Friend featured Trey on acoustic guitar. Chalk Dust contained a Simpsons signal anda Can't You Hear Me Knocking tease from Trey. The Bowie intro included a tease medley opening of songs played earlier in the set, including Lawn Boy, Chalk Dust, Uncle Pen, My Friend My Friend, Squirming Coil, Melt, Sparkle, and Weigh, as well as Random Note and Oom Pa Pa signals. Mike later teased Dave's Energy Guide in Bowie. Maze contained Miss You teases from Trey and Mike’s Song included a Miss You tease and subsequent jam. Funky Bitch through Cavern featured Sugar Blue on harmonica. Sugar Blue also sang vocals on the Phish debuts of Help Me and Hoochie Coochie Man.
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 115:24
- Split Open and Melt · Set 19:13
- Maze · Set 29:12
- Mike's Song · Set 28:19
- The Squirming Coil · Set 18:10
- Weekapaug Groove · Set 27:48
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–’897
- ’90–’9418
Album representation
The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.
- Covers7
- Rift6
- A Picture of Nectar3
- Lawn Boy3
- No studio album3
- Not in the song file yet2
- +1 more
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.
- 1–2 · rotation10
- 3–510
- 6–155
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original18
- Bill Monroe1
- Led Zeppelin1
- Muddy Waters1
- Pink Floyd1
- Son Seals1
- +2 more
Who wrote it
Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.
- Anastasio / Marshall7
- Cover7
- Anastasio + friends3
- Anastasio solo2
- Full band2
- Not in the song file yet2
- +2 more
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.
- With Tom Marshall9
- Without Marshall7
7 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.