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State Theatre

New Brunswick, NJ

33
Songs
2
Sets
83:19
Timed
Fly Famous Mockingbird
Longest
5
Sandwiches
4
Notes
Soundcheck James, Phase Dance, Will I Dance > Funky Bitch -> Mustang Sally, Camel Walk
Set 113 songs · 77:06 timed
  1. Buried Alive,2:26
  2. Rift,5:58
  3. Weigh >Tease4:58
  4. Chalk Dust Torture,6:04
  5. Esther¹ >JamchartsSignal9:06
  6. Split Open and Melt,Tease9:42
  7. Colonel Forbin's Ascent >Narration5:21
  8. Fly Famous Mockingbird ->0:19
  9. The Vibration of Life ->Tease3:46
  10. Fly Famous Mockingbird,12:04
  11. Possum,Tease10:23
  12. Lawn Boy >2:39
  13. Cavern4:20
Set 217 songs
  1. AC/DC Bag >
  2. The Curtain >
  3. Tweezer ->
  4. Manteca ->Bustout · 52-show gapCover · Dizzy Gillespie
  5. Tweezer >
  6. Contact >
  7. It's Ice >
  8. McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters >
  9. Runaway Jim,
  10. Big Ball Jam >
  11. Hold Your Head Up >Cover · Argent
  12. Love You >Cover · Syd Barrett
  13. Hold Your Head Up >Cover · Argent
  14. Love You >Cover · Syd Barrett
  15. Hold Your Head Up,Cover · Argent
  16. My Sweet One,
  17. Tweezer Reprise
Encore3 songs · 6:13 timed
  1. Memories²,SBDA CappellaCover · Van Alstyne and Kahn1:00
  2. Amazing Grace²,SBDA CappellaCover · Traditional1:49
  3. Highway to HellSBDCover · AC/DC3:24

¹ Random Note signal in intro.

² Without microphones.

Sandwiches & fests4 shapes
🥪 Hold Your Head Up fest
Hold Your Head Up played 3× in Set 2, re-jammed around Love You.
🥪 Fly Famous Mockingbird sandwich
Fly Famous Mockingbird > The Vibration of Life > Fly Famous Mockingbird · Set 1
🥪 Tweezer sandwich
Tweezer > Manteca > Tweezer · Set 2
🥪 Love You sandwich
Love You > Hold Your Head Up > Love You · Set 2
From the stage1 moment
Colonel Forbin's Ascent · Thanks to Paul's high tech wizadry, Phish turns the crowd in New Brunswick upside down, held only by the weight of their body through their feet, before setting out through space, beyond all the stars, until eventually landing on an amorphous blob with a green atmosphere, which is of course Gamehendge. Unfortunately, no one will remember the voyage because of a powerful gas, activated by the "Vibration of Life," that Paul pours into the venue which will change the memory to seem like only a story.

“Trey: Well, it's true what you hear, and it's true what you read tonight, people because just like the sign says up there: Forbin does indeed live. I wanna tell you all what's going on right now here, i don't think all of you …”

transcript: phish.in

Weigh included a tease by Trey of the theme from Woody Woodpecker . The Esther intro contained a Random Note signal. Trey teased Under Pressure in Split Open and Melt. The Mockingbird narration included the Vibration of Life and a teases of New York, New York and the theme from Star Trek from Page. The Possum intro contained a Mockingbird tease from Trey. Mike teased Do You Feel Like We Do prior to the second set. AC/DC Bag included a Jean Pierre tease from Trey. Tweezer included I Feel the Earth Move, Fire (Ohio Players), and Can't You Hear Me Knocking teases. Big Ball Jam contained a "Charge!" tease from Page. Love You included a Blue Monk tease from Page and a Page-led HYHU sandwiched in the middle after Fish rambled on with crew introductions. Memories and Amazing Grace were performed without microphones. In the soundcheck, Minuano (Six Eight) was teased at the end of Phase Dance, Will I Dance ended with a Hold Your Head Up tease from Page, and Black Or White was teased after Mustang Sally. This show was originally released (and is now available as an archival release) on Live.Phish.com with proceeds benefiting the Hurricane Sandy relief effort.

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Noteworthy
DebutsFly Famous Mockingbird first time played · Tweezer first time played · Hold Your Head Up first time played · Love You first time played · Hold Your Head Up first time played
BustoutsManteca first in 52 shows · debuted November 4, 1990 at Fort Ram, Fort Collins, CO
Top 5 versionThe Vibration of Life #5 of 17 · Fly Famous Mockingbird #3 of 98
Long oddsManteca 💎💎💎 1 in 23 shows
Hot this yearHold Your Head Up 147× in 1993 · Hold Your Head Up 147× in 1993 · Hold Your Head Up 147× in 1993 · Rift 69× in 1993 · Big Ball Jam 66× in 1993 · Amazing Grace 57× in 1993
CoversManteca Dizzy Gillespie · Hold Your Head Up Argent · Love You Syd Barrett · Hold Your Head Up Argent · Love You Syd Barrett · Hold Your Head Up Argent · Memories Van Alstyne and Kahn · Amazing Grace Traditional · Highway to Hell AC/DC
On the recordingWeigh Tease · Esther Jamcharts · Split Open and Melt Tease · The Vibration of Life Tease · Possum Tease

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).

You’ll never win a major only shooting par
Longest of the night
  • Fly Famous Mockingbird · Set 112:04
  • Possum · Set 110:23
  • Split Open and Melt · Set 19:42
  • Esther · Set 19:06
  • Chalk Dust Torture · Set 16:04
  • Rift · Set 15:58

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 — 14’90–’94 — 1428SONGS
  • ’83–’8914
  • ’90–’9414

Album representation

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

No studio album — 7Covers — 6Not in the song file yet — 6A Picture of Nectar — 4Rift — 2Junta — 1Lawn Boy — 1TMWSIY (Gamehendge) — 128SONGS
  • No studio album7
  • Covers6
  • Not in the song file yet6
  • A Picture of Nectar4
  • Rift2
  • Junta1
  • +2 more

Gap since last played

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

1–2 · rotation — 93–5 — 76–15 — 916–50 — 251+ · bustout — 128SONGS
  • 1–2 · rotation9
  • 3–57
  • 6–159
  • 16–502
  • 51+ · bustout1

Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

Phish original — 22AC/DC — 1Argent — 1Dizzy Gillespie — 1Syd Barrett — 1Traditional — 1Van Alstyne and Kahn — 128SONGS
  • Phish original22
  • AC/DC1
  • Argent1
  • Dizzy Gillespie1
  • Syd Barrett1
  • Traditional1
  • +1 more

Who wrote it

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

Cover — 6Not in the song file yet — 6Anastasio solo — 4Anastasio / Marshall — 3Full band — 3Anastasio + friends — 2Gordon — 1Holdsworth — 126SONGS
  • Cover6
  • Not in the song file yet6
  • Anastasio solo4
  • Anastasio / Marshall3
  • Full band3
  • Anastasio + friends2
  • +2 more

The Marshall factor

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

Without Marshall — 12With Tom Marshall — 416ORIGINALS
  • Without Marshall12
  • With Tom Marshall4

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