Variety Playhouse
Atlanta, GA
- Funky Bitch,Cover · Son Seals4:45
- Rift,6:02
- Fee¹,Alt Rig5:39
- Peaches en Regalia,Cover · Frank Zappa3:08
- Poor Heart >2:54
- Stash,Jamcharts12:03
- Esther >TeaseJamcharts9:12
- Down with Disease >7:58
- Caravan²,GuestCover · Duke Ellington5:42
- High-Heel Sneakers³DebutGuestCover · Tommy Tucker💎 Rare · 1 play ever5:48
- Wilson >5:57
- Run Like an Antelope⁴,JamchartsSignal12:01
- Mound >5:45
- Sample in a Jar,4:59
- Sparkle >3:58
- Harry Hood,14:07
- Ginseng Sullivan⁵,AcousticAlt RigCover · Norman Blake5:06
- You Enjoy Myself⁶,TeaseGuestJamcharts18:53
- Who By Fire⁷,JamchartsDebutGuestCover · Leonard Cohen💎 Rare · 1 play ever3:34
- Golgi Apparatus4:36
- Free BirdA Cappella💬 BanterCover · Lynyrd Skynyrd4:30
¹ Trey sang verses through megaphone.
² Merl Saunders on keyboards.
³ Phish debut; Merl Saunders on keyboards and vocals.
⁴ Simpsons and Oom Pa Pa signals.
⁵ Acoustic, without microphones. Fish on washboard.
⁶ Col. Bruce Hampton on piano.
⁷ Phish debut; Col. Bruce Hampton on vocals.
Fish, Mike and Page sat in during this late-night show for a cover of the Davenport and Coole classic, Fever . Trey was also in attendance but did not perform. Phish had performed earlier in the evening at Atlanta’s “Fabulous” Fox Theatre .
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).
- You Enjoy Myself · Set 218:53
- Harry Hood · Set 214:07
- Stash · Set 112:03
- Run Like an Antelope · Set 212:01
- Esther · Set 19:12
- Down with Disease · Set 17:58
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–’8911
- ’90–’9410
Album representation
The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.
- Covers7
- Junta4
- Rift3
- Hoist2
- A Picture of Nectar1
- Lawn Boy1
- +3 more
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.
- 1–2 · rotation5
- 3–59
- 6–155
- 16–502
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original14
- Duke Ellington1
- Frank Zappa1
- Leonard Cohen1
- Lynyrd Skynyrd1
- Norman Blake1
- +2 more
Who wrote it
Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.
- Cover7
- Anastasio / Marshall5
- Anastasio + friends3
- Anastasio solo3
- Full band1
- Gordon1
- +1 more
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.
- With Tom Marshall8
- Without Marshall5
7 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.