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Tower Theater

Houston, TX

22
Songs
2
Sets
65:21
Timed
Stash
Longest
1
Sandwiches
4
Notes
Soundcheck Funky Bitch
Set 19 songs · 62:01 timed
  1. Down with Disease >7:13
  2. The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony >1:40
  3. AC/DC Bag >7:18
  4. Poor Heart >2:10
  5. My Friend, My Friend >TeaseJamchartsAlt Lyric6:59
  6. Ya Mar,Cover · Cyril Ferguson7:34
  7. Stash,Jamcharts12:23
  8. Esther >10:20
  9. Chalk Dust Torture6:24
Set 211 songs
  1. Maze,
  2. Golgi Apparatus,
  3. Uncle Pen,Cover · Bill Monroe
  4. Sample in a Jar,
  5. Reba,
  6. Axilla (Part II) >
  7. Julius,
  8. Hold Your Head Up >Cover · Argent
  9. Bike >Cover · Pink Floyd
  10. Hold Your Head Up,Cover · Argent
  11. David Bowie¹
Encore2 songs · 3:20 timed
  1. Ginseng Sullivan²,A CappellaCover · Norman Blake3:20
  2. Free Bird²A CappellaCover · Lynyrd Skynyrd

¹ Oom Pa Pa, Aw Fuck!, and Simpsons signals.

² Without microphones.

Sandwiches & fests1 shape
🥪 Hold Your Head Up sandwich
Hold Your Head Up > Bike > Hold Your Head Up · Set 2

MFMF ended with a Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Julee Cruise) jam with lyrics changed from "Rockin' Back" to "Runnin' Back." The Bowie intro included Oom Pa Pa, Aw Fuck!, and Simpsons signals and HYHU teases. The encore was performed without microphones. This show was originally scheduled for Houston’s Bayou City Theatre, but was relocated at the last minute to the Tower Theater.

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The Lab

It’s so stupendous, living in this tube

Noteworthy
DebutsHold Your Head Up first time played
Top 5 versionEsther #4 of 113
Long oddsFree Bird 💎💎💎 1 in 29 shows
Hot this yearSample in a Jar 73× in 1994 · Hold Your Head Up 72× in 1994 · Hold Your Head Up 72× in 1994 · Julius 65× in 1994 · Down with Disease 58× in 1994 · Poor Heart 46× in 1994
CoversYa Mar The Mustangs · Uncle Pen Bill Monroe · Hold Your Head Up Argent · Bike Pink Floyd · Hold Your Head Up Argent · Ginseng Sullivan Norman Blake · Free Bird Lynyrd Skynyrd
On the recordingMy Friend, My Friend Tease, Jamcharts · Stash Jamcharts

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
  • Stash · Set 112:23
  • Esther · Set 110:20
  • Ya Mar · Set 17:34
  • AC/DC Bag · Set 17:18
  • Down with Disease · Set 17:13
  • My Friend, My Friend · Set 16:59

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 — 11’90–’94 — 1021SONGS
  • ’83–’8911
  • ’90–’9410

Album representation

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

Covers — 6Hoist — 3Junta — 3Not in the song file yet — 3A Picture of Nectar — 2Rift — 2Lawn Boy — 1No studio album — 121SONGS
  • Covers6
  • Hoist3
  • Junta3
  • Not in the song file yet3
  • A Picture of Nectar2
  • Rift2
  • +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 — 56–15 — 616–50 — 121SONGS
  • 1–2 · rotation9
  • 3–55
  • 6–156
  • 16–501

Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

Phish original — 15Argent — 1Bill Monroe — 1Lynyrd Skynyrd — 1Norman Blake — 1Pink Floyd — 1The Mustangs — 121SONGS
  • Phish original15
  • Argent1
  • Bill Monroe1
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd1
  • Norman Blake1
  • Pink Floyd1
  • +1 more

Who wrote it

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

Anastasio / Marshall — 7Cover — 6Anastasio solo — 3Not in the song file yet — 3Anastasio + friends — 120SONGS
  • Anastasio / Marshall7
  • Cover6
  • Anastasio solo3
  • Not in the song file yet3
  • Anastasio + friends1

The Marshall factor

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

With Tom Marshall — 8Without Marshall — 412ORIGINALS
  • With Tom Marshall8
  • Without Marshall4

7 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