Lowell Memorial Auditorium
Lowell, MA
- Don't You Want To Go?¹,Cover · The Meditation Singers💎 Rare · 5 plays ever
- Ha Ha Ha² >
- Spock's Brain²,
- Strange Design²,
- Reba³,
- Theme from the Bottom²,
- Hold Your Head Up >Cover · Argent
- Lonesome Cowboy Bill¹ >Cover · The Velvet Underground💎 Rare · 8 plays ever
- Hold Your Head Up,Cover · Argent
- Free²,
- Glide II² >💎 Rare · 2 plays ever
- You Enjoy Myself,
- Sweet Adeline,Cover · Artie Shaw
- Sample in a Jar
- I'll Come Running¹ ->RMSTRDebutCover · Brian Eno💎 Rare · 1 play ever3:32
- Gloria¹RMSTRDebut💬 BanterCover · Them💎 Rare · 1 play ever1:51
¹ Phish debut.
² Debut.
³ No whistling.
This was a Voters for Choice benefit concert that also featured Jennifer Trynin and Emergency Broadcast Network. During the pre-show introduction, host Gloria Steinem promised Phish fans more new music in one night than ever before. The band proceeded to deliver the first public performances of Ha Ha Ha, Spock's Brain, Strange Design, Theme From the Bottom, Free, and Glide II. Don’t You Want To Go?, Lonesome Cowboy Bill, I’ll Come Running, and Gloria also made their first Phish public performances at this show. Reba did not have the whistling ending. Fish introduced the new songs that had been played before Lonesome Cowboy Bill. Fish explained that they didn't really have a name for the song after Ha Ha Ha and Trey added that since it was a Voters For Choice Benefit, they'd give the crowd four choices and let it vote on the title: The Plane, The First Single, Israel, and Spock's Brain. Page subsequently teased the theme from Star Trek as the crowd voted for Spock's with Trey subsequently explaining the song's origin. Prior to Adeline, the crowd sang Happy Birthday to Page.
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).
- I'll Come Running · Encore3:32
- Gloria · Encore1:51
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–’893
- ’90–’942
- ’95–’0010
Album representation
The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.
- Covers6
- Billy Breathes2
- No studio album2
- Not in the song file yet2
- Hoist1
- Junta1
- +1 more
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.
- 1–2 · rotation13
- 3–51
- 6–151
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original9
- Argent1
- Barbershop standard1
- Brian Eno1
- The Meditation Singers1
- The Velvet Underground1
- +1 more
Who wrote it
Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.
- Cover6
- Anastasio / Marshall3
- Anastasio solo2
- Not in the song file yet2
- Full band1
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.
- With Tom Marshall4
- Without Marshall3
6 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.