Hampton Coliseum
Hampton, VA
- Emotional Rescue¹ >DebutTeaseJamchartsCover · The Rolling Stones💎 Rare · 6 plays ever16:59
- Split Open and Melt,Tease13:44
- Beauty of My Dreams,Cover · The Del McCoury Band3:30
- Dogs Stole Things,4:45
- Punch You in the Eye ->9:45
- Lawn Boy² >Tease3:21
- Chalk Dust Torture,Unfinished9:11
- Prince CaspianJamcharts10:00
- Ghost >14:45
- AC/DC Bag ->Jamcharts25:54
- Slave to the Traffic Light,Jamcharts12:21
- Loving CupCover · The Rolling Stones6:40
- GuyuteTease10:37
¹ Phish debut.
² "Anti-drum solo."
Emotional Rescue made its Phish debut at this show and included a San-Ho-Zay tease from Trey. Rescue was subsequently quoted at the end of Melt and Lawn Boy. This humorous Lawn Boy featured an “anti-drum solo” - an intentionally boring one. The third verse of Chalk Dust Torture was omitted by Trey. The first set ended with the delay loop ending of Caspian played until after lights were brought back up. Trey teased Yours Is No Disgrace and Call to the Post prior to Guyute. This show was released as part of the Hampton/Winston-Salem '97 box set.
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).
- AC/DC Bag · Set 225:54
- Emotional Rescue · Set 116:59
- Ghost · Set 214:45
- Split Open and Melt · Set 113:44
- Slave to the Traffic Light · Set 212:21
- Guyute · Encore10:37
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–’895
- ’90–’943
- ’95–’005
Album representation
The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.
- Covers3
- Not in the song file yet3
- The Story of the Ghost2
- A Picture of Nectar1
- Billy Breathes1
- Lawn Boy1
- +2 more
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.
- 1–2 · rotation2
- 3–58
- 6–153
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original10
- The Rolling Stones2
- The Del McCoury Band1
Who wrote it
Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.
- Anastasio / Marshall3
- Cover3
- Not in the song file yet3
- Anastasio solo2
- Anastasio + friends1
- Full band1
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.
- With Tom Marshall4
- Without Marshall3
5 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.