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Merriweather Post Pavilion

Columbia, MD

16
Songs
2
Sets
4:25
Timed
Sabotage
Longest
0
Sandwiches
4
Notes
Soundcheck If You Need a Fool, Shafty
Set 18 songs
  1. The Wedge,
  2. NICU,
  3. Sneakin' Sally Thru the Alley¹ ->Cover · Lee Dorsey
  4. Guyute,
  5. Fikus,💎 Rare · 6 plays ever
  6. Farmhouse,
  7. Possum >
  8. Sweet Jane²Cover · The Velvet Underground💎 Rare · 5 plays ever
Set 27 songs
  1. Cavern >
  2. Also Sprach Zarathustra >Cover · Strauss, as interpreted by Deodato
  3. Tela >
  4. Piper,
  5. Sexual Healing >Cover · Marvin Gaye💎 Rare · 4 plays ever
  6. Hold Your Head Up,Cover · Argent
  7. Harry Hood
Encore1 song · 4:25 timed
  1. Sabotage²SBDDebutCover · Beastie Boys💎 Rare · 6 plays ever4:25

¹ No vocal jam.

² Phish debut.

Sneakin' Sally did not contain a vocal jam. This show marked the Phish debuts of Sweet Jane and Sabotage. The soundcheck's Shafty contained a Fire (Ohio Players) tease from Trey and Maze quotes from Trey and Fish sung to the tune of Shafty.

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It’s so stupendous, living in this tube

Noteworthy
DebutsSweet Jane first time played · Sabotage first time played
RaritiesFikus 6 plays ever · debuted July 2, 1998 at The Grey Hall, Copenhagen, Capital Region · Sweet Jane 5 plays ever · debuted August 8, 1998 at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD · Sexual Healing 4 plays ever · debuted July 20, 1998 at Ventura County Fairgrounds, Ventura, CA · Sabotage 6 plays ever · debuted August 8, 1998 at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD
Hot this yearGuyute 20× in 1998 · Piper 19× in 1998 · Possum 16× in 1998 · Harry Hood 16× in 1998 · Hold Your Head Up 14× in 1998 · Also Sprach Zarathustra 13× in 1998
CoversSneakin' Sally Thru the Alley Lee Dorsey · Sweet Jane The Velvet Underground · Also Sprach Zarathustra Eumir Deodato · Sexual Healing Marvin Gaye · Hold Your Head Up Argent · Sabotage Beastie Boys

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
  • Sabotage · Encore4:25

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 — 5’90–’94 — 5’95–’00 — 616SONGS
  • ’83–’895
  • ’90–’945
  • ’95–’006

Album representation

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

Covers — 6Farmhouse — 2No studio album — 2A Picture of Nectar — 1Hoist — 1Not in the song file yet — 1Rift — 1TMWSIY (Gamehendge) — 1The Story of the Ghost — 116SONGS
  • Covers6
  • Farmhouse2
  • No studio album2
  • A Picture of Nectar1
  • Hoist1
  • Not in the song file yet1
  • +3 more

Gap since last played

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

1–2 · rotation — 43–5 — 76–15 — 516SONGS
  • 1–2 · rotation4
  • 3–57
  • 6–155

Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

Phish original — 10Argent — 1Beastie Boys — 1Eumir Deodato — 1Lee Dorsey — 1Marvin Gaye — 1The Velvet Underground — 116SONGS
  • Phish original10
  • Argent1
  • Beastie Boys1
  • Eumir Deodato1
  • Lee Dorsey1
  • Marvin Gaye1
  • +1 more

Who wrote it

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

Cover — 6Anastasio / Marshall — 5Anastasio + friends — 1Anastasio solo — 1Full band — 1Holdsworth — 1Not in the song file yet — 116SONGS
  • Cover6
  • Anastasio / Marshall5
  • Anastasio + friends1
  • Anastasio solo1
  • Full band1
  • Holdsworth1
  • +1 more

The Marshall factor

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

With Tom Marshall — 6Without Marshall — 39ORIGINALS
  • With Tom Marshall6
  • Without Marshall3

5 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.

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