Sony Music Studios
New York, NY
- Sleep¹,SBDAcoustic2:39
- Frankie Says >SBD4:42
- Ghost,SBD9:42
- Roggae,SBD6:46
- Guyute,SBD💬 Banter11:00
- Wading in the Velvet Sea,SBD5:39
- Driver¹,SBDAcoustic4:25
- Albuquerque¹,SBDAcousticCover · Neil Young5:10
- Birds of a Feather,SBD5:13
- Piper,SBD6:25
- TasteSBD💬 Banter7:30
¹ Acoustic.
This single-set performance, a taping for the PBS television show Sessions at West 54th , was performed in front of roughly 200 fans and industry executives. The show was first broadcast the week of January 9, 1999. Sleep, Driver and Albuquerque were performed acoustic. Trey made jokes about the length of Guyute, remarking that the show could cut to four commercial breaks and the band would still be playing the same song. Taste was played after Trey took the crowd’s requests for the final song. When the show was aired, only Birds, Ghost, and Taste were broadcast, with interviews interspersed between songs.
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).
- Guyute · Set 111:00
- Ghost · Set 19:42
- Taste · Set 17:30
- Roggae · Set 16:46
- Piper · Set 16:25
- Wading in the Velvet Sea · Set 15:39
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.
- ’90–’941
- ’95–’0010
Album representation
The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.
- The Story of the Ghost5
- Not in the song file yet2
- Billy Breathes1
- Covers1
- Farmhouse1
- No studio album1
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.
- 1–2 · rotation7
- 3–53
- 16–501
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original10
- Neil Young1
Who wrote it
Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.
- Full band4
- Anastasio / Marshall3
- Not in the song file yet2
- Cover1
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.
- With Tom Marshall7
- Without Marshall1
3 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.
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