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Madison Square Garden

New York, NY

21
Songs
3
Sets
188:56
Timed
Simple
Longest
0
Sandwiches
2
Notes
Set 17 songs · 60:29 timed
  1. 1999¹ >RMSTRDebutCover · Prince💎 Rare · 4 plays ever9:15
  2. Mike's Song >RMSTRJamcharts16:07
  3. I Am Hydrogen >RMSTRTease3:44
  4. Weekapaug Groove,RMSTRTease9:12
  5. Ghost ->RMSTRJamcharts15:46
  6. Ha Ha Ha >RMSTR1:42
  7. CavernRMSTR4:43
Set 27 songs · 63:16 timed
  1. NICU >RMSTR5:18
  2. Character Zero >RMSTR7:45
  3. Tweezer ->RMSTRJamcharts14:35
  4. Cities >RMSTRJamchartsCover · Talking Heads8:31
  5. Wading in the Velvet Sea,RMSTR6:36
  6. Run Like an Antelope >RMSTRJamcharts15:23
  7. FrankensteinRMSTRCover · The Edgar Winter Group5:08
Set 36 songs · 58:32 timed
  1. Runaway Jim ->RMSTRTease11:03
  2. Auld Lang Syne ->Bustout · 67-show gapRMSTRCover · Traditional1:44
  3. Simple,RMSTRJamcharts18:31
  4. Harry Hood >RMSTRJamcharts17:57
  5. Tweezer Reprise,RMSTR4:18
  6. LlamaRMSTR4:59
Encore1 song · 6:39 timed
  1. While My Guitar Gently WeepsRMSTRCover · The Beatles6:39

¹ Phish debut.

Prince’s 1999 made its Phish debut (appropriately) at this show and included dancers on stage and synchronized steps from Trey and Mike, who wound up lying on the stage with the dancers surrounding them. Weekapaug and Runaway Jim subsequently featured 1999 teases; Jim also included Auld Lang Syne teases. Hydrogen contained Albert teases from Trey. For this show, the Holiday Run dancers’ costumes included a devil, a prostitute, and a pimp. The band jammed Runaway Jim until just before the New Year. The dancers reappeared throughout the crowd and handed out thousands of glowrings to the fans just before a grand balloon drop and pyrotechnics display at midnight. The band counted the crowd into the New Year before busting into Auld Lang Syne. While some fans used the glowrings to start a Glowstick War during Hood, others used them to create long chain links of rings spanning the venue from end to end.

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Noteworthy
Debuts1999 first time played
BustoutsAuld Lang Syne first in 67 shows · debuted December 30, 1989 at The Wetlands Preserve, New York, NY
Rarities1999 4 plays ever · debuted December 31, 1998 at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Long oddsAuld Lang Syne 💎💎💎 1 in 33 shows
Hot this yearGhost 19× in 1998 · Weekapaug Groove 17× in 1998 · Simple 16× in 1998 · Mike's Song 16× in 1998 · Harry Hood 16× in 1998 · Run Like an Antelope 15× in 1998
Covers1999 Prince · Cities Talking Heads · Frankenstein Mary Shelley · Auld Lang Syne Traditional · While My Guitar Gently Weeps The Beatles
On the recordingMike's Song Jamcharts · I Am Hydrogen Tease · Weekapaug Groove Tease · Ghost Jamcharts · Tweezer Jamcharts · Cities Jamcharts · Run Like an Antelope Jamcharts · Runaway Jim Tease · Simple Jamcharts · Harry Hood 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).

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Longest of the night
  • Simple · Set 318:31
  • Harry Hood · Set 317:57
  • Mike's Song · Set 116:07
  • Ghost · Set 115:46
  • Run Like an Antelope · Set 215:23
  • Tweezer · Set 214:35

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 — 8’90–’94 — 8’95–’00 — 521SONGS
  • ’83–’898
  • ’90–’948
  • ’95–’005

Album representation

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

No studio album — 6Covers — 5A Picture of Nectar — 4The Story of the Ghost — 2Billy Breathes — 1Hoist — 1Lawn Boy — 1Not in the song file yet — 121SONGS
  • No studio album6
  • Covers5
  • A Picture of Nectar4
  • The Story of the Ghost2
  • Billy Breathes1
  • Hoist1
  • +2 more

Gap since last played

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

1–2 · rotation — 13–5 — 46–15 — 1416–50 — 151+ · bustout — 121SONGS
  • 1–2 · rotation1
  • 3–54
  • 6–1514
  • 16–501
  • 51+ · bustout1

Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

Phish original — 16Mary Shelley — 1Prince — 1Talking Heads — 1The Beatles — 1Traditional — 121SONGS
  • Phish original16
  • Mary Shelley1
  • Prince1
  • Talking Heads1
  • The Beatles1
  • Traditional1

Who wrote it

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

Cover — 5Full band — 5Anastasio + friends — 4Anastasio / Marshall — 3Anastasio solo — 1Gordon — 1Not in the song file yet — 120SONGS
  • Cover5
  • Full band5
  • Anastasio + friends4
  • Anastasio / Marshall3
  • Anastasio solo1
  • Gordon1
  • +1 more

The Marshall factor

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

Without Marshall — 8With Tom Marshall — 715ORIGINALS
  • Without Marshall8
  • With Tom Marshall7

4 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