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First Union Spectrum

Philadelphia, PA

20
Songs
2
Sets
82:06
Timed
Tweezer
Longest
1
Sandwiches
3
Notes
Set 110 songs · 74:36 timed
  1. Tweezer >Jamcharts14:10
  2. Bouncing Around the Room,3:51
  3. Horn,4:31
  4. Heavy Things,7:05
  5. Dogs Stole Things,4:58
  6. My Mind's Got a Mind of its Own,Cover · Jimmie Dale Gilmore2:29
  7. Roggae,8:58
  8. Birds of a Feather,9:14
  9. Guyute,10:41
  10. Loving CupCover · The Rolling Stones8:39
Set 29 songs
  1. Gotta Jibboo,
  2. The Wedge,
  3. David Bowie¹ ->
  4. Have Mercy ->Cover · The Mighty Diamonds
  5. Hold Your Head Up² >Cover · Argent
  6. Cracklin' Rosie >Bustout · 93-show gapCover · Neil Diamond
  7. Hold Your Head Up,Cover · Argent
  8. Twist,
  9. Waste
Encore1 song · 7:30 timed
  1. Ride Captain RideBustout · 73-show gapCover · Blues Image7:30

¹ Unfinished.

² Have Mercy melody and a vacuum solo.

Sandwiches & fests2 shapes
🥪 Hold Your Head Up sandwich
Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up · Set 2
⁉ Tweezer, no Reprise
Tweezer tonight, no Tweezer Reprise. The Reprise came 5 shows later, December 16, 1999 at Reynolds Coliseum.

Bowie was unfinished. The jam out of Have Mercy included a snippet of Bowie before returning to Have Mercy. The subsequent reggae-style HYHU contained a Have Mercy melody before leading to a vacuum solo. The Little Drummer Boy was teased in the second HYHU.

← Previous showDec 8 · Cumberland County Civic CenterNext show →Dec 11 · First Union Spectrum
The Lab

It’s so stupendous, living in this tube

Noteworthy
DebutsHold Your Head Up first time played
BustoutsCracklin' Rosie first in 93 shows · debuted March 7, 1992 at The Music Hall, Portsmouth, NH · Ride Captain Ride first in 73 shows · debuted March 23, 1987 at Nectar's, Burlington, VT
Top 5 versionRide Captain Ride #2 of 16
Top 10 versionHorn #8 of 143 · Dogs Stole Things #8 of 42 · Loving Cup #8 of 144
Long oddsRide Captain Ride 💎💎💎💎 1 in 75 shows · Have Mercy 💎💎💎💎 1 in 73 shows
Hot this yearGuyute 20× in 1999 · Heavy Things 17× in 1999 · Tweezer 14× in 1999 · Twist 13× in 1999 · Roggae 13× in 1999 · Birds of a Feather 13× in 1999
CoversMy Mind's Got a Mind of its Own Jimmie Dale Gilmore · Loving Cup The Rolling Stones · Have Mercy Cordae · Hold Your Head Up Argent · Cracklin' Rosie Neil Diamond · Hold Your Head Up Argent · Ride Captain Ride Blues Image
On the recordingTweezer 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).

You’ll never win a major only shooting par
Longest of the night
  • Tweezer · Set 114:10
  • Guyute · Set 110:41
  • Birds of a Feather · Set 19:14
  • Roggae · Set 18:58
  • Loving Cup · Set 18:39
  • Ride Captain Ride · Encore7:30

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 — 4’90–’94 — 8’95–’00 — 719SONGS
  • ’83–’894
  • ’90–’948
  • ’95–’007

Album representation

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

Covers — 6Farmhouse — 3The Story of the Ghost — 3Rift — 2A Picture of Nectar — 1Billy Breathes — 1Junta — 1Lawn Boy — 1Not in the song file yet — 119SONGS
  • Covers6
  • Farmhouse3
  • The Story of the Ghost3
  • Rift2
  • A Picture of Nectar1
  • Billy Breathes1
  • +3 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 — 76–15 — 516–50 — 451+ · bustout — 219SONGS
  • 1–2 · rotation1
  • 3–57
  • 6–155
  • 16–504
  • 51+ · bustout2

Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

Phish original — 13Argent — 1Blues Image — 1Cordae — 1Jimmie Dale Gilmore — 1Neil Diamond — 1The Rolling Stones — 119SONGS
  • Phish original13
  • Argent1
  • Blues Image1
  • Cordae1
  • Jimmie Dale Gilmore1
  • Neil Diamond1
  • +1 more

Who wrote it

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

Anastasio / Marshall — 8Cover — 6Full band — 3Anastasio solo — 1Not in the song file yet — 119SONGS
  • Anastasio / Marshall8
  • Cover6
  • Full band3
  • Anastasio solo1
  • Not in the song file yet1

The Marshall factor

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

With Tom Marshall — 10Without Marshall — 212ORIGINALS
  • With Tom Marshall10
  • Without Marshall2

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