The Comcast Theatre
Hartford, CT
- Punch You in the Eye,8:32
- AC/DC Bag >6:51
- NICU,6:16
- Colonel Forbin's Ascent >Bustout · 96-show gap6:06
- Fly Famous Mockingbird,Bustout · 96-show gap8:21
- Birds of a Feather,Jamcharts9:56
- Lawn Boy,3:25
- Stash,13:55
- I Didn't Know,A Cappella💬 Banter4:22
- Middle of the Road,💎 Rare · 2 plays ever5:00
- Character Zero7:02
- Down with Disease¹ >JamchartsTeaseUnfinished13:12
- Wilson >4:55
- Slave to the Traffic Light,10:08
- Piper >TeaseJamcharts13:02
- Water in the Sky,3:33
- Ghost ->10:44
- Psycho Killer ->UnfinishedBustout · 284-show gapCover · Talking Heads💎 Rare · 4 plays ever2:09
- Catapult ->💬 Banter4:53
- Icculus² >NarrationGuestBustout · 195-show gap5:27
- You Enjoy Myself15:54
- While My Guitar Gently WeepsCover · The Beatles6:25
¹ Unfinished.
² Narration centered on the fact that "you crazy kids" just don't read anymore.
“TREY:: [not legible while finishing "Catapult" dance] It's funny though, too. This music kinds of make me think that…You know, they used to have music like this in the old days, when i was a young boy FISH: A lad. TREY: You know …”
This show featured the first versions of Forbin’s and Mockingbird since September 30, 2000 (96 shows), which were performed without narration. During I Didn’t Know, Trey introduced Fish as “Recent Julliard Master’s Vacuum Program graduate, the one and only, Jon Moses Quagmire DeWitt Hampton.” DWD was unfinished. Piper included a Spill the Wine tease from Page. This show featured the first Psycho Killer since December 7, 1997 (284 shows). Psycho Killer was unfinished and disintegrated into a self-described, electronic “Pong” jam. During the post-Psycho Killer “Pong” jam, Trey initiated a dance contest saying that whoever could best dance to that music would “win something.” After Catapult (while continuing the “Pong” jam), Trey asked, “Does everybody else love this song as much as I do?” and said that he was “waiting for the day when they play stuff like this on the radio.” Icculus was last performed on July 18, 1999 (195 shows). The Icculus narration centered on the fact that “you crazy kids” just don’t read anymore. The “Pong” jam reappeared during the YEM jam. The soundcheck included a jam with lyrics that were made up on the fly with Trey on bass (so that Mike could check on bass sounds from the audience) and Fish on drums. Trey briefly quoted Spill the Wine and The Pendulum during the soundcheck jam.
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).
- You Enjoy Myself · Set 215:54
- Stash · Set 113:55
- Down with Disease · Set 213:12
- Piper · Set 213:02
- Ghost · Set 210:44
- Slave to the Traffic Light · Set 210:08
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–’8910
- ’90–’946
- ’95–’005
- 3.0 (’09–’20)1
Album representation
The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.
- Not in the song file yet6
- The Story of the Ghost3
- A Picture of Nectar2
- Covers2
- Hoist2
- No studio album2
- +5 more
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.
- 1–2 · rotation1
- 3–57
- 6–157
- 16–503
- 51+ · bustout4
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original20
- Talking Heads1
- The Beatles1
Who wrote it
Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.
- Anastasio / Marshall6
- Not in the song file yet6
- Anastasio + friends2
- Anastasio solo2
- Cover2
- Full band2
- +1 more
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.
- With Tom Marshall9
- Without Marshall5
8 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.