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Saratoga Performing Arts Center

Saratoga Springs, NY

24
Songs
2
Sets
179:47
Timed
Backwards Down the Number Line
Longest
1
Sandwiches
3
Notes
Soundcheck I Been Around, Kids, I Kissed a Girl, Beauty of My Dreams
Set 112 songs · 88:38 timed
  1. Llama,3:27
  2. The Moma Dance,8:01
  3. Guyute,10:54
  4. Anything But Me,6:22
  5. Cars Trucks Buses,5:03
  6. Chalk Dust Torture,6:26
  7. Golgi Apparatus,4:37
  8. David Bowie,12:51
  9. Cavern >4:21
  10. Possum,7:56
  11. Ocelot,9:17
  12. Run Like an Antelope9:23
Set 29 songs · 82:33 timed
  1. Backwards Down the Number Line ->Jamcharts20:18
  2. Twenty Years Later,7:46
  3. Halley's Comet >5:44
  4. Rock and Roll,Cover · The Velvet Underground10:55
  5. Harpua ->Bustout · 60-show gapNarration💬 Banter6:27
  6. I Kissed a Girl¹ >Debut💬 BanterCover · Katy Perry💎 Rare · 1 play ever2:00
  7. Hold Your Head Up >Cover · Argent1:14
  8. Harpua,7:56
  9. You Enjoy Myself20:13
Encore3 songs · 8:36 timed
  1. Grind,A CappellaAlt Lyric💬 Banter2:07
  2. I Been Around²,Debut💬 Banter💎 Rare · 9 plays ever2:23
  3. Highway to HellCover · AC/DC4:06

¹ Phish debut.

² Debut.

Sandwiches & fests1 shape
🥪 Harpua sandwich
Harpua > I Kissed a Girl, Hold Your Head Up > Harpua · Set 2
From the stage5 moments
Harpua · After Trey talks about having lived in Saratoga and knowing a number of people in the crowd, he then tells of Jimmy feeling sad and searching for truth from his spirit guide. Fishman is that guide and his words of wisdom may be one of the oddess song selections the band has ever played. An off key version of Katy Perry's I Kissed a Girl.

“TREY: Oh….. What a night! Oh, what a night! You know, I know a lot of people in this room, because I lived in this town. So, I wanna say hi to all my friends. And, I also know a lot of people in this room because so many people …”

transcript: phish.in
Harpua · After completing the song, Trey remarked to Fish that he was waiting for the day when Fish went to see Katy Perry and she performed a Phish song, prompting Fish to declare, "I don't apologize to Katy Perry for that. I only apologize to [the audience]."
transcript: phish.in
I Kissed a Girl · Trey described the song as "so wrong on so many levels."
transcript: phish.in
Grind · Prior to the encore, Trey stated that it was hard to play the last show of the tour because they felt like they could just keep going.
transcript: phish.in
I Been Around · Trey explained that they were playing it because he realized that it was the one song off of the upcoming album (Joy) that they hadn't played live.
transcript: phish.in

The Harpua narration centered on a depressed Jimmy calling on his Spirit Guide who happened to be a “funny little man wearing a dress” who spoke truth through song (in this case, I Kissed a Girl). This show featured the Phish debut of I Kissed a Girl (described by Trey as “so wrong on so many levels”).  After Harpua, Trey remarked to Fish that he was waiting for the day when Fish went to see Katy Perry and she performed a Phish song, prompting Fish to declare, “I don’t apologize to Katy Perry for that. I only apologize to [the audience].” Prior to the encore, Trey stated that it was hard to play the last show of the tour because they felt like they could just keep going.  Before starting the debut performance of I Been Around, Trey explained that they were playing it because he realized that it was the one song off of the upcoming album ( Joy ) that they hadn’t played live.

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The Lab

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Noteworthy
DebutsI Kissed a Girl first time played · Harpua first time played · I Been Around first time played
BustoutsHarpua first in 60 shows · debuted May 11, 1987 at Nectar's, Burlington, VT
Longest versionBackwards Down the Number Line 20 min — longest of 146 archived
Top 5 versionAnything But Me #3 of 11
Top 10 versionGrind #10 of 28
RaritiesI Kissed a Girl 1 play ever · debuted August 16, 2009 at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY · I Been Around 9 plays ever · debuted August 16, 2009 at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
Long oddsHarpua 💎💎💎 1 in 22 shows
Hot this yearYou Enjoy Myself 17× in 2009 · Possum 17× in 2009 · Run Like an Antelope 16× in 2009 · Chalk Dust Torture 16× in 2009 · Backwards Down the Number Line 15× in 2009 · Ocelot 14× in 2009
CoversRock and Roll The Velvet Underground · I Kissed a Girl Katy Perry · Hold Your Head Up Argent · Highway to Hell AC/DC
On the recordingBackwards Down the Number Line 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
  • Backwards Down the Number Line · Set 220:18
  • You Enjoy Myself · Set 220:13
  • David Bowie · Set 112:51
  • Rock and Roll · Set 210:55
  • Guyute · Set 110:54
  • Run Like an Antelope · Set 19:23

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 — 9’90–’94 — 4’95–’00 — 42.0 (’02–’04) — 13.0 (’09–’20) — 523SONGS
  • ’83–’899
  • ’90–’944
  • ’95–’004
  • 2.0 (’02–’04)1
  • 3.0 (’09–’20)5

Album representation

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

Not in the song file yet — 5Covers — 4A Picture of Nectar — 3Joy — 3Junta — 3No studio album — 2The Story of the Ghost — 2Lawn Boy — 123SONGS
  • Not in the song file yet5
  • Covers4
  • A Picture of Nectar3
  • Joy3
  • Junta3
  • No studio album2
  • +2 more

Gap since last played

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

1–2 · rotation — 33–5 — 106–15 — 516–50 — 451+ · bustout — 123SONGS
  • 1–2 · rotation3
  • 3–510
  • 6–155
  • 16–504
  • 51+ · bustout1

Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

Phish original — 19AC/DC — 1Argent — 1Katy Perry — 1The Velvet Underground — 123SONGS
  • Phish original19
  • AC/DC1
  • Argent1
  • Katy Perry1
  • The Velvet Underground1

Who wrote it

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

Anastasio / Marshall — 5Not in the song file yet — 5Cover — 4Anastasio + friends — 3Anastasio solo — 3Full band — 1Holdsworth — 122SONGS
  • Anastasio / Marshall5
  • Not in the song file yet5
  • Cover4
  • Anastasio + friends3
  • Anastasio solo3
  • Full band1
  • +1 more

The Marshall factor

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

With Tom Marshall — 9Without Marshall — 514ORIGINALS
  • With Tom Marshall9
  • Without Marshall5

6 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