Madison Square Garden
New York, NY
- Punch You in the Eye >8:07
- AC/DC Bag >6:28
- The Moma Dance >6:38
- Scent of a Mule,8:17
- Burn That Bridge¹,Debut💎 Rare · 1 play ever7:20
- Weigh >Bustout · 56-show gap5:11
- Ocelot,Tease8:38
- Beauty of My Dreams,Bustout · 133-show gapCover · The Del McCoury Band3:36
- Gone,💎 Rare · 2 plays ever5:39
- Rock and RollCover · The Velvet Underground8:02
- Wilson >4:17
- 46 Days,7:28
- Sand,Jamcharts10:23
- NICU >Tease5:14
- Down with Disease² >Unfinished10:01
- Ghost,Jamcharts13:55
- You Enjoy Myself ->TeaseJamcharts10:42
- Manteca ->JamchartsBustout · 303-show gapCover · Dizzy Gillespie0:37
- You Enjoy MyselfJamchartsTease6:19
- Meatstick³,17:53
- Auld Lang Syne⁴,Cover · Traditional1:15
- After Midnight,Cover · J.J. Cale💎 Rare · 7 plays ever6:38
- Backwards Down the Number Line >6:59
- Piper >4:49
- Free,7:35
- Waste >5:15
- Slave to the Traffic Light,10:51
- GrindBustout · 65-show gapA CappellaAlt Lyric1:27
- First TubeTease8:23
¹ Phish debut.
² Unfinished.
³ Portions pre-recorded; Lyrics sung in multiple languages.
⁴ Sung with Meatstick singers while Trey played guitar.
This show featured the Phish debut of Burn That Bridge. Ocelot, NICU and First Tube contained Auld Lang Syne teases. Beauty of My Dreams was played for the first time since July 22, 2003 (133 shows). Disease was unfinished. Manteca was played for the first time since October 30, 1998 (303 shows) and the ensuing YEM vocal jam contained Manteca quotes. Before midnight, several groups of multiethnic dancers appeared on stage and sang the Meatstick lyrics in their respective languages. The band joined the dancers and then stealthily disappeared from the stage, only to reappear at the other side of the arena in the giant hotdog from past NYE shows ('94 and '99). As a result, portions of the Meatstick were pre-recorded. Auld Lang Syne was sung with the Meatstick singers while Trey played guitar. Appropriately, the post-show music was Captain Beefheart's Tropical Hot Dog Night .
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).
- Meatstick · Set 317:53
- Ghost · Set 213:55
- Slave to the Traffic Light · Set 310:51
- You Enjoy Myself · Set 210:42
- Sand · Set 210:23
- Down with Disease · Set 210:01
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–’896
- ’90–’945
- ’95–’0012
- 2.0 (’02–’04)1
- 3.0 (’09–’20)4
Album representation
The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.
- Covers5
- Not in the song file yet4
- Farmhouse3
- Hoist3
- Billy Breathes2
- Joy2
- +7 more
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.
- 1–2 · rotation2
- 3–54
- 6–1516
- 16–502
- 51+ · bustout4
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original23
- Dizzy Gillespie1
- J.J. Cale1
- The Del McCoury Band1
- The Velvet Underground1
- Traditional1
Who wrote it
Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.
- Anastasio / Marshall7
- Cover5
- Anastasio + friends4
- Not in the song file yet4
- Anastasio solo3
- Full band2
- +1 more
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.
- With Tom Marshall10
- Without Marshall9
8 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.