Madison Square Garden
New York, NY
- My Soul,Cover · Clifton Chenier5:54
- Tube >4:40
- Runaway Jim >7:33
- Foam,8:16
- Guelah Papyrus >5:44
- Divided Sky,Jamcharts15:34
- Round Room >Bustout · 140-show gap💎 Rare · 7 plays ever5:23
- Walk Away >Cover · The James Gang6:48
- Gotta Jibboo >10:13
- Reba¹,Unfinished12:25
- Walls of the Cave13:16
- Crosseyed and Painless >Cover · Talking Heads
- Twist >
- Simple,
- Sneakin' Sally Thru the Alley >Cover · Lee Dorsey
- Makisupa Policeman² ->
- David Bowie
- Fee³,Alt Rig6:10
- Frankenstein⁴Alt RigCover · The Edgar Winter Group5:04
¹ No whistling.
² "I went home late last night after doing the New Year's stunt, laid back on my couch and rolled myself a blunt" lyrics. "Kick drum solo."
³ Trey sang verses through megaphone.
⁴ Page on keytar.
Reba did not have the whistling ending. Round Room was played for the first time since July 13, 2003 (140 shows). Twist contained Manteca quotes from Trey. Makisupa included the lyrics "I went home late last night after doing the New Year's stunt, laid back on my couch and rolled myself a blunt" and also featured a "kick drum solo." Frankenstein featured Page on keytar.
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).
- Divided Sky · Set 115:34
- Walls of the Cave · Set 113:16
- Reba · Set 112:25
- Gotta Jibboo · Set 110:13
- Foam · Set 18:16
- Runaway Jim · Set 17:33
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–’899
- ’90–’944
- ’95–’004
- 2.0 (’02–’04)2
Album representation
The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.
- Covers5
- Junta4
- No studio album3
- Farmhouse2
- A Picture of Nectar1
- Lawn Boy1
- +3 more
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.
- 3–54
- 6–1513
- 16–501
- 51+ · bustout1
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original14
- Clifton Chenier1
- James Gang1
- Lee Dorsey1
- Mary Shelley1
- Talking Heads1
Who wrote it
Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.
- Anastasio solo6
- Cover5
- Anastasio / Marshall4
- Anastasio + friends1
- Anastasio / Fishman1
- Gordon1
- +1 more
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.
- Without Marshall9
- With Tom Marshall4
2 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.