nTelos Pavilion
Portsmouth, VA
- Harpua¹ >NarrationTease11:52
- Brother,6:57
- Down with Disease >Tease8:29
- Back on the Train,6:43
- Funky Bitch,Cover · Son Seals6:56
- Timber (Jerry the Mule),Cover · Josh White and Sam Gary6:30
- The Wedge,6:54
- The Moma Dance,7:17
- Thunder Road²,Debut💬 BanterCover · Bruce Springsteen💎 Rare · 1 play ever6:07
- Tube,3:33
- Alaska >9:27
- David Bowie10:18
- Crosseyed and Painless >Cover · Talking Heads
- Walls of the Cave >
- Slave to the Traffic Light >
- Fluffhead >
- Sand³ >
- Sneakin' Sally Thru the Alley >Cover · Lee Dorsey
- Light >
- Backwards Down the Number Line,
- Suzy Greenberg
- Julius7:13
¹ With the band's fathers voicing the part of Jimmy's father.
² Phish debut.
³ Lengthy pause near the end before band finished song.
“TREY: Welcome! You know, we had to start with this song because this is the very town where IT all went down. This is the town where it all went down for your 31st birthday. [Trey plays "Happy Birthday"] Oh, and your mom is …”
Harpua included a Happy Birthday tease from Trey and featured all of the band's fathers voicing the part of Jimmy's father. For the third Father's Day in a row, Brother was performed and featured all of the band's children on stage and subsequent introductions. The theme to Leave it to Beaver was teased by Mike prior to DWD. This show marked the Phish debut of Thunder Road, which was dedicated by Trey to Clarence Clemons (who had passed away a day earlier). Near the end of Sand, there was a lengthy pause before the band finished the song.
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).
- Harpua · Set 111:52
- David Bowie · Set 110:18
- Alaska · Set 19:27
- Down with Disease · Set 18:29
- The Moma Dance · Set 17:17
- Julius · Encore7:13
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–’898
- ’90–’945
- ’95–’004
- 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
- No studio album3
- Farmhouse2
- Hoist2
- Joy2
- Junta2
- +5 more
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.
- 1–2 · rotation2
- 3–515
- 6–152
- 16–503
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original17
- Bruce Springsteen1
- Josh White and Sam Gary1
- Lee Dorsey1
- Son Seals1
- Talking Heads1
Who wrote it
Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.
- Anastasio / Marshall7
- Cover5
- Anastasio + friends4
- Not in the song file yet2
- Anastasio / Fishman1
- Anastasio solo1
- +1 more
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.
- With Tom Marshall8
- Without Marshall7
4 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.