Champlain Valley Exposition
Essex Junction, VT
- Chalk Dust Torture,7:06
- The Moma Dance >7:07
- NICU,5:02
- Funky Bitch,Cover · Son Seals6:16
- Sample in a Jar,5:43
- Cavern >4:21
- Bathtub Gin,13:00
- Alaska >8:32
- Possum,8:33
- Wolfman's Brother >Jamcharts11:13
- JuliusJamcharts10:37
- Carini¹ >UnfinishedJamcharts💬 Banter10:54
- Down with Disease¹ >Unfinished12:30
- Slave to the Traffic Light >Jamcharts10:07
- Rock and Roll >Cover · The Velvet Underground7:36
- Twist >6:56
- Backwards Down the Number Line,8:10
- Theme from the Bottom >7:44
- Suzy Greenberg >6:19
- Character ZeroJamcharts8:20
- Loving CupCover · The Rolling Stones7:00
¹ Unfinished.
This special performance was a benefit for flood relief efforts in Vermont in the wake of Hurricane Irene. This show was preceded by an announcement from Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, who thanked the crowd for their support and spoke about additional ways people could get involved in the flood relief effort. Carini was dedicated to Pete and Tara Carini. Carini and Disease were unfinished. In the soundcheck, Silent Night featured Page on theremin with Trey joking "dude, I'm tripping on Christmas!" Peaches en Regalia was preceded by a Tom Sawyer tease and quote and was followed by a Cannonball tease.
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).
- Bathtub Gin · Set 113:00
- Down with Disease · Set 212:30
- Wolfman's Brother · Set 111:13
- Carini · Set 210:54
- Julius · Set 110:37
- Slave to the Traffic Light · Set 210:07
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–’895
- ’90–’948
- ’95–’006
- 3.0 (’09–’20)2
Album representation
The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.
- Hoist4
- Covers3
- No studio album3
- A Picture of Nectar2
- Billy Breathes2
- Not in the song file yet2
- +5 more
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.
- 1–2 · rotation12
- 3–56
- 6–153
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original18
- Son Seals1
- The Rolling Stones1
- The Velvet Underground1
Who wrote it
Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.
- Anastasio / Marshall8
- Anastasio + friends4
- Cover3
- Full band3
- Not in the song file yet2
- Holdsworth1
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.
- With Tom Marshall11
- Without Marshall5
2 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.