nTelos Pavilion
Portsmouth, VA
- Sample in a Jar,5:24
- Party Time¹,💬 BanterGuest7:16
- Simple >7:21
- Axilla,4:30
- Tube,💬 Banter5:07
- Kill Devil Falls,9:30
- Water in the Sky >3:09
- Horn,4:24
- Babylon Baby,💎 Rare · 3 plays ever7:15
- Bathtub Gin >12:07
- Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan,7:25
- I Didn't Know² >A Cappella💬 Banter4:41
- Run Like an Antelope³💬 BanterAlt Lyric9:59
- Back on the Train >9:36
- Rift,6:30
- Split Open and Melt⁴ >Alt Lyric11:54
- The Mango Song >7:54
- Backwards Down the Number Line,Tease7:03
- Limb By Limb,8:41
- Shine a Light,Cover · The Rolling Stones8:17
- Lengthwise⁵ ->Bustout · 66-show gapAlt Lyric2:43
- Maze⁶,11:05
- Cavern >4:34
- Fire⁷Alt LyricCover · Jimi Hendrix Experience4:44
- Mexican Cousin >3:22
- Slave to the Traffic Light9:29
¹ Carl Gerhard on trumpet.
² Trey requested that Fish tuck in his shirt; Fish complied.
³ Lyrics changed to "Been you to tuck in your dress, man?" "Tuck, tuck, tuck, tuck" and "Tuck in your dress man, you're out of control!"
⁴ Lyrics changed to "Split open and tuck."
⁵ Lyrics changed to "When you're there, I sleep tuckwise, and when you're tucked, I sleep you really have to tuck" and "I sleep diagonal in my tuck,"
⁶ "You suck at tucking" repeated numerous times and Trey speaking like Darth Vader in the intro. Included Trey playing his guitar with his light saber.
⁷ Lyrics changed to "Let the Tucker take over!"
Carl Gerhard sat in on trumpet for Party Time. Trey introduced Gerhard as having come to the School of Phish in 1991 and talked about Gerhard's teaching career in the Armed Services. Trey acknowledged the crowd's request by playing Tube. During I Didn't Know, Trey said that they took Fish on the road in 1983 and he went to the Phish School of Music, adding that he was now the executive officer of the "Air Force." Trey said he didn't think Fish should be representing the vacuum cleaners without tucking in his shirt (a.k.a. his dress) and asked him to do so (Fish complied). Antelope included alternate lyrics "Been you to tuck in your dress, man?" "Tuck, tuck, tuck, tuck" and "Tuck in your dress man, you're out of control!" Trey also said that for 30 years, Fish has been leaving his dress untucked and told everybody to tuck in their dresses. Mike, Trey, and Page tucked in their shirts before the setbreak bow. Split Open and Melt included the alternate lyrics "Split open and tuck." Backwards Down the Number Line contained a DEG tease from Trey. Lengthwise included an invitation for audience members to appear on stage and tuck (a few fans came on stage), contained alternate lyrics "When you're there, I sleep tuckwise, and when you're tucked, I sleep, you really have to tuck" and "I sleep diagonal in my tuck," and Trey wielding a light saber, saying "the force is weak with that one. And that one too. But the force is strong with that one." The audience was subsequently called out by Fish, Trey, and Page, in part being told repeatedly "You suck at tucking" over the Maze intro. The Maze intro also featured Trey asking Chris Kuroda to turn off the lights while he waved the light saber around, talked like Darth Vader, saying "I am your father, Fish. I am your father," and played the guitar with his light saber. Fire contained more Tuck references, with Trey saying "Tuck it!" and the alternate lyrics "Let the Tucker take over!" Mike and Trey sported sombreros for Mexican Cousin.
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 112:07
- Split Open and Melt · Set 211:54
- Maze · Set 211:05
- Run Like an Antelope · Set 19:59
- Back on the Train · Set 29:36
- Kill Devil Falls · Set 19:30
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–’897
- ’90–’949
- ’95–’003
- 2.0 (’02–’04)1
- 3.0 (’09–’20)6
Album representation
The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.
- No studio album4
- Not in the song file yet4
- Rift4
- Joy3
- Lawn Boy3
- Covers2
- +5 more
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.
- 1–2 · rotation3
- 3–510
- 6–155
- 16–507
- 51+ · bustout1
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original24
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience1
- The Rolling Stones1
Who wrote it
Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.
- Anastasio / Marshall10
- Anastasio + friends4
- Not in the song file yet4
- Anastasio / Fishman2
- Anastasio solo2
- Cover2
- +2 more
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.
- With Tom Marshall13
- Without Marshall7
5 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.