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Madison Square Garden

New York, NY

30
Songs
3
Sets
208:57
Timed
You Enjoy Myself
Longest
0
Sandwiches
6
Notes
Set 110 songs · 69:44 timed
  1. Garden Party¹,DebutCover · Ricky Nelson💎 Rare · 1 play ever3:57
  2. Possum,10:17
  3. Roses Are Free,Cover · Ween5:04
  4. Rift >6:05
  5. Sample in a Jar,6:05
  6. Alaska,10:00
  7. Mike's Song >7:36
  8. Walk Away,Cover · The James Gang6:11
  9. Weekapaug Groove,7:35
  10. Character Zero6:54
Set 28 songs · 68:03 timed
  1. Birds of a Feather,6:15
  2. Ghost >12:12
  3. Piper >9:55
  4. Light >Tease8:30
  5. Also Sprach Zarathustra >Cover · Strauss, as interpreted by Deodato6:33
  6. The Horse >0:58
  7. Silent in the Morning,5:28
  8. You Enjoy MyselfTease18:12
Set 310 songs · 58:27 timed
  1. Party Time,7:59
  2. Kung >2:58
  3. Chalk Dust Torture >5:53
  4. Auld Lang Syne >Cover · Traditional2:01
  5. Tweezer Reprise² >Guest4:03
  6. Sand >9:08
  7. The Wedge >Jamcharts9:04
  8. Fly Like an Eagle¹ >DebutCover · Steve Miller Band💎 Rare · 1 play ever5:19
  9. Wilson,6:13
  10. Lawn Boy³A Cappella5:49
Encore2 songs · 12:43 timed
  1. Driver,Unfinished6:09
  2. Iron Man⁴Bustout · 192-show gapCover · Black Sabbath💎 Rare · 2 plays ever6:34

¹ Phish debut.

² With Carrie Manolakos on vocals and backup singers.

³ A Cappella.

⁴ First Phish performance in full.

Sandwiches & fests1 shape
🔁 Tweezer Reprise closes the Tweezer from December 28, 2012
This Tweezer Reprise closes the Tweezer played December 28, 2012 at Madison Square Garden — 3 shows earlier, no Tweezer tonight.

This show featured the floor and stage covered with artificial turf (numerous plants also dotted the stage). Prior to the show, actors played garden sports including croquet, badminton, and mini-golf, while a few more "sunbathed" on a riser behind the stage. During the first setbreak, golfers came on stage and hit soft golf balls into the crowd.  Light contained an Auld Lang Syne tease.  You Enjoy Myself contained a Birds of a Feather tease.  Trey, Page and Mike came out for the third set in golf carts and began hitting golf balls into the crowd. Fish then arrived on a golf cart wearing donut pants and shirt, an argyle vest, and a golf hat.  Golf carts were brought back on stage during Kung, then began racing past the stage periodically during Chalk Dust. During the Chalk Dust jam, golfers began getting out of the carts, hitting balls into the crowd and dancing on stage.  One of the golfers did the New Year's countdown from on top of a cart.  Auld Lang Syne was accompanied by balloons dropping from the ceiling and ping pong balls fired from cannons.  Tweezer Reprise featured Carrie Manolakos on vocals and a number of backup singers. The remainder of the third set and encore featured song titles focusing on a golf theme. Wilson was preceded by an animated Wilson golf ball on the venue's jumbotrons. Iron Man was preceded by Page coming to the front of the stage to wish the crowd Happy New Year and reference the start of the 30th year of Phish. In an apparent reference to Bob Hope, Page wore a blazer, USS Nimitz ball cap and carried a golf club. Driver was stopped and restarted.This show featured the Phish debuts of Garden Party and Fly Like an Eagle, the first full Phish performance of Iron Man (which was last played December 31, 2003, or 192 shows), and the first ever a cappella Lawn Boy.

The Lab

It’s so stupendous, living in this tube

Noteworthy
DebutsGarden Party first time played · Fly Like an Eagle first time played
BustoutsIron Man first in 192 shows · debuted December 31, 2003 at American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL
Longest versionDriver 6 min — longest of 34 archived
Top 5 versionThe Wedge #4 of 118 · Lawn Boy #2 of 188
Top 10 versionAlaska #7 of 41 · Auld Lang Syne #6 of 25
RaritiesGarden Party 1 play ever · debuted December 31, 2012 at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY · Fly Like an Eagle 1 play ever · debuted December 31, 2012 at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY · Iron Man 2 plays ever · debuted December 31, 2003 at American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL
Long oddsIron Man 💎💎💎💎💎 1 in 102 shows · Auld Lang Syne 💎💎💎 1 in 46 shows · Kung 💎💎💎 1 in 35 shows
Hot this yearPossum 13× in 2012 · Weekapaug Groove 12× in 2012 · Mike's Song 12× in 2012 · Chalk Dust Torture 12× in 2012 · Sand 11× in 2012 · Light 11× in 2012
CoversGarden Party Ricky Nelson · Roses Are Free Ween · Walk Away James Gang · Also Sprach Zarathustra Eumir Deodato · Auld Lang Syne Traditional · Fly Like an Eagle Steve Miller Band · Iron Man Black Sabbath
On the recordingLight Tease · You Enjoy Myself Tease · The Wedge Jamcharts · Driver Unfinished

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).

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Longest of the night
  • You Enjoy Myself · Set 218:12
  • Ghost · Set 212:12
  • Possum · Set 110:17
  • Alaska · Set 110:00
  • Piper · Set 29:55
  • Sand · Set 39:08

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–’89 — 9’90–’94 — 8’95–’00 — 72.0 (’02–’04) — 13.0 (’09–’20) — 530SONGS
  • ’83–’899
  • ’90–’948
  • ’95–’007
  • 2.0 (’02–’04)1
  • 3.0 (’09–’20)5

Album representation

The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.

Covers — 7Not in the song file yet — 5Rift — 4No studio album — 3A Picture of Nectar — 2Farmhouse — 2The Story of the Ghost — 2Billy Breathes — 1Hoist — 1Joy — 1Junta — 1TMWSIY (Gamehendge) — 130SONGS
  • Covers7
  • Not in the song file yet5
  • Rift4
  • No studio album3
  • A Picture of Nectar2
  • Farmhouse2
  • +6 more

Gap since last played

Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.

1–2 · rotation — 23–5 — 156–15 — 916–50 — 351+ · bustout — 130SONGS
  • 1–2 · rotation2
  • 3–515
  • 6–159
  • 16–503
  • 51+ · bustout1

Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

Phish original — 23Black Sabbath — 1Eumir Deodato — 1James Gang — 1Ricky Nelson — 1Steve Miller Band — 1Traditional — 1Ween — 130SONGS
  • Phish original23
  • Black Sabbath1
  • Eumir Deodato1
  • James Gang1
  • Ricky Nelson1
  • Steve Miller Band1
  • +2 more

Who wrote it

Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.

Anastasio / Marshall — 9Cover — 7Not in the song file yet — 5Full band — 4Anastasio + friends — 2Anastasio solo — 1Gordon — 1Holdsworth — 130SONGS
  • Anastasio / Marshall9
  • Cover7
  • Not in the song file yet5
  • Full band4
  • Anastasio + friends2
  • Anastasio solo1
  • +2 more

The Marshall factor

Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.

With Tom Marshall — 12Without Marshall — 618ORIGINALS
  • With Tom Marshall12
  • Without Marshall6

10 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.

Data: Phish.net · Lengths: phish.in · What’s new