Madison Square Garden
New York, NY
- Garden Party¹,DebutCover · Ricky Nelson💎 Rare · 1 play ever3:57
- Possum,10:17
- Roses Are Free,Cover · Ween5:04
- Rift >6:05
- Sample in a Jar,6:05
- Alaska,10:00
- Mike's Song >7:36
- Walk Away,Cover · The James Gang6:11
- Weekapaug Groove,7:35
- Character Zero6:54
- Birds of a Feather,6:15
- Ghost >12:12
- Piper >9:55
- Light >Tease8:30
- Also Sprach Zarathustra >Cover · Strauss, as interpreted by Deodato6:33
- The Horse >0:58
- Silent in the Morning,5:28
- You Enjoy MyselfTease18:12
- Party Time,7:59
- Kung >2:58
- Chalk Dust Torture >5:53
- Auld Lang Syne >Cover · Traditional2:01
- Tweezer Reprise² >Guest4:03
- Sand >9:08
- The Wedge >Jamcharts9:04
- Fly Like an Eagle¹ >DebutCover · Steve Miller Band💎 Rare · 1 play ever5:19
- Wilson,6:13
- Lawn Boy³A Cappella5:49
- Driver,Unfinished6:09
- 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.
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.
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).
- 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–’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.
- 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 · rotation2
- 3–515
- 6–159
- 16–503
- 51+ · bustout1
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- 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 / 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 Marshall12
- Without Marshall6
10 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.