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Madison Square Garden

New York, NY

17
Songs
2
Sets
159:16
Timed
Drowned
Longest
0
Sandwiches
3
Notes
Set 110 songs · 81:51 timed
  1. The Curtain With >13:58
  2. Runaway Jim,10:37
  3. Waking Up Dead,💎 Rare · 8 plays ever7:04
  4. Esther,Bustout · 76-show gap9:54
  5. Home,Tease💎 Rare · 7 plays ever8:56
  6. Brian and Robert,3:18
  7. Nellie Kane,Cover · Hot Rize3:11
  8. Colonel Forbin's Ascent >Bustout · 76-show gap11:05
  9. Fly Famous Mockingbird >Bustout · 76-show gapTeaseNarration2:29
  10. David Bowie11:19
Set 26 songs · 73:54 timed
  1. Drowned >JamchartsCover · The Who21:30
  2. A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing,Jamcharts18:02
  3. Harpua >Bustout · 65-show gapNarration17:17
  4. Also Sprach Zarathustra¹ >Tease💬 BanterCover · Strauss, as interpreted by Deodato8:28
  5. Golgi Apparatus,5:51
  6. In The Good Old Summer Time💎 Rare · 2 plays ever2:46
Encore1 song · 3:31 timed
  1. The Wind Cries Mary²DebutCover · Jimi Hendrix Experience💎 Rare · 1 play ever3:31

¹ With donut references.

² Phish debut.

From the stage3 moments
Fly Famous Mockingbird · Coming during the "Jimmies" night of the Baker's Dozen, this narration carries on the contemporary tradition of short narrations to give a couple of clues about Gamehendge lore, tying once and for all The Squirming Coil to the story and giving the Walrus association to Jimmy (instead of Page)

“TREY: The words from the Helping Friendly Book are powerful. But you don't need many of them. For, lo, it is written. Lo, Jimmy holds the tannis root, the forest tasty nectar shoot. The sun ticks off the monarch's boot, from …”

transcript: phish.in
Harpua · On the "Jimmies" night of the Baker's Dozen, Phish approached Harpua in a completely new way, foregoing the traditional Trey-led narration to enable the entire band to take part in a deep conversation about the nature of the universe, which of course forms the shape of a donut

“TREY: Wow. That's amazing. FISH: What? TREY: There's lumps in the cosmic gravy. FISH: Huuuhhh... TREY:: No, seriously...there's lumps in the cosmic gravy! PAGE: Yes, actually, he's right! The microwave cloud is laced with …”

transcript: phish.in
Also Sprach Zarathustra · Trey mentioned donuts
transcript: phish.in

This show was night eight of Phish's Baker's Dozen run at Madison Square Garden and consisted of a jimmies donut theme. Donuts with a rainbow jimmies were given to fans arriving at the venue. Page teased Long Tall Glasses in Home. Trey quoted The Squirming Coil and Glass Onion during Fly Famous Mockingbird. During Harpua, Trey and Mike sat on chairs at the front of the stage, the entire band discussed cosmology, and eventually decided that the universe was in the shape of a donut. Trey mentioned donuts and teased Harpua in 2001. This show featured the Phish debut of The Wind Cries Mary.

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Noteworthy
DebutsThe Wind Cries Mary first time played
BustoutsEsther first in 76 shows · debuted September 12, 1988 at Sam's Tavern, Burlington, VT · Colonel Forbin's Ascent first in 76 shows · debuted March 12, 1988 at Nectar's, Burlington, VT · Fly Famous Mockingbird first in 76 shows · debuted February 7, 1988 at Nectar's, Burlington, VT · Harpua first in 65 shows · debuted May 11, 1987 at Nectar's, Burlington, VT
Longest versionWaking Up Dead 7 min — longest of 7 archived
Top 5 versionA Song I Heard the Ocean Sing #5 of 49 · Harpua #3 of 70
Top 10 versionDrowned #6 of 44
RaritiesWaking Up Dead 8 plays ever · debuted June 29, 2016 at The Mann Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA · Home 7 plays ever · debuted October 14, 2016 at North Charleston Coliseum, North Charleston, SC · In The Good Old Summer Time 2 plays ever · debuted July 14, 2017 at Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island, Chicago, IL · The Wind Cries Mary 1 play ever · debuted July 30, 2017 at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Long oddsThe Curtain With 💎💎💎 1 in 37 shows · Harpua 💎💎💎 1 in 26 shows
CoversNellie Kane Hot Rize · Drowned The Who · Also Sprach Zarathustra Eumir Deodato · The Wind Cries Mary Jimi Hendrix Experience
On the recordingHome Tease · Fly Famous Mockingbird Tease · Drowned Jamcharts · A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing Jamcharts · Also Sprach Zarathustra Tease

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
  • Drowned · Set 221:30
  • A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing · Set 218:02
  • Harpua · Set 217:17
  • The Curtain With · Set 113:58
  • David Bowie · Set 111:19
  • Colonel Forbin's Ascent · Set 111:05

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 — 7’90–’94 — 3’95–’00 — 22.0 (’02–’04) — 13.0 (’09–’20) — 417SONGS
  • ’83–’897
  • ’90–’943
  • ’95–’002
  • 2.0 (’02–’04)1
  • 3.0 (’09–’20)4

Album representation

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

Covers — 4No studio album — 4Not in the song file yet — 4Junta — 3The Story of the Ghost — 1Undermind — 117SONGS
  • Covers4
  • No studio album4
  • Not in the song file yet4
  • Junta3
  • The Story of the Ghost1
  • Undermind1

Gap since last played

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

1–2 · rotation — 16–15 — 1116–50 — 151+ · bustout — 417SONGS
  • 1–2 · rotation1
  • 6–1511
  • 16–501
  • 51+ · bustout4

Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

Phish original — 13Eumir Deodato — 1Hot Rize — 1Jimi Hendrix Experience — 1The Who — 117SONGS
  • Phish original13
  • Eumir Deodato1
  • Hot Rize1
  • Jimi Hendrix Experience1
  • The Who1

Who wrote it

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

Cover — 4Not in the song file yet — 4Anastasio solo — 3Anastasio + friends — 2Anastasio / Marshall — 1Full band — 115SONGS
  • Cover4
  • Not in the song file yet4
  • Anastasio solo3
  • Anastasio + friends2
  • Anastasio / Marshall1
  • Full band1

The Marshall factor

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

Without Marshall — 7With Tom Marshall — 29ORIGINALS
  • Without Marshall7
  • With Tom Marshall2

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

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