Madison Square Garden
New York, NY
- Everything's Right,Tease11:08
- Tube,💬 BanterTease8:04
- Ether Edge >4:31
- Reba,12:09
- Taste,7:23
- Ruby Waves,9:22
- A Life Beyond The Dream,7:26
- Character Zero4:54
- Down with Disease,7:51
- Harpua¹ >Bustout · 97-show gapUnfinishedGamehendgeNarrationGuestTease9:11
- The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday² >Bustout · 89-show gapGamehendgeNarrationGuest1:02
- The Lizards² >Gamehendge11:16
- Punch You in the Eye >GamehendgeNarrationGuest6:25
- AC/DC Bag >GamehendgeJamcharts18:58
- Tela² >Bustout · 52-show gapGamehendgeNarrationGuest7:21
- Llama >NarrationGamehendge4:37
- Wilson³ >GamehendgeGuestNarrationJamcharts4:29
- The Sloth⁴ >Bustout · 97-show gapGamehendgeAlt LyricNarrationGuest4:26
- Divided Sky²GamehendgeNarrationGuest14:24
- McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters >Gamehendge5:24
- Colonel Forbin's Ascent⁵ >GamehendgeNarrationGuestAlt LyricBustout · 113-show gap9:04
- Fly Famous Mockingbird⁶ >GamehendgeNarrationGuestBustout · 113-show gap7:08
- Auld Lang Syne >NarrationGamehendgeGuestCover · Traditional1:49
- Split Open and Melt²,Narration14:32
- You Enjoy Myself >19:59
- Loving Cup >JamchartsCover · The Rolling Stones8:05
- Possum💬 BanterJamcharts10:05
- Cavern >4:22
- First Tube >7:46
- Tweezer Reprise💬 Banter3:18
¹ Unfinished.
² Off-stage backing chorus.
³ Jo Lampert on additional vocals. Off-stage backing chorus.
⁴ Lyrics changed to "I'm squeezing that Charmin. Thank you Mr. Whipple. I'm still squeezing that Charmin. Thank you Mr. Whipple."
⁵ Off-stage backing chorus. Lyrics changed to "weary body."
⁶ Annie Golden on additional vocals. Off-stage backing chorus.
“TREY: Welcome, everybody, welcome. I feel so tall up here.”
“TREY: Welcome, everyone, welcome! It's new year's even once again here in this beautiful garden. 83 shows later. That's true, of a band that started in 1983, and we're all still here together, so many memories. Utter balls and …”
“GRANDMA: It's New Year's Eve and I can't let you ring in another new year without knowing The Real Story of Gamehendge! TREY: Our story begins in a world out of balance, with a retired colonel on a suburban street on Long …”
“GRANDMA: So our hero Col Forbin was in Gamehendge. He heard revolutionaries speaking to king Wilson and a battle waging between good and evil. Off in the distance, he saw a ship approaching with a French Wilson flag. It was the …”
“GRANDMA: Col Forbin realized how empty his life had been. He'd follow Tela anywhere. So she led him deep into the forest. They walked all night. Tela explained everything about Wilson and the Lizards and the Helping Friendly …”
“THE WOLF: You've seen the evil that Wilson brings. And the destruction! (Wilson chant) He must be defeated! (Wilson chant) Who's with me?”
“GRANDMA: So The Wolf and Forbin set out to find the only man in Gamehendge who could handle the job of eliminating a king: The Sloth. ... The Sloth is played ... TREY: Well, The Sloth was kinda the slowest gun in the west, so …”
“TREY: Anyway, uh, oh where are we here? I guess I'm telling this part of the story. So basically what happens is The Sloth, oh yeah, thank you Mike, so The Sloth tried to kill Wilson, but he was too slow. Wilson walked away and …”
“TREY: Hey Grandma, hey Jimmy, welcome back. Grandma, did you enjoy your $22 beer during the break? GRANDMA: I had two and I got a sweatshirt. FISH: I can't believe they killed Tela. TRYE: Fish just said he can't believe they …”
“GRANDMA: So the Famous Mockingbird swooped down from the clouds and spread her glorious wings, and flew among the sky, bringing the wisdom of the Helping Friendly Book back to the people. Because, you see, you had it all along!”
“GRANDMA: Good people of Gamehendge, it's time! TREY: Pretty much. GRANDMA: Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one!”
“TREY: Hey Grandma, did I remember to tell you to watch out because the, uh, the mountain was an active volcano!”
“TREY: Thanks so much everybody, happy new year. We love you, have a beautiful new year. Thank you for being here with us. It means so much, we can't wait to see you again soon. Thank you.”
“TREY: Thank you everybody, we'll see you next year. This year! Travel safe, we love you.”
Tube contained teases of the theme from The Mary Tyler Moore Show . Harpua was unfinished and contained a Vibration of Life tease. During the Harpua narration, Trey talked about some of the Harpuas and Phish shows at Madison Square Garden of the past 40 years, and a bed appeared from beneath the front of the stage with an actor playing Jimmy and a puppet version of Poster Nutbag. Trey then interrupted the song before the "I want a dog" lyric and said Jimmy had lacked a strong female influence over the years and introduced actress Annie Golden as Jimmy's grandmother. While consoling Jimmy, she told him it was time to tell the truth about the owner of Harpua. After telling Jimmy that the old man had given the puppet to Esther and helped Jimmy's cousin Reba make liquid meat, a vinyl record (with a rhombus on the cover) was brought forth and Jimmy's grandmother said "it's time... it's New Year's Eve and I can't let you ring another new year without knowing the real story of Gamehendge!" leading into The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday and a glowing rhombus rising to frame the entire stage. The band then began the first performance of the Gamehendge saga since July 8, 1994 (1,194 shows), with Golden and Trey providing the narration and performers acting out the parts of Colonel Forbin, Rutherford, the AC/DC Bag, Tela, Errand Wolfe (later billed in post show credits as "The Wolf"), and the Sloth. The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, The Lizards, Tela, Wilson, Divided Sky, Colonel Forbin's Ascent, Fly Famous Mockingbird, and Split Open and Melt featured an off-stage backing chorus. The multi-beast and McGrupp were also performed by puppets. Tela performed acrobatics on wires during her song, with Jo Lampert (as the Wolf) providing additional vocals during Wilson. The Sloth's lyrics were changed to "I'm squeezing that Charmin. Thank you Mr. Whipple. I'm still squeezing that Charmin. Thank you Mr. Whipple." Colonel Forbin ascended the rhombus during Colonel Forbin's Ascent (which had lyrics changed to "weary body"), and a large Famous Mockingbird puppet (with a top hat) flew over the crowd during Fly Famous Mockingbird, which also featured Annie Golden on additional vocals. Before Melt, Trey asked Jimmy's grandmother if she knew that the mountain was a volcano, and the Lizards reappeared to dance to the ensuing Melt jam, eventually leaving the stage one by one as the rhombus was lowered again.
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 319:59
- AC/DC Bag · Set 218:58
- Split Open and Melt · Set 314:32
- Divided Sky · Set 214:24
- Reba · Set 112:09
- The Lizards · Set 211:16
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–’8917
- ’90–’946
- ’95–’003
- 3.0 (’09–’20)3
- 4.0 (’21–)1
Album representation
The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.
- No studio album8
- TMWSIY (Gamehendge)6
- A Picture of Nectar3
- Not in the song file yet3
- Billy Breathes2
- Covers2
- +4 more
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.
- 3–58
- 6–1511
- 16–505
- 51+ · bustout6
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original28
- The Rolling Stones1
- Traditional1
Who wrote it
Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.
- Anastasio solo10
- Anastasio + friends3
- Anastasio / Marshall3
- Full band3
- Not in the song file yet3
- Cover2
- +2 more
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.
- Without Marshall19
- With Tom Marshall6
4 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.
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