Sphere
Las Vegas, NV
- Plasma,
- Evolve,
- Ghost,
- Divided Sky,
- Shade¹,
- Hey Stranger,
- Character Zero
- Oblivion >7:58
- Down with Disease,Jamcharts34:08
- Beneath a Sea of Stars Part 1 ->12:48
- Also Sprach Zarathustra >Cover · Strauss, as interpreted by Deodato9:09
- Light >TeaseJamcharts22:09
- Ether Edge >5:04
- Piper,10:37
- First Tube8:04
- More >💬 Banter5:29
- Slave to the Traffic Light10:25
¹ Began with Trey on acoustic guitar.
The band took the stage while pre-recorded music similar to Plasma played, before beginning the song. During Ghost, the neon-colored outlines of three giant robots appeared to tower over the band, with their facial expressions varying and their arms and bodies swaying slowly. The three robots were then replaced by one massive robot, with spotlights utilized to make it appear as if beams of light were coming from the robot's eyes, before the original three robots returned for the remainder of the jam. During Divided Sky, the dome became a view of a sea of clouds, with patches of blue sky above. As the clouds moved, their appearance varied from purple sunset hues to dark and stormy, with the movement stopping and all of the color fading during the pause before returning for the rest of the song. Page teased Linus and Lucy at the end of Divided Sky. Trey began Shade on acoustic guitar. During Shade, an eclipsed star was shown behind the band, with its corona of changing colors visible and a silhouette of the band in the center. During Sea of Stars, the dome became filled with a curtain of gold-colored four-point stars, which twinkled and waved in front of roiling clouds. During 2001, the dome became a starfield before being illuminated by replicated images of the stage lights. Mike teased Plasma during Light. During Ether Edge, a string of umbrellas with colored drops trailing beneath were raised to either side of the stage. The umbrellas were lowered again during Piper. During First Tube, the dome again became a starfield, this time with a ring of stars centered above the stage slowly swirling. As the second "verse" of First Tube began, a white vortex appeared in this area. As the stars in its orbit began to become multicolored, the vortex pulled in their light and created flowing, rainbow-hued ribbons that grew as the jam progressed. Prior to More, Trey thanked the production team behind the Sphere shows, and said that he thinks the band will return to the venue. After Slave, the band gathered at the front of the stage to take bows and have a picture taken in front of the crowd. This show was connected to the other three with each night's setlist tied into a state of matter. This performance's matter type was plasma.
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).
- Down with Disease · Set 234:08
- Light · Set 222:09
- Beneath a Sea of Stars Part 1 · Set 212:48
- Piper · Set 210:37
- Slave to the Traffic Light · Encore10:25
- Also Sprach Zarathustra · Set 29:09
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–’892
- ’90–’942
- ’95–’004
- 3.0 (’09–’20)5
- 4.0 (’21–)4
Album representation
The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.
- Evolve3
- No studio album3
- Farmhouse2
- Big Boat1
- Billy Breathes1
- Covers1
- +6 more
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.
- 3–58
- 6–158
- 16–501
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original16
- Eumir Deodato1
Who wrote it
Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.
- Anastasio / Marshall7
- Anastasio solo3
- Anastasio + friends2
- Full band2
- Cover1
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.
- With Tom Marshall8
- Without Marshall8