1996, counted
Setlists from Phish.net, timings and tags from phish.in, albums and writing credits hand-curated. Numbers marked “all time” are Phish.net’s across every show ever played; everything else is counted from the shows in this scope. For official play counts and gap charts, Phish.net is the authority.
The road
Where the 74 shows in this scope happened.
Every city, 1996
Dot size is shows played there. Drag to turn it, pinch or + / − to zoom; hover a dot for the count.
Not Part of a Tour
5 stops · 5 shows
- 1New Orleans, LA1 night
- 2Woodstock, NY1 night
- •Lonigo, Veneto1 night
- 3Minneapolis, MN1 night
- 4Inglewood, CA1 night
1996 Summer European Tour
17 stops · 18 shows
- 1Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige1 night
- 2Rome, Lazio1 night
- 3Pistoia, Tuscany1 night
- 4Milan, Lombardy1 night
- 5Deauville, Normandy1 night
- 6Paris, Île-de-France1 night
- 7London, England1 night
- 8Amsterdam, North Holland1 night
- 9Dour, Wallonia1 night
- 10Sesto Calende, Lombardy1 night
- 11Vienne, Auvergne-Rhône1 night
- 12Nice, PACA1 night
- 13Arles, PACA1 night
- 14Nüremberg, Bavaria1 night
- 15Cologne, NRW1 night
- 16Hamburg, Hamburg2 nights
- 17Hanover, Lower Saxony1 night
1996 Summer U.S. Tour
6 stops · 12 shows
- 1Park City, UT1 night
- 2Morrison, CO4 nights
- 3East Troy, WI1 night
- 4Noblesville, IN2 nights
- 5Hershey, PA1 night
- 6Plattsburgh, NY3 nights
1996 Fall Tour
34 stops · 35 shows
- 1Lake Placid, NY1 night
- 2State College, PA1 night
- 3Pittsburgh, PA1 night
- 4Buffalo, NY1 night
- 5New York, NY2 nights
- 6Hartford, CT1 night
- 7Hampton, VA1 night
- 8Charlotte, NC1 night
- 9North Charleston, SC1 night
- 10Tallahassee, FL1 night
- 11Atlanta, GA1 night
- 12West Palm Beach, FL1 night
- 13Gainesville, FL1 night
- 14Knoxville, TN1 night
- 15Lexington, KY1 night
- 16Champaign, IL1 night
- 17Auburn Hills, MI1 night
- 18Grand Rapids, MI1 night
- 19Minneapolis, MN1 night
- 20Ames, IA1 night
- 21St. Louis, MO1 night
- 22Omaha, NE1 night
- 23Memphis, TN1 night
- 24Kansas City, MO1 night
- 25Spokane, WA1 night
- 26Vancouver, British Columbia1 night
- 27Portland, OR1 night
- 28Seattle, WA1 night
- 29Daly City, CA1 night
- 30Sacramento, CA1 night
- 31Los Angeles, CA1 night
- 32Phoenix, AZ1 night
- 33San Diego, CA1 night
- 34Las Vegas, NV1 night
1996 NYE Run
2 stops · 4 shows
- 1Philadelphia, PA2 nights
- 2Boston, MA2 nights
Miles are straight lines between city points in date order, so this is a floor, not an odometer. Longest hop: Hanover, Lower Saxony → Park City, UT, roughly 5,113 miles. Every stop is on the map; a city the map could not place is still listed under it.
The basics
Counted from every setlist in this scope.
The songs
What they played, what they led with, what they left you with.
Most played
Performances in this scope · the second number, where shown, is the song’s all-time count on Phish.net.
Show openers
First song of the night.
Second-set openers
What they came back out with.
Set closers
Last song of a set, encores excluded.
Encores
Every song played in an encore slot.
Rare and new
Bustouts, debuts, and songs almost nobody has heard live.
Biggest bustouts
Songs that came back after the longest absence. The gap is Phish.net’s, counted in shows.
First times
Songs played for the first time ever in this scope, per Phish.net’s gap.
+19 more
Rarities
Songs with ten or fewer performances ever, per Phish.net — and they played them here.
The jams
Lengths come from phish.in’s recordings — 70 of 73 shows here are timed.
Longest performances
Timed from phish.in’s recordings.
Longest on average
Mean length, songs with three or more timed versions in scope.
Show lengths
Every fully-timed show, in order. Hover for the night, click for the setlist. Untimed shows are absent, not zero.
The covers
Whose songs they borrowed.
Originals vs covers
264 of 1283 performances were covers.
- Originals1019
- Covers264
Most covered
Counted per performance.
Shapes of a night
How the songs were stitched together.
Longest segue runs
Consecutive songs joined by “>” without a full stop. Four or more.
Deeper cuts
For the reader who scrolled this far on purpose.
Where songs land
Performances by set.
- Set 1651
- Set 2520
- Encore79
- Set 332
- Set 41
Where the time goes
Timed minutes by set.
- Set 14546
- Set 22968
- Encore438
- Set 3204
- Set 413
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, banded. Far right is a bustout.
When it debuted
Performances by the era Phish first played the song.
What they played, by album
Hand-curated album membership per performance.
What the recording was tagged
phish.in’s editorial tags across recorded performances.
Day of the week
Shows by weekday.
Rooms played
Shows per venue, every show in scope.
The odd stuff
Outlandish, and here because somebody will ask.
Songwriters, by credits
Over 813 original performances with a known credit; a co-write counts once per writer.
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest.
- With Tom Marshall437
- Without Marshall399
Who wrote it
Originals by writing-credit bucket.
The rarity index
How rare a song really is: not how many times it has been played, but how often the band reaches for it relative to how long they have had it.
Odds are shows Phish has played since the song’s debut, divided by its all-time play count — “1 in 40” means it turns up once every forty shows on average. Every input is Phish.net’s: the debut date, the play count, and the full show list since. A rotation song sits near 1 in 3; a once-a-tour song near 1 in 30; the unicorns at 1 in 200 and up. 💎💎 1 in 10 · 💎💎💎 1 in 20 · 💎💎💎💎 1 in 50 · 💎💎💎💎💎 1 in 100. Ranked over the songs played in this scope.
- 💎💎💎💎💎Theme from Star Trekdebuted August 4, 1996 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO · last played August 4, 19961 in 11701 plays in 1,170 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Ninety-Nine Years (and One Dark Day)debuted August 7, 1996 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO · last played August 7, 19961 in 11671 plays in 1,167 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Hold to a Dreamdebuted August 7, 1996 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO · last played August 7, 19961 in 11671 plays in 1,167 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Flatbed Truck Jamdebuted August 16, 1996 at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Plattsburgh, NY · last played August 16, 19961 in 11611 plays in 1,161 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)debuted October 31, 1996 at The Omni, Atlanta, GA · last played October 31, 19961 in 11481 plays in 1,148 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎The Great Curvedebuted October 31, 1996 at The Omni, Atlanta, GA · last played October 31, 19961 in 11481 plays in 1,148 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Houses in Motiondebuted October 31, 1996 at The Omni, Atlanta, GA · last played October 31, 19961 in 11481 plays in 1,148 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Seen and Not Seendebuted October 31, 1996 at The Omni, Atlanta, GA · last played October 31, 19961 in 11481 plays in 1,148 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Listening Winddebuted October 31, 1996 at The Omni, Atlanta, GA · last played October 31, 19961 in 11481 plays in 1,148 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎The Overloaddebuted October 31, 1996 at The Omni, Atlanta, GA · last played October 31, 19961 in 11481 plays in 1,148 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Mean Mr. Mustarddebuted November 15, 1996 at Kiel Center, St. Louis, MO · last played November 15, 19961 in 11371 plays in 1,137 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Midnight on the Highwaydebuted November 23, 1996 at Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, British Columbia · last played November 23, 19961 in 11321 plays in 1,132 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Wildwood Weeddebuted December 6, 1996 at The Aladdin Theatre, Las Vegas, NV · last played December 6, 19961 in 11231 plays in 1,123 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎I Want To Be a Cowboy's Sweetheartdebuted December 6, 1996 at The Aladdin Theatre, Las Vegas, NV · last played December 6, 19961 in 11231 plays in 1,123 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Sixteen Candlesdebuted December 29, 1996 at CoreStates Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA · last played December 29, 19961 in 11211 plays in 1,121 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Champagne Supernovadebuted December 29, 1996 at CoreStates Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA · last played December 29, 19961 in 11211 plays in 1,121 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎All Along the Watchtowerdebuted April 21, 1994 at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Winston-Salem, NC · last played October 22, 19961 in 6922 plays in 1,385 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Doin' My Timedebuted August 7, 1996 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO · last played July 1, 19991 in 5842 plays in 1,167 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Once in a Lifetimedebuted October 31, 1996 at The Omni, Atlanta, GA · last played September 6, 20151 in 5742 plays in 1,148 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎We're an American Banddebuted November 16, 1996 at Civic Auditorium, Omaha, NE · last played September 29, 20001 in 5682 plays in 1,136 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Bohemian Rhapsodydebuted December 31, 1996 at FleetCenter, Boston, MA · last played December 31, 20221 in 5602 plays in 1,119 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Sweet Emotiondebuted March 16, 1993 at Celebrity Theatre, Phoenix, AZ · last played November 27, 19961 in 4943 plays in 1,481 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Gypsy Queendebuted August 7, 1996 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO · last played June 24, 19971 in 3893 plays in 1,167 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Rotation Jamdebuted November 25, 1995 at Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA · last played August 10, 19971 in 3034 plays in 1,213 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Over the Rainbowdebuted August 17, 1992 at The Coach House, San Juan Capistrano, CA · last played August 9, 19981 in 2217 plays in 1,548 shows
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