1997, 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 83 shows in this scope happened.
Every city, 1997
Dot size is shows played there. Drag to turn it, pinch or + / − to zoom; hover a dot for the count.
1997 Winter European Tour
13 stops · 13 shows
- 1London, England1 night
- 2Brussels, Brussels-Capital1 night
- 3Cologne, NRW1 night
- 4Amsterdam, North Holland1 night
- 5Paris, Île-de-France1 night
- 6Milan, Lombardy1 night
- 7Florence, Tuscany1 night
- 8Rome, Lazio1 night
- 9Cortemaggiore, Emilia-Romagna1 night
- 10Munich, Bavaria1 night
- 11Berlin, Berlin1 night
- 12Hamburg, Hamburg1 night
- 13Copenhagen, Capital Region1 night
Not Part of a Tour
5 stops · 8 shows
- •Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg1 night
- 1New York, NY2 nights
- 2Burlington, VT2 nights
- 3Philadelphia, PA2 nights
- 4Charlotte, VT1 night
1997 Summer European Tour
17 stops · 19 shows
- 1Dublin, County Dublin2 nights
- 2London, England1 night
- 3Vienna, Vienna1 night
- 4Prague, Prague1 night
- 5Scheeßel, Lower Saxony1 night
- •St. Goarshausen, Rhineland-Palatinate1 night
- 6Strasbourg, Grand Est1 night
- 7Lille, Hauts-de-France1 night
- 8Somerset, England1 night
- 9Roskilde, Region Zealand1 night
- 10Amsterdam, North Holland2 nights
- 11Nüremberg, Bavaria1 night
- 12Como, Lombardy1 night
- 13Desenzano, Lombardy1 night
- 14Lyon/Villeurbanne, Auvergne-Rhône1 night
- 15Marseilles, PACA1 night
- 16Escalarre, Catalonia1 night
1997 Summer U.S. Tour
16 stops · 19 shows
- 1Virginia Beach, VA1 night
- 2Raleigh, NC1 night
- 3Atlanta, GA1 night
- 4Dallas, TX1 night
- 5Austin, TX1 night
- 6Phoenix, AZ1 night
- 7Ventura, CA1 night
- 8Mountain View, CA1 night
- 9George, WA2 nights
- 10Maryland Heights, MO1 night
- 11Tinley Park, IL1 night
- 12East Troy, WI1 night
- 13Noblesville, IN2 nights
- 14Burgettstown, PA1 night
- 15Darien Center, NY1 night
- 16Limestone, ME2 nights
1997 Fall Tour (a.k.a. Phish Destroys America)
15 stops · 21 shows
- 1Las Vegas, NV1 night
- 2West Valley City, UT1 night
- 3Denver, CO2 nights
- 4Champaign, IL1 night
- 5Hampton, VA2 nights
- 6Winston-Salem, NC1 night
- 7Hartford, CT1 night
- 8Worcester, MA3 nights
- 9Philadelphia, PA2 nights
- 10Cleveland, OH1 night
- 11Auburn Hills, MI1 night
- 12Dayton, OH1 night
- 13State College, PA1 night
- 14Rochester, NY1 night
- 15Albany, NY2 nights
1997 NYE Run
2 stops · 3 shows
- 1Landover, MD1 night
- 2New York, NY2 nights
Miles are straight lines between city points in date order, so this is a floor, not an odometer. Longest hop: Escalarre, Catalonia → Virginia Beach, VA, roughly 4,018 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.
+44 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 — 80 of 83 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
364 of 1418 performances were covers.
- Originals1054
- Covers364
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 1740
- Set 2549
- Encore107
- Set 321
- Encore 21
- Set 41
Where the time goes
Timed minutes by set.
- Set 15327
- Set 24835
- Encore696
- Set 3185
- Encore 215
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 816 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 Marshall523
- Without Marshall325
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.
- 💎💎💎💎💎One Meatballdebuted February 25, 1997 at Incognito, Munich, Bavaria · last played February 25, 19971 in 11091 plays in 1,109 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Little Red Roosterdebuted February 25, 1997 at Incognito, Munich, Bavaria · last played February 25, 19971 in 11091 plays in 1,109 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Got My Mojo Workingdebuted February 25, 1997 at Incognito, Munich, Bavaria · last played February 25, 19971 in 11091 plays in 1,109 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎I Told You Sodebuted March 18, 1997 at The Flynn Theatre, Burlington, VT · last played March 18, 19971 in 11031 plays in 1,103 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Love Me Like a Mandebuted March 18, 1997 at The Flynn Theatre, Burlington, VT · last played March 18, 19971 in 11031 plays in 1,103 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Stand!debuted June 13, 1997 at The S.F.X. Centre, Dublin, County Dublin · last played June 13, 19971 in 11001 plays in 1,100 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Waking Updebuted June 14, 1997 at The S.F.X. Centre, Dublin, County Dublin · last played June 14, 19971 in 10991 plays in 1,099 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Ceciliadebuted June 25, 1997 at L’Aeronef, Lille, Hauts-de-France · last played June 25, 19971 in 10921 plays in 1,092 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Wormtowndebuted July 2, 1997 at Paradiso, Amsterdam, North Holland · last played July 2, 19971 in 10881 plays in 1,088 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Trane To Conamarradebuted July 9, 1997 at Le Transbordeur, Lyon/Villeurbanne, Auvergne-Rhône · last played July 9, 19971 in 10841 plays in 1,084 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Amoreenadebuted August 13, 1997 at Star Lake Amphitheatre, Burgettstown, PA · last played August 13, 19971 in 10661 plays in 1,066 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Merry Pranksters Jamdebuted August 14, 1997 at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, Darien Center, NY · last played August 14, 19971 in 10651 plays in 1,065 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Disco Setdebuted August 16, 1997 at Loring Commerce Centre, Limestone, ME · last played August 16, 19971 in 10641 plays in 1,064 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Art Jamdebuted August 17, 1997 at Loring Commerce Centre, Limestone, ME · last played August 17, 19971 in 10631 plays in 1,063 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Them Changesdebuted November 30, 1997 at Worcester Centrum Centre, Worcester, MA · last played November 30, 19971 in 10501 plays in 1,050 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)debuted December 30, 1997 at Downtime, New York, NY · last played December 30, 19971 in 10371 plays in 1,037 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Rocky Mountain Waydebuted February 16, 1991 at The Marquee, New York, NY · last played July 23, 19971 in 8802 plays in 1,760 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Hoochie Coochie Mandebuted April 10, 1993 at Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL · last played August 8, 19971 in 7312 plays in 1,462 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Take Me to the Riverdebuted November 21, 1995 at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Winston-Salem, NC · last played July 10, 19971 in 6082 plays in 1,216 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎I Don't Caredebuted June 16, 1997 at Royal Albert Hall, London, England · last played June 20, 19971 in 5492 plays in 1,098 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Samson Variationdebuted June 21, 1997 at Hurricane Festival, Scheeßel, Lower Saxony · last played August 3, 19971 in 5482 plays in 1,095 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Messin' with The Kiddebuted August 8, 1997 at New World Music Theatre, Tinley Park, IL · last played October 3, 19991 in 5352 plays in 1,070 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎I Can't Turn You Loosedebuted December 29, 1997 at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY · last played September 29, 19991 in 5192 plays in 1,038 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Theme from New York, New Yorkdebuted December 31, 1997 at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY · last played December 31, 20221 in 5182 plays in 1,036 shows
- 💎💎💎💎💎Moby Dickdebuted February 19, 1993 at Roxy Theatre, Atlanta, GA · last played July 11, 20001 in 4993 plays in 1,498 shows
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