2008, 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 1 show in this scope happened.
Every city, 2008
Dot size is shows played there. Drag to turn it, pinch or + / − to zoom; hover a dot for the count.
Miles are straight lines between city points in date order, so this is a floor, not an odometer. 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.
Set closers
Last song of a set, encores excluded.
Rare and new
Bustouts, debuts, and songs almost nobody has heard live.
First times
Songs played for the first time ever in this scope, per Phish.net’s gap.
The covers
Whose songs they borrowed.
Originals vs covers
0 of 3 performances were covers.
- Originals3
Shapes of a night
How the songs were stitched together.
Deeper cuts
For the reader who scrolled this far on purpose.
Where songs land
Performances by set.
- Set 13
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.
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 3 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 Marshall2
- Without Marshall1
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.
- 💎💎Wastedebuted June 6, 1996 at Joyous Lake, Woodstock, NY · last played October 3, 20261 in 11112 plays in 1,191 shows
- 💎Juliusdebuted April 4, 1994 at The Flynn Theatre, Burlington, VT · last played October 7, 20261 in 6244 plays in 1,399 shows
- 💎Suzy Greenbergdebuted February 13, 1987 at Johnson State College, Johnson, VT · last played October 6, 20261 in 5457 plays in 2,189 shows
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