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SET 1: The Moma Dance > Possum, Wolfman's Brother, Birds of a Feather, I Didn't Know, Happy Birthday to You[1], Martian Monster, Reba, Walls of the Cave
SET 2: The Wedge > Wilson > A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing, Yarmouth Road, Kill Devil Falls[2] > Piper > Twist
SET 3: No Men In No Man's Land > Auld Lang Syne > Blaze On > Carini > David Bowie, The Horse > Silent in the Morning > Backwards Down the Number Line
During I Didn't Know, Trey introduced Fish as "The Man Mulcahy." The crowd sang the last verse of I Didn't Know and Fish then asked the crowd to join him in singing Happy Birthday to his daughter, Ella. KDF was unfinished. The third set began with the band on a second stage beneath a funnel-shaped screen suspended from the ceiling. As the band jammed, part of the screen descended and became an hourglass shape surrounding the stage, on which a series of images were projected. As the jam continued and the countdown to midnight approached, the band returned to the main stage.
SET 1: Sample in a Jar, Free, Simple > Back on the Train, Waiting All Night, 555, Roggae, The Dogs > 46 Days
SET 2: Chalk Dust Torture > Ghost > Can't Always Listen[1] > Ghost > Waves > Bathtub Gin > Mike's Song > Bouncing Around the Room > Weekapaug Groove -> What's the Use? > Weekapaug Groove
ENCORE: Character Zero
This show featured the debut of Can't Always Listen. The second Weekapaug contained Auld Lang Syne and What's The Use? teases from Trey.
Soundcheck: Dog Log
SET 1: The Landlady, Free > The Moma Dance > Seven Below > Prince Caspian > Backwards Down the Number Line, The Line, Scent of a Mule[1] > Saw It Again, Halfway to the Moon, The Birdwatcher, Frankenstein[2]
SET 2: Wilson > Down with Disease[3] > Carini > Steam > Piper > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Tweezer > The Horse > Silent in the Morning > Slave to the Traffic Light
ENCORE: Tweezer Reprise, Harpua[4] > After Midnight[5] > NO2[1] > Keyboard Army[5] > Your Pet Cat[6] > Once in a Lifetime > United We Stand[7]
This show featured several bustouts: The Landlady (last played December 3, 1994, or 770 shows), Birdwatcher (June 28, 2012, 134 shows), Keyboard Army (December 14, 1995, 686 shows), and Once in a Lifetime (October 31, 1996, 636 shows). Scent of a Mule and NO2 featured Fish on Marimba Lumina. Frankenstein featured Page on keytar. Down with Disease and Harpua were unfinished. Piper included a quote of Rockin' Down the Highway from Fish with "rollin'" sung instead of "rockin.'" Harpua, After Midnight, Keyboard Army, and Your Pet Cat included narration about Jimmy being a guy from the east coast coming west, having a breathing problem, and needing an oxygen tank (with Trey sucking from an oxygen tank). Trey then said Jimmy started to feel strange and wondered if he should've gotten that oxygen tank in the parking lot after the Phish show. Harpua also contained a Glass Onion quote with Trey saying "the Walrus was Page." Your Pet Cat included narration from Mike about eating Poster Nutbag and finished with a portion of Harpua. Once in a Lifetime contained Harpua quotes. This show featured the Phish debut of United We Stand. During Harpua, Trey mentioned that people writing down the setlist would want to only count Harpua once (by doing this, the encore spelled out THANK YOU).
Soundcheck: Mercury (x2)
SET 1: No Men In No Man's Land, Martian Monster, NICU, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Bouncing Around the Room, 555, Winterqueen, Split Open and Melt, Limb By Limb > Roggae > Character Zero
SET 2: A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing > Chalk Dust Torture[1] -> Twist > Mercury > Light > Wingsuit > Rock and Roll
ENCORE: Sleeping Monkey > Harry Hood > A Day in the Life
Trey teased It's Ice and Call to the Post before Split Open and Melt and Dave's Energy Guide during Rock and Roll. Chalk Dust included teases of The Birds by Trey and Fish and was unfinished. Trey announced "Let Leo pick" before the encore, and Page thanked the crowd while the band began to play Page's selection, Sleeping Monkey.
Soundcheck: My Soul, Undermind, Hey Joe
SET 1: Tube > Ghost > Halley's Comet > Undermind, Yarmouth Road > Bathtub Gin, Waiting All Night > Horn > The Wedge, 46 Days > Run Like an Antelope
SET 2: Wolfman's Brother[1] > Blaze On > Golden Age > Roses Are Free > Fuego > Wading in the Velvet Sea > Walls of the Cave
ENCORE: Hold Your Head Up > Bike > Hold Your Head Up, Loving Cup
Wolfman's was unfinished. Bike was last played June 28, 2012 (132 shows). The soundcheck's Undermind contained a Streets of Cairo tease from Trey.
SET 1: Punch You in the Eye > Buffalo Bill, A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing > Limb By Limb, Waiting All Night > Theme From the Bottom > Maze, The Line, Stash, Reba, I Didn't Know[1], Character Zero
SET 2: Martian Monster > Down with Disease[2] -> Scents and Subtle Sounds[3] -> What's the Use? > Dirt > Mike's Song > Fuego > Twist -> Weekapaug Groove[2] -> Martian Monster
ENCORE: You Enjoy Myself
This was the third show of the Magnaball festival. Trey teased The Tears of a Clown before Punch You In the Eye. Buffalo Bill was played for the first time since June 22, 2012 (134 shows). Trey thanked the fans, crew, production staff and local officials during I Didn't Know while Fishman "sucked love" on his vacuum. Down with Disease was unfinished. Scents did not have the intro. Immigrant Song was teased in both Twist and Weekapaug Groove. Mainstreet was teased in Weekapaug Groove, which was unfinished. YEM contained a Brick House tease from Mike, Sanity quotes in the vocal jam, and culminated with a quote from The Very Long Fuse and a fireworks display.
SET 1: Divided Sky, The Moma Dance > Mound, Army of One, Scabbard > Sample in a Jar, Tube, Halfway to the Moon, Camel Walk, How Many People Are You, When the Circus Comes, Undermind > Run Like an Antelope
SET 2: Wolfman's Brother, Halley's Comet > 46 Days -> Backwards Down the Number Line > Tweezer > Prince Caspian
SET 3: Meatstick > Blaze On -> Possum > Cities -> Mind Left Body Jam > Cities > Light > 555, Wading in the Velvet Sea > Walls of the Cave
ENCORE: Boogie On Reggae Woman > Tweezer Reprise
SET 4: Drive-In Jam
This was the second show of the Magnaball festival, and marked the first Mind Left Body Jam since November 13, 1998 (475 shows) Caspian included a Tweezer tease. The Fourth Set Drive-In Jam started with the band playing behind the "Drive In Movie" screen that had been created for the festival. Slowly, their silhouettes became visible and the ambient jam veered towards a full on band jam while the screen simultaneously showed fractal like images of close-ups of the band. Eventually, the band was visible. The Drive-In Jam included a Fireworks tease from Mike and a Little Drummer Boy tease from Page.
SET 1: Simple > The Dogs > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Free, Happy Birthday to You, The Wedge, Mock Song, Roggae > Rift > Bathtub Gin
SET 2: Chalk Dust Torture[1] > Ghost -> Rock and Roll > Harry Hood -> Waste > No Men In No Man's Land -> Slave to the Traffic Light
ENCORE: Farmhouse, First Tube
This was the first show of the Magnaball festival. Bathtub Gin contained a Time Loves a Hero teases from Mike. TMWSIY and Avenu Malkenu were played for the first time since July 4, 2012 (124 shows). After Free, Trey asked the crowd to sing Happy Birthday to his daughter, Eliza, who briefly joined him onstage as he sang to her. Mock Song was played for the first time since July 12, 2003 (320 shows), and featured a lyric change to "Clifford, Super, Magnaball." CDT contained a What's the Use? tease and was unfinished. Hood contained a CTB tease from Mike.
SET 1: Jam
This was the soundcheck for the Magnaball Festival. The soundcheck consisted of one 46-minute jam, which included Fish and Trey saying "Feel the Bern" (in reference to 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders), a Rock Around the Clock quote from Mike, and was broadcast on "The Bunny."
Soundcheck: Foam, The Mango Song, My Soul
SET 1: Golgi Apparatus > Undermind, Julius, 555, Nothing, No Men In No Man's Land, Stash, David Bowie > Possum
SET 2: Down with Disease[1] -> Slave to the Traffic Light > Light -> Twist, Shine a Light, Fuego > Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley > You Enjoy Myself
ENCORE: Backwards Down the Number Line
Sleeping Monkey was teased and quoted before the show and also quoted in the YEM vocal jam. Mike teased "Charge!" before the show as well. Nothing was played for the first time since June 7, 2012 (139 shows). DWD's lyrics were changed to reference "Mike's head." DWD was also unfinished.
Soundcheck: Sparkle, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Friday, Nothing (x5), Stir It Up (instrumental)
SET 1: Simple > Glide, Buried Alive > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Roggae > Limb By Limb > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars > Your Pet Cat > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Horn > Blaze On > Run Like an Antelope[1]
SET 2: Halley's Comet > 46 Days -> Bug > Steam > What's the Use? > Steam -> Piper -> Tweezer[2] -> NO2[2] -> Tweezer > Walls of the Cave
ENCORE: Sleeping Monkey > Tweezer Reprise
The first Big Black Furry Creature from Mars included an I Dream of Jeannie theme tease from Mike and a Your Pet Cat quote. Run Like an Antelope included a Call To The Post tease and the lyrics were changed to "Gaktoidler Esquandolas." Piper included a Steam tease. The first Tweezer and NO2 included Trey on megaphone. NO2 was last played August 12, 2010 (202 shows) and included a Martian Monster quote. During the intro to Sleeping Monkey, Trey said that backstage the band had read a website that ranked Phish songs and they were surprised that Page's all-time favorite song was not on the top of the list, so they were going to play it for the crowd right now. Trey then said every night walking off during encore breaks Page asks to play it and Mike says "No Page, not tonight, tonight's not your night, man." Tweezer Reprise included a Sleeping Monkey quote from Fish.
Soundcheck: Beauty of a Broken Heart, Scabbard, Wombat
SET 1: Llama[1], Chalk Dust Torture, The Moma Dance, Yarmouth Road, Tube > Bouncing Around the Room, Maze, Waiting All Night, Lawn Boy, Devotion To a Dream, Wolfman's Brother, Suzy Greenberg
SET 2: The Wedge, Golden Age > Reba > Mike's Song > Ghost > No Quarter > Weekapaug Groove > First Tube
This show featured the first performance of Llama in an alternate arrangement with a slower tempo. Weekapaug included No Quarter teases from Trey.
Soundcheck: Your Pet Cat
SET 1: AC/DC Bag > Free, Ya Mar, Sample in a Jar, Cities, Stash, Birds of a Feather, The Line, It's Ice > Character Zero
SET 2: Bathtub Gin, No Men In No Man's Land > Twist, Scents and Subtle Sounds, Harry Hood
ENCORE: Loving Cup
Free contained Martian Monster teases and quotes, Mike teased I Want You Back in Ya Mar, and Trey quoted Martian Monster at the end of Hood. The soundcheck's Your Pet Cat contained Tomorrow's Song lyrics.
Soundcheck: Skin It Back, Scents and Subtle Sounds, Vultures, Sing Monica
SET 1: Crowd Control, Martian Monster > Axilla, Skin It Back -> Martian Monster, Vultures, Dog Faced Boy > David Bowie, Farmhouse > Scent of a Mule[1], Ghost, Grind
SET 2: Fuego > Rock and Roll[2] > 46 Days -> Taste, Also Sprach Zarathustra > Sand > The Horse > Silent in the Morning > Cavern > Backwards Down the Number Line
ENCORE: Julius
Skin It Back was played for the first time since August 22, 2012 (111 shows). The second Martian Monster of the set included part of the ending of Skin It Back. Bowie, Mule and Ghost contained Martian Monster quotes. Mike teased Mercury in Bowie. Mule also contained a Marimba Lumina solo from Fish. Rock and Roll's lyrics were changed to reference Philadelphia.
SET 1: The Very Long Fuse, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, Brian and Robert, Saw It Again, Esther, Weigh, The Sloth, Sanity > Split Open and Melt
SET 2: Run Like an Antelope > Carini > Waves -> Tweezer > Dirt > Mike's Song > Blaze On > Weekapaug Groove > Tweezer Reprise
ENCORE: Contact, Frankenstein[1]
Mockingbird featured narration about Trey walking around Alpine Valley and having a bird shit on him, inspiring him to play the song that night. He also acknowledged that this was the band's 17th show at Alpine and that the following day would be the 19th anniversary of their first appearance (August 10, 1996). Frankenstein featured Page on keytar.
SET 1: No Men In No Man's Land, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Poor Heart, Julius, Frankie Says > Maze, Mercury, Reba, Possum
SET 2: Down with Disease[1] > Halley's Comet -> Twist > Light > What's the Use? > Fuego > Backwards Down the Number Line > Slave to the Traffic Light
ENCORE: Meatstick > Character Zero
Page teased the Mission: Impossible theme in Maze. DWD was unfinished.
Soundcheck: It's Ice, Mound, The Lizards, Jam
SET 1: A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing, My Sweet One > Wilson > Timber (Jerry the Mule), Roses Are Free, Rift, The Moma Dance, Ginseng Sullivan, Wingsuit, It's Ice > Bathtub Gin
SET 2: Chalk Dust Torture[1] -> Tweezer > The Lizards, Makisupa Policeman > Ghost > Harry Hood > Tweezer Reprise
ENCORE: Good Times Bad Times
After Roses Are Free, Trey gave a call-out to Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo (aka Gene and Dean Ween), encouraging them to get Ween back together. Trey teased For the Love of Money in It's Ice, Call to the Post at the end of Bathtub Gin, and DEG in Hood. Chalk Dust was unfinished.
SET 1: Gumbo > Kill Devil Falls, Back on the Train, Bouncing Around the Room, Divided Sky, The Last Step[1], Blaze On, Waiting All Night, 46 Days
SET 2: Gotta Jibboo > Twist > The Wedge, Down with Disease[2] > Sand > Joy, You Enjoy Myself
ENCORE: Bug
The Birds was quoted before Gumbo. This show featured the Phish debut of The Last Step. The Wedge contained a Stash tease. DWD was unfinished and contained a Pop Goes the Weasel at the beginning from Mike.
Soundcheck: Jam, Mercury
SET 1: Free, No Men In No Man's Land, Wolfman's Brother, 555, Birds of a Feather, Funky Bitch, When the Circus Comes, Stash, Lawn Boy, Walls of the Cave
SET 2: Golden Age > Light > Shade, Mike's Song > Piper > Crosseyed and Painless -> Weekapaug Groove
ENCORE: Slave to the Traffic Light
During Lawn Boy, Page walked all the way over and said hello to "Mike Side." Light's lyrics were changed to mention Tom Marshall, who was in attendance at the show. Weekapaug included Crosseyed quotes. During the Weekapaug jam, Trey and Mike stood face to face before turning to the front of the stage and stepping in unison with the music.
Soundcheck: My Soul, Jam
SET 1: Sample in a Jar, Chalk Dust Torture, Train Song, Devotion To a Dream, Meat, Maze, The Line, Roggae, My Friend, My Friend, 46 Days > Cavern
SET 2: Down with Disease[1] > Camel Walk > Seven Below > Fuego > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Harry Hood > Possum
ENCORE: A Day in the Life
MFMF contained a Very Long Fuse quote. DWD was unfinished.
Soundcheck: Jam, Scabbard (x4)
SET 1: Runaway Jim, Undermind, Nellie Kane, Blaze On, Halfway to the Moon, Ocelot, Heavy Things, Theme From the Bottom > Run Like an Antelope[1]
SET 2: Tweezer > Waiting All Night > Backwards Down the Number Line > Carini > Waste > Sand > Tweezer Reprise
ENCORE: Rock and Roll
Trey teased Sing (Joe Raposo) in Ocelot and Happy Birthday in Heavy Things. Antelope's "Marco Esquandolas" lyric was changed to "Mike-O Esquandolas." Tweezer contained Maria and Mercury teases.
SET 1: Prince Caspian > No Men In No Man's Land, Ghost, The Wedge, The Moma Dance, How Many People Are You, Rift, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
SET 2: Kill Devil Falls[1] > Martian Monster[2] > Twist -> Back on the Train -> Reba[1], Bathtub Gin
ENCORE: Farmhouse > Character Zero
KDF was unfinished. During Martian Monster, Trey joined Page on clavinet and Trey and Mike both joined Fish on drums. Fish then played Mike's bass with Trey and Mike still on drums before Mike left to play Trey's guitar. Reba did not contain the whistling ending. Bathtub Gin included the whistling portion from Reba, a Reba tease from Page, a Funkytown tease from Mike, Apostrophe teases, and a Kill Devil Falls quote.
SET 1: Tube, Guelah Papyrus > Punch You in the Eye > Steam > Poor Heart, NICU, I Didn't Know, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Divided Sky, The Squirming Coil
SET 2: Chalk Dust Torture[1] > Simple -> Silent in the Morning > The Line, Birds of a Feather, Fuego > Julius > Harry Hood
ENCORE: The Connection, First Tube
Chalk Dust was unfinished. The Connection was played for the first time since June 29, 2010 (200 shows).
SET 1: Party Time > Free, Halley's Comet > Wolfman's Brother, Possum, Lawn Boy, Bouncing Around the Room, Water in the Sky > Dirt, Devotion To a Dream, Sugar Shack, Run Like an Antelope
SET 2: 46 Days -> The Dogs -> 46 Days > Piper > Ghost > Shade, Gotta Jibboo, Waiting All Night, Blaze On, Wading in the Velvet Sea > David Bowie, Suzy Greenberg > Tweezer Reprise
ENCORE: Loving Cup
SET 1: Martian Monster, Down with Disease, Waiting All Night, Heavy Things, Axilla, 555, Limb By Limb, Ya Mar[1], Fuego > Walls of the Cave
SET 2: No Men In No Man's Land > Carini -> Tweezer > My Friend, My Friend[2] > Roggae > Backwards Down the Number Line > Slave to the Traffic Light
ENCORE: You Enjoy Myself[3]
Trey teased We're Off to See the Wizard during Limb By Limb. Ya Mar featured Mike and Trey laying on their backs and kicking their feet in the air. My Friend did not contain the "Myfe" ending. During YEM, Trey held his guitar in front of Mike and played it around Mike's back. Trey later played Mike's bass from around Mike's back and Mike began playing Trey's guitar. Trey also joined Fish on drums during the bass and drums segment of YEM.
Soundcheck: The Line, Waiting All Night
SET 1: The Line, The Moma Dance, Kill Devil Falls, Yarmouth Road, Undermind > Free, Reba, 46 Days
SET 2: Blaze On > Twist > Light > Joy, Harry Hood > Cavern
ENCORE: Character Zero
Trey teased Twist at the end of Light.
SET 1: Stash, How Many People Are You[1], Winterqueen, Heavy Rotation[1], Back on the Train, Scabbard[1] > Maze, Mercury[2], Possum
SET 2: A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing > Waves > Wingsuit, Farmhouse > Simple, First Tube
ENCORE: Bathtub Gin
This show featured the debut of Mercury and the Phish debuts of How Many People Are You, Heavy Rotation, and Scabbard. Back on the Train included a Heavy Rotation tease from Page and a Streets of Cairo tease from Trey. Do You Feel Like We Do was teased after Maze. Trey teased Little Drummer Boy at the end of Gin.
Soundcheck: Blaze On, Shade, The Last Step (incomplete)
SET 1: Sample in a Jar, Sand, 555, Rift, Halfway to the Moon, Horn > Devotion To a Dream, Blaze On[1], Tube, Wolfman's Brother
SET 2: Ghost > Birds of a Feather, Mike's Song > The Wedge, Fuego > Shade[1], No Men In No Man's Land[1] > Weekapaug Groove > Boogie On Reggae Woman > Chalk Dust Torture
ENCORE: Theme From the Bottom
This show featured the debuts of Blaze On, Shade, and No Men In No Man's Land. Mike teased Do You Feel Like We Do before Ghost. Wedge included a Stash tease from Trey and Weekapaug contained a No Men In No Man's Land quote.
SET 1: Maze, AC/DC Bag > Divided Sky, Cavern > Scent of a Mule, Plasma, Devotion To a Dream, Water in the Sky, Split Open and Melt, Character Zero
SET 2: Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan > Down with Disease[1] > Light -> Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley > Sand > Harry Hood > Suzy Greenberg
ENCORE: Good Times Bad Times
Scent of a Mule included a Smoke on the Water tease by Trey. DWD contained an Axilla tease from Trey and was unfinished. Hood included a Happy Birthday tease by Trey and an Auld Lang Syne tease from Mike. The Birds was quoted in Suzy.
SET 1: Free, The Moma Dance > Possum, Roggae, Stash, Back on the Train, Sugar Shack, The Line, Ocelot, The Squirming Coil
SET 2: Mike's Song > 46 Days > Weekapaug Groove[1], Fuego > Slave to the Traffic Light, Also Sprach Zarathustra > Walls of the Cave
ENCORE: Sleeping Monkey > Rocky Top
Weekapaug included a Stash tease from Trey, quotes from The Birds, and featured Trey on Marimba Lumina and Mike on guitar.
SET 1: Tube, Gumbo, David Bowie, Lawn Boy, Undermind, Yarmouth Road, Wingsuit, Poor Heart > Bathtub Gin
SET 2: Twist > Piper > Prince Caspian -> Twenty Years Later > Winterqueen, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Run Like an Antelope > Rock and Roll
ENCORE: Meatstick
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