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SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Divided Sky, Possum > Down with Disease, Alaska, Stash, Golgi Apparatus, Wolfman's Brother, Poor Heart, Kill Devil Falls -> Free, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Harry Hood > Highway to Hell > Also Sprach Zarathustra > You Enjoy Myself -> Wilson -> You Enjoy Myself
ENCORE: A Day in the Life
This show marked Phish’s first appearance at Bonnaroo. This “late-night set” on the What Stage began at approximately 11:00 p.m. Highway to Hell was played for the first time since February 26, 1997 (327 shows). YEM contained a brief Salt Peanuts (aka Basie Boogie) tease from Page.
SET 1: Dog Log, Ginseng Sullivan, Nellie Kane, Ocelot, Beauty of My Dreams, Funky Bitch
This was the soundcheck for Phish’s Bonnaroo performances.
SET 1: Runaway Jim, Punch You in the Eye, Ocelot, Foam, Train Song, Undermind, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, The Squirming Coil, Character Zero
SET 2: Back on the Train, Waves > A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing > David Bowie, Army of One, Reba[1], Hello My Baby, Julius > Cavern > Harry Hood
ENCORE: Frankenstein[2]
Reba did not have the whistling ending. Hello My Baby was played for the first time since December 5, 1999 (140 shows). Frankenstein featured Page on keytar.
SET 1: Kill Devil Falls, The Moma Dance, Sample in a Jar, Stash, Dog Faced Boy, Gumbo, Tube, Lengthwise, Divided Sky, When the Cactus is in Bloom[1], Bold As Love
SET 2: Backwards Down the Number Line > Ghost > Fast Enough for You, Halley's Comet > Maze, Alaska[1], Theme From the Bottom, Golgi Apparatus, Possum
ENCORE: Loving Cup
This show featured the Phish debuts of When the Cactus is in Bloom and Alaska. Before Dog Faced Boy, Trey explained that while living with Fish, he wrote Dog Faced Boy, Tube and Gumbo based on entries in one of Fish’s journals. During Dog Faced Boy, Fish left his drum kit and lay down in front of the stage because he didn’t need to sing the song. Lengthwise (performed a cappella) was played for the first time since July 28, 1998 (235 shows). Bold as Love was played for the first time since October 6, 2000 (74 shows).
SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Fee, Wolfman's Brother, Guyute, My Sweet One, 46 Days, The Lizards, The Wedge, Strange Design, Tube, First Tube
SET 2: Sand, Suzy Greenberg, Limb By Limb, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Sugar Shack[1], Character Zero > Tweezer
ENCORE: Joy[1], Bouncing Around the Room, Run Like an Antelope > Tweezer Reprise
After forgetting the lyrics to Fee, Trey remarked that “We knew this one backstage.” This show marked the debuts of Sugar Shack and Joy. Before the extended encore, Trey asked, “You guys in a rush to go anywhere?” He then talked about how much they had enjoyed the northeast run and that they wanted to play a few more songs before heading south (though he was careful to note that they love the south, too).
SET 1: Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Nothing, Back on the Train, Golgi Apparatus, Sparkle > Gotta Jibboo, Lawn Boy, Let Me Lie[1], Taste, Makisupa Policeman[2], Prince Caspian
SET 2: Seven Below, Fluffhead, Scent of a Mule, Heavy Things, Harry Hood > Possum, Bug
Let Me Lie made its Phish debut at this show. The first post-break-up Makisupa Policeman notably did not contain a “keyword.”
SET 1: Wilson, Buried Alive, Kill Devil Falls, AC/DC Bag, I Didn't Know, My Friend, My Friend, Ya Mar, Theme From the Bottom, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Split Open and Melt
SET 2: Down with Disease[1] -> Twist > Piper > Backwards Down the Number Line, Free, Twenty Years Later[2] > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Slave to the Traffic Light
ENCORE: A Day in the Life
During I Didn’t Know, Trey introduced Fish as “Little Junior Moses Brown Heaps DeWitt” and commented that he was going to “suck all of the moisture out of the air.” During Ya Mar, Page teased It’s Raining, It’s Pouring. Trey teased Flat Fee prior to Disease, which was unfinished. Twist featured an Oye Como Va jam. This show marked the debut of Twenty Years Later.
Soundcheck: Twenty Years Later
SET 1: Grind, Divided Sky, Ocelot, The Squirming Coil > Punch You in the Eye, Dirt, NICU > Ghost, Run Like an Antelope
SET 2: Water in the Sky, Birds of a Feather, Drowned > Meatstick, Time Turns Elastic, Waste, You Enjoy Myself
ENCORE: Rock and Roll
Drowned featured After Midnight and Jumpin’ Jack Flash teases. Meatstick was played in a different key than normal.
SET 1: Runaway Jim, Foam, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan[1], Timber (Jerry the Mule), Cities, Driver, Reba, Possum, Farmhouse, If I Could
SET 2: Mike's Song > Simple > Wolfman's Brother -> Weekapaug Groove, When the Circus Comes, Kill Devil Falls[1], Harry Hood > Loving Cup
ENCORE: Suzy Greenberg
Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan and Kill Devil Falls both debuted at this show, with the latter, remarkably, being played by request. This show featured the first If I Could since June 28, 2000 (103 shows).
Soundcheck: Funky Bitch, Kill Devil Falls, Undermind, The Star Spangled Banner
SET 1: The Star-Spangled Banner, Sample in a Jar, The Moma Dance, Chalk Dust Torture, Ocelot[1], Stash, Bouncing Around the Room, Poor Heart, Limb By Limb, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Down with Disease, Destiny Unbound, Character Zero
SET 2: Tweezer -> Light[2], Bathtub Gin, David Bowie, Time Turns Elastic[2], Free, The Ballad of Curtis Loew, You Enjoy Myself
ENCORE: Cavern, Good Times Bad Times, Tweezer Reprise
The Star Spangled Banner was performed from the pitcher's mound. This show marked the debut of Ocelot and the Phish debuts of Light and Time Turns Elastic. Stash was preceded by Stash, It's Ice and Take Me Out to the Ballgame teases. Trey also teased Take Me Out to the Ballgame after Stash and again during Limb By Limb. After Time Turns Elastic, Trey jokingly announced, "That's our single." The Ballad of Curtis Loew was performed for the first time since August 2, 1993 (628 shows).
SET 1: Sanity[1] > Wilson, Foam, Bathtub Gin, Undermind[2], AC/DC Bag > My Friend, My Friend, Scent of a Mule, All of These Dreams, Maze, She Thinks I Still Care[2], Army of One, Tube, Cars Trucks Buses, Free, Frankenstein[3]
SET 2: Down with Disease[1] > Seven Below, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Twist -> Also Sprach Zarathustra > The Moma Dance, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Wading in the Velvet Sea > Slave to the Traffic Light
ENCORE: Happy Birthday to You, Contact, Bug, Tweezer Reprise
Sanity (not played since November 27, 1998 or 190 shows) ended prematurely right after the “world explodes” line (additionally, one of the large, white balloons that was hung from the rafters popped, as if on cue, as Trey sang "world explodes"). Disease was also unfinished. This show marked the Phish debuts of Undermind and She Thinks I Still Care. Frankenstein featured Page on keytar. Mike and Fish teased Seven Below in Twist. Before Contact, the band and audience sang Happy Birthday (last performed on July 25, 1999, or 165 shows) to Fish’s Dad, Leonard, and the end of Contact featured a Happy Birthday jam. During Tweezer Reprise, balloons were dropped into the crowd. The post-show music included "Sweet Virginia" from Exile on Main Street.
SET 1: Back on the Train > Runaway Jim, Brian and Robert, Split Open and Melt, Heavy Things, Punch You in the Eye, Gumbo, Reba[1], Mexican Cousin, It's Ice, Halley's Comet > Beauty of a Broken Heart[2], Guelah Papyrus, Lawn Boy, Run Like an Antelope
SET 2: Rock and Roll > Limb By Limb, Ghost > Piper -> Birds of a Feather, Wolfman's Brother > Prince Caspian, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Character Zero
ENCORE: A Day in the Life
Reba did not have the whistling ending. Beauty of a Broken Heart made its Phish debut at this show. Guelah Papyrus was played for the first time since September 18, 2000 (78 shows) and ADITL was played for the first time since September 30, 2000 (70 shows). Weekapaug contained a DEG tease from Trey.
SET 1: Fluffhead, Divided Sky, Chalk Dust Torture > Sample in a Jar, Stash, I Didn't Know, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg > Farmhouse, NICU, Horn > Rift, Train Song, Water in the Sky, The Squirming Coil > David Bowie
SET 2: Backwards Down the Number Line[1] > Tweezer -> Taste, Possum, Theme From the Bottom, First Tube > Harry Hood, Waste > You Enjoy Myself[2]
ENCORE: Grind, Bouncing Around the Room, Loving Cup
Phish’s first public performance since Coventry on August 15, 2004 started with Fluffhead, a song not played since prior to the first hiatus on September 29, 2000 (70 shows). Also of note, several large, white balloons were hung in a circle around the coliseum, lit up by an additional central lighting rig; the balloons (save for a few casualties) would remain for the entire run. Trey introduced Fish as “Dad” during I Didn’t Know. Train Song was not played since May 23, 2000 (111 shows) and Grind was not played since December 30, 1998 (183 shows). During Bouncing, some of the balloons were dripped into the crowd. This show featured the Phish debut of Backwards Down the Number Line. YEM featured a false start possibly as a nod to the January 3, 2003 restarted version.
SET 1: Suzy Greenberg, Julius, Waste
This impromptu reunion took place at Brad Sands’s wedding reception. This was the only known performance by Phish during the “break-up”.
SET 1: Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Anything But Me, Reba, Carini > Chalk Dust Torture -> Possum > Wolfman's Brother[1] > Taste
SET 2: Down with Disease[2] > Wading in the Velvet Sea[3], Glide, Split Open and Melt -> Ghost
SET 3: Fast Enough for You, Seven Below[4] -> Simple > Piper -> Cool Jerk[5] -> The Dickie Scotland Song[6], Wilson > Slave to the Traffic Light
ENCORE: The Curtain With[7]
This was the second show of the Coventry festival and was the presumed “Final Show.” When Trey made his “break-up” announcement the preceding May, he indicated that Coventry would be the final Phish shows. In reality, this turned out to be the final public show for over four and a half years. This show was simulcast in movie theaters nationwide. Before Anything But Me, Trey announced that, for the first time in 21 years, he was nervous performing a Phish show. During Wolfman’s, Trey revealed that the Wolfman’s Brother is, in fact, Fish (as well as the fact that he handed the phone to his friend Liz Durfee). Also, during Wolfman’s, Trey and Mike invited their mothers onstage (and later John Paluska) to do the “sexy bump” dance. Disease was unfinished and featured Trey briefly playing his guitar with a glow stick. Both Page and Trey broke down during an especially emotional Velvet Sea. After a thoroughly botched Glide, all four band members offered words of thanks to the fans for their continued support and dedication and brief reflections on their twenty years together. Trey then stated that what they really needed to do was “blow off some fucking steam” before starting up Melt. There was an enormous glow stick war during Ghost featuring hundreds, if not thousands, of orange glow sticks. This version of Seven Below saw all of the band members sporadically shouting “Seven Below” throughout the jam. The Phish debut of Cool Jerk contained alternate lyrics honoring monitor mixer, Mark “Bruno” Bradley. The Dickie Scotland Song was spontaneously created and included lyrics in honor of production manager, Hadden Hipsley, and tour accountant, Richard Glasgow (a.k.a. Dickie Scotland). Before Wilson, Trey asked the crowd to sing to another of their friends “for the last time.” There was a fireworks display between the end of the third set and the encore. Before the encore, while explaining the origins of The Curtain, Trey jokingly announced that the entire Chicago Symphony and the Twyla Tharp Dance Troupe were going to perform Gamehendge. Trey explained that they chose The Curtain With as the last song to bring them full circle, because, not only was it one of the first Phish songs he wrote, but he wrote it in a cabin one town over from Coventry. Trey stopped and restarted the jam segment of the Curtain With, because they were in the wrong key or, as he explained, ”Since we are going to be bringing ourselves back in time, we may as well do it in the correct key.” There was no P.A. music after the Curtain With.
SET 1: Walls of the Cave > Runaway Jim -> Gotta Jibboo, You Enjoy Myself > Sample in a Jar > Axilla > Poor Heart > Run Like an Antelope[1], Fire
SET 2: AC/DC Bag -> 46 Days > Halley's Comet -> Ya Mar, David Bowie, Character Zero
SET 3: Twist -> The Wedge, Stash > Free, Guyute, Drowned > Friday
ENCORE: Harry Hood[2]
This was the first show of the Coventry festival and was simulcast in movie theaters nationwide. During YEM, the band gave away their trampolines. Throughout the duration of the set, groups of fans held the trampolines above their heads, and some fans jumped on the trampolines as well. Tom Marshall sang the lyrics to Antelope. Trey teased Waves in Halley's Comet. Before Bowie, Trey told a story of the summer he spent living in a cabin in the Northeast Kingdom where he remembered writing several songs, including Bowie. Trey explained that Bowie was an attempt to see “how far can you push it in the harmonic and rhythmic language and still have people dancing.” During Hood, Trey (speaking in rhythm) noted that because there were a row of rocks separating the band from the crowd, they were feeling a certain level of disconnect (particularly when Mike plays a "sexy" note). To remedy the situation, Trey and Mike ventured down onto the rocks for the duration of the song. At the end of Hood, the band stopped playing, allowing the audience to sing the “You can feel good, good, good about Hood” refrain.
SET 1: Jam, Jam[1], Light Up Or Leave Me Alone, Ginseng Sullivan
This was the soundcheck for the Coventry festival and was broadcast on “The Bunny”, the official festival radio station. The second Jam featured Danny Clinch on harmonica.
SET 1: Wilson, You Enjoy Myself -> Ghost > Maze -> Catapult -> Maze, The Moma Dance, Horn, Pebbles and Marbles
SET 2: Piper > Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley[1] > Cavern > Limb By Limb > Julius > Rock and Roll, Scents and Subtle Sounds[2]
ENCORE: Lawn Boy, Frankenstein
The beginning of Catapult featured Mike, Trey and Page singing “Wash Uffizi drive me to Firenze” to the Catapult melody. Sneakin' Sally did not contain a vocal jam. Prior to Scents, Trey teased My Friend My Friend. Scents did not have the intro. At the end of Scents, Trey, Page and Mike left the stage while Fish continued drumming along to the guitar loops. After Frankenstein, Trey announced that everybody traveling from Camden to Coventry should wait until Saturday morning to arrive due to the rain in the Northeast Kingdom. This show was simulcast on “The Bunny”, the official Coventry radio station.
SET 1: Divided Sky, Suzy Greenberg -> Down with Disease[1] -> Prince Caspian > Scent of a Mule -> The Tears of a Clown[2] > Scent of a Mule, Mexican Cousin
SET 2: Run Like an Antelope[1] > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Golgi Apparatus > Waves > Tweezer -> Hold Your Head Up[3] > Terrapin > Hold Your Head Up, Drums[4] -> Timber (Jerry the Mule) > Sample in a Jar
ENCORE: Bouncing Around the Room > Tweezer Reprise
Disease and Antelope were unfinished. During Suzy, Trey introduced Fish as “Johnny B. Fishman” on snare drum, whereupon Fish took a snare drum solo. This show featured the Phish debut of Tears of a Clown. Unfortunately, no one knew all of the words to Tears of a Clown, so they picked a member of the audience to come onstage and sing (prompting Trey to note, “She saved our ass.”). Tweezer contained a HYHU jam at the end (with Trey still on guitar and Fish on drums). During HYHU, Fish introduced himself as “Prince” and added some vacuum accompaniment. Before Terrapin, Trey joked, “Won’t be needing this anymore!” and acted as if he was going to throw his guitar into the crowd, to a reception of lusty boos from the crowd. After Terrapin, Trey took an impromptu poll of the audience as to whether a Fishman tune makes the show or destroys the show, with Page notably coming in on the side of destroys the show, though softening the blow by explaining, "Well, it's a crapshoot. Sometimes it's great, but sometimes... you wonder." Mike, more charitably, stated, “On a scale of two to three, I give it a three.” Before the Drums Jam with Trey and Fish, Trey noted that it had always been a dream of his to start a song with a double drum solo; this was the first known instance.
SET 1: AC/DC Bag, Heavy Things, Punch You in the Eye > Wolfman's Brother, Theme From the Bottom, Birds of a Feather
SET 2: Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove[1], A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing -> Piper -> Makisupa Policeman[2], Dog Faced Boy, Friday, Harry Hood
ENCORE: Possum[3]
Heavy things contained Stash teases from Trey. This version of Weekapaug featured a slowed down ending. After Weekapaug, Trey told a story explaining the origins of Weekapaug and ASIHTOS while Mike and Page teased (and Trey sang part of) December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night). The “keyword” for Makisupa referred to a tall, cool glass of soy milk. Possum did not contain its customary build-up intro.
SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Bathtub Gin -> Runaway Jim, Walls of the Cave, Loving Cup
SET 2: All of These Dreams, Limb By Limb, Lifeboy, Crowd Control > Seven Below > Stash -> NICU, Bug > Contact > Character Zero
ENCORE: David Bowie
Trey teased Waves before Bathtub Gin. After several glowsticks hit Trey’s rig at the end of Seven Below, Trey’s guitar tech, Brian Brown, had to come onstage to do some damage control, prompting Trey to say some words of thanks. Seven Below contained a Mary Had a Little Lamb tease from Trey. Contact culminated in a Little Drummer Boy jam.
SET 1: Access Me[1] > Scents and Subtle Sounds[2], Stash, The Moma Dance, Divided Sky, Wilson > Funky Bitch > Character Zero
SET 2: Boogie On Reggae Woman -> Ghost > Free, Friday > Piper > Harry Hood
ENCORE: Possum
This show marked the debut of Access Me. Scents did not contain the intro. During an especially long break before Stash, Trey joked that if they take longer between songs, but play the same amount of songs, the show would last longer.
SET 1: Julius > Roses Are Free > AC/DC Bag > Glide, Anything But Me, David Bowie, Wolfman's Brother, Golgi Apparatus
SET 2: Seven Below -> Buffalo Bill > Lawn Boy > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, You Enjoy Myself > Also Sprach Zarathustra -> You Enjoy Myself[1]
ENCORE: Sample in a Jar
Page signed an autograph while out on the front of the stage during Lawn Boy. The portion of YEM following 2001 contained only the vocal jam.
SET 1: Loving Cup, Cities -> Back on the Train, Vultures, My Mind's Got a Mind of its Own, Down with Disease[1] -> Rock and Roll
SET 2: Tube, Run Like an Antelope, The Wedge, Timber (Jerry the Mule), Prince Caspian > Simple > Walls of the Cave
ENCORE: The Squirming Coil
Down with Disease was unfinished and Walls of the Cave contained a Down with Disease jam.
SET 1: Llama, Bouncing Around the Room > Bathtub Gin, Ya Mar, Pebbles and Marbles, Army of One, Split Open and Melt
SET 2: Halley's Comet > Crosseyed and Painless > Slave to the Traffic Light, Nothing -> 46 Days > Scents and Subtle Sounds[1] -> Brian and Robert, Limb By Limb, Cavern
ENCORE: Waste
Ya Mar contained a Stash tease. Scents did not have the intro. Trey teased The Rover at the end of Cavern.
Soundcheck: Jam
SET 1: Scents and Subtle Sounds[1], Scents and Subtle Sounds[1], Also Sprach Zarathustra[2], Wilson > Chalk Dust Torture > Tweezer > Tweezer Reprise
Phish performed on top of the theater's second-floor marquee at West 53rd Street and Broadway. The soundcheck earlier that day included an instrumental jam similar to Quantegy. The first Scents was taped for The Late Show with David Letterman and aired that night. Then Phish waited as Paul Shaffer and his band (from inside the theater) played an instrumental version of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. The remainder of Phish's performance was for the benefit of a few hundred fans assembled on the sidewalk across the street. Neither version of Scents contained the intro. This version of 2001 contained only one “verse.”
SET 1: Rift > Julius, Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?[1], Waves, Gumbo, Water in the Sky, Horn, Poor Heart > Drowned
SET 2: Seven Below > Ghost -> Twist, You Enjoy Myself
ENCORE: Good Times Bad Times
During Julius, Trey broke a string on stage for the first known time since November 29, 1996. This Father’s Day version of Bill Bailey – the first since July 3, 1999 (167 shows) – featured Page’s dad, Dr. Jack McConnell, on vocals and tap shoes. Trey teased Lazy (Deep Purple) in Drowned.
SET 1: Reba[1], Runaway Jim > NICU > Scents and Subtle Sounds[2], Wolfman's Brother, Walls of the Cave -> David Bowie
SET 2: A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing > Piper -> Gotta Jibboo[3] > Limb By Limb, Cavern[4]
ENCORE: Wading in the Velvet Sea
Reba did not have the whistling ending. Scents did not have the intro. Piper featured a substantial Tweezer Reprise jam. Jibboo was unfinished. Trey forgot an entire verse of Cavern. Cavern contained a Purple Haze tease.
SET 1: AC/DC Bag > Camel Walk, Crowd Control, Stash, Cars Trucks Buses > Carini > My Sweet One > Character Zero > Tweezer
SET 2: Wilson > Down with Disease, 99 Problems[1], Big Pimpin'[1] > Chalk Dust Torture, Harry Hood[2] > Taste
ENCORE: Bug > Tweezer Reprise
Scents and Subtle Sounds was teased prior to AC/DC Bag. Trey teased San-Ho-Zay in Down with Disease. This show contained the Phish debuts of 99 Problems and Big Pimpin’, both of which featured Jay-Z on vocals and Cyro Baptista on percussion. After 99 Problems, Jay-Z remarked, presumably referring to the Phish scene, that “You all been hiding this from me.” Jay-Z then said that the members of Phish told him that if the fans made enough noise that he could play one more song, which they naturally did, hence Big Pimpin’. Prior to Hood, Trey jokingly announced an Eric Clapton guest appearance. Mike teased Entrance of the Gladiators before Hood, which was unfinished.
Soundcheck: Frankenstein, A Song I Heard The Ocean Sing, Access Me, Undermind, Crowd Control, Nothing Jam
SET 1: A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing[1], Dinner and a Movie, The Curtain With, Sample in a Jar, The Moma Dance -> Free, Nothing[2], Maze, Frankenstein
SET 2: 46 Days -> Possum > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg > Axilla > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Birds of a Feather, Kung, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
ENCORE: Divided Sky
This show was simulcast in movie theaters nationwide and subsequently officially released in both CD and DVD formats as Live In Brooklyn. This show marked the debut of A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing and the Phish debut of Nothing. Kung was dedicated to the golfers competing in the U.S. Open at the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, NY. 46 Days included a DEG tease from Trey. San-Ho-Zay was teased in 2001. Mike’s Song featured a Twist tease. During Weekapaug, Trey teased Mainstreet. Before the soundcheck's A Song I Heard The Ocean Sing, Fluffhead, Frankenstein, Walls of the Cave, Seven Below, and Letter to Jimmy Page were teased. At the end of the soundcheck, Trey teased Fluffhead, as memorialized on the Live in Brooklyn DVD.
SET 1: Soul Shakedown Party, Halley's Comet -> Tweezer, Ginseng Sullivan > Horn > Sample in a Jar, Piper -> Frankenstein > David Bowie
SET 2: Meatstick, Pebbles and Marbles > Prince Caspian -> Simple > Friday, Ghost, You Enjoy Myself[1] -> Tweezer Reprise[2]
ENCORE: Wolfman's Brother, The Squirming Coil
Fenton Williams sat in for Chris Kuroda on lights. The band played Meatstick seemingly at the instigation of a crowd chant of the lyrics that began behind the stage. Caspian included a DEG tease from Trey. YEM included a lengthy Meatstick session immediately following the trampolines segment. As Fish took a drum solo, Trey set his guitar down to perform the Meatstick Dance while the crowd chanted the lyrics. The band jammed back into YEM, but then left Page to solo while again Trey danced and the crowd sang. This cycle repeated with Mike soloing on bass. YEM lacked its standard vocal jam. Trey rapped: “time for the Meatstick” over the intro to Tweezer Reprise, which also had its normal lyrics replaced with “won’t you step into the Meatstick?” Wolfman’s contained teases of Simple, Jean Pierre, Sneakin’ Sally, and Possum.
SET 1: Seven Below, Rock and Roll > Boogie On Reggae Woman, Back on the Train -> Possum, Strange Design, Gumbo, Brian and Robert > Taste
SET 2: Gotta Jibboo, Twist, Camel Walk > Wilson -> The Little Drummer Boy > Wilson, Hold Your Head Up > Love You[1] > Hold Your Head Up > Waves > Lifeboy > The Horse > Silent in the Morning > Loving Cup
ENCORE: Harry Hood
Fenton Williams sat in for Chris Kuroda on lights. Camel Walk contained Wilson and Theme from Barney Miller teases. Little Drummer Boy appeared for the first time since December 2, 1999 (116 shows). Love You had Fish “playing” his new sonic dress, a garment woven from cassette tape that produced noise when touched with special gloves akin to tape heads.
SET 1: Buried Alive > AC/DC Bag, Limb By Limb, The Moma Dance, The Old Home Place, Roggae, Water in the Sky, All of These Dreams, Stash -> Timber (Jerry the Mule)
SET 2: 46 Days > Drowned -> Also Sprach Zarathustra > Down with Disease[1] > Free > Scent of a Mule, Girls Girls Girls[2] -> Scent of a Mule, Secret Smile, Crowd Control > Slave to the Traffic Light
ENCORE: Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley[3]
Dave Matthews Band lighting director Fenton Williams manned the board at all three dates on this Vegas run. This show marked Chris Kuroda’s first absence from the light crew since April 2, 1989 (1,179 shows). Disease was unfinished. Jennifer Hartswick assisted on vocals during Girls, a Jay-Z cover that made its Phish debut. Secret Smile featured a new arrangement. This was the first Sneakin' Sally to contain a vocal jam since May 28, 1989 (1,150 shows). The vocal jam led into a brief quote of Coconut. Trey then asked Fish if he was wearing his “new suit,” referring to his sonic dress. After Fish answered “no,” Trey went on to rap about how people would have to attend the following night to see Fish play it. The rap slid into a bit of free-form vocal jamming to close the show.
SET 1: Sand > Chalk Dust Torture
During an unannounced performance by Trey Anastasio’s ensemble, one by one all of the members of Phish joined in while one by one all of the members of Trey’s band sat out, leaving Phish to complete Sand and then perform Chalk Dust. For complete show details please visit the TAB entry for this date.
SET 1: The Star-Spangled Banner
Phish performed the national anthem prior to the America East Conference Men’s Basketball Championship Game between the University of Vermont and the University of Maine.
SET 1: Wilson[1] > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, The Moma Dance > Guyute, You Enjoy Myself, First Tube > Tube[1]
SET 2: Stash, Seven Below[2] > Lawn Boy, Chalk Dust Torture -> Slave to the Traffic Light > Chalk Dust Torture
SET 3: Jungle Boogie[3] > Auld Lang Syne > Iron Man[4] > Runaway Jim > Simple > Reba[5], I Didn't Know > Feel the Heat[6] > Hold Your Head Up, Run Like an Antelope
ENCORE: Frankenstein
The brief conclusions of Wilson and Tube completed the versions from the previous evening. Weekapaug included Jungle Boogie lyrics and a Divided Sky tease; Weekapaug, YEM, First Tube, and Chalk Dust also included Auld Lang Syne teases. Seven Below was unfinished. The house music played over the P.A. during the second setbreak consisted solely of songs that referenced “cars” in their titles. As midnight neared during Jungle Boogie (a Phish debut), Fish’s drum kit was wheeled to the side of the stage. An Austin Cooper Mini automobile was lowered to the stage from above. The Miami Palmetto Senior High Band and cheerleading squad emerged from the car one-by-one, giving the impression that they were all in the car together. In reality, the car had touched down over a trap door in the stage and the guests came out from underneath. Also emerging were dancers similar to the bunny-women present at the IT Festival. The marching band joined in on the jam that emerged from Jungle Boogie. With the stage covered with marching band members and dancers (some even on top of Page’s baby grand piano), an emcee (dressed in an Eddie George, Tennessee Titans, #27 football jersey) counted the clock down to midnight. A massive balloon drop followed. Phish then led the marching band through an instrumental version of Iron Man (also a Phish debut). Reba did not have the whistling ending. For his “first song of 2004,” in honor of the Miami Heat, Fish performed the Phish debut of Feel the Heat, which contained Fame quotes from Trey and Fish. HYHU contained more references to “Henrietta’s Heat” as Fish took laps around the stage. Frankenstein was preceded by a Fluffhead tease.
SET 1: Wilson[1] > Sand -> Shafty -> NICU, Weigh, Cities, Strange Design > Scent of a Mule, Bathtub Gin -> Also Sprach Zarathustra
SET 2: Tube[1] -> L.A. Woman[2] > Birds of a Feather > L.A. Woman -> Makisupa Policeman -> P-Funk Medley[3], Makisupa Policeman, Down with Disease
ENCORE: Contact, While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Wilson contained War Pigs teases from Mike and was unfinished. The song may have been played as an opener in memoriam of actor Earl Hindman, best known as “Wilson” from the television series Home Improvement, who passed away earlier in the day. NICU contained Shafty teases from Mike. Weigh was played for the first time since August 2, 1998 (202 shows). Gin included Show Biz Kids teases. 2001 included a P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up) jam containing some brief lyrics, as well as Gin, Auld Lang Syne, and The Little Drummer Boy teases. Tube was unfinished. L.A. Woman was a Phish debut; Birds included L.A. Woman teases. During Makisupa, Trey noted that they were going to play Touch Me, but decided not to because Fish couldn't remember the words and they didn't know how have a horn section. To make it up to the crowd for letting them down, Trey brought out George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic (also known as The P. Funk All-Stars). Trey commented “and that’s even better than Touch Me!” Page teased Touch Me while Trey was talking. The ensuing P. Funk Jam moved through pieces of several classic Parliament/Funkadelic tunes including Butt-a-Butt, Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker), P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up), and One Nation Under A Groove. Get Low (Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz) was also part of the medley. By the end of the jam, Fish was alone on stage playing vacuum. Fish then exited, leaving the stage empty. Phish returned alone to finish Makisupa; to prove that P. Funk was better than Fish singing Touch Me, Makisupa closed with Fish singing the first line of Touch Me a cappella. During the last chorus of Contact, Trey sang lines like “L.A. Woman” and “Make my funk the P. Funk” in place of his usual harmonies.
SET 1: Piper, Foam, Anything But Me, Limb By Limb, Wolfman's Brother, Poor Heart > Cavern
SET 2: Rock and Roll -> Twist -> Boogie On Reggae Woman -> Ghost -> Free[1], Divided Sky, Good Times Bad Times
ENCORE: Waste
ENCORE 2: The Squirming Coil
Piper was preceded by an On Broadway tease. Wolfman's included Apostrophe teases by Trey. Twist contained a Dinah-Moe Humm quote from Trey. Free included a guitar and bass duet jam. A lengthy audience ovation followed Free.
SET 1: David Bowie, Sample in a Jar, Tweezer > Bouncing Around the Room, AC/DC Bag > Frankie Says[1] > Llama, Hold Your Head Up > Love You[2] > Hold Your Head Up, Tweezer Reprise
SET 2: Gotta Jibboo, Suzy Greenberg[3] -> Jam > Theme From the Bottom, Water in the Sky, Friday > Harry Hood
ENCORE: Sleeping Monkey > Loving Cup
Frankie Says was unfinished and included an extended jam segment. Fish forgot the words to Love You and scatted one verse, then sang, in near-perfect time: “I can’t remember the words now / I can’t remember the words / And it really doesn’t matter ‘cause I can’t sing either / So who gives a fuck, it’s time for the vacuum cleaner.” During the closing HYHU, Fish introduced the band, and himself as “Henrietta.” Suzy included an extended jam segment after the first chorus. Trey seemed to end the song after the second chorus while the rest of the band continued to play. The jam after Suzy contained a Lizards tease from Trey.
SET 1: Harry Hood > Cavern, Birds of a Feather, Ya Mar, Horn > Piper > Anything But Me, Water in the Sky, Down with Disease
SET 2: Rock and Roll -> Weekapaug Groove[1] -> Tweezer Reprise[2] > Frankenstein -> Kung -> Frankenstein, All of These Dreams, The Wedge, Boogie On Reggae Woman > Cities > Maze, Waste
ENCORE: Bug
This gig commemorated the 20th anniversary of the first Phish show. In the audience, a section of seats were roped off to make way for a music stand. The music stand held a three-ring binder that contained lyrics from the Phish canon, but it did not play an active role in the performance. Ya Mar contained teases of The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana). At the end of Disease, a video screen descended behind the stage. As the house lights remained down, a 25+ minute video was played featuring retrospective highlights from throughout Phish’s career. Before the second set, Mike brought out a tray of desserts and shared them with fans in front of the stage. Highway to Hell was briefly teased by Trey before Rock and Roll. Weekapaug was unfinished. Tweezer Reprise included lyrics (sung by Trey) from Mike’s Song. Appropriately, the post-show house music was the Beatles’ song Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band (which begins with the lyric, “It was twenty years ago today…”).
SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Stash, Guyute, Thunderhead > Sparkle, Wolfman's Brother > Good Times Bad Times
SET 2: Tweezer -> Also Sprach Zarathustra > You Enjoy Myself, Camel Walk[1], Possum[1], Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress[1] > Run Like an Antelope[2]
ENCORE: Fire[3]
Tweezer was preceded by a Dixie tease. Camel Walk through Fire featured Jeff Holdsworth on guitar. This was Jeff’s first known performance with his former Phish brethren since May 17, 1986 (1,348 shows). Camel Walk, Possum, and Long Cool Woman (first since October 30, 1998, or 182 shows) also featured Jeff on lead vocals. Antelope featured Tom Marshall on vocals.
SET 1: Wilson > Cars Trucks Buses, Limb By Limb, Dirt > Seven Below, Divided Sky, Fast Enough for You > Julius
SET 2: Twist -> Simple > Taste > Makisupa Policeman[1], Buffalo Bill[2] > David Bowie, Strange Design > Character Zero
ENCORE: Friday
Trey teased San-Ho-Zay in Seven Below, Julius, and Twist. The lyrics to Makisupa referenced waking up “in Hempstead.” Later in Makisupa, Trey commented on the upcoming 20th anniversary of the band, and noted Makisupa as the first original Phish song ever played. Trey also commented on his long-standing friendship with Tom Marshall and said that Tom had written Makisupa when he was a child. Trey brought Tom out on stage and noted that he thought Makisupa was written in 1969, leading Tom to note that we “have a 60’s song.” Prior to Tom singing on Buffalo Bill, Trey noted: “Tom is now going to sing you a song about a boss, a log, and a piece of rope.”
SET 1: Bouncing Around the Room, Runaway Jim, Ghost > What's the Use? > AC/DC Bag > First Tube, Frankie Says > Bathtub Gin -> Free
SET 2: Waves > Sample in a Jar > Down with Disease[1], Walls of the Cave, Two Versions of Me, Crowd Control[2], Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
ENCORE: Crimes of the Mind[3]
Disease was unfinished. This show included the debut of Crowd Control. Trey introduced Mike to sing “his song.” Crimes of the Mind (first since July 10, 1994, or 507 shows) featured the Dude of Life on vocals. During the song, the Dude congratulated Phish on their 20 years together, and wished them success for 20 more.
SET 1: Daniel Saw the Stone > Saw It Again, Punch You in the Eye, Army of One > Chalk Dust Torture[1], Wilson[2], Mike's Song[3] > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
SET 2: Mellow Mood > Ghost -> Mountains in the Mist, Pebbles and Marbles, You Enjoy Myself[4] -> Chariots of Fire[5] > Loving Cup
SET 3: 46 Days, Julius > The Lizards, Secret Smile > Run Like an Antelope
ENCORE: Good Times Bad Times
This was the second show of the IT festival. Chalk Dust contained DEG teases from Mike. The ending of Chalk Dust was performed at near double-time. Trey omitted a verse in Wilson. Afterwards, he announced that it was the “shortest version ever” and dedicated it to Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro. Trey then humorously announced that the band would next play the “longest Bittersweet Motel” (traditionally one of the shortest songs in the Phish canon) while Page teased "Charge!" The crowd responded with a passionate “Fluffhead” chant, but Trey responded: “Mike says no” (prompting laughs from the other band members). Appropriately, Trey launched into Mike’s Song but Mike had the last laugh: during the Mike’s Song intro, Mike sang his “Hendge” lyric that had been omitted from Wilson. YEM contained the event-appropriate lyrical change “Boy, Man, God, IT,” a Frankenstein tease from Mike, and a vocal quote of Daniel Saw the Stone. The band vamped on the theme to Chariots of Fire (a Phish debut) while Trey introduced the top finishers in the Runaway Jim 5K race. During Antelope, Trey thanked the staff, road crew, caterers (“part of the reason we’re playing so well is because we have the best food this tour that we’ve ever had”), and fans. He concluded by encouraging everyone to drive safely and noted tongue-in-cheek that next year’s “IT 2” would have a traffic-free entrance. Antelope also included Under Pressure and It’s Ice teases.
SET 1: AC/DC Bag, Ya Mar[1] -> Runaway Jim, Reba, Birds of a Feather, Meatstick, Two Versions of Me, Vultures, Limb By Limb, Cavern
SET 2: Down with Disease[1] > NICU -> Brother, Lawn Boy, Discern, Waves -> Jam > David Bowie
SET 3: Rock and Roll -> Seven Below[1] -> Scents and Subtle Sounds -> Seven Below -> Spread It 'Round > Bug
ENCORE: Dog Log > The Mango Song
SET 4: Tower Jam
This was the first show of the IT festival. Ya Mar, DWD, and Seven Below were unfinished. Birds was followed by a “Meatstick” chant from the crowd, prompting Trey to note that the band would “like to honor” the request. After a long pause, Trey commented, “We’re taking our sweet time up here because…we have no place to go for two days.” DWD contained a San-Ho-Zay tease from Trey and multiple Scents and Subtle Sounds teases. NICU ended with a bass solo from Mike at Trey’s request (“Play it, Cactus!”). Seven Below contained an On Your Way Down tease, Scents and Subtle Sounds included Seven Below teases. Before Dog Log, Trey remarked that the band couldn’t figure out what to play, and noted how, on this tour, the band made a conscious effort to not think about what songs they were going to play next. The fourth set “Tower Jam” found Phish playing on top the old air traffic control tower near the concert field. The set consisted of roughly an hour’s worth of unscripted jam material, with no notable teases or jams present. While Phish jammed, Chris Kuroda illuminated the tower’s interior and exterior with a light show and dancers suspended by wires around the side of the tower performed on the structure.
SET 1: Jam -> Skin It Back, Jam
This Friday night soundcheck for the IT festival was simulcast via “The Bunny,” the official festival radio station.
SET 1: Llama, The Moma Dance > Divided Sky, Dirt > Seven Below, The Sloth, Water in the Sky, Wolfman's Brother > Possum
SET 2: Piper > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove -> Free > Friday > Harry Hood
ENCORE: Frankenstein
Weekapaug included an In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida tease. The tease may have been homage to Iron Butterfly guitarist Erik Braunn, who passed away two days before. Trey teased Fire (Ohio Players) in Hood.
SET 1: My Friend, My Friend, Lonesome Cowboy Bill, Scents and Subtle Sounds, You Ain't Goin' Nowhere[1], Spock's Brain > Chalk Dust Torture, On Your Way Down, Fast Enough for You > Taste
SET 2: Twist, Bug, You Enjoy Myself, Walls of the Cave
ENCORE: Secret Smile
Lonesome Cowboy Bill was played for the first time since October 31, 1998 (175 shows). This show marked the Phish debut of You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere. On Your Way Down was played for the first time since October 2, 1999 (110 shows). FEFY included a Bathtub Gin tease from Page.
Soundcheck: Little Drummer Boy -> Jam, Bittersweet Motel, Funky Bitch
SET 1: Daniel Saw the Stone > Camel Walk, Gotta Jibboo, Cool It Down, Scent of a Mule, Fee -> Timber (Jerry the Mule) > When the Circus Comes > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Golgi Apparatus
SET 2: Crosseyed and Painless -> Thunderhead, Brother, Harpua[1] > Bittersweet Motel > Harpua > Fooled Around and Fell in Love[2] > Hold Your Head Up > Harpua > David Bowie
ENCORE: Farmhouse
Daniel was played for the first time since February 23, 1997 (287 shows). Trey teased San-Ho-Zay in Cool It Down. Scent of a Mule included a tease of Wouldn’t It Be Loverly (from My Fair Lady). Harpua was played for the first time since November 2, 1998 (173 shows). The Harpua narration concerned Jimmy searching for “IT” and, eventually, joining a rock band and finding “IT” on the road. The Phish debut of Fooled Around and Fell in Love was preceded by a HYHU tease. In the soundcheck, Seven Below was teased in the Jam and Blue Bayou was quoted in Bittersweet Motel. This show was officially released on CD as Live Phish 07.29.03.
SET 1: Runaway Jim > Ya Mar, Down with Disease, Divided Sky, Sample in a Jar, Discern, Anything But Me, Llama
SET 2: Ghost > Halley's Comet -> Seven Below, Tube > Prince Caspian -> Also Sprach Zarathustra > Fire
ENCORE: The Squirming Coil
Seven Below included a Mozambique tease. After Seven Below, Trey “welcomed” Mike back to the stage (followed by a “Charge!” tease, with Mike’s name inserted). Trey teased Simple in Prince Caspian.
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