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SET 1: Wilson, Peaches en Regalia, Ya Mar, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, The Sloth, Possum, Divided Sky
SET 2: You Enjoy Myself, La Grange, If I Don't Be There By Morning[1], Slave to the Traffic Light > Esther > Run Like an Antelope, I Didn't Know[2] > Nowhere Fast[3] -> I've Turned Bad[3] > I Didn't Know, The Lizards, Bold As Love, Harpua, Whipping Post
This show featured the first known performances of Nowhere Fast and I've Turned Bad as well as the first known Phish performance of If I Don't Be There By Morning. The end of YEM contained a Moby Dick tease. I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone. Nowhere Fast and I’ve Turned Bad featured Sofi Dillof and "Joe" on vocals. Harpua contained Gimme Some Lovin' teases. This show was the release party for the original Junta cassette.
SET 1: You Enjoy Myself > I Didn't Know, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Esther, The Sloth, Possum, Bold As Love, AC/DC Bag, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, David Bowie
SET 2: Donna Lee, Suzy Greenberg, Contact, Fire, Harry Hood, Golgi Apparatus > Slave to the Traffic Light, Divided Sky
Page teased Esther at the end of YEM as the band segued into I Didn't Know. Suzy included a Linus and Lucy tease.
SET 1: Golgi Apparatus, You Enjoy Myself, Ya Mar, Fluffhead > Alumni Blues > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues, Donna Lee, Fee > Run Like an Antelope
SET 2: I Didn't Know, Take the 'A' Train, Good Times Bad Times, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters[1]
Ya Mar contained a Sailor's Hornpipe tease from Trey. McGrupp featured Fish on trombone.
SET 1: Possum, You Enjoy Myself, The Sloth, Contact
This setlist was pieced together from an online review by a fan who was in attendance and from Mike's notes. The setlist is incomplete, likely out of order and attributed to incorrect sets. There are no recordings of this show in circulation. The source of this setlist is phish.com.
SET 1: Dinner and a Movie, You Enjoy Myself, Esther, AC/DC Bag, Alumni Blues > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues, Take the 'A' Train, Split Open and Melt, The Lizards, Golgi Apparatus, Good Times Bad Times
SET 2: Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, On Your Way Down, Possum, Icculus, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, David Bowie
ENCORE: Contact
This show took place in the basement of the Pearl Ballroom in a room called the U-Joint (short for Universal Joint). 'A' Train contained a Sailor's Hornpipe tease from Trey. Trey delivered a Gamehendge narration before and after Icculus. Page teased Entrance of the Gladiators in Forbin's. Trey teased Dave's Energy Guide in Bowie. Walk This Way was teased before Contact, which was introduced as being by Aerosmith.
SET 1: I Didn't Know, You Enjoy Myself, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, The Lizards, Divided Sky, Wilson, Peaches en Regalia, Run Like an Antelope, Terrapin[1]
ENCORE: Possum
This show was preceded by an introduction from Dionysian co-founder Ben Hunter. After YEM, Trey acknowledged his grandparents who were in attendance. Prior to McGrupp, Trey said that the band were traveling minstrels from Gamehendge and proceeded to provide a brief Gamehendge narration about each of the four songs they were going to play: McGrupp And The Watchful Hosemasters, The Lizards, "Divided Sky and the Wind Blows High," and "Wilson, Can You Still Have Fun?" Terrapin featured Fish on trombone.
SET 1: Golgi Apparatus, Jam[1], The Sloth > Divided Sky, Sanity[2], I Didn't Know, Alumni Blues > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues > The Lizards, Whipping Post
ENCORE: Contact, David Bowie
The Jam, which is sometimes labeled String Changing Nature, arose while the band tuned their instruments and included some funny stage banter. This version of Sanity was the fast version. This show was sponsored by the UNH Outing Club.
No known setlist
This performance was part of The Rock Rumble band competition. Phish won the competition and used the proceeds to record studio versions of Split Open and Melt and Bathtub Gin.
SET 1: I Didn't Know, Contact
This performance was part of The Rock Rumble band competition. This setlist is incomplete. Fish was lowered naked from the rafters during I Didn’t Know for a “vacuum solo” instead of his trombone solo, but the vacuum was not powered up. Hollywood Indians, Gidget and Ghandi, Sundog, Peg Tassey, The Fortune Tellers, The Cuts, The Switch, and Dark Hollow also performed. Mike Luoma of WIZN was a judge and Arty Lavigne of WIZN was the emcee; Arty read an introduction that Phish had handed him.
SET 1: AC/DC Bag > Fluffhead[1], You Shook Me All Night Long Jam > Fluffhead, Fire, Esther, Suzy Greenberg, The Sloth, Possum, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters -> Foam, David Bowie
SET 2: Divided Sky, Walk Away, You Enjoy Myself > Split Open and Melt[2], The Lizards, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Love You[3], Harpua
Humphries House had been a Zeta Upsilon ("Zu") frat house and monthly parties used to occur there that were referred to as "Full Moon at the Zoo" parties. A fire alarm sounded as Fluffhead moved into the Clod segment of Fluff’s Travels, which caused the building to be evacuated. When the band retook the stage, they started up a humorous pass at You Shook Me All Night Long and then dove back into Fluff’s Travels. Fire was dedicated to the “brave men” who turned off the fire alarm. Suzy contained Sailor's Hornpipe teases from Trey. Trey and Page teased Blue Monk in Possum. Bowie included a brief Frosty the Snowman jam in the intro, as well as a Riders on the Storm tease from Page and a Santa Claus is Coming to Town tease. Melt contained a Fish drum solo. Love You was played for the first time since October 31, 1987 (138 shows) and featured Fish on trombone. Harpua contained "Charge!" and Price of Love teases from Page, multiple Gimme Some Lovin' teases, and a Walk This Way tease from Mike.
Soundcheck: Time Loves a Hero
SET 1: Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Esther > You Enjoy Myself > Wilson, Peaches en Regalia, On Your Way Down > Alumni Blues[1] > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues, I Didn't Know[2], McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters[3] > Foam, David Bowie
SET 2: Funky Bitch, Golgi Apparatus > Slave to the Traffic Light, The Mango Song, Divided Sky, Split Open and Melt[4], Suzy Greenberg > Fluffhead > Good Times Bad Times
This show was a benefit for VPIRG. Esther contained a Dixie tease from Trey. Alumni contained additional lyrics. I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone. I Didn't Know and McGrupp included sound effects from an electronic drum machine. Fish played Call to the Post on the woodblock after Slave. A fan identified the song and Trey said he won a date with Fish. SOAM included a drum solo. A recording of the second set circulates with AC/DC Bag and Possum as the encores, but they are from a different source than the rest of the recording, and thus may have been filler. (An early Phish.net setlist from the 1990s, as well as the Phish.com setlist, do not list any encores for this benefit show.)
Soundcheck: Time Loves A Hero
SET 1: AC/DC Bag > Foam, Walk Away, Fluffhead, Fee, Halley's Comet > Run Like an Antelope, Contact, Fire
SET 2: You Enjoy Myself, Bold As Love, The Lizards, The Sloth, Possum, If I Only Had a Brain[1], Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Esther
Some recordings of this show have the venue mislabeled as Chez Pierre. Possum contained a Woody Woodpecker theme tease from Trey and If I Only Had a Brain featured Fish on trombone.
SET 1: Alumni Blues, Wilson, The Mango Song, Le Freak[1]
This was Chris Kuroda’s first full show as lighting director. The setlist above was derived from Mike's notes about the show. It is incomplete and may be attributed to the wrong set(s) and/or out of order. This show featured the first and only known Phish performance of Le Freak (Chic). An unknown Ninja Custodian song was played between Mango Song and Le Freak. The Huge Members were the opening act. The source of this setlist is phish.com.
This setlist is incomplete. This show marked the beginning of Chris Kuroda’s career as Phish lighting director. Chris ran lights during Mockingbird while then lighting director Chris “Steck” Stecher was in the bathroom. Trey had complimented Stecher on the lights for Mockingbird; after later learning that it was Chris who actually ran lights for that song, Chris was named the new lighting director.
SET 1: La Grange
This show took place in the basement of the Pearl Ballroom in a room called the U-Joint (short for Universal Joint).
SET 1: Whipping Post
No setlist exists but Kuroda recalls a long version of Whipping Post was performed at the show that he describes as his favorite Phish rendition of a cover song.This information is from Phish.com.
SET 1: Bold As Love, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Divided Sky, The Price of Love[1], On Your Way Down, Ya Mar, Fluffhead, Run Like an Antelope
SET 2: The Mango Song[2], Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, You Enjoy Myself, Undun[1], La Grange, Golgi Apparatus
SET 3: Peaches en Regalia > Foam, AC/DC Bag > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Satin Doll, Rocky Top
ENCORE: Makisupa Policeman
Ya Mar contained a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer tease from Trey and YEM included You’re No Good quotes. This show included the first known performance of The Mango Song as well as the first known Phish performances of The Price of Love and Undun.
SET 1: Possum, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Golgi Apparatus > Divided Sky, AC/DC Bag, If I Only Had a Brain, Take the 'A' Train, David Bowie
This setlist is incomplete and is out of order. The only recording in circulation is a mix of songs from the show, which features Hydrogen brutally cut out of the Mike’s Groove. This setlist is in the order in which those songs appear on the mix. (The mix also includes several songs from the Paradise show on January 26, 1989.) Possum contained a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer tease, which raises the question – were these songs really performed in March 1989? David Bowie closed the first set. Before Brain, someone introduced Fish – or is it Phish – as being “from Bogota, Columbia.” It is therefore possible that Brain opened this show, which would be the only (known) time that Brain opened a show.
SET 1: The Curtain > Ya Mar, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Fluffhead, Contact, AC/DC Bag > Wilson, You Enjoy Myself, Harpua, Foam
SET 3: Fire, Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley, Alumni Blues, The Lizards, La Grange, You Enjoy Myself, Good Times Bad Times
ENCORE: Halley's Comet
Harpua contained "Charge!," Happy Trails, Jingle Jangle Jingle, and Mike's Song teases from Page as well as a Timber (Jerry) quote from Trey. One recording in circulation contains the first set, as listed above. Another contains the above list for sets II (incomplete) and III. Since songs are repeated within the list, it is likely that one is mislabeled. This was the last Phish show at Nectar’s and the master copy of sets II and III is specifically labeled as such; the recording circulating as the first set may be from the night before or from another show entirely. Also, the band wished the audience good night after Harpua and made several references to it being the “last song” so this is likely a final set from another show where Foam may have been the encore. Since an exact date cannot be ascertained, we will continue to list as is.
SET 1: You Enjoy Myself, Fee, Ya Mar, Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, David Bowie
SET 2: Sanity[1], Take the 'A' Train, Possum, Divided Sky, The Lizards, Fire
SET 3: Whipping Post, I Didn't Know, Free Bird
ENCORE: Golgi Apparatus
YEM was preceded by two unknown jazz songs featuring the band as a trio with Trey on drums because Fish was absent. Fish arrived during the second jazz song and played trombone. This version of Sanity was the fast version. I Didn't Know was subsequently followed by a medley that included portions of Killer Joe, Low Rider, Back in Black, Godzilla, and Iron Man, as well as a rap funk. It is possible that this medley took place on 3/14/89. Free Bird was played for the first time since March 6, 1987 (155 shows). The third set was pieced together from Mike's notes and the source of this setlist is phish.com.
SET 1: Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, If I Only Had a Brain[1], Alumni Blues[2] > Letter to Jimmy Page[3] > Alumni Blues, Golgi Apparatus, Bold As Love, Foam
This show featured the first known Phish performance of If I Only Had a Brain, which featured Fish on trombone. Alumni contained additional lyrics. During the pause in Letter to Jimmy Page, a local band, Eyeburn, traded off punk rock jams. This setlist is incomplete.
SET 1: Autumn Leaves[1], All Blues, Unknown[2], Satin Doll, St. Thomas, Unknown[2], My Favorite Things[1], Take the 'A' Train
SET 2: On Green Dolphin Street[1], Unknown[2], Unknown, Autumn Leaves, Donna Lee, Contact, The Lizards, So What[1], All Of Me[3], Basin Street Blues[3], I Didn't Know[4]
This show was a private party for family and friends at Trey's dad's house. The gig consisted of the band set up in the living room playing jazz. Fish played mostly with brushes. This show featured the first known Phish performances of Autumn Leaves, My Favorite Things, On Green Dolphin Street, So What, All Of Me, and Basin Street Blues. Four unknown jazz standards were also performed. Page's dad, Jack McConnell, sat in with the band on vocals for All Of Me and Basin Street Blues. Fish played a trombone solo during I Didn't Know. Page's parents, the band members' siblings, Andrew Fischbeck, and others were in attendance. Between sets, Trey explained his thesis "The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday", commonly known as ”Gamehendge” (without any musical accompaniment), to the McConnells and others while sitting around talking. The source of this setlist and show notes is phish.com.
SET 1: Take the 'A' Train, I Didn't Know[1], Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Fee, Golgi Apparatus, Good Times Bad Times
SET 2: Possum > Fluffhead, The Lizards, Run Like an Antelope, Contact
I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone. Lizards contained a tease of the I Dream of Jeannie theme from Page. The second set listing is incomplete.
SET 1: Wilson > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, You Enjoy Myself > Foam, AC/DC Bag, The Curtain > Run Like an Antelope, I Didn't Know[1], Divided Sky, Alumni Blues[2] > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues, Good Times Bad Times
SET 2: Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Fee, Possum, Walk Away, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, The Lizards, Split Open and Melt, Take the 'A' Train, David Bowie
ENCORE: Golgi Apparatus
I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone. Alumni contained additional lyrics.
SET 1: Funky Bitch, Possum, Walk Away, Suzy Greenberg > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
SET 2: Jesus Just Left Chicago, Slave to the Traffic Light, Dinner and a Movie[1], The Fishin' Hole[2], Satin Doll, Halley's Comet[3] > Light Up Or Leave Me Alone, Big Black Furry Creature from Mars
SET 3: Cities > Dave's Energy Guide > Cities, Dog Log, Harry Hood, Fluffhead, Ride Captain Ride
ENCORE: Green Onions[4], Cinnamon Girl[4] > Hold Your Head Up[5] > American Woman[6] > Wilson > Peaches en Regalia, Fire
This show featured the first known Phish performances of The Fishin' Hole (aka The Andy Griffith Show theme), Green Onions, Cinnamon Girl, and American Woman. Dinner and a Movie contained alternate lyrics in reference to the venue: "Let's go out to Gallagher's and see a movie." Halley's Comet featured Richard Wright on vocals and Green Onions through American Woman featured Trey on drums and Fish on trombone. Hold Your Head Up was played in its entirety (for the first and only known time) with vocals and was performed for the first time since August 29, 1987 (135 shows). An unknown jazz tune was played after Peaches.
SET 1: The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, The Curtain > Foam, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > Run Like an Antelope > Golgi Apparatus, Possum
SET 2: On Your Way Down > AC/DC Bag, You Enjoy Myself -> Camel Walk
This second set listing may be incomplete, as recordings that circulate cut during Camel Walk. YEM contained a Jean Pierre tease from Trey.
The songs listed in set I are from Mike's notes and may have occurred during either set. YEM and Camel Walk also show up in the 2/23/89 notes, but it is possible that those two songs are notes referring to 2/24/89's second set. This show marked the first and only known Phish performance of Stormy Monday. The source of this information is phish.com.
SET 1: The Sloth, Divided Sky, The Curtain > I Didn't Know, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > The Lizards, Walk Away > Possum, Good Times Bad Times
SET 2: Golgi Apparatus, Wilson > Peaches en Regalia, You Enjoy Myself > La Grange, Slave to the Traffic Light, Contact, David Bowie[1]
SET 3: Whipping Post, Corinna, AC/DC Bag
ENCORE: Fire
This setlist is likely incomplete and out of order. David Bowie featured "Fish's Birthday" lyrics, as well as a brief Dave's Energy Guide tease from Trey and Page. (Fish's birthday is February 19.) During Bowie, Trey also shouted "A hundred push-ups!" Apparently, Fish did a number of "birthday push-ups" on stage after the Bowie. Only two partial recordings of this show circulate, and there are cuts before several songs (like both Contact and Bowie) on both recordings, and other songs appearing in this setlist do not appear on the recordings at all (e.g., Sloth, Divided, Slave, Fire). This setlist is therefore speculative, and based on the only recordings that circulate, song statistics, and the information that Phish.com and Phish.net have at the present time.
SET 1: AC/DC Bag, You Enjoy Myself, Fee, Divided Sky, Split Open and Melt[1], Golgi Apparatus, Take the 'A' Train, Alumni Blues, Run Like an Antelope, Fluffhead
This show contained the first known version of Split Open and Melt. The setlist information for the second and third sets is unknown.
SET 1: Esther > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters[1] > Foam, The Sloth -> Possum, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Golgi Apparatus
SET 2: Makisupa Policeman, Dinner and a Movie, AC/DC Bag > The Lizards, Timber (Jerry the Mule), Contact, Alumni Blues[2] > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues, Fee > Run Like an Antelope
SET 3: Sanity[3], Fluffhead, Suzy Greenberg > Slave to the Traffic Light, Bike > Whipping Post[4]
ENCORE: Fire
McGrupp featured Fish on trombone. Weekapaug featured alternate “Sharin’ in the Rhode Island groove” lyrics. Alumni contained additional lyrics. This version of Sanity was the fast version. Suzy contained a Woody Woodpecker theme tease from Trey. Prior to Bike, Mike introduced Fish as "Moses Yaskremski." Whipping Post was the first known version to feature Fish on vocals.
SET 1: Suzy Greenberg, The Curtain > Wilson > Peaches en Regalia, Fee > La Grange, You Enjoy Myself
SET 2: All Blues > Sanity[1], Take the 'A' Train, Golgi Apparatus > Divided Sky, On Your Way Down, I Didn't Know
SET 3: Good Times Bad Times, Walk Away > Harry Hood, Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, The Ballad of Curtis Loew, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > Whipping Post, Corinna
ENCORE: David Bowie
This version of Sanity was the fast version. ‘A’ Train included a tease of the Woody Woodpecker theme and the Bowie intro contained a tease of the Batman theme.
Soundcheck: The Sloth > Possum
SET 1: I Didn't Know[1], Golgi Apparatus, Alumni Blues[2] > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues, You Enjoy Myself, The Lizards, Take the 'A' Train, Sanity[3], Divided Sky, Fee, Good Times Bad Times
SET 2: Suzy Greenberg, Icculus, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, The Sloth -> Possum, Contact, Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Foam, David Bowie
This was the band’s first major gig in Boston. The Paradise held around 650 people, they didn’t think the band could come close to selling out the room and so refused to book Phish. John Paluska and Ben Hunter, who were managing Phish at the time, therefore rented the room for the evening. John and Ben promoted the gig heavily, including via radio. Tickets were only $5. Tom Baggott, a fan of the band, helped get Burlington fans to the show by Greyhound bus. Not only did the gig sell out, but there were some 200 people shut out (mostly Boston University and Boston College students). I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone. Alumni contained additional lyrics. Prior to YEM, Trey welcomed his mom, who had come "all the way from Ireland." After YEM, Trey said that they had a special guest that night for the person in the front row that kept requesting that they play Minkin. Trey mentioned that there was a Minkin hanging behind the band and that Minkin was also there that night. There was a subsequent brief Minkin vocal tease prior to Lizards. This version of Sanity was the fast version.
No known setlist
There was no show on this date. The setlist previously attributed to this date is from January 25, 1990.
SET 1: Dear Mrs. Reagan
The setlist is incomplete. Dear Mrs. Reagan was played to commemorate George Bush’s impending inauguration and Nancy Reagan’s departure from the White House.
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