Friday, 03/06/2009
Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA
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 > Tweezer -> Taste, Possum, Theme From the Bottom, First Tube > Harry Hood, Waste > You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Grind, Bouncing Around the Room, Loving Cup
Notes: 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 Fishman 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 (181 shows). 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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK12ZhkgsUQ
Saturday, 03/07/2009
Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA
Set 1: Back on the Train, Runaway Jim, Brian and Robert, Split Open and Melt, Heavy Things, Punch You In the Eye, Gumbo, Reba, Mexican Cousin, It's Ice, Halley's Comet > Beauty of a Broken Heart, 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
Notes: 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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQoTX1yrm1g
Sunday, 03/08/2009
Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA
Set 1: Sanity > Wilson, Foam, Bathtub Gin, Undermind, AC/DC Bag > My Friend, My Friend, Scent of a Mule, All of These Dreams, Maze, She Thinks I Still Care, Army of One, Tube, Cars Trucks Buses, Free, Frankenstein
Set 2: Down with Disease > 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
Notes: Sanity (not played since November 27, 1998 or 188 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. Before Contact, the band and audience sang Happy Birthday to Fish’s Dad, Leonard, and the end of Contact featured a Happy Birthday jam. The post-show music included "Sweet Virginia" from Exile on Main Street.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKi5hXDbK9Q
Sunday, 05/31/2009
Fenway Park, Boston, MA
Set 1: The Star Spangled Banner, Sample in a Jar, The Moma Dance, Chalk Dust Torture, Ocelot, 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, Bathtub Gin, David Bowie, Time Turns Elastic, Free, The Ballad of Curtis Loew, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Cavern, Good Times Bad Times, Tweezer Reprise
Notes: 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. Tweezer contained a Theme From the Bottom jam. 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 (625 shows).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHxFQYzlVwQ
Tuesday, 06/02/2009
Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY
Set 1: Runaway Jim, Foam, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Timber (Jerry), 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, Harry Hood > Loving Cup
Encore: Suzy Greenberg
Notes: 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).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUl43FHbwfY
Thursday, 06/04/2009
Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY
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
Notes: Drowned featured a Jumpin’ Jack Flash tease. Meatstick was played in a different key and included Japanese lyrics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgQ8Kfz1h1o
Friday, 06/05/2009
Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY
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 -> Twist > Piper > Backwards Down the Number Line, Free, Twenty Years Later > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Slave to the Traffic Light
Encore: A Day in the Life
Notes: 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. Boogie On Reggae Woman contained a Ghostbusters tease. 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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz8NK2WzJGg
Saturday, 06/06/2009
Comcast Center, Mansfield, MA
Set 1: Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Nothing, Back on the Train, Golgi Apparatus, Sparkle > Gotta Jibboo, Lawn Boy, Let Me Lie, Taste, Makisupa Policeman, Prince Caspian
Set 2: Seven Below, Fluffhead, Scent of a Mule, Heavy Things, Harry Hood > Possum, Bug
Encore: Contact > Julius
Notes: Let Me Lie made its Phish debut at this show. The first post-break-up Makisupa Policeman notably did not contain a “keyword.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaKwYatH1PQ
Sunday, 06/07/2009
Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, NJ
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, Character Zero > Tweezer
Encore: Joy, Bouncing Around the Room, Run Like an Antelope > Tweezer Reprise
Notes: 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).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdtW8AN00IU
Tuesday, 06/09/2009
Asheville Civic Center, Asheville, NC
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, Bold As Love
Set 2: Backwards Down the Number Line > Ghost > Fast Enough for You, Halley's Comet > Maze, Alaska, Theme From the Bottom, Golgi Apparatus, Possum
Encore: Loving Cup
Notes: 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 lied 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 (233 shows). Bold as Love was played for the first time since October 6, 2000 (74 shows).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87EBzCUSKaY
Wednesday, 06/10/2009
Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, TN
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, Hello My Baby, Julius > Cavern > Harry Hood
Encore: Frankenstein
Notes: Reba did not have the whistling ending. Hello My Baby was played for the first time since December 5, 1999 (138 shows). Frankenstein featured Page on keytar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNjYhsTbwdg
Thursday, 06/12/2009
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN
"From The Archives"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMNIAZVBM-k
Friday, 06/12/2009
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN
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
Notes: 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 (325 shows). YEM contained a brief Salt Peanuts (aka Basie Boogie) tease from Page.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw9JMEydJVM
Thursday, 06/14/2009
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN
"From The Archives"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zNTcVkZs6Q
Sunday, 06/14/2009
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN
Set 1: AC/DC Bag > NICU, Gotta Jibboo > Punch You In the Eye > Sparkle > Bathtub Gin, Character Zero > Tweezer -> The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Run Like an Antelope, Mustang Sally, Bobby Jean > Glory Days
Set 2: Rock and Roll -> Light > 46 Days, Limb By Limb, Farmhouse, Backwards Down the Number Line > Prince Caspian, First Tube
Encore: Suzy Greenberg > Tweezer Reprise
Notes: This show, performed on the What Stage, closed out the 2009 Bonnaroo Festival. Before Mustang Sally, Trey remarked that he had seen a show at Jadwin Gym at Princeton University when was 12 (apparently referring to an 11/1/78 performance by Bruce Springsteen at this 3,000 seat venue, though Trey would have been 14 at the time), and added that Phish would now have an opportunity to play with one of his heroes, Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen joined in on guitar and vocals for Mustang Sally, Bobby Jean and Glory Days. Mustang Sally was played for the first time since August 5, 1988 (1,274 shows). This show marked the Phish debuts of Bobby Jean and Glory Days. Rock and Roll included a brief Rift tease. Limb By Limb contained a Dave’s Energy Guide tease. Caspian was unfinished.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gLmP9SP400
Tuesday, 06/16/2009
The Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO
Set 1: Kill Devil Falls, Ocelot, Brian and Robert, Sample in a Jar, Rift, Ya Mar, Reba, Train Song, Horn, Possum > Slave to the Traffic Light
Set 2: Halley's Comet -> Runaway Jim, Frankie Says, Time Turns Elastic, Sleep, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Character Zero
Encore: The Star Spangled Banner, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Notes: Reba did not have the whistling ending. Trey teased Seven Below before Halley’s Comet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cchYQycqjEk
Thursday, 06/18/2009
Post-Gazette Pavilion, Burgettstown, PA
Set 1: Golgi Apparatus, Chalk Dust Torture, Bouncing Around the Room, Wolfman's Brother, Divided Sky, Heavy Things, Walk Away, Wilson, Tube, Alaska, David Bowie
Set 2: Down with Disease > Free, Guyute, Piper -> When the Circus Comes, Harry Hood > The Squirming Coil, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Grind, Hello My Baby, Hold Your Head Up > Bike > Hold Your Head Up, Loving Cup
Notes: This show featured the first Walk Away since October 5, 2000 (80 shows). Disease was unfinished. After Grind, Trey remarked that Page blew the wrong note on the pitch pipe and had them all singing in the wrong key. They decide to perform another a cappella song and Trey joked that if they couldn’t get it right, Fish would sing Bike. Sure enough, Hello My Baby was no better and was aborted. However, true to his word, Trey announced that Fish will now sing Bike. For his part, Fish took the opportunity to welcome everyone to “the trainwreck portion of the show.” Bike was played for the first time since September 12, 2000 (95 shows).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dcMOm7bhvA
Friday, 06/19/2009
Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, IN
Set 1: Backwards Down the Number Line, AC/DC Bag, Limb By Limb, The Moma Dance, Water in the Sky, Split Open and Melt, Lawn Boy, The Wedge, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, The Connection, Ocelot, Fluffhead
Set 2: A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing > Drowned > Twist, Let Me Lie, Tweezer -> Also Sprach Zarathustra > Suzy Greenberg -> Possum
Encore: Sleeping Monkey > Tweezer Reprise
Notes: After Limb By Limb, Trey introduced Fish as “Johnny B. Fishman” and quoted Johnny B. Goode, with Page also teasing "Charge!" before the quote. Split Open and Melt included a Can’t You Hear Me Knocking tease. Before The Connection, Mike introduced Trey as “Sweetie Pie” and Trey responded by blowing a kiss to Mike. This show marked the debut of The Connection. There were severe thunderstorms during setbreak and, as a result, Page made an announcement that they were going to take a longer than usual break and that everyone on the lawn should return to their cars until the second set, which would not start until 11:00.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7wgY9y-1Y4
Saturday, 06/20/2009
Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI
Set 1: Punch You In the Eye, Runaway Jim, Stash, Ya Mar, Bathtub Gin, Kill Devil Falls, Train Song, Farmhouse, Sparkle, Run Like an Antelope
Set 2: Waves > Sample in a Jar, Maze, Makisupa Policeman, Ghost -> The Lizards, You Enjoy Myself -> NICU > Prince Caspian > Waste, Fire
Encore: Character Zero
Notes: During Antelope, Trey changed the lyrics to “Been you to have any Hibachi?” The lyrics to Makisupa were changed to “Woke up this morning, pissing in jah cup / Woke up this afternoon, called my probation officer.” YEM contained a Gumsuckers March (Percy Grainger) tease from Page, was unfinished, and did not contain a bass and drums segment or a vocal jam. Caspian was also unfinished.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hPk8Z0BWuw
Sunday, 06/21/2009
Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI
Set 1: Brother, Wolfman's Brother, Funky Bitch > Divided Sky, Joy, Back on the Train, Taste, Poor Heart, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, Time Turns Elastic
Set 2: Crosseyed and Painless -> Down with Disease > Bug > Piper > Wading in the Velvet Sea, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Slave to the Traffic Light
Encore: Grind, Frankenstein
Notes: During Brother, each of the band members’ children jumped into a bathtub placed at the side of the stage. Afterwards, Trey introduced them and wished everyone a happy Fathers’ Day. Funky Bitch was played in acknowledgement of a fan who had been holding up a sign requesting the song at this show and the previous one. The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday Reprise was played for the first time since July 4, 2000 (111 shows). Crosseyed and Painless included a brief, subtle tease from Page of the Grateful Dead’s Let It Grow. Trey teased Taste near the end of Disease, which was unfinished. Piper contained a brief Can’t You Hear Me Knocking tease. Frankenstein featured Page on the keytar and Trey on a five-neck guitar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJWAq9c0KKA
Thursday, 07/30/2009
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
Set 1: Divided Sky, Ocelot, The Wedge, Poor Heart, The Moma Dance, Horn, Stash, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Possum
Set 2: Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Ghost > Wolfman's Brother, Limb By Limb, Billy Breathes, The Squirming Coil > David Bowie
Encore: Loving Cup
Notes: This marked Phish’s first show at Red Rocks since August 7, 1996 (388 shows). Trey introduced Mike before the start of the second set, at which point Mike pretended to leave the stage, prompting Trey to introduce him a second time. Ghost contained a Praise You jam and a Windy City tease. Trey teased Piper before starting Limb By Limb.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py0ZTEhHMDk
Friday, 07/31/2009
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
Set 1: Runaway Jim, Chalk Dust Torture, Bathtub Gin, Time Turns Elastic, Lawn Boy, Water in the Sky, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Split Open and Melt
Set 2: Drowned -> Crosseyed and Painless > Joy, Tweezer > Backwards Down the Number Line > Fluffhead -> Piper -> A Day in the Life
Encore: Suzy Greenberg > Tweezer Reprise
Notes: Fluffhead was unfinished and contained a Dave’s Energy Guide tease. Suzy contained Drowned, Crosseyed and Painless and AC/DC Bag teases. The Seven Bar Blues Jam from the soundcheck featured Trey on bass and Mike on guitar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlkrtXom4cs
Saturday, 08/01/2009
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
Set 1: AC/DC Bag, The Curtain With, Mound, Gotta Jibboo, Guyute, Punch You In the Eye, Tube, Alaska, Run Like an Antelope
Set 2: Rock and Roll > Down with Disease > Free, Esther, Dirt, Harry Hood
Encore: Sleeping Monkey, First Tube
Notes: Throughout the first set the band was using charades to communicate what song was coming next, prompting Trey to remark after Jibboo, “We do everything by hand signals now. There’s no more talking.” After PYITE, Trey again referenced the hand signals, joking “That could be one of two songs, so we’ll see if he starts the right one.” During Antelope, Trey changed the lyrics to “Been you to have any slush?” Disease contained an L.A. Woman tease from Trey, who also briefly teased Taste just before beginning Free, and was unfinished. Esther was played for the first time since September 30, 2000 (89 shows). Hood featured Dirt and Free teases from Trey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY2mcG6cyZ4
Sunday, 08/02/2009
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
Set 1: Roses Are Free, Wilson > NICU, Prince Caspian, Back on the Train, Reba, Grind, Beauty of a Broken Heart, Sample in a Jar, Sugar Shack, Waste, Kill Devil Falls
Set 2: Boogie On Reggae Woman, You Enjoy Myself -> Undermind -> Drums -> Seven Below > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Waves > Character Zero
Encore: Bittersweet Motel, Bouncing Around the Room, Slave to the Traffic Light
Notes: Reba did not have the whistling ending. Boogie On featured a Twist-esque jam and contained an Oye Come Va tease from Page. Both Trey and Page teased AC/DC Bag during YEM. Undermind through Zero featured Bill Kreutzmann on drums. Before the encore, Trey explained that Bittersweet Motel was being played at the request of his daughter, Bella. After Bittersweet Motel, Fish remarked that he felt lonely again and needed the second drummer back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6NmSYv0bw
Wednesday, 08/05/2009
Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA
Set 1: Golgi Apparatus, Halley's Comet > Chalk Dust Torture, Divided Sky, When the Circus Comes, Time Turns Elastic, Ya Mar, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Suzy Greenberg, David Bowie
Set 2: Backwards Down the Number Line > Down with Disease > Limb By Limb, Oh! Sweet Nuthin', Cities -> Maze, Mike's Song > Simple > Weekapaug Groove
Encore: Let Me Lie, Bold As Love
Notes: Disease was unfinished. This show featured the first performance of Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ since October 31, 1998 (225 shows).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8jLtqxLIjQ
Friday, 08/07/2009
Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA
Set 1: Down with Disease, Ocelot, Pebbles and Marbles > Possum, Sleep, Destiny Unbound, Stash, Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley > Cavern
Set 2: The Moma Dance, Light -> Taste, Fluffhead, Joy, Bathtub Gin > Harry Hood
Encore: Slave to the Traffic Light
Notes: Gin was unfinished.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THYbfRhfoXQ
Saturday, 08/08/2009
Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA
Set 1: The Mango Song > Chalk Dust Torture, Middle of the Road, Tweezer, Driver, Twenty Years Later, Ya Mar, It's Ice, Wolfman's Brother > Character Zero > Run Like an Antelope
Set 2: Rock and Roll -> Makisupa Policeman, Alaska, The Wedge, You Enjoy Myself, Backwards Down the Number Line > Piper, Grind
Encore: Good Times Bad Times, Tweezer Reprise,
Notes: This show marked the Phish debut of Middle of the Road. Prior to Mike’s solo in the intro of Antelope, Trey whispered, “Cactus, Cactus, Cactus gonna play it for you, Cactus.” The keyword for Makisupa was “did like Bobby Brown. I ate my breakfast and I laid back down.” Trey and Mike switched instruments during Makisupa. Trey teased Hedwig’s Theme during YEM. BDTNL was unfinished. Fish teased Llama several times at the end of Piper. During the soundcheck, Trey played an extended tease of the intro to Fly Famous Mockingbird.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYjvkAAytKQ
Tuesday, 08/11/2009
Toyota Park, Bridgeview, IL
Set 1: Kill Devil Falls, Sample in a Jar, Ocelot, Paul and Silas, Windy City, The Curtain With, Train Song, Gumbo, Heavy Things, Time Turns Elastic
Set 2: Backwards Down the Number Line > Carini > Gotta Jibboo, Theme From the Bottom, Wilson > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Chalk Dust Torture, Harry Hood, The Squirming Coil
Encore: Loving Cup
Notes: This show featured the first Paul and Silas since November 29, 1998 (209 shows). Trey explained that Paul and Silas was “sort of a request” for a fan he met the night before. This show marked the debut of Windy City, which Trey indicated the band had been waiting to debut in Chicago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlv0FRG_G9I
Thursday, 08/13/2009
Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, Darien Center, NY
Set 1: Sample in a Jar, Dinner and a Movie, Wolfman's Brother, My Friend, My Friend, Possum, Farmhouse, Sugar Shack, Brian and Robert, David Bowie, Bathtub Gin, How High the Moon > Golgi Apparatus
Set 2: Drowned > Prince Caspian > Rift, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Sparkle, Run Like an Antelope > Suzy Greenberg > Fluffhead
Encore: Joy, First Tube
Notes: After Gin, Trey wished Happy Birthday to an audience member holding a sign for The Sloth, saying they would get to it eventually (they played it two nights later). Trey then wished his wife, Sue, a happy fifteenth wedding anniversary. Trey also said some words in remembrance of Les Paul, who passed away earlier that day. Trey said that Les was a hero to all of the band members for, among other reasons, continuing playing music into his nineties and that hopefully they would be playing into their nineties too. Finally, Trey dedicated the ensuing version of How High the Moon (last played on March 8, 1993 (710 shows)), to the memory of Les. Trey changed the lyrics of Antelope to “Been you to have any splash cymbal solo, man?”, after which Fish took a splash cymbal solo. Caspian was unfinished.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuwhflJfZi8
Friday, 08/14/2009
The Comcast Theatre, Hartford, CT
Set 1: Punch You In the Eye, AC/DC Bag > NICU, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, Birds of a Feather, Lawn Boy, Stash, I Didn't Know, Middle of the Road, Character Zero
Set 2: Down with Disease > Wilson > Slave to the Traffic Light, Piper > Water in the Sky, Ghost -> Psycho Killer -> Catapult -> Icculus > You Enjoy Myself
Encore: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Notes: This show featured the first versions of Forbin’s and Mockingbird since September 30, 2000 (96 shows), which were performed without narration. During I Didn’t Know, Trey introduced Fish as “Recent Julliard Master’s Vacuum Program graduate, the one and only, Jon Moses Quagmire DeWitt Hampton.” DWD contained a Reba jam and was unfinished. Piper included a Spill the Wine tease from Page. This show featured the first Psycho Killer since December 7, 1997 (282 shows). Psycho Killer was unfinished and disintegrated into a self-described, electronic “Pong” jam. During the post-Psycho Killer “Pong” jam, Trey initiated a dance contest saying that whoever could best dance to that music would “win something.” After Catapult (while continuing the “Pong” jam), Trey asked, “Does everybody else love this song as much as I do?” and said that he was “waiting for the day when they play stuff like this on the radio.” Icculus was last performed on July 18, 1999 (193 shows). The Icculus narration centered on the fact that “you crazy kids” just don’t read anymore. The “Pong” jam reappeared during the YEM jam. The soundcheck included a jam with lyrics that were made up on the fly with Trey on bass (so that Mike could check on bass sounds from the audience) and Fish on drums. Trey briefly quoted Spill the Wine and The Pendulum during the soundcheck jam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1MgPc5-fV0
Saturday, 08/15/2009
Merriweather Post Pavillion, Columbia, MD
Set 1: Crowd Control, Kill Devil Falls, The Sloth, Beauty of a Broken Heart, Axilla, Foam, Esther, Ha Ha Ha, Party Time, Tube, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Strange Design, Time Turns Elastic
Set 2: Tweezer > Taste, Alaska, Let Me Lie, 46 Days, Oh! Sweet Nuthin' > Harry Hood
Encore: Good Times Bad Times, Tweezer Reprise
Notes: Before Ha Ha Ha, Trey chided Fish saying, “You should know this song, Fish, because you wrote this song.” After Ha Ha Ha, Trey said that he loved that song so much, that the time had come for the debut of Party Time, another Fish original that he loves even more. Before Tube, Trey said that he couldn’t hear what song a group of fans were shouting for, saying that it sounded like “Snoop.” Trey then joked, “You said ‘Snoop’? He’s right back here, Snoop Dogg, everyone!” Finally, he started Tube, saying that he thought that was the song they were requesting. After Alaska, Trey offered some kind words for his guitar tech, Brian Brown, adding, “No Brian, no guitar.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy6-r6ZljBg
Sunday, 08/16/2009
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
Set 1: Llama, The Moma Dance, Guyute, Anything But Me, Cars Trucks Buses, Chalk Dust Torture, Golgi Apparatus, David Bowie, Cavern > Possum, Ocelot, Run Like an Antelope
Set 2: Backwards Down the Number Line -> Twenty Years Later, Halley's Comet > Rock and Roll, Harpua -> I Kissed a Girl > Hold Your Head Up > Harpua, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Grind, I Been Around, Highway to Hell
Notes: The Harpua narration centered on a depressed Jimmy calling on his Spirit Guide who happened to be a “funny little man wearing a dress” who spoke truth through song (in this case, I Kissed a Girl). This show featured the Phish debut of I Kissed a Girl (described by Trey as “so wrong on so many levels”). After Harpua, Trey remarked to Fish that he was waiting for the day when Fish went to see Katy Perry and she performed a Phish song, prompting Fish to declare, “I don’t apologize to Katy Perry for that. I only apologize to [the audience].” Prior to the encore, Trey stated that it was hard to play the last show of the tour because they felt like they could just keep going. Before starting the debut performance of I Been Around, Trey explained that they were playing it because he realized that it was the one song off of the upcoming album (Joy) that they hadn’t played live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eKIzFvFb5g
Thursday, 10/29/2009
Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA
Set 1: Water in the Sky, Sleep Again, Let Me Lie, Invisible, Back on the Train, Driver
Set 2: Jam, Undermind -> Devil With a Blue Dress On Jam, Starship Trooper Jam, Gone, Liquid Time
Notes: There were two soundchecks for Festival 8: an acoustic afternoon session, followed several hours later by a separate electric soundcheck that evening. The electric soundcheck was broadcast on Phish's on-site festival radio, JACK-FM 95.9 "The Bunny" as well as Sirus/XM Radio. The acoustic soundcheck was not broadcast and the song order may be incorrect. The short Devil With a Blue Dress On Jam included the chorus and part of a verse sung by Trey, as well as a Good Golly Miss Molly quote. The Starship Trooper Jam consisted of part of the Würm segment of the song. Before Liquid Time, Trey quoted Fuck Your Face and briefly teased Kids (MGMT); the jam out of Liquid Time dissolved into a vocal jam featuring the band members snoring and featured a Lengthwise quote from Trey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zuGBnl0-ug
Friday, 10/30/2009
Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA
"From The Archives"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2pVgsUslfo
Friday, 10/30/2009
Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA
Set 1: Party Time, Chalk Dust Torture, The Moma Dance, NICU, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Stash, I Didn't Know, Poor Heart, Cavern, Beauty of a Broken Heart, Ocelot, Time Turns Elastic
Set 2: Punch You In the Eye > Down with Disease -> Prince Caspian > Wolfman's Brother > Piper > Joy, David Bowie, Harry Hood > Golgi Apparatus
Encore: Character Zero
Notes: This show was part of the three-show Festival 8. Stash contained an L.A. Woman tease. During I Didnt Know, Trey announced that Henrietta would, for the first time in human history, suck and blow at the same time, in the shape of a figure 8. Disease and Caspian were unfinished. During Bowie, Trey said, "I'm gonna give you a little hint about the Halloween album now."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv7-r03Rrig
Friday, 10/31/2009
Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA
"From The Archives"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GR4hTFkDug
Saturday, 10/31/2009
Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA
Set 1: Sample in a Jar, Divided Sky, Lawn Boy, Kill Devil Falls, Bathtub Gin, The Squirming Coil, Runaway Jim > Possum, Run Like an Antelope
Set 2: Rocks Off > Rip This Joint, Shake Your Hips, Casino Boogie, Tumbling Dice, Sweet Virginia, Torn and Frayed, Sweet Black Angel, Loving Cup, Happy, Turd on the Run, Ventilator Blues -> I Just Want To See His Face > Let It Loose, All Down the Line, Stop Breaking Down, Shine a Light, Soul Survivor
Set 3: Backwards Down the Number Line > Fluffhead > Ghost, When the Circus Comes, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Suzy Greenberg
Notes: This show was part of the three-show Festival 8. Playbills were distributed on-site (beginning at 12:30pm, 8 hours in advance) confirming that the second set (the band's "musical costume") would be the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St. After Divided Sky, Trey acknowledged the beauty of the venue and announced that Page would now play a love song to the lawn since it was the first time they had played on grass in a long time. Antelope's lyrics were changed to "Been you to have any Coil, man?" (The Coil was an art installation on the venue grounds.) Set 2 began with a video highlighting selections of the 99 classic albums displayed and then systematically eliminated on the phish.com web site leading up to the festival. Selections in the montage included snippets from Michael Jackson's Thriller, T Rex's Electric Warrior, Metallica's Master of Puppets, Miles Davis's A Tribute to Jack Johnson, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and The Doors (self titled), among others. All of the Exile on Main St songs were Phish debuts, except for Loving Cup and Sweet Virginia. All songs in the second set except for Casino Boogie, Torn and Frayed, and I Just Want To See His Face featured Dave Guy on trumpet, David Smith on trombone, and Tony Jarvis on saxophone. Tumbling Dice, Sweet Virginia, and Loving Cup through Soul Survivor also featured Sharon Jones and Saundra Williams on backup vocals. Trey introduced the horn section after Tumbling Dice and again after the completion of the costume, before saying "We are the Rolling Stones. See you later." Suzy Greenberg was played with Jones, Williams, and the horns. This show featured the first Sweet Virginia since September 26, 1999 (173 shows).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfnmVPvTt0s
Friday, 11/01/2009
Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA
"From The Archives"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1X0Woa1wck
Sunday, 11/01/2009
Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA
Set 1: Water in the Sky, Back on the Train, Brian and Robert, Invisible, Strange Design, Mountains in the Mist, The Curtain With, Army of One, Sleep Again, My Sweet One, Let Me Lie, Bouncing Around the Room, Train Song, Wilson > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters
Encore: Driver, Talk, Secret Smile
Set 2: AC/DC Bag > Rift, Gotta Jibboo, Heavy Things, Reba, The Wedge, Guelah Papyrus, Undermind, Sparkle, Split Open and Melt
Set 3: Tweezer -> Maze, Free, Sugar Shack, Limb By Limb, Theme From the Bottom > Mike's Song > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Light > Slave to the Traffic Light
Encore: Grind, Esther, Tweezer Reprise
Notes: This show was part of the three-show Festival 8. The first set, which started at noon, was billed as Phish's "first full-length acoustic set" (complete with complimentary coffee and Festival 8 themed donuts). The first set featured Trey and Mike on acoustics, Page solely on piano, and a unique stage setup that had Fishman stage right with Page on the far left. Before Brian and Robert, Trey encouraged the crowd to sit down due to the "mellow" nature of the set; he added that they had never before played to a crowd that was sitting. Whether the crowd should stand up or sit down became a running joke throughout the set, until Trey confessed during Wilson that he only asked the crowd to sit down at the request of the crew and, in fact, he hates telling people what to do (and also hates sitting down). This show marked the Phish debuts of Invisible and Sleep Again. Fishman performed a whistle solo on My Sweet One. The band briefly left the stage after McGrupp, returning to encore with Driver, Talk, and Secret Smile. Reba lacked the whistling ending. Trey took a moment before Tweeprise to thank those who helped put on the festival.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSLKilajyCQ
Wednesday, 11/18/2009
Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI
Set 1: AC/DC Bag, Foam, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Bouncing Around the Room, Sample in a Jar, Kill Devil Falls, It's Ice, Horn, Mountains in the Mist, Poor Heart, 46 Days, David Bowie
Set 2: Runaway Jim, Down with Disease -> Free > Waste, Taste, Bug, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Cavern
Encore: Character Zero
Notes: Disease was unfinished.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQwqvPqJO6M
Friday, 11/20/2009
U.S. Bank Arena, Cincinnati, OH
Set 1: Chalk Dust Torture, The Moma Dance > Divided Sky, Alaska, Water in the Sky, Fast Enough for You, Time Turns Elastic, Gotta Jibboo > Fluffhead
Set 2: Punch You In the Eye > Tweezer > Light -> Back on the Train -> Possum, Slave to the Traffic Light, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Joy, Golgi Apparatus > Tweezer Reprise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zZBMRslGCE
Saturday, 11/21/2009
U.S. Bank Arena, Cincinnati, OH
Set 1: Wilson > NICU, Wolfman's Brother, Ocelot, Torn and Frayed, Strange Design, Ginseng Sullivan, Albuquerque, Split Open and Melt, Dirt, Limb By Limb, Run Like an Antelope
Set 2: Rock and Roll > Ghost > If I Could, Backwards Down the Number Line > Prince Caspian, Suzy Greenberg > Also Sprach Zarathustra > The Squirming Coil
Encore: Sleeping Monkey, Axilla
Notes: Albuquerque was played for the first time since September 14, 2000 (115 shows).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwmR_NY8IEA
Sunday, 11/22/2009
War Memorial at Oncenter, Syracuse, NY
Set 1: David Bowie, Julius, Sparkle, Kill Devil Falls, Lawn Boy, Heavy Things, Funky Bitch, Sample in a Jar, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Let Me Lie, Beauty of a Broken Heart, Stash
Set 2: Drowned > Twist > Piper > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Tube, Theme From the Bottom > Maze, The Horse > Silent in the Morning > Character Zero > First Tube
Encore: Good Times Bad Times
Notes: BBFCFM included several references to Syracuse native Jon Fishman (including shout-outs to his alma mater, his father and his father's dental patients).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JQ5Us3puuQ
Tuesday, 11/24/2009
Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA
Set 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Bathtub Gin, Cities > Camel Walk, The Curtain With, The Wedge, The Moma Dance, Reba, Golgi Apparatus, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan
Set 2: Possum > Down with Disease > Twenty Years Later > Harry Hood > The Mango Song > Mike's Song > Simple > Slave to the Traffic Light > Weekapaug Groove
Encore: A Day in the Life
Notes: Cities was played in response to a fan with a sign requesting the song and featured alternative lyrics referencing Thanksgiving. Reba did not have the whistling ending. Disease was unfinished. Much of Weekapaug was played at a significantly slower pace than normal. Prior to ADITL, Fish teased the Weekapaug drumbeat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBlXqzL3ces
Wednesday, 11/25/2009
Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA
Set 1: Kill Devil Falls, 46 Days, Sugar Shack, Halley's Comet > Divided Sky, Sleep Again, Ocelot, Train Song, Wilson > Run Like an Antelope
Set 2: Birds of a Feather, Farmhouse > Tweezer, You Enjoy Myself, Esther, Time Turns Elastic > Tweezer Reprise
Encore: Oh! Sweet Nuthin'
Notes: During Wilson, Trey implored Mike to take a "heavy metal bass solo" (and Mike complied). The lyrics to Antelope were changed to "Been you to have any Mike, man?" followed by another bass solo from Mike.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd0LJKKajc0
Friday, 11/27/2009
Times Union Center, Albany, NY
Set 1: AC/DC Bag > Maze, Driver, My Mind's Got a Mind of its Own, Gumbo, Bouncing Around the Room > It's Ice, Two Versions of Me, Timber (Jerry) > Limb By Limb, Cavern > Light
Set 2: My Friend, My Friend > Golden Age, On Your Way Down, Fluffhead > Piper -> Tomorrow's Song, Prince Caspian > Harry Hood > Suzy Greenberg > The Squirming Coil, I Been Around
Encore: Fire
Notes: This show marked the Phish debut of Golden Age (TV on the Radio) and the debut of Tomorrow's Song. During Page's solo in Coil, the rest of the band left the stage. Upon returning, Trey said that they had left for the encore and asked Page where he had been, leading into I Been Around. The Fire encore continued the tradition of Phish playing a Hendrix cover on the guitarist's birthday (11/27/92 and 11/27/96 being the other occasions).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l3ffHDSWYE
Saturday, 11/28/2009
Times Union Center, Albany, NY
Set 1: Party Time, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Uncle Pen, Sanity, Foam, Walk Away > NICU, Alaska, Split Open and Melt, Joy, Vultures, Backwards Down the Number Line
Set 2: Seven Below > Ghost, Cool It Down > Gotta Jibboo, Let Me Lie, Wolfman's Brother > Julius
Encore: You Enjoy Myself
Notes: This show featured the first Uncle Pen since July 11, 2000 (129 shows). Ghost contained a tease of Seven Below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG-lKXrmth8
Sunday, 11/29/2009
Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME
Set 1: Possum > Down with Disease, Nellie Kane, Weigh, When the Circus Comes, Kill Devil Falls, Water in the Sky, Stash, Meat, Undermind, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
Set 2: The Moma Dance > Rock and Roll > Light > Crimes of the Mind > Pebbles and Marbles > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Golgi Apparatus > Cavern > Run Like an Antelope
Encore: Free Bird, Carini > Waste
Notes: Nellie Kane was played for the first time since July 1, 2000 (137 shows). Before Meat, Trey announced (in a reference to Meat's lyrics) that Mike had changed his name and is now "The Artist Formerly Known as Cactus" and "The Artist Presently Known as Prince." Subsequently, during Meat, Trey introduced Mike as "Prince," Fish as "Prince's alter ego on the drums, 'Princess.'" Free Bird was played for the first time since June 22, 2000 (144 shows) and was performed a cappella for the first time since December 29, 1998 (223 shows).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puBcHC4482M
Wednesday, 12/02/2009
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Set 1: AC/DC Bag > Chalk Dust Torture, Wolfman's Brother > NICU, Ocelot, Brian and Robert, Poor Heart, Sample in a Jar, Peaches en Regalia > Divided Sky, Cavern
Set 2: Golgi Apparatus > Light > Slave to the Traffic Light > Tweezer > Joy, Sparkle > Harry Hood > Wading in the Velvet Sea, Suzy Greenberg > Run Like an Antelope
Encore: A Day in the Life > Tweezer Reprise
Notes: Peaches was played for the first time since September 24, 1999 (186 shows). The lyrics to Antelope were changed to "Been you to have any Mike, man?".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afozq4qxoU4
Thursday, 12/03/2009
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Set 1: Punch You In the Eye, Backwards Down the Number Line, Axilla > Taste, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Stash, Lawn Boy, Time Turns Elastic, Back on the Train > Julius
Set 2: Down with Disease > Piper > Fluffhead, Cities > Free, Halley's Comet > Also Sprach Zarathustra > David Bowie
Encore: Character Zero
Notes: Disease was unfinished.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84-bmy4T8fk
Friday, 12/04/2009
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Set 1: Heavy Things > Possum, Wilson, Kill Devil Falls, Glide, 46 Days, Bouncing Around the Room > Reba, Dinner and a Movie, Guyute, Maze, First Tube
Set 2: Scents and Subtle Sounds > Rock and Roll -> Seven Below > Twist > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Shine a Light
Notes: Reba did not have the whistling ending and Scents did not have the intro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc_FVg4_WIE
Saturday, 12/05/2009
John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, VA
Set 1: AC/DC Bag > Chalk Dust Torture, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Divided Sky, Ya Mar, Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley, The Old Home Place > Cavern > Funky Bitch, David Bowie, The Wedge, Bold As Love
Set 2: Tweezer -> Light > Piper -> Free, Sweet Virginia, Harry Hood > Suzy Greenberg > Golgi Apparatus, Run Like an Antelope
Encore: Loving Cup > Tweezer Reprise
Notes: At the start of Ya Mar, a naked guy jumped onstage and ran around for a bit before being rounded up by security, prompting Trey to observe that "Naked Guy's" antics "took a lot of balls." During Ya Mar, Mike changed the lyrics to "he was a naked pa." Trey sang the verses to Light out of order. The sound for Mike's bass dropped out during Golgi leading Trey to label it the "trio version." During the ensuing Antelope, Mike took a bass solo to make up for the bass everyone missed in Golgi. Antelope also contained several lyric changes referencing the naked stage crasher.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2f6k0mFm6Y
Monday, 12/28/2009
American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL
Set 1: Sample in a Jar, NICU > My Soul, Roggae, Undermind, Bouncing Around the Room, Poor Heart, Stash, I Didn't Know, Beauty of a Broken Heart, Possum
Set 2: Mike's Song > Light -> I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Alaska, Backwards Down the Number Line, Makisupa Policeman > Harry Hood > Contact > Character Zero
Encore: First Tube
Notes: My Soul was played for the first time since October 7, 2000 (110 shows). During I Didn't Know, Trey announced that this would be the final vacuum solo of the decade. Makisupa's key words were "Woke up this morning, did just what I like, spent a whole two minutes listening to nobody but Mike." Mike took a subsequent bass solo during which the band (and shortly thereafter the crowd) chanted "Mike." Makisupa's lyrics were later changed to reference Mike's house. The band then started to repeat "Mike's house."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO_EB6XG9iQ
Tuesday, 12/29/2009
American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL
Set 1: Golgi Apparatus, Maze, Driver, The Connection, Wolfman's Brother, Ocelot, Reba, Access Me, Divided Sky, Cavern
Set 2: Kill Devil Falls > Tweezer > Prince Caspian > Gotta Jibboo > Wilson -> Gotta Jibboo -> Heavy Things > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Slave to the Traffic Light
Encore: Sleeping Monkey > Tweezer Reprise
Notes: Reba did not have the whistling ending.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqiuIppLXiQ
Wednesday, 12/30/2009
American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL
Set 1: Soul Shakedown Party, Runaway Jim, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Dixie Cannonball, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Corinna, What's the Use?, Tela, Gone, Rocky Top, Chalk Dust Torture, David Bowie
Set 2: Sand, The Curtain With > Lifeboy, Back on the Train > Wading in the Velvet Sea, Hold Your Head Up > Love You > Hold Your Head Up, Free, Boogie On Reggae Woman > Run Like an Antelope
Encore: Frankenstein
Notes: Dixie Cannonball and Gone were Phish debuts. During Love You, Fishman mentioned Trey's announcement on December 28, 2009 that it was Fishman's last vacuum solo "of the aughts," so he announced that he needed "someone dressed like me" to do it, brought audience member Rich onstage to do the solo, then gave him the vacuum! Antelope included numerous Boogie On teases, the Marco Esquandolas lyric had "Marco" replaced with "Rich, let's hear it for him," and subsequent lyrics were changed to "Been you to have any Electrolux?" Frankenstein featured Page on keytar. Corinna was played for the first time since February 24, 2003 (100 shows) and Tela was played for the first time since November 24, 1998 (235 shows). This gig featured ten songs not previously performed in 2009 inclusive of two debuts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5VZsgqkhvc
Thursday, 12/31/2009
American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL
Set 1: AC/DC Bag > 46 Days, Water in the Sky, Bathtub Gin, Punch You In the Eye > The Moma Dance, Guyute, Swept Away > Steep, Demand > Seven Below, Lawn Boy, Julius
Set 2: Rock and Roll > Piper > Simple > Theme From the Bottom, Shine a Light, Ghost -> NO2, Suzy Greenberg
Set 3: Party Time > Auld Lang Syne > Down with Disease, Fluffhead, Joy, The Squirming Coil, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Blue Moon, Loving Cup
Notes: AC/DC Bag and Ghost contained Auld Lang Syne teases. Swept Away and Steep were played for the first time since July 1, 2000 (145 shows). Demand was played for the first time since November 14, 1996 (392 shows). N02 was played for the first time since July 13, 1999 (219 shows). Prior to the third set, a pedestal stating 2010 was placed on the front of the stage and a covered structure was placed behind Fishman's drumset. During DWD, as the clock turned midnight, hundreds of balloons were released upon the crowd, fireworks went off on each side of the stage, and the disco ball was lowered onto the pedestal. After DWD, Trey opened the ball and Fishman climbed inside. Trey and Mike, with some help from stagehands, proceeded to put the ball in a giant cannon aimed towards a giant net hanging from the rafters with an illuminated “X” on it. Page hit the trigger and purportedly "blasted" the ball through, not only the net, but also the roof of the arena. A searchlight appeared to come through the roof and was accompanied by helicopter sounds. With Fishman apparently shot out of the venue, Trey asked if anybody knew how to play the drums and ended up finding Sarah, a girl from Pittsburgh. Trey asked how long she had played the drums and what her favorite song was and she responded with 6 months and Fluffhead respectively. Sarah was surreptitiously replaced by Fishman, now wearing a dress identical to Sarah's and a black wig, who played the entire third set and encore, but Sarah came out at the end of the third set and bowed with the band instead of him. Blue Moon was a Phish debut and was performed as an instrumental while Trey thanked the entire crew. After the show, the disco ball was revealed to have "crashed" into a white car that had been parked in front of the American Airlines Arena with a sign on the windshield stating "This car was driven down from Vermont" and "fueled by maple syrup." After being “struck” by the “human cannonball,” the car was emitting smoke and leaking maple syrup and the entire area was cordoned off with police tape.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOvyOpJb04s
Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA
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 > Tweezer -> Taste, Possum, Theme From the Bottom, First Tube > Harry Hood, Waste > You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Grind, Bouncing Around the Room, Loving Cup
Notes: 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 Fishman 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 (181 shows). 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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK12ZhkgsUQ
Saturday, 03/07/2009
Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA
Set 1: Back on the Train, Runaway Jim, Brian and Robert, Split Open and Melt, Heavy Things, Punch You In the Eye, Gumbo, Reba, Mexican Cousin, It's Ice, Halley's Comet > Beauty of a Broken Heart, 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
Notes: 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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQoTX1yrm1g
Sunday, 03/08/2009
Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA
Set 1: Sanity > Wilson, Foam, Bathtub Gin, Undermind, AC/DC Bag > My Friend, My Friend, Scent of a Mule, All of These Dreams, Maze, She Thinks I Still Care, Army of One, Tube, Cars Trucks Buses, Free, Frankenstein
Set 2: Down with Disease > 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
Notes: Sanity (not played since November 27, 1998 or 188 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. Before Contact, the band and audience sang Happy Birthday to Fish’s Dad, Leonard, and the end of Contact featured a Happy Birthday jam. The post-show music included "Sweet Virginia" from Exile on Main Street.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKi5hXDbK9Q
Sunday, 05/31/2009
Fenway Park, Boston, MA
Set 1: The Star Spangled Banner, Sample in a Jar, The Moma Dance, Chalk Dust Torture, Ocelot, 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, Bathtub Gin, David Bowie, Time Turns Elastic, Free, The Ballad of Curtis Loew, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Cavern, Good Times Bad Times, Tweezer Reprise
Notes: 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. Tweezer contained a Theme From the Bottom jam. 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 (625 shows).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHxFQYzlVwQ
Tuesday, 06/02/2009
Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY
Set 1: Runaway Jim, Foam, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Timber (Jerry), 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, Harry Hood > Loving Cup
Encore: Suzy Greenberg
Notes: 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).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUl43FHbwfY
Thursday, 06/04/2009
Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY
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
Notes: Drowned featured a Jumpin’ Jack Flash tease. Meatstick was played in a different key and included Japanese lyrics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgQ8Kfz1h1o
Friday, 06/05/2009
Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY
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 -> Twist > Piper > Backwards Down the Number Line, Free, Twenty Years Later > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Slave to the Traffic Light
Encore: A Day in the Life
Notes: 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. Boogie On Reggae Woman contained a Ghostbusters tease. 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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz8NK2WzJGg
Saturday, 06/06/2009
Comcast Center, Mansfield, MA
Set 1: Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Nothing, Back on the Train, Golgi Apparatus, Sparkle > Gotta Jibboo, Lawn Boy, Let Me Lie, Taste, Makisupa Policeman, Prince Caspian
Set 2: Seven Below, Fluffhead, Scent of a Mule, Heavy Things, Harry Hood > Possum, Bug
Encore: Contact > Julius
Notes: Let Me Lie made its Phish debut at this show. The first post-break-up Makisupa Policeman notably did not contain a “keyword.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaKwYatH1PQ
Sunday, 06/07/2009
Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, NJ
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, Character Zero > Tweezer
Encore: Joy, Bouncing Around the Room, Run Like an Antelope > Tweezer Reprise
Notes: 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).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdtW8AN00IU
Tuesday, 06/09/2009
Asheville Civic Center, Asheville, NC
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, Bold As Love
Set 2: Backwards Down the Number Line > Ghost > Fast Enough for You, Halley's Comet > Maze, Alaska, Theme From the Bottom, Golgi Apparatus, Possum
Encore: Loving Cup
Notes: 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 lied 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 (233 shows). Bold as Love was played for the first time since October 6, 2000 (74 shows).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87EBzCUSKaY
Wednesday, 06/10/2009
Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, TN
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, Hello My Baby, Julius > Cavern > Harry Hood
Encore: Frankenstein
Notes: Reba did not have the whistling ending. Hello My Baby was played for the first time since December 5, 1999 (138 shows). Frankenstein featured Page on keytar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNjYhsTbwdg
Thursday, 06/12/2009
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN
"From The Archives"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMNIAZVBM-k
Friday, 06/12/2009
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN
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
Notes: 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 (325 shows). YEM contained a brief Salt Peanuts (aka Basie Boogie) tease from Page.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw9JMEydJVM
Thursday, 06/14/2009
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN
"From The Archives"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zNTcVkZs6Q
Sunday, 06/14/2009
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN
Set 1: AC/DC Bag > NICU, Gotta Jibboo > Punch You In the Eye > Sparkle > Bathtub Gin, Character Zero > Tweezer -> The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Run Like an Antelope, Mustang Sally, Bobby Jean > Glory Days
Set 2: Rock and Roll -> Light > 46 Days, Limb By Limb, Farmhouse, Backwards Down the Number Line > Prince Caspian, First Tube
Encore: Suzy Greenberg > Tweezer Reprise
Notes: This show, performed on the What Stage, closed out the 2009 Bonnaroo Festival. Before Mustang Sally, Trey remarked that he had seen a show at Jadwin Gym at Princeton University when was 12 (apparently referring to an 11/1/78 performance by Bruce Springsteen at this 3,000 seat venue, though Trey would have been 14 at the time), and added that Phish would now have an opportunity to play with one of his heroes, Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen joined in on guitar and vocals for Mustang Sally, Bobby Jean and Glory Days. Mustang Sally was played for the first time since August 5, 1988 (1,274 shows). This show marked the Phish debuts of Bobby Jean and Glory Days. Rock and Roll included a brief Rift tease. Limb By Limb contained a Dave’s Energy Guide tease. Caspian was unfinished.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gLmP9SP400
Tuesday, 06/16/2009
The Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO
Set 1: Kill Devil Falls, Ocelot, Brian and Robert, Sample in a Jar, Rift, Ya Mar, Reba, Train Song, Horn, Possum > Slave to the Traffic Light
Set 2: Halley's Comet -> Runaway Jim, Frankie Says, Time Turns Elastic, Sleep, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Character Zero
Encore: The Star Spangled Banner, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Notes: Reba did not have the whistling ending. Trey teased Seven Below before Halley’s Comet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cchYQycqjEk
Thursday, 06/18/2009
Post-Gazette Pavilion, Burgettstown, PA
Set 1: Golgi Apparatus, Chalk Dust Torture, Bouncing Around the Room, Wolfman's Brother, Divided Sky, Heavy Things, Walk Away, Wilson, Tube, Alaska, David Bowie
Set 2: Down with Disease > Free, Guyute, Piper -> When the Circus Comes, Harry Hood > The Squirming Coil, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Grind, Hello My Baby, Hold Your Head Up > Bike > Hold Your Head Up, Loving Cup
Notes: This show featured the first Walk Away since October 5, 2000 (80 shows). Disease was unfinished. After Grind, Trey remarked that Page blew the wrong note on the pitch pipe and had them all singing in the wrong key. They decide to perform another a cappella song and Trey joked that if they couldn’t get it right, Fish would sing Bike. Sure enough, Hello My Baby was no better and was aborted. However, true to his word, Trey announced that Fish will now sing Bike. For his part, Fish took the opportunity to welcome everyone to “the trainwreck portion of the show.” Bike was played for the first time since September 12, 2000 (95 shows).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dcMOm7bhvA
Friday, 06/19/2009
Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, IN
Set 1: Backwards Down the Number Line, AC/DC Bag, Limb By Limb, The Moma Dance, Water in the Sky, Split Open and Melt, Lawn Boy, The Wedge, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, The Connection, Ocelot, Fluffhead
Set 2: A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing > Drowned > Twist, Let Me Lie, Tweezer -> Also Sprach Zarathustra > Suzy Greenberg -> Possum
Encore: Sleeping Monkey > Tweezer Reprise
Notes: After Limb By Limb, Trey introduced Fish as “Johnny B. Fishman” and quoted Johnny B. Goode, with Page also teasing "Charge!" before the quote. Split Open and Melt included a Can’t You Hear Me Knocking tease. Before The Connection, Mike introduced Trey as “Sweetie Pie” and Trey responded by blowing a kiss to Mike. This show marked the debut of The Connection. There were severe thunderstorms during setbreak and, as a result, Page made an announcement that they were going to take a longer than usual break and that everyone on the lawn should return to their cars until the second set, which would not start until 11:00.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7wgY9y-1Y4
Saturday, 06/20/2009
Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI
Set 1: Punch You In the Eye, Runaway Jim, Stash, Ya Mar, Bathtub Gin, Kill Devil Falls, Train Song, Farmhouse, Sparkle, Run Like an Antelope
Set 2: Waves > Sample in a Jar, Maze, Makisupa Policeman, Ghost -> The Lizards, You Enjoy Myself -> NICU > Prince Caspian > Waste, Fire
Encore: Character Zero
Notes: During Antelope, Trey changed the lyrics to “Been you to have any Hibachi?” The lyrics to Makisupa were changed to “Woke up this morning, pissing in jah cup / Woke up this afternoon, called my probation officer.” YEM contained a Gumsuckers March (Percy Grainger) tease from Page, was unfinished, and did not contain a bass and drums segment or a vocal jam. Caspian was also unfinished.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hPk8Z0BWuw
Sunday, 06/21/2009
Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI
Set 1: Brother, Wolfman's Brother, Funky Bitch > Divided Sky, Joy, Back on the Train, Taste, Poor Heart, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, Time Turns Elastic
Set 2: Crosseyed and Painless -> Down with Disease > Bug > Piper > Wading in the Velvet Sea, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Slave to the Traffic Light
Encore: Grind, Frankenstein
Notes: During Brother, each of the band members’ children jumped into a bathtub placed at the side of the stage. Afterwards, Trey introduced them and wished everyone a happy Fathers’ Day. Funky Bitch was played in acknowledgement of a fan who had been holding up a sign requesting the song at this show and the previous one. The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday Reprise was played for the first time since July 4, 2000 (111 shows). Crosseyed and Painless included a brief, subtle tease from Page of the Grateful Dead’s Let It Grow. Trey teased Taste near the end of Disease, which was unfinished. Piper contained a brief Can’t You Hear Me Knocking tease. Frankenstein featured Page on the keytar and Trey on a five-neck guitar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJWAq9c0KKA
Thursday, 07/30/2009
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
Set 1: Divided Sky, Ocelot, The Wedge, Poor Heart, The Moma Dance, Horn, Stash, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Possum
Set 2: Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Ghost > Wolfman's Brother, Limb By Limb, Billy Breathes, The Squirming Coil > David Bowie
Encore: Loving Cup
Notes: This marked Phish’s first show at Red Rocks since August 7, 1996 (388 shows). Trey introduced Mike before the start of the second set, at which point Mike pretended to leave the stage, prompting Trey to introduce him a second time. Ghost contained a Praise You jam and a Windy City tease. Trey teased Piper before starting Limb By Limb.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py0ZTEhHMDk
Friday, 07/31/2009
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
Set 1: Runaway Jim, Chalk Dust Torture, Bathtub Gin, Time Turns Elastic, Lawn Boy, Water in the Sky, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Split Open and Melt
Set 2: Drowned -> Crosseyed and Painless > Joy, Tweezer > Backwards Down the Number Line > Fluffhead -> Piper -> A Day in the Life
Encore: Suzy Greenberg > Tweezer Reprise
Notes: Fluffhead was unfinished and contained a Dave’s Energy Guide tease. Suzy contained Drowned, Crosseyed and Painless and AC/DC Bag teases. The Seven Bar Blues Jam from the soundcheck featured Trey on bass and Mike on guitar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlkrtXom4cs
Saturday, 08/01/2009
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
Set 1: AC/DC Bag, The Curtain With, Mound, Gotta Jibboo, Guyute, Punch You In the Eye, Tube, Alaska, Run Like an Antelope
Set 2: Rock and Roll > Down with Disease > Free, Esther, Dirt, Harry Hood
Encore: Sleeping Monkey, First Tube
Notes: Throughout the first set the band was using charades to communicate what song was coming next, prompting Trey to remark after Jibboo, “We do everything by hand signals now. There’s no more talking.” After PYITE, Trey again referenced the hand signals, joking “That could be one of two songs, so we’ll see if he starts the right one.” During Antelope, Trey changed the lyrics to “Been you to have any slush?” Disease contained an L.A. Woman tease from Trey, who also briefly teased Taste just before beginning Free, and was unfinished. Esther was played for the first time since September 30, 2000 (89 shows). Hood featured Dirt and Free teases from Trey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY2mcG6cyZ4
Sunday, 08/02/2009
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
Set 1: Roses Are Free, Wilson > NICU, Prince Caspian, Back on the Train, Reba, Grind, Beauty of a Broken Heart, Sample in a Jar, Sugar Shack, Waste, Kill Devil Falls
Set 2: Boogie On Reggae Woman, You Enjoy Myself -> Undermind -> Drums -> Seven Below > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Waves > Character Zero
Encore: Bittersweet Motel, Bouncing Around the Room, Slave to the Traffic Light
Notes: Reba did not have the whistling ending. Boogie On featured a Twist-esque jam and contained an Oye Come Va tease from Page. Both Trey and Page teased AC/DC Bag during YEM. Undermind through Zero featured Bill Kreutzmann on drums. Before the encore, Trey explained that Bittersweet Motel was being played at the request of his daughter, Bella. After Bittersweet Motel, Fish remarked that he felt lonely again and needed the second drummer back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6NmSYv0bw
Wednesday, 08/05/2009
Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA
Set 1: Golgi Apparatus, Halley's Comet > Chalk Dust Torture, Divided Sky, When the Circus Comes, Time Turns Elastic, Ya Mar, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Suzy Greenberg, David Bowie
Set 2: Backwards Down the Number Line > Down with Disease > Limb By Limb, Oh! Sweet Nuthin', Cities -> Maze, Mike's Song > Simple > Weekapaug Groove
Encore: Let Me Lie, Bold As Love
Notes: Disease was unfinished. This show featured the first performance of Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ since October 31, 1998 (225 shows).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8jLtqxLIjQ
Friday, 08/07/2009
Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA
Set 1: Down with Disease, Ocelot, Pebbles and Marbles > Possum, Sleep, Destiny Unbound, Stash, Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley > Cavern
Set 2: The Moma Dance, Light -> Taste, Fluffhead, Joy, Bathtub Gin > Harry Hood
Encore: Slave to the Traffic Light
Notes: Gin was unfinished.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THYbfRhfoXQ
Saturday, 08/08/2009
Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA
Set 1: The Mango Song > Chalk Dust Torture, Middle of the Road, Tweezer, Driver, Twenty Years Later, Ya Mar, It's Ice, Wolfman's Brother > Character Zero > Run Like an Antelope
Set 2: Rock and Roll -> Makisupa Policeman, Alaska, The Wedge, You Enjoy Myself, Backwards Down the Number Line > Piper, Grind
Encore: Good Times Bad Times, Tweezer Reprise,
Notes: This show marked the Phish debut of Middle of the Road. Prior to Mike’s solo in the intro of Antelope, Trey whispered, “Cactus, Cactus, Cactus gonna play it for you, Cactus.” The keyword for Makisupa was “did like Bobby Brown. I ate my breakfast and I laid back down.” Trey and Mike switched instruments during Makisupa. Trey teased Hedwig’s Theme during YEM. BDTNL was unfinished. Fish teased Llama several times at the end of Piper. During the soundcheck, Trey played an extended tease of the intro to Fly Famous Mockingbird.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYjvkAAytKQ
Tuesday, 08/11/2009
Toyota Park, Bridgeview, IL
Set 1: Kill Devil Falls, Sample in a Jar, Ocelot, Paul and Silas, Windy City, The Curtain With, Train Song, Gumbo, Heavy Things, Time Turns Elastic
Set 2: Backwards Down the Number Line > Carini > Gotta Jibboo, Theme From the Bottom, Wilson > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Chalk Dust Torture, Harry Hood, The Squirming Coil
Encore: Loving Cup
Notes: This show featured the first Paul and Silas since November 29, 1998 (209 shows). Trey explained that Paul and Silas was “sort of a request” for a fan he met the night before. This show marked the debut of Windy City, which Trey indicated the band had been waiting to debut in Chicago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlv0FRG_G9I
Thursday, 08/13/2009
Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, Darien Center, NY
Set 1: Sample in a Jar, Dinner and a Movie, Wolfman's Brother, My Friend, My Friend, Possum, Farmhouse, Sugar Shack, Brian and Robert, David Bowie, Bathtub Gin, How High the Moon > Golgi Apparatus
Set 2: Drowned > Prince Caspian > Rift, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Sparkle, Run Like an Antelope > Suzy Greenberg > Fluffhead
Encore: Joy, First Tube
Notes: After Gin, Trey wished Happy Birthday to an audience member holding a sign for The Sloth, saying they would get to it eventually (they played it two nights later). Trey then wished his wife, Sue, a happy fifteenth wedding anniversary. Trey also said some words in remembrance of Les Paul, who passed away earlier that day. Trey said that Les was a hero to all of the band members for, among other reasons, continuing playing music into his nineties and that hopefully they would be playing into their nineties too. Finally, Trey dedicated the ensuing version of How High the Moon (last played on March 8, 1993 (710 shows)), to the memory of Les. Trey changed the lyrics of Antelope to “Been you to have any splash cymbal solo, man?”, after which Fish took a splash cymbal solo. Caspian was unfinished.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuwhflJfZi8
Friday, 08/14/2009
The Comcast Theatre, Hartford, CT
Set 1: Punch You In the Eye, AC/DC Bag > NICU, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, Birds of a Feather, Lawn Boy, Stash, I Didn't Know, Middle of the Road, Character Zero
Set 2: Down with Disease > Wilson > Slave to the Traffic Light, Piper > Water in the Sky, Ghost -> Psycho Killer -> Catapult -> Icculus > You Enjoy Myself
Encore: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Notes: This show featured the first versions of Forbin’s and Mockingbird since September 30, 2000 (96 shows), which were performed without narration. During I Didn’t Know, Trey introduced Fish as “Recent Julliard Master’s Vacuum Program graduate, the one and only, Jon Moses Quagmire DeWitt Hampton.” DWD contained a Reba jam and was unfinished. Piper included a Spill the Wine tease from Page. This show featured the first Psycho Killer since December 7, 1997 (282 shows). Psycho Killer was unfinished and disintegrated into a self-described, electronic “Pong” jam. During the post-Psycho Killer “Pong” jam, Trey initiated a dance contest saying that whoever could best dance to that music would “win something.” After Catapult (while continuing the “Pong” jam), Trey asked, “Does everybody else love this song as much as I do?” and said that he was “waiting for the day when they play stuff like this on the radio.” Icculus was last performed on July 18, 1999 (193 shows). The Icculus narration centered on the fact that “you crazy kids” just don’t read anymore. The “Pong” jam reappeared during the YEM jam. The soundcheck included a jam with lyrics that were made up on the fly with Trey on bass (so that Mike could check on bass sounds from the audience) and Fish on drums. Trey briefly quoted Spill the Wine and The Pendulum during the soundcheck jam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1MgPc5-fV0
Saturday, 08/15/2009
Merriweather Post Pavillion, Columbia, MD
Set 1: Crowd Control, Kill Devil Falls, The Sloth, Beauty of a Broken Heart, Axilla, Foam, Esther, Ha Ha Ha, Party Time, Tube, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Strange Design, Time Turns Elastic
Set 2: Tweezer > Taste, Alaska, Let Me Lie, 46 Days, Oh! Sweet Nuthin' > Harry Hood
Encore: Good Times Bad Times, Tweezer Reprise
Notes: Before Ha Ha Ha, Trey chided Fish saying, “You should know this song, Fish, because you wrote this song.” After Ha Ha Ha, Trey said that he loved that song so much, that the time had come for the debut of Party Time, another Fish original that he loves even more. Before Tube, Trey said that he couldn’t hear what song a group of fans were shouting for, saying that it sounded like “Snoop.” Trey then joked, “You said ‘Snoop’? He’s right back here, Snoop Dogg, everyone!” Finally, he started Tube, saying that he thought that was the song they were requesting. After Alaska, Trey offered some kind words for his guitar tech, Brian Brown, adding, “No Brian, no guitar.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy6-r6ZljBg
Sunday, 08/16/2009
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
Set 1: Llama, The Moma Dance, Guyute, Anything But Me, Cars Trucks Buses, Chalk Dust Torture, Golgi Apparatus, David Bowie, Cavern > Possum, Ocelot, Run Like an Antelope
Set 2: Backwards Down the Number Line -> Twenty Years Later, Halley's Comet > Rock and Roll, Harpua -> I Kissed a Girl > Hold Your Head Up > Harpua, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Grind, I Been Around, Highway to Hell
Notes: The Harpua narration centered on a depressed Jimmy calling on his Spirit Guide who happened to be a “funny little man wearing a dress” who spoke truth through song (in this case, I Kissed a Girl). This show featured the Phish debut of I Kissed a Girl (described by Trey as “so wrong on so many levels”). After Harpua, Trey remarked to Fish that he was waiting for the day when Fish went to see Katy Perry and she performed a Phish song, prompting Fish to declare, “I don’t apologize to Katy Perry for that. I only apologize to [the audience].” Prior to the encore, Trey stated that it was hard to play the last show of the tour because they felt like they could just keep going. Before starting the debut performance of I Been Around, Trey explained that they were playing it because he realized that it was the one song off of the upcoming album (Joy) that they hadn’t played live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eKIzFvFb5g
Thursday, 10/29/2009
Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA
Set 1: Water in the Sky, Sleep Again, Let Me Lie, Invisible, Back on the Train, Driver
Set 2: Jam, Undermind -> Devil With a Blue Dress On Jam, Starship Trooper Jam, Gone, Liquid Time
Notes: There were two soundchecks for Festival 8: an acoustic afternoon session, followed several hours later by a separate electric soundcheck that evening. The electric soundcheck was broadcast on Phish's on-site festival radio, JACK-FM 95.9 "The Bunny" as well as Sirus/XM Radio. The acoustic soundcheck was not broadcast and the song order may be incorrect. The short Devil With a Blue Dress On Jam included the chorus and part of a verse sung by Trey, as well as a Good Golly Miss Molly quote. The Starship Trooper Jam consisted of part of the Würm segment of the song. Before Liquid Time, Trey quoted Fuck Your Face and briefly teased Kids (MGMT); the jam out of Liquid Time dissolved into a vocal jam featuring the band members snoring and featured a Lengthwise quote from Trey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zuGBnl0-ug
Friday, 10/30/2009
Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA
"From The Archives"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2pVgsUslfo
Friday, 10/30/2009
Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA
Set 1: Party Time, Chalk Dust Torture, The Moma Dance, NICU, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Stash, I Didn't Know, Poor Heart, Cavern, Beauty of a Broken Heart, Ocelot, Time Turns Elastic
Set 2: Punch You In the Eye > Down with Disease -> Prince Caspian > Wolfman's Brother > Piper > Joy, David Bowie, Harry Hood > Golgi Apparatus
Encore: Character Zero
Notes: This show was part of the three-show Festival 8. Stash contained an L.A. Woman tease. During I Didnt Know, Trey announced that Henrietta would, for the first time in human history, suck and blow at the same time, in the shape of a figure 8. Disease and Caspian were unfinished. During Bowie, Trey said, "I'm gonna give you a little hint about the Halloween album now."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv7-r03Rrig
Friday, 10/31/2009
Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA
"From The Archives"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GR4hTFkDug
Saturday, 10/31/2009
Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA
Set 1: Sample in a Jar, Divided Sky, Lawn Boy, Kill Devil Falls, Bathtub Gin, The Squirming Coil, Runaway Jim > Possum, Run Like an Antelope
Set 2: Rocks Off > Rip This Joint, Shake Your Hips, Casino Boogie, Tumbling Dice, Sweet Virginia, Torn and Frayed, Sweet Black Angel, Loving Cup, Happy, Turd on the Run, Ventilator Blues -> I Just Want To See His Face > Let It Loose, All Down the Line, Stop Breaking Down, Shine a Light, Soul Survivor
Set 3: Backwards Down the Number Line > Fluffhead > Ghost, When the Circus Comes, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Suzy Greenberg
Notes: This show was part of the three-show Festival 8. Playbills were distributed on-site (beginning at 12:30pm, 8 hours in advance) confirming that the second set (the band's "musical costume") would be the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St. After Divided Sky, Trey acknowledged the beauty of the venue and announced that Page would now play a love song to the lawn since it was the first time they had played on grass in a long time. Antelope's lyrics were changed to "Been you to have any Coil, man?" (The Coil was an art installation on the venue grounds.) Set 2 began with a video highlighting selections of the 99 classic albums displayed and then systematically eliminated on the phish.com web site leading up to the festival. Selections in the montage included snippets from Michael Jackson's Thriller, T Rex's Electric Warrior, Metallica's Master of Puppets, Miles Davis's A Tribute to Jack Johnson, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and The Doors (self titled), among others. All of the Exile on Main St songs were Phish debuts, except for Loving Cup and Sweet Virginia. All songs in the second set except for Casino Boogie, Torn and Frayed, and I Just Want To See His Face featured Dave Guy on trumpet, David Smith on trombone, and Tony Jarvis on saxophone. Tumbling Dice, Sweet Virginia, and Loving Cup through Soul Survivor also featured Sharon Jones and Saundra Williams on backup vocals. Trey introduced the horn section after Tumbling Dice and again after the completion of the costume, before saying "We are the Rolling Stones. See you later." Suzy Greenberg was played with Jones, Williams, and the horns. This show featured the first Sweet Virginia since September 26, 1999 (173 shows).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfnmVPvTt0s
Friday, 11/01/2009
Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA
"From The Archives"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1X0Woa1wck
Sunday, 11/01/2009
Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA
Set 1: Water in the Sky, Back on the Train, Brian and Robert, Invisible, Strange Design, Mountains in the Mist, The Curtain With, Army of One, Sleep Again, My Sweet One, Let Me Lie, Bouncing Around the Room, Train Song, Wilson > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters
Encore: Driver, Talk, Secret Smile
Set 2: AC/DC Bag > Rift, Gotta Jibboo, Heavy Things, Reba, The Wedge, Guelah Papyrus, Undermind, Sparkle, Split Open and Melt
Set 3: Tweezer -> Maze, Free, Sugar Shack, Limb By Limb, Theme From the Bottom > Mike's Song > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Light > Slave to the Traffic Light
Encore: Grind, Esther, Tweezer Reprise
Notes: This show was part of the three-show Festival 8. The first set, which started at noon, was billed as Phish's "first full-length acoustic set" (complete with complimentary coffee and Festival 8 themed donuts). The first set featured Trey and Mike on acoustics, Page solely on piano, and a unique stage setup that had Fishman stage right with Page on the far left. Before Brian and Robert, Trey encouraged the crowd to sit down due to the "mellow" nature of the set; he added that they had never before played to a crowd that was sitting. Whether the crowd should stand up or sit down became a running joke throughout the set, until Trey confessed during Wilson that he only asked the crowd to sit down at the request of the crew and, in fact, he hates telling people what to do (and also hates sitting down). This show marked the Phish debuts of Invisible and Sleep Again. Fishman performed a whistle solo on My Sweet One. The band briefly left the stage after McGrupp, returning to encore with Driver, Talk, and Secret Smile. Reba lacked the whistling ending. Trey took a moment before Tweeprise to thank those who helped put on the festival.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSLKilajyCQ
Wednesday, 11/18/2009
Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI
Set 1: AC/DC Bag, Foam, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Bouncing Around the Room, Sample in a Jar, Kill Devil Falls, It's Ice, Horn, Mountains in the Mist, Poor Heart, 46 Days, David Bowie
Set 2: Runaway Jim, Down with Disease -> Free > Waste, Taste, Bug, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Cavern
Encore: Character Zero
Notes: Disease was unfinished.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQwqvPqJO6M
Friday, 11/20/2009
U.S. Bank Arena, Cincinnati, OH
Set 1: Chalk Dust Torture, The Moma Dance > Divided Sky, Alaska, Water in the Sky, Fast Enough for You, Time Turns Elastic, Gotta Jibboo > Fluffhead
Set 2: Punch You In the Eye > Tweezer > Light -> Back on the Train -> Possum, Slave to the Traffic Light, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Joy, Golgi Apparatus > Tweezer Reprise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zZBMRslGCE
Saturday, 11/21/2009
U.S. Bank Arena, Cincinnati, OH
Set 1: Wilson > NICU, Wolfman's Brother, Ocelot, Torn and Frayed, Strange Design, Ginseng Sullivan, Albuquerque, Split Open and Melt, Dirt, Limb By Limb, Run Like an Antelope
Set 2: Rock and Roll > Ghost > If I Could, Backwards Down the Number Line > Prince Caspian, Suzy Greenberg > Also Sprach Zarathustra > The Squirming Coil
Encore: Sleeping Monkey, Axilla
Notes: Albuquerque was played for the first time since September 14, 2000 (115 shows).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwmR_NY8IEA
Sunday, 11/22/2009
War Memorial at Oncenter, Syracuse, NY
Set 1: David Bowie, Julius, Sparkle, Kill Devil Falls, Lawn Boy, Heavy Things, Funky Bitch, Sample in a Jar, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Let Me Lie, Beauty of a Broken Heart, Stash
Set 2: Drowned > Twist > Piper > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Tube, Theme From the Bottom > Maze, The Horse > Silent in the Morning > Character Zero > First Tube
Encore: Good Times Bad Times
Notes: BBFCFM included several references to Syracuse native Jon Fishman (including shout-outs to his alma mater, his father and his father's dental patients).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JQ5Us3puuQ
Tuesday, 11/24/2009
Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA
Set 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Bathtub Gin, Cities > Camel Walk, The Curtain With, The Wedge, The Moma Dance, Reba, Golgi Apparatus, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan
Set 2: Possum > Down with Disease > Twenty Years Later > Harry Hood > The Mango Song > Mike's Song > Simple > Slave to the Traffic Light > Weekapaug Groove
Encore: A Day in the Life
Notes: Cities was played in response to a fan with a sign requesting the song and featured alternative lyrics referencing Thanksgiving. Reba did not have the whistling ending. Disease was unfinished. Much of Weekapaug was played at a significantly slower pace than normal. Prior to ADITL, Fish teased the Weekapaug drumbeat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBlXqzL3ces
Wednesday, 11/25/2009
Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA
Set 1: Kill Devil Falls, 46 Days, Sugar Shack, Halley's Comet > Divided Sky, Sleep Again, Ocelot, Train Song, Wilson > Run Like an Antelope
Set 2: Birds of a Feather, Farmhouse > Tweezer, You Enjoy Myself, Esther, Time Turns Elastic > Tweezer Reprise
Encore: Oh! Sweet Nuthin'
Notes: During Wilson, Trey implored Mike to take a "heavy metal bass solo" (and Mike complied). The lyrics to Antelope were changed to "Been you to have any Mike, man?" followed by another bass solo from Mike.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd0LJKKajc0
Friday, 11/27/2009
Times Union Center, Albany, NY
Set 1: AC/DC Bag > Maze, Driver, My Mind's Got a Mind of its Own, Gumbo, Bouncing Around the Room > It's Ice, Two Versions of Me, Timber (Jerry) > Limb By Limb, Cavern > Light
Set 2: My Friend, My Friend > Golden Age, On Your Way Down, Fluffhead > Piper -> Tomorrow's Song, Prince Caspian > Harry Hood > Suzy Greenberg > The Squirming Coil, I Been Around
Encore: Fire
Notes: This show marked the Phish debut of Golden Age (TV on the Radio) and the debut of Tomorrow's Song. During Page's solo in Coil, the rest of the band left the stage. Upon returning, Trey said that they had left for the encore and asked Page where he had been, leading into I Been Around. The Fire encore continued the tradition of Phish playing a Hendrix cover on the guitarist's birthday (11/27/92 and 11/27/96 being the other occasions).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l3ffHDSWYE
Saturday, 11/28/2009
Times Union Center, Albany, NY
Set 1: Party Time, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Uncle Pen, Sanity, Foam, Walk Away > NICU, Alaska, Split Open and Melt, Joy, Vultures, Backwards Down the Number Line
Set 2: Seven Below > Ghost, Cool It Down > Gotta Jibboo, Let Me Lie, Wolfman's Brother > Julius
Encore: You Enjoy Myself
Notes: This show featured the first Uncle Pen since July 11, 2000 (129 shows). Ghost contained a tease of Seven Below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG-lKXrmth8
Sunday, 11/29/2009
Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME
Set 1: Possum > Down with Disease, Nellie Kane, Weigh, When the Circus Comes, Kill Devil Falls, Water in the Sky, Stash, Meat, Undermind, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
Set 2: The Moma Dance > Rock and Roll > Light > Crimes of the Mind > Pebbles and Marbles > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Golgi Apparatus > Cavern > Run Like an Antelope
Encore: Free Bird, Carini > Waste
Notes: Nellie Kane was played for the first time since July 1, 2000 (137 shows). Before Meat, Trey announced (in a reference to Meat's lyrics) that Mike had changed his name and is now "The Artist Formerly Known as Cactus" and "The Artist Presently Known as Prince." Subsequently, during Meat, Trey introduced Mike as "Prince," Fish as "Prince's alter ego on the drums, 'Princess.'" Free Bird was played for the first time since June 22, 2000 (144 shows) and was performed a cappella for the first time since December 29, 1998 (223 shows).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puBcHC4482M
Wednesday, 12/02/2009
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Set 1: AC/DC Bag > Chalk Dust Torture, Wolfman's Brother > NICU, Ocelot, Brian and Robert, Poor Heart, Sample in a Jar, Peaches en Regalia > Divided Sky, Cavern
Set 2: Golgi Apparatus > Light > Slave to the Traffic Light > Tweezer > Joy, Sparkle > Harry Hood > Wading in the Velvet Sea, Suzy Greenberg > Run Like an Antelope
Encore: A Day in the Life > Tweezer Reprise
Notes: Peaches was played for the first time since September 24, 1999 (186 shows). The lyrics to Antelope were changed to "Been you to have any Mike, man?".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afozq4qxoU4
Thursday, 12/03/2009
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Set 1: Punch You In the Eye, Backwards Down the Number Line, Axilla > Taste, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Stash, Lawn Boy, Time Turns Elastic, Back on the Train > Julius
Set 2: Down with Disease > Piper > Fluffhead, Cities > Free, Halley's Comet > Also Sprach Zarathustra > David Bowie
Encore: Character Zero
Notes: Disease was unfinished.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84-bmy4T8fk
Friday, 12/04/2009
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Set 1: Heavy Things > Possum, Wilson, Kill Devil Falls, Glide, 46 Days, Bouncing Around the Room > Reba, Dinner and a Movie, Guyute, Maze, First Tube
Set 2: Scents and Subtle Sounds > Rock and Roll -> Seven Below > Twist > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Shine a Light
Notes: Reba did not have the whistling ending and Scents did not have the intro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc_FVg4_WIE
Saturday, 12/05/2009
John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, VA
Set 1: AC/DC Bag > Chalk Dust Torture, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Divided Sky, Ya Mar, Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley, The Old Home Place > Cavern > Funky Bitch, David Bowie, The Wedge, Bold As Love
Set 2: Tweezer -> Light > Piper -> Free, Sweet Virginia, Harry Hood > Suzy Greenberg > Golgi Apparatus, Run Like an Antelope
Encore: Loving Cup > Tweezer Reprise
Notes: At the start of Ya Mar, a naked guy jumped onstage and ran around for a bit before being rounded up by security, prompting Trey to observe that "Naked Guy's" antics "took a lot of balls." During Ya Mar, Mike changed the lyrics to "he was a naked pa." Trey sang the verses to Light out of order. The sound for Mike's bass dropped out during Golgi leading Trey to label it the "trio version." During the ensuing Antelope, Mike took a bass solo to make up for the bass everyone missed in Golgi. Antelope also contained several lyric changes referencing the naked stage crasher.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2f6k0mFm6Y
Monday, 12/28/2009
American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL
Set 1: Sample in a Jar, NICU > My Soul, Roggae, Undermind, Bouncing Around the Room, Poor Heart, Stash, I Didn't Know, Beauty of a Broken Heart, Possum
Set 2: Mike's Song > Light -> I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Alaska, Backwards Down the Number Line, Makisupa Policeman > Harry Hood > Contact > Character Zero
Encore: First Tube
Notes: My Soul was played for the first time since October 7, 2000 (110 shows). During I Didn't Know, Trey announced that this would be the final vacuum solo of the decade. Makisupa's key words were "Woke up this morning, did just what I like, spent a whole two minutes listening to nobody but Mike." Mike took a subsequent bass solo during which the band (and shortly thereafter the crowd) chanted "Mike." Makisupa's lyrics were later changed to reference Mike's house. The band then started to repeat "Mike's house."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO_EB6XG9iQ
Tuesday, 12/29/2009
American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL
Set 1: Golgi Apparatus, Maze, Driver, The Connection, Wolfman's Brother, Ocelot, Reba, Access Me, Divided Sky, Cavern
Set 2: Kill Devil Falls > Tweezer > Prince Caspian > Gotta Jibboo > Wilson -> Gotta Jibboo -> Heavy Things > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Slave to the Traffic Light
Encore: Sleeping Monkey > Tweezer Reprise
Notes: Reba did not have the whistling ending.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqiuIppLXiQ
Wednesday, 12/30/2009
American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL
Set 1: Soul Shakedown Party, Runaway Jim, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Dixie Cannonball, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Corinna, What's the Use?, Tela, Gone, Rocky Top, Chalk Dust Torture, David Bowie
Set 2: Sand, The Curtain With > Lifeboy, Back on the Train > Wading in the Velvet Sea, Hold Your Head Up > Love You > Hold Your Head Up, Free, Boogie On Reggae Woman > Run Like an Antelope
Encore: Frankenstein
Notes: Dixie Cannonball and Gone were Phish debuts. During Love You, Fishman mentioned Trey's announcement on December 28, 2009 that it was Fishman's last vacuum solo "of the aughts," so he announced that he needed "someone dressed like me" to do it, brought audience member Rich onstage to do the solo, then gave him the vacuum! Antelope included numerous Boogie On teases, the Marco Esquandolas lyric had "Marco" replaced with "Rich, let's hear it for him," and subsequent lyrics were changed to "Been you to have any Electrolux?" Frankenstein featured Page on keytar. Corinna was played for the first time since February 24, 2003 (100 shows) and Tela was played for the first time since November 24, 1998 (235 shows). This gig featured ten songs not previously performed in 2009 inclusive of two debuts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5VZsgqkhvc
Thursday, 12/31/2009
American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL
Set 1: AC/DC Bag > 46 Days, Water in the Sky, Bathtub Gin, Punch You In the Eye > The Moma Dance, Guyute, Swept Away > Steep, Demand > Seven Below, Lawn Boy, Julius
Set 2: Rock and Roll > Piper > Simple > Theme From the Bottom, Shine a Light, Ghost -> NO2, Suzy Greenberg
Set 3: Party Time > Auld Lang Syne > Down with Disease, Fluffhead, Joy, The Squirming Coil, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Blue Moon, Loving Cup
Notes: AC/DC Bag and Ghost contained Auld Lang Syne teases. Swept Away and Steep were played for the first time since July 1, 2000 (145 shows). Demand was played for the first time since November 14, 1996 (392 shows). N02 was played for the first time since July 13, 1999 (219 shows). Prior to the third set, a pedestal stating 2010 was placed on the front of the stage and a covered structure was placed behind Fishman's drumset. During DWD, as the clock turned midnight, hundreds of balloons were released upon the crowd, fireworks went off on each side of the stage, and the disco ball was lowered onto the pedestal. After DWD, Trey opened the ball and Fishman climbed inside. Trey and Mike, with some help from stagehands, proceeded to put the ball in a giant cannon aimed towards a giant net hanging from the rafters with an illuminated “X” on it. Page hit the trigger and purportedly "blasted" the ball through, not only the net, but also the roof of the arena. A searchlight appeared to come through the roof and was accompanied by helicopter sounds. With Fishman apparently shot out of the venue, Trey asked if anybody knew how to play the drums and ended up finding Sarah, a girl from Pittsburgh. Trey asked how long she had played the drums and what her favorite song was and she responded with 6 months and Fluffhead respectively. Sarah was surreptitiously replaced by Fishman, now wearing a dress identical to Sarah's and a black wig, who played the entire third set and encore, but Sarah came out at the end of the third set and bowed with the band instead of him. Blue Moon was a Phish debut and was performed as an instrumental while Trey thanked the entire crew. After the show, the disco ball was revealed to have "crashed" into a white car that had been parked in front of the American Airlines Arena with a sign on the windshield stating "This car was driven down from Vermont" and "fueled by maple syrup." After being “struck” by the “human cannonball,” the car was emitting smoke and leaking maple syrup and the entire area was cordoned off with police tape.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOvyOpJb04s