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3 years ago: Oak Ridge Farm - Arrington, VA - 2016

Phish • August 28, 2016 • Oak Ridge Farm • Arrington, VA

Set 1: Sample in a Jar, Martian Monster > Axilla > The Moma Dance > Halley's Comet > AC/DC Bag > Fuck Your Face > 46 Days, The Line, Limb By Limb > Possum, First Tube

Set 2: Carini > Chalk Dust Torture > Twist > Light > Tweezer > No Quarter > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Harry Hood > Tweezer Reprise

Encore: Loving Cup

This performance was part of the Lockn' Festival and was webcast via Live Phish, Fans.com, and Qello Concerts. Mike teased Cars Trucks Buses in Light.

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7 years ago: Chaifetz Arena, Saint Louis University - St. Louis, MO - 2012

Phish • August 28, 2012 • Chaifetz Arena, Saint Louis University • St. Louis, MO

Set 1: Punch You in the Eye > Runaway Jim, Ocelot > Reba, I Didn't Know, The Curtain > Peaches en Regalia > Mound > Sample in a Jar, The Sloth, Camel Walk, Possum > Quinn the Eskimo

Set 2: Chalk Dust Torture -> Frankie Says -> Undermind -> Sand -> Walk Away, Limb By Limb > Julius > Also Sprach Zarathustra, You Enjoy Myself

Encore: Shine a Light

Before the vacuum solo in I Didn't Know, Trey introduced Fish as "The John Coltrane of the vacuum cleaner."

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26 years ago: William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre - Berkeley, CA - 1993

Phish • August 28, 1993 • William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre • Berkeley, CA

Set 1: Llama > Bouncing Around the Room, Foam, Ginseng Sullivan[1], Maze, Fluffhead > Stash, The Squirming Coil, Crimes of the Mind[2]

Set 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Rift, Run Like an Antelope[3], The Horse[4] > Silent in the Morning > Sparkle > It's Ice[5] > Big Ball Jam, Purple Rain > Hold Your Head Up, You Enjoy Myself -> Oye Como Va -> You Enjoy Myself -> Contact > Chalk Dust Torture

Encore: Daniel Saw the Stone, Amazing Grace[6]

[1] Acoustic. [2] Dude of Life on vocals. [3] Simpsons signal. [4] Trey on acoustic guitar. [5] Random Note, All Fall Down, and Oom Pa Pa signals. [6] Without microphones.

Ginseng was performed acoustic. Crimes featured the Dude of Life on vocals. Constant Craving was quoted prior to 2001. Antelope included Brady Bunch theme teases and a Simpsons signal, while It’s Ice featured Random Note, All Fall Down, and Oom Pa Pa signals. The Horse featured Trey on acoustic guitar. Amazing Grace was performed without microphones. Also, while several versions of YEM have teased Oye Como Va, this version featured an all-out jam of the song. Contact segued out of the YEM vocal jam. During Daniel Saw the Stone, the band introduced and thanked each member of the crew. J.J. Cale was the opening act.

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27 years ago: Concord Pavilion - Concord, CA - 1992

Phish • August 28, 1992 • Concord Pavilion • Concord, CA

Set 1: Poor Heart, Foam, Stash, Sweet Adeline, The Squirming Coil > Runaway Jim, Rocky Top

This set was an opener for Santana. Sweet Adeline was performed while a broken piano string (busted during Stash) was replaced.

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27 years ago: Santa Barbara Bowl - Santa Barbara, CA - 1992

Phish • August 27, 1992 • Santa Barbara Bowl • Santa Barbara, CA

Set 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Bouncing Around the Room, The Landlady, Horn, Sparkle, You Enjoy Myself, Llama

This set was an opener for Santana.

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31 years ago: Food Court, Mont Alto Campus, Penn State University - Mont Alto, PA - 1988

Phish • August 27, 1988 • Food Court, Mont Alto Campus, Penn State University • Mont Alto, PA

Set 1: Satin Doll, You Enjoy Myself > Funky Bitch, Walk Away, Fluffhead, Mike's Song, Take the 'A' Train, Golgi Apparatus[1], Tela, Poor Heart, Good Times Bad Times

[1] Extended intro.

Golgi contained an extended intro. Listen for some fun references to Pennsylvania and Penn State.

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3 years ago: Oak Ridge Farm - Arrington, VA - 2016

Phish • August 26, 2016 • Oak Ridge Farm • Arrington, VA

Set 1: Wilson > Down with Disease > Free, Wolfman's Brother, Tube > 555 > It's Ice > Wingsuit > Simple, Space Oddity

Set 2: Punch You in the Eye > Blaze On > Fuego -> Ghost > Bathtub Gin[1] > Backwards Down the Number Line > You Enjoy Myself

Encore: Character Zero

[1] Unfinished.

This performance was part of the Lockn' Festival and was webcast via Live Phish, Fans.com and Qello Concerts. Trey teased Little Drummer Boy in Fuego. Bathtub Gin was unfinished. The YEM vocal jam included Ass Handed quotes from Fish.

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7 years ago: Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - Charlotte - Charlotte, NC - 2012

Phish • August 26, 2012 • Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - Charlotte • Charlotte, NC

Set 1: AC/DC Bag > The Moma Dance > Heavy Things, Ocelot, Funky Bitch > Bathtub Gin > Fluffhead > Alumni Blues > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues, Tube, My Sweet One, David Bowie

Set 2: Crosseyed and Painless > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Mike's Song > Bouncing Around the Room, Axilla > Tweezer > Harry Hood > The Horse > Silent in the Morning > Weekapaug Groove, Suzy Greenberg

Encore: Big Black Furry Creature from Mars > Tweezer Reprise

Machine Gun (Jimi Hendrix) was teased by Trey and Fish before and during AC/DC Bag. During Alumni, Fish stated he didn't have a degree and later said he did. After Alumni, Trey said that Fish did have a degree, adding that they met in 1983 at UVM and that Fish held a very interesting record: the lowest grade point average ever recorded at UVM. Fish added "for a non-fraternity student" and both Trey and Fish joked about Fish's GPA (giving low numbers). Trey added that they were both saved by Page at Goddard and that Page earned $100 for recruiting them to Goddard. Trey introduced Tube and My Sweet One as Fish songs, asking the crowd to count the number of times "you" appeared in the song. There was a delay in starting My Sweet One until Page said they had a lot of interesting stories (about Fish), prompting Fish to immediately start the song. Mike's and Suzy contained Crosseyed teases from Trey. Tweezer contained a Cars Trucks Buses tease from Mike. BBFCFM included Trey singing into his microphone that he raised above his head, playing his guitar behind his head and running around the stage and Mike playing his bass on his knees.

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26 years ago: Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall - Portland, OR - 1993

Phish • August 26, 1993 • Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall • Portland, OR

Set 1: Runaway Jim, Guelah Papyrus, Reba, Fee[1], Split Open and Melt, Esther, It's Ice[2] > Harry Hood, Golgi Apparatus

Set 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > David Bowie, Lifeboy > Rift, Jesus Just Left Chicago, The Lizards, Hold Your Head Up > Nothin' But A Nothin'[3] > Hold Your Head Up

Encore: Chalk Dust Torture, Free Bird

[1] Trey sang verses through megaphone. [2] Simpsons signal. [3] Baby Gramps on vocals.

In the pause during Guelah, Trey said "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Neil Young," prompting Page to tease After the Gold Rush. Reba included a Dixie tease and It’s Ice included a Simpsons signal. Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone. Nothin' But A Nothin' featured a guest appearance by Baby Gramps, who was also the opening act. This show is available as an archival release on LivePhish.com.

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30 years ago: Townshend Family Park - Townshend, VT - 1989

Phish • August 26, 1989 • Townshend Family Park • Townshend, VT

Set 1: Fluffhead, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, Harry Hood, Split Open and Melt, Divided Sky, You Enjoy Myself -> Possum

Set 2: The Fishin' Hole > Bold As Love, Ya Mar, Slave to the Traffic Light, AC/DC Bag, Donna Lee, Funky Bitch > Foam, David Bowie

Set 3: The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu, Suzy Greenberg, Dinner and a Movie, Run Like an Antelope

Encore: Contact, The Lizards, La Grange

Apparently Fish got a speeding ticket on the way to the show and someone else had to set up his drum set. The Hood intro featured an Odd Couple theme tease from Page. The Fishin' Hole (aka The Andy Griffith Show theme) started with the band whistling and ended with the audience whistling to the band’s accompaniment! Slave was introduced by Mike as being written by Pete Rose; Avenu Malkenu was subsequently announced as a song written by “Pete Rose and God.” Donna Lee contained an Entrance of the Gladiators tease from Trey, the Bowie intro contained If I Were a Rich Man teases, and Antelope included a Paint it Black tease. This show was officially released as Live Phish 09.

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7 years ago: Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood - Atlanta, GA - 2012

Phish • August 25, 2012 • Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood • Atlanta, GA

Set 1: Cars Trucks Buses, Wolfman's Brother, Runaway Jim, Ya Mar, Alaska, My Soul > Wilson > Maze, Roses Are Free > Backwards Down the Number Line > Character Zero

Set 2: Kill Devil Falls > Golden Age > Free > Light > Wading in the Velvet Sea > Chalk Dust Torture[1] -> What's the Use? > Joy > Run Like an Antelope

Encore: A Day in the Life

[1] Unfinished.

Page teased Eleanor Rigby in Maze. Chalk Dust was unfinished.

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26 years ago: Paramount Theatre - Seattle, WA - 1993

Phish • August 25, 1993 • Paramount Theatre • Seattle, WA

Set 1: AC/DC Bag > Daniel Saw the Stone > Sample in a Jar, Sparkle, Foam, Ginseng Sullivan[1], Nellie Kane[1], Amazing Grace[2], Stash, Glide, Cavern

Set 2: Buried Alive > Possum > Mound, My Friend, My Friend[3], Paul and Silas[4], You Enjoy Myself[5] > Nothin' But A Nothin'[6] > The Squirming Coil, Good Times Bad Times

Encore: Bold As Love > Rocky Top

[1] Acoustic; without microphones. [2] Without microphones. [3] Beginning featured Trey on acoustic guitar. [4] Vocal jam in place of the second guitar solo. [5] Vocal jam with Baby Gramps. [6] Phish debut; Baby Gramps on vocals and Fish on vacuum.

Ginseng Sullivan and Nellie Kane were played acoustic and without microphones. Amazing Grace was also performed without microphones. The beginning of My Friend featured Trey on acoustic guitar. There was a vocal jam during Paul and Silas in place of the second guitar solo. Baby Gramps joined Phish for YEM’s vocal jam, as well as the Phish debut of Nuthin' But A Nuthin', which featured Fish on vacuum. The opening act was Baby Gramps.

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27 years ago: The Downs - Santa Fe, NM - 1992

Phish • August 25, 1992 • The Downs • Santa Fe, NM

Set 1: Runaway Jim, It's Ice > Sparkle, Stash, The Squirming Coil > Llama, Sweet Adeline

This set was an opener for Santana.

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7 years ago: Oak Mountain Amphitheatre - Pelham, AL - 2012

Phish • August 24, 2012 • Oak Mountain Amphitheatre • Pelham, AL

Set 1: Possum, Cities > Sample in a Jar, Timber (Jerry The Mule) > Back on the Train, Lawn Boy, Down with Disease, Gumbo, Ginseng Sullivan > The Wedge, Julius > Cavern, While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Set 2: Rock and Roll -> The Lizards, Halley's Comet > Sand > Twist > Birds of a Feather, Boogie On Reggae Woman > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Waste > Slave to the Traffic Light

Encore: Good Times Bad Times

This show was webcast via LivePhish. Rock and Roll contained Live and Let Die teases from Trey and a Twenty Years Later tease from Mike. Twist contained an Oye Como Va jam.

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26 years ago: Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 1993

Phish • August 24, 1993 • Commodore Ballroom • Vancouver, British Columbia • Canada

Set 1: Chalk Dust Torture > All Things Reconsidered, Bouncing Around the Room > It's Ice > Nellie Kane, Split Open and Melt, The Horse[1] > Silent in the Morning, Uncle Pen, Maze, Golgi Apparatus

Set 2: Llama, Horn > Ya Mar[2], Mike's Song > Ginseng Sullivan[3] > Weekapaug Groove[4] > Wilson > Rift, Suzy Greenberg, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Run Like an Antelope

Encore: Halley's Comet > Poor Heart, Sweet Adeline[5]

[1] Trey on acoustic guitar. [2] Included alternate lyrics from Mike. [3] Trey on acoustic guitar, Mike on upright bass, and Fish on Madonna washboard. [4] Unfinished. [5] Without microphones.

Trey teased Lazy (Deep Purple) in CDT. Trey made several references to the venue’s springy floor and the fans bouncing on it while they danced. Appropriately, It’s Ice included a tease of I Feel the Earth Move. Melt contained Long Tall Glasses and Dave's Energy Guide teases. The Horse featured Trey on acoustic guitar. Ya Mar included alternate lyrics from Mike. Ginseng featured Trey on acoustic guitar, Mike on upright bass, and Fish on Madonna washboard. Fish, usually subject to nicknames when he takes the mic, introduced Trey as Chuck Norris on the drums. Trey retorted by calling Fish “a butt with protruding arms and legs.” Weekapaug was unfinished and featured La Marseillaise teases from Page. Suzy included Blue Monk and Tweezer teases. Antelope contained an O Canada tease from Trey and was dedicated to three new crew members from Vancouver. Adeline was performed without microphones. Baby Gramps was the opening act.

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27 years ago: Gerald Ford Amphitheater - Vail, CO - 1992

Phish • August 24, 1992 • Gerald Ford Amphitheater • Vail, CO

Set 1: Buried Alive, Poor Heart, All Things Reconsidered, Tweezer, The Landlady, Reba, You Enjoy Myself

This set was an opener for Santana.

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4 years ago: Watkins Glen International - Watkins Glen, NY - 2015

Phish • August 23, 2015 • Watkins Glen International • Watkins Glen, NY

Set 1: Punch You in the Eye > Buffalo Bill, A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing > Limb By Limb, Waiting All Night > Theme From the Bottom > Maze, The Line, Stash, Reba, I Didn't Know[1], Character Zero

Set 2: Martian Monster > Down with Disease[2] -> Scents and Subtle Sounds[3] -> What's the Use? > Dirt > Mike's Song > Fuego > Twist -> Weekapaug Groove[2] -> Martian Monster

Encore: You Enjoy Myself

[1] Trey thanked the crew, production staff and local officials. [2] Unfinished. [3] No intro.

This show was webcast via LivePhish and was the third show of the Magnaball festival. Trey teased The Tears of a Clown before Punch You In the Eye. Buffalo Bill was played for the first time since June 22, 2012 (134 shows). Trey thanked the fans, crew, production staff and local officials during I Didn't Know while Fishman "sucked love" on his vacuum. Down with Disease was unfinished. Scents did not have the intro. Immigrant Song was teased in both Twist and Weekapaug Groove. Mainstreet was teased in Weekapaug Groove, which was unfinished. YEM contained a Brick House tease from Mike, Sanity quotes in the vocal jam, and culminated with a quote from The Very Long Fuse and a fireworks display.