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Phish - December 1st, 1984

Nectar's · Burlington · VT

Saturday1984 Tour1984-12-01
Songs played
19
2 sets · longest: Set 1 (18)
Average gap
1.6
rarer than 8% of all shows
Biggest bustout
-
no 50+ gap songs
Debuts
7
Fire, Slave to the Traffic Light, Spanish Flea, Don't Want You No More, Cities, Skippy the Wondermouse, Fluffhead
Rotation37% fresh vs previous 4 shows9 repeats from 1984-11-03 - Jam, Wild Child, Bertha, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Camel Walk, Jam, In the Midnight Hour, Drums, Eyes of the World

1 First known Phish performance.

2 First known performance.

3 First known Phish performance; missing final lyrics.

4 Marc Daubert.

5 First known Phish performance; Dude of Life on vocals.

6 First known performance; Dude of Life on vocals.

7 Jam Sandwich: Jam bookended Wild Child, Bertha, Can't You Hear Me Knocking and 1 more in Set 1 - the first one on record. No Jam sandwich has ever held more.

(Surrender to the) Flow of the night
1:35:27 of music

Song length in play order. Tap a point for that song.

13:296:45SET 1ENCOREScarlet Begonias - 6:14 (Set 1)Fire - 4:20 (Set 1)Fire on the Mountain - 9:04 (Set 1)Makisupa Policeman - 9:23 (Set 1)Slave to the Traffic Light - 7:06 (Set 1)Spanish Flea - 6:05 (Set 1)Don't Want You No More - 7:20 (Set 1)Cities - 6:15 (Set 1)Drums - 9:57 (Set 1)Skippy the Wondermouse - 9:48 (Set 1)Fluffhead - 6:25 (Set 1)Eyes of the World - 13:29 (Encore)
Longest: Eyes of the World 13:29 · 12 songs with recorded lengths
When it debuted

Tonight's unique songs by the era Phish first played them.

  • '83-'8918
Album representation

The studio home of each song, from phish.net. Covers count as one slice.

  • Junta1
  • The White Tape1
  • Covers12
  • No studio album4
Gap since last played

Shows since each song's previous appearance. A big number is a bustout.

  • 1-29
  • 3-52
Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

  • Phish original6
  • Grateful Dead4
  • Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass1
  • Jimi Hendrix Experience1
  • Lou Reed1
  • Spencer Davis Group1
  • Talking Heads1
  • The Rolling Stones1
  • Traditional1
  • Wilson Pickett1
Rarity board

About as chalky as it gets - nothing shelved more than 50 shows.

Gap = shows since the song was last played, at the moment it was played.

Jam chart entries
Makisupa Policeman

-> in from "Fire On The Mountain" ("FOTM"), and some "FOTM" jamming continues in the first part, until finally everyone is playing "Makisupa". The jam has a nice reggae feel and some fun banter. The playing is very standard, however; this mostly sounds like some very talented college kids goofing off, but the version is worth hearing for precisely that reason.

Slave to the Traffic Light

First known performance. It's all guitar in the jam section, as this was the pre-Page era.

Cities

Debut at Nectar's in Burlington, VT.

Versions phish.net's jam charts single out as noteworthy.

Soundcheck

Fluffhead

Setlist notes

Skippy and Fluffhead featured The Dude of Life on vocals. The jam after Camel Walk may have been Back Porch Boogie Blues. Spanish Flea included an introduction of the band members. Don’t Want You No More was not performed in its entirety, as it lacked the final lyrics. The lengthy percussion jam featured a guest appearance from Marc Daubert. Mike recalls that there were approximately 200 people in the audience. This gig featured the first known version of Slave to the Traffic Light and Fluffhead, the first known Phish versions of Fire, Don't Want You No More, Cities, and Skippy the Wondermouse, and the only known Phish version of Spanish Flea. This performance was on the upstairs level of Nectar's.

Setlist, gaps, jam charts, and notes from phish.net, a project of the non-profit Mockingbird Foundation.

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