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Phish - February 20th, 1988

St. Lawrence University · Canton · NY

Saturday1988 Tour1988-02-20
Songs played
20
3 sets · longest: Set 2 (10)
Average gap
3.6
rarer than 14% of all shows, 25% of 1988
Biggest bustout
-
no 50+ gap songs
Debuts
0
8 covers played
Rotation5% fresh vs previous 5 shows0 repeats from 1988-02-10
Gamehendge3/9Related to Gamehendge1/11
(Surrender to the) Flow of the night
2:17:30 of music

Song length in play order. Tap a point for that song. Swipe the chart to see the rest.

15:437:51SET 1SET 2Funky Bitch - 2:38 (Set 1)Golgi Apparatus - 5:10 (Set 1)Peaches en Regalia - 4:04 (Set 1)Take the 'A' Train - 3:47 (Set 1)Possum - 5:23 (Set 1)Phase Dance - 7:48 (Set 1)Good Times Bad Times - 5:53 (Set 1)Skin It Back - 12:50 (Set 1)David Bowie - 10:50 (Set 1)Wilson - 7:09 (Set 2)I Didn't Know - 2:51 (Set 2)Fluffhead - 14:39 (Set 2)Fire - 5:51 (Set 2)Fee - 1:23 (Set 2)You Enjoy Myself - 14:35 (Set 2)Divided Sky - 4:14 (Set 2)AC/DC Bag - 6:11 (Set 2)Whipping Post - 15:43 (Set 2)Slave to the Traffic Light - 6:31 (Set 2)
Longest: Whipping Post 15:43 · 19 songs with recorded lengths
When it debuted

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

  • '83-'8920
Album representation

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

  • Junta4
  • The White Tape4
  • Covers8
  • No studio album4
Gap since last played

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

  • 1-215
  • 3-54
  • 16-501
Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

  • Phish original12
  • Duke Ellington1
  • Frank Zappa1
  • Jimi Hendrix Experience1
  • Led Zeppelin1
  • Little Feat1
  • Pat Metheny Group1
  • Son Seals1
  • The Allman Brothers Band1
Rarity board

A greatest-hits night - nothing shelved more than 50 shows.

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

Jam chart entries
Skin It Back

Some excellent interplay between Trey and Page kicks this jam off. It culminates in screaming play from Trey and some classic, early Phish tension-and-release.

Fluffhead

Only a few months after the emergence of the complete, modern song, even in that brief time, the quality and tightness of the performance here has already improved significantly. Sections like The Chase and Who Do? We Do!, which would give the band performance fits right up to the present day, are accomplished with great precision in this fine early version.

Whipping Post

The second jam has a very unusual dissonant tone, and so it's no surprise that this dissonance leads to some "DEG" teases and jamming. Maybe it's not beautiful music, but it's certainly an improvisational take on the ABB classic.

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

Soundcheck

Golgi Apparatus

Setlist notes

This show was an ATO Pledge Party and previously circulated as September 27, 1987. Trey teased Who Knows in Fire and DEG in Whipping Post. There was a third set to this show but copies do not circulate and no list is known. Some copies of this show in circulation are incomplete and out of order. These copies are usually mislabeled as “Pledge Party, Burlington, VT.” Other copies circulate with the complete recording (except for BBFCFM) but have Slave before Bowie; this order is incorrect. Good Times Bad Times, Slave to the Traffic Light, and Big Black Furry Creature From Mars were shot from a video by (or for) Mike. It is unclear whether BBFCFM closed the set or was the encore because a recording of it does not circulate.

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

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