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Phish - January 26th, 1989

The Paradise · Boston · MA

Thursday1989 Tour1989-01-26
Songs played
24
3 sets · longest: Set 1 (12)
Average gap
8.7
rarer than 49% of all shows, 65% of 1989
Biggest bustout
-
no 50+ gap songs
Debuts
0
3 covers played
Rotation71% fresh vs previous 5 shows0 repeats from 1989-01-21
IcculuslegendaryGamehendge6/9Related to Gamehendge2/11

1 Fish on trombone.

2 Additional lyrics.

3 Fast version.

4 Alumni Blues Sandwich: Alumni Blues bookended Letter to Jimmy Page in Set 1 - the 42nd on record, the first since December 10th, 1988.

(Surrender to the) Flow of the night
1:16:08 of music

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

16:368:18SET 1I Didn't Know - 4:03 (Set 1)Golgi Apparatus - 4:55 (Set 1)Alumni Blues - 6:10 (Set 1)You Enjoy Myself - 16:36 (Set 1)The Lizards - 10:08 (Set 1)Take the 'A' Train - 5:38 (Set 1)Sanity - 3:56 (Set 1)Divided Sky - 12:45 (Set 1)Fee - 6:08 (Set 1)Good Times Bad Times - 5:50 (Set 1)
Longest: You Enjoy Myself 16:36 · 10 songs with recorded lengths
When it debuted

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

  • '83-'8923
Album representation

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

  • Junta7
  • The White Tape5
  • Covers3
  • No studio album8
Gap since last played

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

  • 3-57
  • 6-1515
  • 16-501
Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

  • Phish original20
  • Duke Ellington1
  • Jimi Hendrix Experience1
  • Led Zeppelin1
Rarity board

A typical night, rotation-wise - nothing shelved more than 50 shows.

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

Jam chart entries
Sanity

Alternate arrangement. As if undergoing a psychic change, a fast version emerges; this style (complete with a "punk" refrain) will be performed a couple of times.

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

Soundcheck

The Sloth > Possum

Setlist notes

This was the band’s first major gig in Boston. The Paradise held around 650 people, they didn’t think the band could come close to selling out the room and so refused to book Phish. John Paluska and Ben Hunter, who were managing Phish at the time, therefore rented the room for the evening. John and Ben promoted the gig heavily, including via radio. Tickets were only $5. Tom Baggott, a fan of the band, helped get Burlington fans to the show by Greyhound bus. Not only did the gig sell out, but there were some 200 people shut out (mostly Boston University and Boston College students). I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone. Alumni contained additional lyrics. Prior to YEM, Trey welcomed his mom, who had come "all the way from Ireland." After YEM, Trey said that they had a special guest that night for the person in the front row that kept requesting that they play Minkin. Trey mentioned that there was a Minkin hanging behind the band and that Minkin was also there that night. There was a subsequent brief Minkin vocal tease prior to Lizards. This version of Sanity was the fast version.

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

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