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Phish - March 24th, 1989

The Paradise · Boston · MA

Friday1989 Tour1989-03-24
Songs played
10
1 sets · longest: Set 1 (10)
Average gap
1.7
rarer than 3% of all shows, 2% of 1989
Biggest bustout
-
no 50+ gap songs
Debuts
0
2 covers played
Rotation0% fresh vs previous 5 shows4 repeats from 1989-03-14 - Mike's Song, I Am Hydrogen, Weekapaug Groove, AC/DC Bag
Mike's GrooveHIT ✦Gamehendge2/9Related to Gamehendge1/11
(Surrender to the) Flow of the night
1:06:22 of music

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

11:545:57SET 1Possum - 8:11 (Set 1)Mike's Song - 6:49 (Set 1)Weekapaug Groove - 5:53 (Set 1)Golgi Apparatus - 4:47 (Set 1)Divided Sky - 11:54 (Set 1)AC/DC Bag - 5:34 (Set 1)If I Only Had a Brain - 4:43 (Set 1)Take the 'A' Train - 7:21 (Set 1)David Bowie - 11:09 (Set 1)
Longest: Divided Sky 11:54 · 9 songs with recorded lengths
When it debuted

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

  • '83-'8910
Album representation

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

  • Junta2
  • The White Tape2
  • Covers2
  • No studio album4
Gap since last played

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

  • 1-29
  • 3-51
Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

  • Phish original8
  • Duke Ellington1
  • Ray Bolger (as “The Scarecrow”)1
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
Mike's Song

This fiery version marks the first instance of the 2nd jam, separated from the 1st jam by D, E, and F# chords at 5:22. While only 20 seconds in duration, over time, the 2nd jam would at times become significant. The 2nd jam concludes with a repeat of the D,E, and F# chords, followed by the closing chords.

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

Setlist notes

This setlist is incomplete and is out of order. The only recording in circulation is a mix of songs from the show, which features Hydrogen brutally cut out of the Mike’s Groove. This setlist is in the order in which those songs appear on the mix. (The mix also includes several songs from the Paradise show on January 26, 1989.) Possum contained a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer tease, which raises the question – were these songs really performed in March 1989? David Bowie closed the first set. Before Brain, someone introduced Fish – or is it Phish – as being “from Bogota, Colombia.” It is therefore possible that Brain opened this show, which would be the only (known) time that Brain opened a show.

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

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